The Tracys Release New Single & Video “Bully Bully Blockhead”

Punk icons The Tracys have released their second single and music video of 2023, Bully Bully Blockhead, on all streaming platforms. The track follows on from previous single and video, A Soviet Mistake, and both will appear on their upcoming full length, Welcome To The Land Of Nothing, which will be dropping later this Spring. True to their punk rock roots, the action-packed 1 minute 34 second song takes on bullies with great lyrics and infectious melody. Video designer and editor Matt Ernst, the drummer for The Tracys, created the video that seems to take inspiration from campy 1950s sci-fi and horror films, using footage from a recently re-discovered art film made for a gallery exhibit in NYC in 2001 just after the attacks on 9/11.

Ernst’s painting studio at that time was on Greenwich St. below Canal in lower Manhattan just a few hundred yards from Ground Zero. He made the film called The Sleep, starring his son 6-year-old son, Jonah,  while the pile still smoldered, leaflets of the missing and dead fluttered from every fence and light pole. It was a way for Matt to keep working and process the feelings of anxiety and fear he and all New Yorkers felt at the time. Upon recently discovering the raw footage on an old VHSC tape, Matt decided it would be apt and somehow poetic to turn this representation of abstract fear into a humorous video about a schoolyard bully’s comeuppance.