Arthurs shot the video while Inflowential was recording the track at Flying Tiger Sound with BJ Burton for the Hear Here: The Triangle local music compilation.

The live studio footage is interlaced with news clips covering various crimes against everyday citizens by law enforcement. Included is the January 2009 murders of Oscar Grant by a Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer and Adolph Grimes by New Orleans police officers, and the 2006 murder of Sean Bell by New York Police Department officers.

“Sheriff” appears on the Hear Here compilation along with exclusive tracks from Lonnie Walker, The Love Language, The Rosebuds, Birds of Avalon and many more. Sales from the album benefit Raleigh’s Visual Art Exchange.

Monster Creature Feature host Ormon Grimsby directed the video for “In Between the In Between” in the basement of Father & Son Antiques with the help of various props, children and Katharine Whalen of Squirrel Nut Zippers fame. It will be later aired on an episode of Monster Creature Feature.

“In Between the In Between” is from The Alcazar Hotel’s sophomore album Come ON! Dig The Unified Theory! The band was recently in the studio work on the album’s follow-up.

You can catch Katharine Whalen and The Alcazar Hotel frontman Will Dawson on Oct. 1 when Katharine Whalen’s Lucky performs on Sessions at Studio B. Also, head over to the “Sessions at Studio B with The Alcazar Hotel” landing page to view the band’s one-of-a-kind performance.

The video was shot in and around the city of Durham, and features frontman John Harrison strumming solo on his acoustic guitar while all of the audio was captured live on the streets.

“Matt, Jessye [McDowell] and I rode around Durham, N.C. one day and filmed me playing pieces of the song,” Harrison explains. “It was a fun day, and we met a bunch of wonderful people who are in the film.”

You can catch North Elementary on Sessions at Studio B live at 4 p.m. on July 23 right here at Music.MyNC. Not For Everyone, Just For You was released Feb. 24, 2009 through Eskimo Kiss Records.

“Wake” follows “Confessor” as the second single from Annuals’ 2008 album, and the second from the album to be animated. “Confessor” was directed by Daniel Auber, and animated by Norris Houk III, Tristan Bayer and Auber.

To date, four of the band’s music videos have been animated: “Dry Clothes” by Trunk Animation,” “Sore” by Teqtonic, “Confessor” and “Wake.”

Such Fun was released Oct. 7, 2008 through Canvasback Music.

The music video for the track was directed and shot by Matt Hedt on Super 8 film at the Carrboro Music Festival in Carrboro, and it captures the same sunshine pop simplicity that the song embodies.

Ascenseur Ouvert! was released through Manx keyboardist Paul Finn’s own Odessa Records on April 21. You can find the album at most indie retailers as well as through iTunes.

In it, a man and woman dressed like deer are chased through the woods by a pair of hunters. The meaning? That’s yours to decipher.

Life Like was released Oct. 7, 2008 through Durham-based Merge Records.

Annuals will perform right here live on Sessions at Studio B on Jan. 3, 2009 at 4:30 p.m. Fans are encouraged to ask the band questions through our chat room that we will host during the performance.

The band’s next concert in the Triangle is Jan. 31 at Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro.

Kooley High’s new album, The High Life, is scheduled to be released in February 2009. A documentary about the band called One Day from BecauseUS Films will debut at Galaxy Cinema in Cary on Jan. 24.

Much of the video was filmed at Arlene’s Grocery at 95 Stanton Street in New York City. The band recently performed at the 2008 South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas.

Patty Hurst Shifter will perform at Slim’s in downtown Raleigh on Dec. 20, 2008.

“Life Is Mostly Waiting” by Patty Hurst Shifter (2007)

Originally intended to be the title of his second book, “Dear Impossible” is both the title of the track and — according to his blog –- the name of the forthcoming album. Adams’ second novel has since been re-titled either Chapter and Page or 20 Chapters.

The song was recorded on his laptop in a hotel room, Adams said, and the video was made on a plane.

Adams also revealed a tentative list of song titles for the new album; all of which he indicates have finished vocals.

01 FireFly
02 So Quiet, It’s Loud
03 Goodbye Sunshine
04 Universe Size Arms
05 Dear Impossible
06 Please, Hold On
07 Souls Full of Holes
08 Ok, I Surrender
09 Wild & Hopeless
10 Kaleidoscope Eyes
11 Your Name Here
12 Mirror-Gold
13 The Lights
14 Lost in Space
13 The Lights