Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Time In Common

What this video is

Released July 17, 2018, shortly after Hope Downs — Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever's Sub Pop debut — landed to widespread critical acclaim (Metacritic 84; #3 MOJO Album of the Year; #5 Rough Trade Albums of the Year). The video captures the band in the thick of their breakthrough North American tour, representing the moment Australian indie rock — particularly Melbourne's jangle-pop lineage tracing back to the…

Why it matters

A textbook specimen of the 2010s indie tour-doc video form — the genre that replaced expensive concept videos for guitar-pop acts in the streaming era. Aligns with the Dolewave/Australian indie movement (jangle pop, indie rock) and Sub Pop's broader Pacific Rim A&R expansion. The video's…

The director

J. Austin Wilson is a Seattle-based director and documentary filmmaker. He studied at the New York Film Academy and USC School of Cinematic Arts. He began his music film career directing short docs for Seattle's KEXP radio, working with artists including…