EXCLUSIVE: New BRMC Video!
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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
SPIN.com has the exclusive debut of San Francisco rockers Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's new video for "Beat the Devil's Tattoo," the title track from their SPIN-approved new album. And -- guess what? -- the video lives up to the song's ominous title. Watch below.
The band of leather-clad bad-asses take a ride in an old-school van, smoke a carton of cigs (presumably full flavor for extra grit), and rock out in a packed nightclub, as the song's stomping beat, tambourine, and bluesy guitar lend a dark yet catchy melody to the mysterious vibe.
BRMC enjoy exploring their dark side: they contributed a new song, "Done All Wrong," to the soundtrack for 2009's vampire flick New Moon.
Catch BRMC on tour behind "Beat the Devil's Tattoo" this spring. Read SPIN's review of the band's tour kickoff right here.
Tell us what you think of the video in the comment section below.
WATCH: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, "Beat the Devil's Tattoo"
15 Comments
Click here to comment- Posted By C. Wallace
03.11.10 8:08 AM
Great mix of their acoustic "Howl" (my fave album of theirs) and their 1st (my 2nd), glad to see these guys are still around!
- Posted By weight_of_the_world
03.11.10 12:41 AM
Truly awesome and genuine band...video is a bit odd, but hey--they are trying to be less pre-digested-commercially-entertaining, so i'll see what i think after watching a few times :)
- Posted By Anonymous
03.10.10 9:38 PM
The new BRMC album is a welcome return to their past. It's like they learned how to rock again! But I gotta agree with Jim "The Destroyer". This video is a yawner.
I also saw them in San Francisco a few years back, and I hyped it up all the way to my friends who hadn't heard of them. They put on a boring show! My friends don't listen to my music advice anymore. Always razzin me about Black Motorcycle Ass Bandits as they like to refer to them. I sincerely hope they've reignited their live show like they have their music.
- Posted By FloraIsadora
03.10.10 6:06 PM
Amazing ****ing band that sweats love on stage. Saw them a week and a half ago and I'm still in afterglow.
The video though is boring.
- Posted By Jim "The Destroyer" McCray
03.10.10 4:58 PM
What a ****in' yawn. Yeah, I actually was thinking about this band the other day; I was hoping to God that they'd disbanded. Saw them at a little club in L.A. many years ago. ****ing dullest show ever.
No apparent improvement since then.
07.19.10 5:26 PM
Agree with the above comments about the music video not living up to expectations. I like what they did for the cover of the Pogues' Dirty Old Town MUCH better: http://50.drmartens.com/artists/black-rebel-motorcycle-club