MUSIC NEWS: DAVE HAUSE PAYS HOMAGE TO MARTIN SCORCESE

If you follow this blog then you are well aware that I have been hyping Dave Hause's new solo album Resolutions pretty much nonstop, with good reason because it's one of the best released this year so far.

In the first music video for Resolutions, Hause and director Jason Shevchuk pay homage to none other than Martin Scorsese, specifically Scorsese's 1968 short film The Big Shave. For the non film nerds out there, The Big Shave was Scorsese's comment on the Vietnam War and was produced as his final project while at NYU. It's said upon the film's screening, Scorsese was approached by a well known producer who would help Scorsese acquire funding for his first feature length film, Mean Streets.

The original version juxtaposes increasingly violent imagery with Bunny Berigan's song "I Can't Get Started" while The Hause/Shevchuk version features similar imagery set to Hause's "Time Will Tell." So what do you think is Hause commenting on?