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As part of MTV's Indie Music Month, we're premiering videos from some of the most vibrant, inventive and fresh artists in the indie music scene. And today we have a special one from one of most consistently rewarding bands in indie rock: Minus The Bear.

For almost a decade Seattle's Minus The Bear has been mesmerizing listeners with gorgeous, idiosyncratic guitar and keyboard interplay and singer Jake Snider's razor-sharp lyrics, which manage to be cynical and vulnerable at the same time.

On the latest album, Omni, the band wedges its unique sound into more traditional song structures, and the results are pretty stunning. Also stunning is the band's live show, which is artfully captured in the below video for the single "Hold Me Down."

The video, directed by Adam Rothlein, captures a raucous Minus The Bear gig from a variety of perspectives and features some really lovely camera work and cinematography.

Check out Minus The Bear's "Hold Me Down" video below. Omni is out now.

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OK. We brought you Rodrigo Y Gabriela, you said too much guitar. Team Facelift? Not street enough. Nelly Furtado? Tired of the commercials. And y'all nearly crumbled when we compared Paramore's Hayley Williams to Avril. So, we realize we're never gonna make e'ryone happy. So, instead, hopefully SOME of you will be happy to know that varied and sundry indie band Minus The Bear is this week's MTV Artist Of The Week.

Minus The Bear manages, almost impossibly, to hover somewhere above the treacherous demilitarized zones of indie that divide prog from shoe-gazing from power-pop. Yet while other lesser bands might suffer from the resulting musical schizophrenia that comes from such experimentation, Minus The Bear successfully maintains one overarching truism: they're cunning lyricists capable of math rock minus the annoying advanced math. Read more...

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