FADER TV: Abe Vigoda Plays The Whitney
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FADER #55 veterans Abe Vigoda almost thrashed right through the giant glass windows at The Whitney Museum on Friday. It wasn’t Schnipper’s apartment or anything, but it was still pretty great (and more spacious). Here, the boys play “Skeleton” for a gathered crowd of museum-goers and even some people who stopped and watched from Madison Avenue. Stay tuned for more FADER TV coverage from the Whitney Live series in the coming weeks.
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posted on Jul 20, 2009 in FADER TV, MUSIC CHANNEL, MUSIC LIVE SHOW tags Abe Vigoda, FADER TV, Whitney Live
LA: RJ Shaughnessy’s Your Golden Opportunity Is Comeing Soon Book Party With Abe Vigoda
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Lost Angels, if you’re reading this we’re thinking there is not a bad chance FADER contributor RJ Shaughnessy took your picture at some point. Or at least that’s how it seems on the East Coast, especially with his first book, Deathcamp. Though that was more a collection of photos in and around the house he lived in, it made LA seem like a weird universe frat party where the only people attending were really cool or super fucked up on drugs. Or maybe you modeled for that Steven Alan/Urban Outfitters collabo lookbook he did. Whichever. His new book, Your Golden Opportunity Is Comeing Very Soon features the black and white landscaped version of the fucked up people, scraped fences and dented signposts, some sad emoticon shit. Golden Opportunity is out now and he’s having a party tonight at Family with Abe Vigoda playing to celebrate. Check the full flyer after the jump.
Freeload: Stag & Dagger Festival MP3 Bonanza
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In our newest issue—available on paper or magic PDF paper—we chose Micachu & The Shapes to represent cover icon David Byrne’s tendency to be in the thick of things yet totally out of it. Cool, yet not cool. Micachu is right in the middle of the UK pop scene but is nowhere near anyone else, as you can hear on this cover of Toddla T’s “Backchatter” with Miss Bienek. Micachu will be playing Vice’s gigantic UK festival Stag & Dagger this Thursday at the London venue, and subsequent days will host every other band we’ve liked over the last year or so. So, go buckwild on free songs from a few of our favorites from the lineup and pick up Stag & Dagger tickets here.
LONDON 5/21:
Download: Micachu & The Shapes, “Backchatter”
Download: Abe Vigoda, “Don’t Lie”
Download: White Denim, “Mirrored and Reversed”
Download: Wild Beasts, “The Devil’s Crayon (Acoustic Version)”
LEEDS, 5/22:
Download: Vivian Girls, “Lake House”
Download: Telepathe, “Heater”
Download: Wavves, “Friends Were Gone”
GLASGOW 5/23:
Download: Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson, “Buriedfed”
Download: Black Lips, “I’ll Be With You”
Download: Mika Miko, “I Got A Lot”
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posted on May 19, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Abe Vigoda, Black Lips, freeload, Micachu & The Shapes, Mika Miko, Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson, MUSIC-MP3/STREAMS, rock, Stag & Dagger, Telepathe, Vivian Girls, Wavves, White Denim, Wild Beasts
Video: Abe Vigoda, “Don’t Lie”
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It’s pretty crazy to us that even with the whole “the oil industry will destroy us all” thing, driving down an open road still contains an alluring mystery and symbolic freedom, but it does. Sometimes on the freeway you feel like you can see forever. Here is Abe Vigoda going all Route 66 in their new video, which simultaneously makes Abe Vigoda seem like they are starring in an epic 1970s road movie as well as being the actual dudes navigating the spaceship hitched to the back of Comet Hale-Bopp.
Freeload: Abe Vigoda, “Don’t Lie”
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Listen to Michael Vidal say the word “sky” thirty-three seconds into this song. He sounds so throaty and dramatic! It’s awesome! There was never such dense pressure coming out of his mouth on Abe Vigoda’s monumental summer jam album Skeleton. They haven’t lost any of that speed-buzz on their new EP, Reviver, but they’ve moved some of that tropic love into the darkness. Not that sounding slower and more serious makes you sound older and more mature (in music or life, whatever) but this is a marker of an expansion of Abe Vigoda into the nether realms of their musical desires. Listen to the bass at the end of the song. Wall of noise + Bauhaus bass + sliced throat singing + funeral snare = the warped Abe Vigoda of the future.
Download: Abe Vigoda, “Don’t Lie”
FADER TV: LA Is A Nice Place To Live #4
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On each episode of FADER TV’s LA Is A Nice Place To Live, the West Coast staff takes in some of the city’s culture and fun good times. For this episode, we caught up with Abe Vigoda at their homecoming show at The Smell with Vivian Girls and Love Is All. During a break from eating pizza, they talked about their recent stint on Diplo’s Mad Decent tour and their recent move to Los Angeles from the Inland Empire suburb of Chino. It’s a good thing we interviewed them before their set, we think they killed our camera’s mic.
Secret NYC Show Announcement: Love Is All and Abe Vigoda in Brooklyn Tonight
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Through intense internet sleuthing (looking at MySpace), we’ve discovered that tonight’s super extra secret musical guests at Secret Robot Project’s Art Makes Eye Contact week in Williamsburg are no other than FADER 37 cover stars Love Is All and FADER 55 feature subject Abe Vigoda. There have been parties all week at Secret Robot to for the exhibit, but this is an especially good reason to put your best ratty sneakers and v-neck tee on and head down there. After your done listening to music, try to buy some art, as sales benefit Transformazium, whose mission it to use the “creative process and locally identified resources to transform ideas into tangible social and economic benefits. Our collaborative arts programming and skill-building workshops connect communities stratified by class, race and age and expand upon existing community networks and resources, while rendering models of possibility for other post-industrial cities.” See the exhibit poster and more pertinent info after the jump.
FADER TV: Avoiding Disease At The Yard
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A couple weeks ago Brooklyn fairy godfather Todd P organized a massive mid-summer party at The Yard, a lovely greenspace on the shores of the gonorrheic Gowanus Canal (Oh shit! Gowanorrhea!), with performances by many FADER favorites such as Oneida, High Places, Shy Child, Crystal Antlers, Ponytail, Telepathe, Vivian Girls, Abe Vigoda, Soft Circle, Soiled Mattress and the Springs and Chairlift. We asked Todd if we could bring our video camera, and of course he said yes. We edited the nine or so hours down to several easily-digested minutes with performances by Ponytail, Crystal Antlers, Vivian Girls, Telepathe and Shy Child. Catch the virulent experience only on FADER TV.
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posted on Jul 24, 2008 in MUSIC LIVE SHOW tags Abe Vigoda, Chairlift, Crystal Antlers, High Places, Oneida, Ponytail, Shy Child, Soft Circle, Soiled Mattress and the Springs, Telepathe, The Yard, Vivian Girls
FADER TV: Abe Vigoda At Schnipper’s Apartment
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On Sunday F55 featured artists Abe Vigoda played at FADER editor Matthew Schnipper’s apartment after the furniture and heirloom rug were moved out of the way. There were mimosas and bagels and some dudes who drove from California in a 4Runner playing songs from their new album, Skeleton. We spoke to them and other attendees of the tiny show. Special thank you to Dan McGinley for assistance with the equipment.
FADER 55: Abe Vigoda Feature
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Before you check them out live, read Matthew Schnipper’s feature story from our Summer Music issue after the jump.
