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We humbly submit Exhibit A, in which street-biker-of-the-moment Danny Macaskill embraces a starring turn in the new video for Doves’ gorgeous ‘Winter Hill’…

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…and Exhibit B, in which Dinosaur Jr. is BACK, thank the God of the ’90s, and rocking and, for some reason, skating and biking in their new video (which is, I suppose, a sort of ’90s thing to do). Their stunt doubles do some cool tricks. The actual members take a few falls. The whole thing, song included, is just good for the soul.

Listening to last year’s Kid Cudi tape in anticipation of his full record coming out soon on Kanye’s label, I started noticing one sample pop up over and over again in my daily life.

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I’ve played out Band of Horses‘ second record ‘Cease to Begin’ by now but had taken a late pass on their debut ‘Everything All the Time’ until hearing Cudi’s track ‘The Prayer.’ ‘The Prayer’ samples ‘The Funeral’ from that record to moving effect so, of course, I had to look into the original.

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Then I started noticing it everywhere, including in this recent jaw-dropper making the rounds from Danny MacAskill, a 23-year-old street biker, who’s completely changed the rules of the game with this clip alone.

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And Fully Flared‘s come up a lot lately so allow me to close it out with this clip from another game-changer, Guy Mariano, tearing through his FF part tracked to ‘The Funeral,’ as well as ‘Is There a Ghost’ from ‘Cease to Begin.’

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