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Video Vault: Ben Kweller

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With our extensive festival coverage to exclusive performances, interviews, and beyond, SPIN.com has culled an enormous, and continually growing video catalogue full of excellent clips, and with this new regular feature, we’ll be dipping into this video vault to show off some of our best.

Today’s (May 12) clip recalls Spin‘s July ’07 issue, which arrived to newsstands with a free CD of ten covers of Smashing Pumpkins classics — amongst them, Ben Kweller’s acoustic take on Billy Corgan and crew’s Siamese Dream gem “Today.” Kweller, an avid Pumpkins fan, invited SPIN.com to film him performing the tune on the Brooklyn waterfront, and to unearth what is about the alt-rock legends’ oeuvre that has so greatly influenced his music.

Check out footage of the spot-on, turned-down tune, then join SPIN.com and Kweller in the rocker’s time-honored Volvo, nicknamed Annabelle, for a video interview and tour of Kweller’s Brooklyn ‘hood.

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Ben Kweller’s live cover of “Today”

Ben Kweller’s in-car interview and neighborhood tour

Click here for even more BK videos, including his set at the SPIN offices in 2005.

Check back to SPIN.com for more picks from the video vault, and visit our video section for all the latest.