'Too Big To Fail' Video Single from Austin Lounge Lizards Pokes Fun at Sky Boxes, Congressional Pork & Other Corporate Excess.AUSTIN, Texas -- Folk-rock-bluegrass-country quintet Austin Lounge Lizards, known for its snarky snark·y adj. snark·i·er, snark·i·est Slang Irritable or short-tempered; irascible. [From dialectal snark, to nag, from snark, snork, to snore, snort , satirical lyrics that spotlight and perforate per·fo·rate v. 1. To make a hole or holes in, as from injury, disease, or medical procedure. 2. To pass into or through (a body structure or tissue). adj. Having been perforated. , and its awesome instrumental prowess, released today "Too Big To Fail," a video single that takes on excesses of the new Gilded Age. As usual, the Lizards are topical. In this weekend's New York Times, columnist Gretchen Morgenson asked: "Too Big to Fail, or Too Big to Handle?" The "Too Big To Fail" video was produced and directed by award-winning filmmaker Steven Mims (www.stevemimsfilms.com), who was also responsible for capturing for posterity the Lizards' 20th anniversary celebratory DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. , LIZARDS TIMES TWENTY, in 2000. "Too Big to Fail," by Lindsey Eck, is from an upcoming album by the Lizards. The group's version of Irving Berlin's "(I'll See You in) C-U-B-A," the Prohibition-era up-tempo tribute to the luxuries of the island nation from its 1991 live album, LIZARD VISION, was featured in Michael Moore's 2007 "Sicko sick·o n. pl. sick·os Slang A deranged, psychotic, or morbidly obsessed person. [From sick1.] ," as a flotilla of ailing 9-11 workers seeks medical treatment in Cuba. About the Lizards www.austinlizards.com Based in Austin, the Lizards have honed their music into a wicked-funny art form. They've delighted audiences from Texas to Trafalgar Square with their inventive style of satirical folk, rock, country and bluegrass bluegrass, any species of the large and widely distributed genus Poa, chiefly range and pasture grasses of economic importance in temperate and cool regions. In general, bluegrasses are perennial with fine-leaved foliage that is bluish green in some species. . Trademarks of a Lizards song are highly literate, sharply pointed lyrics that poke fun at politics, love, religion and the culture in general. Combined with superb musicianship that features precise five-part vocal harmonies and instrumental mastery, the band's songs are as melodically infectious as they are lyrically prescient. Album and song titles like "Shallow End of the Gene Pool," "Jesus Loves Me Jesus Loves Me is a Christian hymn written by Anna B. Warner[1] and David Rutherford McGuire. The lyrics first appeared as a poem in the context of a novel called Say and Seal, written by Susan Warner and published in 1860. (But He Can't Stand You)" and NEVER AN ADULT MOMENT all point to the Lizards' love of wordplay and topical relevance. The Lizards have been touring nationally since 1987 and are five-time award winners at the prestigious Austin Music Awards. Conrad Deisler - guitar, mandolin mandolin (măn'dəlĭn`, măn`dəlĭn'), musical instrument of the lute family, with a half-pear-shaped body, a fretted neck, and a variable number of strings, plucked with the fingers or with a plectrum. , vocals Hank Card - guitar, vocals Tom Pittman - banjo banjo, stringed musical instrument, with a body resembling a tambourine. The banjo consists of a hoop over which a skin membrane is stretched; it has a long, often fretted neck and four to nine strings, which are plucked with a pick or the fingers. , dobro, vocals Darcie Deaville - fiddle, mandolin, vocals Julieann Banks - bass, vocals Watch "Too Big To Fail" video at: http://www.austinlizards.com/news.html or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMtZGMHNNb8&feature=channel_page Catch the Austin Lounge Lizards on tour: http://www.austinlizards.com/calendar.html For high-res, broadcast-quality video, contact Jill McGuckin, 512-217-9404. |
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