Sleater-Kinney's Great New Music Video Is a Big Sing-along by Their Famous Friends

Sleater-Kinney’s return from indefinite hiatus with a new album, No Cities to Love, due out Jan. 20, surprised and delighted many fans. And now that the album is just a few days away, the band is showing that, among their many talents, they’re great at PR. 

“To mark the release of their upcoming album, No Cities To Love, Sleater-Kinney asked some of their friends to film themselves singing the title track,” explains the description on the YouTube video below.

It’s a brilliant move. Even people who aren’t fans of the band (if you’ve only heard One Beat, that’s a mistake) will want to see Sarah Silverman, Connie Britton, Brie Larson, Norman Reedus and many more bopping along to the track.

Yes, there’s something deliciously, perhaps voyeristically satisfying about seeing famous people look just as dorky as you.



As a Zombie Fan, I Thank You, Relevent (Now, Only If We Were in Union Square at the Time)

There’s not much to say, but as The Walking Dead crawls, groans, lurches, etc. to the telly soon, here is a nice little stunt set up in Union Square today by NYC-based, MDC Partners-owned experiential marketing agency, Relevent. I promise to never walk over a sidewalk subway grate again (ok, at least for today). In case you missed this one, here’s a prank from just a couple of weeks ago on the AMC show’s star Norman Reedus in London.

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The Corner London, Nick Santonastasso Prank Norman Reedus of ‘The Walking Dead’

For the first installment in the global social media driven campaign “#getFOXed” for FOX International Channels (FIC), The Corner London enlisted The Walking Dead superfan and Vine “Zombie Prankster” Nick Santonastasso to pull an elaborate prank on cast member Norman Reedus.

The 17-year-old Nick Santonastasso, who was “born with a rare condition called Hanhart syndrome and has only one arm and no legs,” has become an inspiration to countless kids and adults living with disabilities. His sizable social media following and rabid The Walking Dead fandom made him the ideal candidate to launch this campaign, which also functions as something of a follow-up to Santonastasso’s own “Zombie Prank” Vine series.

The Corner London flew Santonastasso out to Tokyo, where cast members were promoting the new fourth season of the show, and the show’s special effects expert, Greg Nicotero transformed him into a walker. Cast member Andrew Lincoln also helped Santonastasso pull off the prank, and seemed pretty delighted to help scare the unsuspecting Reedus. It all came together pretty well, and Reedus’ reaction doesn’t disappoint. The stunt has already proved a huge success, racking up 3.2 million views in its first 48 hours and is now almost at the 5 million mark. The fourth season of The Walking Dead makes its premiere on FOX channels outside of the US on February 10th. Credits after the jump. continued…

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