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New Videos From Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. And Chad Valley Are Wacky And Wistful

The girl-next-door and the girl-in-the-middle-of-nowhere.

From their shop-class-final-project DIY live set-up, to their NASCAR driver regalia (GET IT?? Because they're named after….), to their moonlighting gig as "that band on the freecreditscore.com commercials", the dudes from Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. are the current kings of indie twee kitsch, and their new video for "Simple Girl", a puppy love retrospective about--what else?--the lemonade stand girl-next-door, finds the Detroit duo proudly defending their titles. Long live the kings.

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Catch DEJJ live in their racing get-ups on the tail end of their fall US tour! Dates and details below.

9/18 – Austin, Texas @ Austin City Limits
9/20 – Atlanta, Ga. @ Drunken Unicorn
9/21 – Charlottesville, Va. @ The Southern
9/22 – Washington, D.C. @ The Red Palace
9/23 – Philadelphia, Pa. @ Popped! Festival
9/24 – New York, N.Y. @ Bowery Ballroom

Moving from the whimsical to the wistful, the new video from Jonquil member Hugo Manuel (aka Chad Valley) for "Shell Suite" is a fuzzed out, pastoral look at a day in the rural country life of the clip's protagnonist (who might as well have been plucked out of a Sophia Coppola film).