The Amazing at The Levi’s/FADER Fort

We were pretty psyched when The Amazing rolled through our Ace Hotel New York suite at The Levi’s®/FADER Fort last week and started gently strumming the acoustic guitars, which turned into a Nick Drake/Oasis singalong, which eventually morphed into the song, “Is it Likely,” off of their new album.  The presence of good-natured Swedish people at the Fort this year was greatly appreciated.  Check out the video here, and if you’re lucky, maybe we’ll post the aforementioned outtakes someday.

Live: No Age @ MoMA

After showing a Patrick O’Dell selected variety of skateboarding videos spanning the last thirty years, everyone moved upstairs to MoMA’s atrium, double fisted some of those tiny airplane beers, and No Age got to work at the Museum’s atrium. They bumped old hits and a few new ones, not quite right for a museum, though also somehow appropriate with their youthful nihilism. Isn’t that the point of art? No Age is the new Basquiat. Fittingly, before this all went down, we stopped in the bathroom and heard an official yelling at no one in particular about how this place is a museum, damn it, and there should not be any graffiti in the bathroom. High/low culture clash—careful what you wish for. Check it all out filmed by the inimitable Ray Concepcion.

Party in the Pines at Big Sur, Part 1: Dungen

We spent this past weekend at Party in the Pines, a low-key festival in a sun-dappled northern California forest presented by Kemado Records, Mexican Summer and (((folkYEAH!))).  FADER TV captured all of the many ultra-lax musicians on hand—Kurt Vile, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, Dungen, Saviours, Vietnam, and more—and will somehow put up all the footage this week if we don’t decide to just linger on forever in hazy Big Sur. If there is a better way than this to bid summer one last hurrah, let us know.

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Silk Flowers at The Sculpture Center

Last weekend, moody analogue dance dudes Silk Flowers played at the awesome Sculpture Center in Queens (in conjunction with the University of Trash). It was satisfyingly cognitively dissonant watching them perform such dark and rackety tracks outside under the hot sun to a crowd of beer-drinking satisfieds chilling in giant hammocks and standing on rocks spraypainted the blinding neon of tennis balls. Silk Flowers are not super depressed or anything, though, just extra creative and cool, as we discovered when we linked up with them before their show and talked to them about meat, elf kings and making their their new album in a sealed chamber in the middle of winter.

FADER TV: Open Bar with Holiday Shores

The best thing about doing these Open Bar editions of FADER TV at Heathers is watching bands figure out how to perform in cramped spaces with nothing but the equipment they brought with them, after we’ve crammed them into unwieldy corners and given them beers. In this episode with Florida’s own Holiday Shores, singer Nathan Pemberton’s voice cracks, a guitar comes unplugged and occasionally the music drowns out the vocals, but it is still awesome. Awesome enough, in fact, that dudes on the street stopped and watched. One guy even tried to steal the band away from their label. Dubious! Check it out and then buy their jamming new album Columbus’d the Whim when it comes out August 4th on Twosyllable Records. Bonus beat: the band also made a video for first single “Phones Don’t Feud,” which makes us never ever want to go to Florida because that place looks like it might be haunted.

FADER TV: Girls Live at Monster Island Basement

San Francisco’s Girls played last Friday inside of a sweat-chamber disguised as a music performance venue. Seriously, we felt like we were doing bikram yoga all night. But the heat only contributed to the beachy-keen atmosphere induced by Real Estate, Beach Fossils, and Kurt Vile—creating the illusion that we were somewhere in California, and our parents had gone out of town, and we had decided to throw a party in their basement but couldn’t figure out how to work the A/C without them there. FADER TV captured a few closeups on Girls’ sweaty but still gorgeous locks in “Laura” and “Lust For Life.” Watch it and weep!

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