Video: Alexander, ‘Let’s Win’

Kevin Bronson on
1

Alex Ebert’s video for “Let’s Win,” off his Alexander solo album from earlier this year, serves as a nice rallying cry for the people behind Peaceful Uprising. The piece was filming in February in Utah at the trial of environmental activist Tim DeChristopher, aka “Bidder 70,” who eventually was convicted of disrupting a federal land lease auction. (His sentencing is June 23.) Say what you will about Ebert, and his Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, and the hippie path his career has taken, but here he uses his music and notoriety for a cause, and a good one at that.

||| Live: Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, along with LA Riots, Mike Helm, Hanni El Khatib and the Hundred in the Hands, perform June 15 at Paramount Studios as part of the Billabong Design for Humanity fundraiser supporting the VH1 Save the Music Foundation.