Wild and original quartet The Ongoing Concept (featured in August’s HM) have released the lyric video for their jam “Failures and Fakes.” Breaking out some extra instruments, the rest of their debut Solid State release (dropping August 20) features some banjo, vaudeville and a number of other surprises. What do you think?
The Ongoing Concept releases ‘Failures and Fakes’ lyric video
August 6, 2013 By David Stagg
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