Crosson, J.

In early spring of this year, John Holland, Jack Donoghue, and a visibly pregnant Heather Marlatt took the stage at Santo’s Party House to play a thundering, cataclysmic set of songs from their celebrated SALEM LP King Night, submerged in a blinding fog designed by Thunder Horse Video. Their set climaxed with an ethereal and slow-burning cover of Alice Deejay’s radio rave anthem “Better Off Alone” that later took on a life of its own online, with message board trolls and last.fm stalkers harassing friends and fans like yours truly, begging for an mp3. Twenty hours ago, SALEM premiered their home-baked video for the song, which will appear on a new EP from IAMSOUND on November 22nd, grimly titled I’m Still in the Night. Check out the cover art above, and see the video, featuring paparazzi footage of supermodel Gisele Bündchen.