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Here's the official "All Day All Light" video from one of our favorite albums of the year, The Morning Benders' Big Echo. In the Jack Ferry directed video we see the band perform as the seasons change around them and various lyrics overtake the screen. Oh yeah, and it's heavy on the handclaps, as it should be. Chris Chu and company have a pretty busy schedule ahead that takes them all over the world, but you can catch their North American dates starting in early October. Tickets are available through Ticketmaster.  [via stereogum]

Last Friday night Super Hella Awesome favorites Marco Benevento and Joe Russo combined forces for the one and only Duo show of 2010, an acoustic affair at New York City's Highline Ballroom. For those that weren't able to attend the show I have some great news for you, the most important of which would be that Marco informed the crowd the Duo were still very much in cahoots, and actually intend to record new music together this year. Putting the cart in front of the horse it seems the world could be gifted a new Duo album next year, and one would hope a few shows in support of it. Heaven forbid a full fledged tour.

The other bits of news are more of the immediate consumption variety as we have a killer video below of the band's final song of the evening "Becky". Thanks to Clinton Vadnais for the unbelievably great vid (if you have any more from the show please let us know). As a small sampling of The Duo's only performance of the year will do, you are probably now bitter that you can't bask in the rest of the awesome, but have no fear as the amazing NYC Taper covered the show and now has a crisp copy of the show up for download. Head on over to his website for the deets, just don't forget to say thank you.

Today we have the latest video from Cincinnati based rockers Foxy Shazam for the track "Unstoppable" off of their awesome new self-titled album. As for the inspiration behind the fancy Jeremy E. Jackson directed video, frontman Eric Nally attributes a certain SHA favorite.

I wanted to do something old school, no computer effects, it's all done through puppeteering Jim Henson style! This video is heavy on the imagination.   [via]

Two men who have been known to rock amazing mustaches respecting one another the way it should be, although in all fairness it's worth noting I don't remember Jim Henson having such amazing dance moves.

It's easy to pick on Nickelback for their offensive brand of terd-rock but there really is not much in the way of actual evidence of their evil ways, that is until frontman Chad Kroeger totally ruined this woman's life. It should be noted this is a little more personal and gossipy than most of the stuff you see on SHA but a heart was broken and subsequently posted on youtube, and well you know, f*cking look at this photograph, every time I do it makes me laugh.

The youtube description doubles as a modernized Romeo & Juliet only in this case Romeo is trying to ruin Juliet's life.  Let us in on your incredible plight sad lady so we can all learn of the devil that is Chad Kroeger. As a warning it's long but it's also incredibly something, what that something is I'm just not sure.

I created this video & kept it on private BEFORE I found out that Chad K had a girlfriend practically the whole time I was naively sending letter after letter to him via facebook & myspace AFTER Daniel spoke to me at Spotlight bar in Hollywood. What would you think if TOO MANY of a band's songs over the years sound like they were ripped from pages of your life, & then these SUPERSTARS who normally wouldn't give you the time of day acknowledged your existence-SPOKE TO YOU FIRST? Chad K is SICK to have "played" me this way when I did NOTHING to deserve it. There was NO reason for any member of Nickelback to ever show up at some stupid bar I was at & speak to me first unless Chad K knew who I was! ***See my prof pic on myspace under alicia arol to know the OLD ME I believe Chad knew of many yrs ago via ECTV.

*At a point in my life when I am not strong enough to handle it (due to too many bad things that have happened to me in the past 20 months), I found out that Chad K-Rich, Famous, "Rock Star" blessed in every enviable, imaginable way "played" me (who has NOTHING & is barely hanging on to life) for a naive FOOL. I've now gone "MAD". I fight back tears & struggle not to breakdown on a daily basis. While Chad K was under no legal obligation to not "mess with" my fragile mind-he was under a MORAL OBLIGATION. Thank's to Chad's heartless disregard of me as a thinking, feeling human being, I've NEVER felt more like a piece if sht or wanted to die more in my life. Chad K & his "POSSE" know EXACTLY how they together "tricked" me into thinking Chad had feelings for me when (as I recently found out) it wasn't true. Chad & Nickelback KNOW exactly what events transpired at a bar in Hollywood on 2 separate occasions when 2 of Nickelback's band members (Ryan then Daniel) approached and spoke to me. I'm a 5'10, pretty, curvaceous, blond. It was neither far fetched nor "delusional" of me to think that Chad K might want to get to know me better when he was engaged to non celebrity Maryanne Guriuk for over 5 years. Nickelback did weird things (messed with my mind) at this bar-things that "tricked" me into thinking that Chad K liked me. I'm 99.9% certain that Ryan approached me at Spotlight bar on a night the loudspeaker announced, "We have celebrities in the house". I hadn't told Nickelback I would be at that bar, so Ryan approaching me & speaking to me was proof that Nickelback was following me or spying on me. Daniel DID approach me on a subsequent date & referenced something I had said in the letters I had recently started sending to Nickelback via myspace (proof that they were reading my letters). I believed that Chad had to know of me somehow-otherwise why would these "Rock Stars" approach & talk to stupid, NOBODY me in the first place? I believed that at some future date when he was ready to do so, Chad K would materialize and tell me to my face what was going on? Chad never came, so I never got "CLOSURE", and this drove me to MADNESS, because NOBODY believes that I'm telling the truth (not even my friends and fam). Even a shrink would desperately try to convince me that I'm delusional when I know what happened in regards to me & Nickelback. I found out on 7/14 that Chad had been sharing his life and bed with Kristin the entire time I was sending him letters (that the band never either acknowledged or BLOCKED me from sending to them). This news stabbed me in the gut. I couldn't bear to think about how I had humiliated myself & spilled my guts out to Chad & his band month after month that he was in bed with his new girlfriend. But I NEVER would have believed that Chad K intended to "Someday" save me from my miserable life had that band NEVER INTENTIONALLY FKD WITH my fragile mind & had instead simply left me the fk alone! I never did anything hurtful to Nickelback. I didn't deserve this kind of heartless disregard of my feelings. I don't want Chad. Even if he was physically attracted to me, I know that I can't be the kind of woman he wants & he can't be the kind of man who would be good for me. The ONLY reason that I ever thought otherwise is because Chad wrote the beautiful, song "Savin Me". What Nickelback did to me when I was living my life & minding my own GD FKING business was neither right nor fair. This man who has EVERYTHING had no right to intentionally drive me mad. I have no proof that any of what I'm saying is the truth. I've even been asking myself if Nickelback's ultimate goal was to drive me MAD? Nobody forced me to believe that Chad liked me, but what would any of you think if "Rock Stars" just up & acknowledged your pitiful existence one day? You'd think the same GD thing I thought! What I'm doing out here is pathetically expressing my pain, because this thing that Nickelback never should have started with me has driven me MAD, & what other "recourse" besides what I've been doing do I have against a SUPERSTAR when he refuses to tell both me & the world the truth?

I'm still trying to figure out if the sideways camera for the video was an artistic choice. Either way do you think she is still single?   [via vulture]