On the heels of the Letterman love, “Fitz And Dizzyspells” gets itself a charming little Digitelio-directed video with plenty of Chi-city bona fides. That is to say: lots of snow, scenes shot at the Hideout, a throng of paraders from the Mucca Pazza marching band, and a guy in a banana suit (Chicago is famous for all the banana suit guys)(no it’s not). The clip opens with a couple of cute and intelligent looking girls unable to resist the sight of Andrew’s flaming arrow, which is what they call verisimilitude.


(via P4K)

Noble Beast is out via Fat Possum. Plenty of Bird whistles in June, including a freshly announced date at Radio City.

06/08 – Washington DC – Merriweather Post Pavilion*
06/11-14 – Manchester, TN (Bonnaroo)
06/15 – Atlanta, GA @ Cobb Energy Center
06/17 – Philadephia, PA @ Tower Theatre
06/18 – New York, NY @ Radio City Music Hall
06/19 – Boston, MA @ Bank of America Pavilion
* Supporting Decemberists

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Comments (7)
  1. Word is that Calexico will support.

  2. seriously  |   Posted on Mar 2nd, 2009

    Song is Good (+1)
    Video is awful (-1)
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    Real Talk.

  3. I wish there were more people in the video wearing banana suits.

  4. eric.  |   Posted on Mar 2nd, 2009

    i think this worked out better in his head

  5. interesting the video is based around a live performance and he always sings live differently than on the album!

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