Video: Palm Springsteen, ‘Sister, Sister’

Kevin Bronson on June 5th, 2019

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Palm Springsteen burst on the scene last year with some electric live shows and then in February released the single “Hey There Cowgirl,” a brash, libido-driven rock song that’s so good you want to hate it but can’t.

The equally swaggering “Sister Sister” is the follow-up from the band of frontman Nick Hinman, keyboardist Z Berg, guitarist Aaron Bernards, bassist Noah Gersh and drummer Seth Trump. It’s derived from an experience Hinman had as a teenager on a trip to Vancouver. “I went to my first club with some friends and ended up dancing with this girl for hours, and then found out at the end of the night it was actually a guy in drag,” he remembers. “She was so rad, we just kept dancing all night. I still miss her.”

The video is directed by Gilbert Trejo (actor Danny’s son, who helmed Starcrawler’s video, among others), and it’s an homage to another memorable bout of clubbing.

“Gilbert and I wanted to recreate this scene from Liquid Sky, which is simultaneously about the club scene in New York in the ’80s and about aliens who come down to extract endorphins from people’s orgasms,” Hinman says. “There’s a scene where Anna Carlisle plays both the male and female leads, and gives a monologue wearing blacklight makeup. We recreated it in our own way, all on 16mm film, and wanted to simulate the rush of going nowhere fast.”

“Sister Sister” is out Thursday.

||| Watch: The video for “Sister Sister”