The Black Lab guys are psyched to present their new video for the awesome song "Something You Don't Know", from the last studio album "Two Strangers". The video was directed, shot and cut by Scott Chestnut.

Black Lab released a couple of months ago "Unplugged", their first acoustic album, featuring unplugged versions of 13 favorites as well as 3 new songs. Expect Paul Durham & Co. to put out a clip for a song from this album in the near future. Meanwhile, enjoy the video for "Something You Don't Know" clicking on the image here on the side.

Great californian alternative rock band Black Lab have just announced that their new album "Black Lab Unplugged" is now available for pre-order.

This is the band's first acoustic album, featuring unplugged versions of 13 Black Lab favorites as well as 3 new songs.

"Breaking the songs down into pieces and then building them back using piano, acoustic guitar, cello, hand percussion and trap kit, we taught ourselves a new way of working and are strangely pleased about their mesmerizing new forms" says mainman Paul Durham, "focused on the songs and what minimal embellishment would best serve them, we drilled down to the core of each one and gave it new life, bringing the acoustic versions we play live directly to you".

Stray Palace is the side project of Paul Durham, mainman of alternative rock band Black Lab.

Paul Durham and Deej Hofer, his partner in this project, have just released the 7-tracks EP "The Diamond" that is up and ready for purchase at iTunes and Amazon MP3 Store.

According to Paul, the new EP "is catchy and bright and yet dark in all the right places, modern and trendy with just the right touches of classic rock in there".

The Black Lab website is featuring one song off "The Diamond" called "Best There Is" as the "free mp3 of the month". So stop by and grab it now.

Black Lab is one of my favorite independent rock bands and this is the official music video for "This Ship Goes Down Deep" from their last album "Two Strangers", released in October 2010.

The clip is the fruit of a video contest launched some weeks ago. The winner of the contest is Bhu Sullivan, a photographer & filmmaker who turned the song into a kaleidoscope of fairground images, like a wild dream featuring a public domain Ava Gardner.

I urge you to visit Black Lab website, where you can listen to a lot of great music, see videos, buy their records and their merchandising.

Let's support great independent artists!