NEW MUSIC VIDEO!This whole "fake geek girl" situation, and the wider "geek elitism" situation, has been a stupid thing stuck in our craw for a while now. There have been many great arts and commentaries on the subject — our particular favorites coming in the comics of
John Kovalic and the blog of
John Scalzi. Our new song "Nothing to Prove," (
download/read the lyrics on Bandcamp) and the music video, which we conceptualized with brilliant screenwriter Josh A. Cagan, is our contribution to the discussion. Here it is (or
watch it on YouTube):
UPDATE: "No fake geeks/Only real jerks" t-shirts (to benefit AppCamp4Girls) are now available!!
We took videos for this project on our last nationwide #velociraptour, and then asked for submissions last month. We received somewhere between 150-250 videos. Only about 70 of those videos fit into the final music video (that is enough, by the way, to crash Final Cut Pro even on the very nice computer our friend Ben lent us to finish the project. Thanks Ben!)Too many submissions, not enough RAM in our computers or time in one 4-minute music video— that's the problem that faced us. And many of you told us that you wanted to see all of the submissions. And we want you to! And now you can! Anyone can submit a photo (and story, if you'd like) to geekgirlvideo.tumblr.com, or just check out the awesome ladies already on there. We've added a few signs that didn't make it into the video (with permission) up there already. We won't post all of them, because we did not get permission to do this when we collected the video, but we're hoping that people will submit their own (and some already have!).
OUR NEW ALBUM CHARTED!
"Lasers and Feelings"
debuted on the Billboard comedy album chart at number 7 last week. This is a crazy but also true thing that happened thanks to YOU, amazing fans who support independent music. We don't expect to be sticking around on the charts very long, because there are many awesome & hilarious people on there, and in order to be there again we would need to sell *more* albums now than we did during launch day. However, there are some awesome people trying to make this happen for us, and if you'd like to help and perhaps have not already done so, you can purchase our album on
Bandcamp or
iTunes, both of which count towards the Billboard numbers.
WE WILL PLAY SHOWS IN YOUR CITY! (housekeeping)We are wrapping up our summer tours right now - just
some Oregon & Seattle shows and a couple conventions left (oh, by the way,
WE ARE PLAYING A MAINSTAGE SHOW AT PAX), but we will be touring more in the future! If you would like us to come to your town, there are a couple things you can do. NUMBER ONE: Please
update your information on the email list & enter your zip code. We map out our mailing list and use that to decide where we are going to tour, so having that info is extremely useful. We also use that to target emails so we don't spam you about shows far away. NUMBER TWO: tell us about local coffee shops, game stores, conventions
on our "Suggest a City" form - which we use liberally to plan our tours.That's all for now, friends! We're working on more videos & will tell you about those as they happen! Stay in touch! THANK YOU for putting us on the Billboard charts! xoxoxo!-Angela and Aubrey (The Doubleclicks)PS: Our long-time-friend Kevin Cole is Kickstarting a neato video game that we are writing a song for. It's a "narrative focused puzzle-platformer where you must lose your powers to survive." - with a female main character & really cool-looking art.
Check out Project Maiden!