YouTube Rodeo: The I Want You's Gleeful "Three Short Days"

There's a lot to like crammed into this clever clip from garagey Boston upstarts The I Want You, even beyond the obvious cool factor of "hey! Lego animation!" First and foremost is the very snappy tune itself. "Three Short Days" touts fizzing, six-beats-to-a-measure (a la Pixies) verses and sugary, swaying choruses, all kinetically paced and spaced within a sharp 100 seconds flat. The video was painstakingly animated by the quartet's guitarist Blake Girndt along with collaborator Chris Newell, and it is filled with all sorts of funny details. And even some unfunny but impressive ones: we love how the traffic light is swaying in the shot about 30 seconds into song. Oh, right, the song: "Three Short Days" is taken from The I Want You's debut EP The Ocean State, which is being feted Saturday with a release show at Lizard Lounge in Cambridge, MA. The four-piece is also part of a completely killer bill Dec. 1 at The Midway Cafe in JP featuring all-time Clicky Clicky faves Varsity Drag along with the delightfully brutal Suicide Dolls and something called the Unholy III, who sound, uh, scary? Mom? MOM!! But anyway, The I Want You's entire five-song The Ocean State EP is available at the very nice price of you-name-it at Bandcamp right here.

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Soccer Mom, Suicide Dolls, Infinity Girl And Golden Gurls at Tiger Mountain | Radio | 28 Sept.

This bill. It's too insane. It's the product of some smart people saying, hey, we've got two great bills in the Boston area on Sept. 28, why not graft them together, like, say Rosey Greer and Ray Milland in "The Thing With Two Heads?" It's the product of event planners thinking like music fans, which in this case of course they are, and which is why Friday night's Tiger Mountain dance party is going to be a knock-out. You've got the first area appearance of Baltimore's Golden Gurls, riding high on the strength of their full-length debut Typo Magic. Connecticut's Suicide Dolls are fresh from covering Circle Jerks' "When The Shit Hit The Fan" on American Laundomat Records' "Repo Man" tribute comp, which was released to acclaim last week. Local shoegaze behemoth Soccer Mom is turning out the best live shows of its career, and new Boston sensations Infinity Girl have been delivering devastating performances despite their relative new-comer status. The fact that we'll get to see all of this in the same night is mind-boggling. Don't blow it; get to Radio in Somerville at 8:30 sharp to see Soccer Mom kick off a night that people will talk about for weeks to come. And AND AND tune in to Clicky Clicky tomorrow morning when you get to your desk to read our feature interview with Golden Gurls' Andrew Mabry. And now, how about some songs?