GunFight! photo by Rick Perez
We’re pleased to bring you the premiere of GunFight!’s new music video for their song “Veteran’s Bridge” (watch it below). The track is taken from the band’s latest album Stripes, which is available for purchase through Bandcamp.
“Brought to light by director Hil/Vega and producer Jane Minehan, the ‘Veteran’s Bridge’ video was shot in lead singer Drew Mintz’s hometown in upstate N.Y., and features the very bridge that gave the song its name.
Drawing from the narrative found in the lyrics, the video follows two 20-something characters, and explores their feelings of being trapped in the repetitive and claustrophobic life of dead-end-jobs, frequenting the same local spots and growing older in their suburban hometown. Their only source of refuge in this environment is the knowledge that their experiences are a shared one. This is thematically and visually represented by the daily task of commuting back and forth over the town’s Veteran’s Bridge. In their yearning to escape their lives, the two travel once again across the bridge, this time to GunFight!’s adopted hometown of Brooklyn, where they find themselves at a party featuring a performance by the band. There they get a taste – even if just for one night – of what a different life could be.”
Brooklyn’s GunFight! is currently celebrating its tenth year as a band, and they’ve marked the occasion with the recent release of their long-awaited sophomore LP, Stripes. The new album picks up where the band’s debut LP, Frontier Land, left off: where the former focused on the optimism and feeling of unlimited potential in putting down roots in New York City, Stripes moves toward painting an image of life with one foot still in the world of open possibility, and one foot in the world of growing older, getting a job, and learning to love. It’s a collection of rollicking roots-country-meets-post-punk tracks that showcase the band’s ability to draw influence from old-school favorites and combine them into a sound all their own.
GunFight! was formed in 2006 in Allston, MA, by a group of college friends whose sole intention was to have a good time playing the booze-fueled house parties and basement punk shows of their college town. While they could barely tune their guitars back then, they were able to develop a unique, rowdy take on Americana by drawing on a fascination with country music and their own experiences hanging out in the fields and parking lots of their suburban hometowns.
The band relocated to NYC in 2007 and grew into a cohesive Brooklyn act, viewing their music as a timely rebuke and New York-style re-appropriation of the “rah-rah red-state” nature of contemporary country music. Over the past ten years, they’ve shared stages with acts like Those Darlins, Langhorne Slim, Beach Fossils, and J. Roddy Walston.
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