Seattle, WA. (Top40 Charts/ BlueShoes Media) Today Seattle band Radio Raheem released their creative video for the song 'Push the Party' featuring Shock G of Digital Underground. For the video, director Dee Austin Robertson , turned the band into 12 inch dolls and created a miniature post-apocalyptic bar for the band to play in. The video was shot over the course of a few days in Los Angeles and the result is a unique video full of dancing Barbie dolls, glowsticks, aliens, robots and a crazy Yeti all getting down to Radio Raheem's 'Push the Party.'
"In everything we do we are looking for the fun… looking for the party," said Josephine Howell, Radio Raheem's lead singer. "When the director told us he wanted to do the video with Barbie type dolls I was skeptical but it turned out perfect."
The 'Push the Party' video comes out just as the song 'Push the Party' is peaking on the Rapnetwork Record Breakers and Rapattacklives.com charts. This week the song hit the #13 spot. The song, 'Push the Party' is one of the 2 new singles released so far off of Radio Raheem's debut album Down for the Get Down that came out in the summer of 2012. The song, written by Radio Raheem and Shock G, is a perfect mash up of chanting, soul singing and laid back MC-ing.
"Turning the band into 12-inch dolls was the only way," said video director, Dee Austin Robertson. "We wanted to really play up the anthemic, party side of the song but could not figure out how to get the logistics together in a short time. Once I suggested making the whole video with miniatures it all came together."
Watch The 'Push the Party' video
iTunes album buy link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/down-for-the-get-down/id540571620?ls=1
The Background:
Radio Raheem, named for a pivotal character in Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing, began when bass player-producer Paul Chistofferson purchased pro-tools and invited singer-songwriter Bryan Cohen to write. The duo knew how to write songs and play almost all of the instruments but they needed a spark. The spark came when Bryan played a guitar riff over a drum machine beat and Paul added 80's keyboards. The song sounded like the hottie bastard child of Prince, Wall of Voodoo and The Tubes. Off kilter, dancy, nerdy, twitchy and funky...Radio Raheem was born.
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