TAG: Television

Jan31

The Thermals, new video, next tour, on Lopez! (Video & MP3)

Big news! The Thermals will be performing TOMORROW NIGHT, February 1st, on Lopez Tonight. There are free tickets still available I believe: http://www.lopeztonight.com/tickets/tickets_promo.php and then enter the promo code thermals.

From their label Kill Rock Stars on their new video: “Lance Bangs has previously directed two classic Thermals videos, “No Culture Icons” (their first), and “Now We Can See” (their most popular/controversial, if you’re grading by youtube comments).  Lance Bangs and Aubree Bernier-Clarke now bring you the video for  The Thermals’ latest single, “Never Listen To Me”.  The video is warm, sentimental, and very Portland.  It was shot at Cathedral Park in Portland on Super 8mm and 16mm and on expired and out of date Kodachrome film stock dating back through the 1990s, a beautiful format that Bangs has used on many of his …

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Dec01

Yura Yura Teikoku – Hollow Me / Beautiful (Review)

Yura Yura Teikoku

Hollow Me / Beautiful

Released by DFA


In their native Japan, Yura Yura Teikoku are twenty-year psych-rock veterans, beloved above-ground vets with a ten-album discography revered for the sort of obstinate high quality of Sonic Youth more so than the fitful, morphing back catalogs of the Flaming Lips or Butthole Surfers. On Hollow Me / Beautiful, their tenth record, they ditch some of the prog and punk leanings of earlier stuff to pillage instead 1970s AM gold, in the process creating warped, dreamy pop-rock. It is as much fun as it is brazenly insane. The first ...

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