Videos: Man Man, Great Lake Swimmers

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I cannot listen to a note of Man Man without recalling Passion of the Weiss’ hilarious and spot-on takedown of the band a couple of years ago. But that’s tangential to this video, directed by Lex Halaby and starring Fred Armisen, Martin Starr and Charlyne Yi. Spun off the band’s song “Rabbit Habits,” it’s a mini-horror movie featuring cameos by Brett Gurewitz and the Ice Cream Man. There are worse ways to spend six minutes.

The Great Lake Swimmers’ “Pulling on a Line” gets an appropriately sylvan treatment from director Isaac Rentz. I was out of town when the band came through L.A. last weekend, so I missed them, but the album they released March 31, “Lost Channels,” is downright gorgeous. Tony Dekker has one of those troubadour’s voices that never wears thin.