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Friday Five: Spooky new Minnesota music videos

A still from the 'midnight fire' music video by 26 BATS!
A still from the 'midnight fire' music video by 26 BATS!YouTube

by Jay Gabler

October 29, 2021

Happy Halloween! Here are five new music videos from Minnesota artists to add to your costume party pregame playlist.

26 BATS!, “midnight fire”

When your band name is 26 BATS!, you’re off to a pretty good start when it comes to getting Halloween-y. The Minneapolis genre-busters lean into that theme with Jake Huffcutt’s animated video for Portal Party track “midnight fire”…but it’s not their nightmare, it’s the Man’s. “Killed off all the billionaires,” sings Bailey Cogan. “I just felt like it was fair.”

26 BATS! will be at the 7th St Entry Saturday night with VIAL, Early Eyes, and Alien Book Club.

The Shackletons, “Exotic Pets”

Mrs. Frisby would have her work cut out for her with the creepy critters the Shackletons deploy in Sam Luloff’s emo-goth clip for their new single “Exotic Pets.”

DJ Abilities, “When”

Any good haunted house has an eerie operating room, and that’s where Minneapolis music legend DJ Abilities lands for the music video accompanying “When,” a single from his debut solo album Phonograph Phoenix. In this case, though, the shock docs learn that you don’t mess with a TikTok phenom unless you’re ready for the inevitable dance-off.

Mousie, “Black Hole”

Kelsey McMahon recently used her enormous voice onscreen in the feature film Sold Out, filmed in her home state of Minnesota; now she’s under the blacklight in a war of the roses with dancer Alexander Anderson in a video for “Black Hole,” a single from her pop project Mousie.

The Key Kids, “The Ghost Song”

A would-be influencer makes an unsettling discovery in “The Ghost Song” video from Northfield’s Key Kids. “If you’re not on the internet, do you even exist?” ask the band in a statement accompanying the clip. “Don’t work yourself to DEATH; post & GHOST.”

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This activity is made possible in part by the Minnesota Legacy Amendment’s Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund.