On The Boat With Amazing Baby

When we set out for the stormy waters of Long Island Sound in a boat full of chowder-fed rock dudes and a couple of cameras, we weren’t sure what to expect. John Locke on a life raft? The Professor and Mary Ann making out on the shore of some distant cay? Sadly, no fictional television characters were spotted, but we returned windswept with a completely improvised music video for Amazing Baby’s new single, “Supreme Being.” We hope that this comes off more Bond than Weekend at Bernie’s.  And special thanks to the Port Washington Yacht Club for letting us take over their dock for an afternoon!

Download “Supreme Being” for free at Green Label Sound.

FADER TV: Open Bar with Amazing Baby

First of all, Amazing Baby are about to tour with Phoenix, which will probably incite a bunch of unnamed FADER editors to scream like teenage girls at the front of the audience at the New York show next week. But prior to that, the band came through Heathers for an Open Bar session which includes a gentle rendition of “Headdress,” fake mustaches, some mid-afternoon beers and an acoustic bass. You really know a band has made it when they have an acoustic bass. Seriously. When was the last time you saw one of those?

Freeload: Amazing Baby Daytrotter Session

Down in the great Lollapalooza in the sky we call heaven, or SXSW, the lovely people at Daytrotter got the lovely people in Amazing Baby to record a couple of choice cuts. Amazing Baby is so punk. They might front like they are rock or cool but they are gnarly punk dudes in a punk band. This is them raw and unclean, literal/figurative. Guitar player had a fox tail on his belt when they played at our Austin space (which you can see above). We threw dirt at them. They liked it and asked for more. Actually they didn’t like it. And actually we didn’t really throw dirt.

Download: Amazing Baby Daytrotter Session

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Freeload: A Bunch of Songs From Urban Outfitters

Fans of good music and haters of vowels, come together and partake in Urban Outfitters latest URBN LSTN thing, in which they give away a crapload of free songs from a bunch of artists, some of whom have been given full endorsement by us in the pages of FADER Magazine and right here on this webternet site. Artists such as Grizzly Bear, Crystal Antlers, Apostle of Hustle, Passion Pit, The Big Pink, Amazing Baby, Jeremy Jay, Major Lazer, Popo, Lemonade, Nite Jewel, Phoenix and many more whose songs we’ve already posted here! It’s almost like they’re stealing from us! It’s almost like we should get compensated in some way! It’s almost like they should send over lifetime gift cards so we can stop wearing dirty t-shirts and duct tape shoes!

Download: URBN LSTN #5

Freeload: Amazing Baby, “Smoke Bros” MP3

We recently received our highly securitized promos of Amazing Baby’s debut album in the mail which means you will probably soon have a digital copy in your possession as well. But in the meantime, the band is giving away penultimate album track “Smoke Bros” over on their site in exchange for your email address. Be careful though, we gave those dudes our phone number once and ended up with a scorching case of Sexually Transmitted Rock and Roll! Yeah!! Also, they just twitpic’d a photo from their next video shoot which, as you can see above, is going to totally make perfect sense.

Download: Amazing Baby, “Smoke Bros” (via Thor)

FADER TV: Amazing Baby, “Pump Your Brakes” (Live at The Levi’s®/FADER Fort)

In a week during which they played the extravagant New York Topshop opening parties with Mark Ronson hosting and crazy celebrities attending, we are choosing to reminisce back to the good old days of two weeks ago when Amazing Baby played the simple, everymanned Levi’s®/FADER Fort. Watch the boys play the first song we ever posted by them, “Pump Your Brakes.”

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Freeload: Amazing Baby, “Bayonets”

When we visited with the Amazing Baby dudes for our story in FADER Number 59, they were in the studio recording their debut album and drinking beer. We are totally into drinking beer. This apparently is the first official leak from that album and we are totally into it as well. Where did they get money for strings?! Can we have some?! Money not strings. Or strings, whatever, we can sell that shit. Anyway, we kind of love these guys for reasons we can’t yet explain other than by saying they are unashamed to make opulent sounding glam rock in the middle of a recession and that somehow fills us with hope and happiness.



Download: Amazing Baby, “Bayonets”

FADER TV: Cooking With Amazing Baby

Do you know what the hell a Buffalo Nothing is? Do you want to know? Excite your culinary palate with some homemade video treats from the psychedelic minds of Amazing Baby, whose “Head Dress” video we posted this morning. We imagine that munchies are a well-treaded topic amongst the Baby crew, and to prove us right, they visited our test kitchen the other day to teach us some tricks. A bottle of Frank’s Red Hot and a tampered-with smoke alarm later, our bellies were full of fine eats. This ain’t your run-of-the-mill Top Chef here. This is rockstar food.

Video: Amazing Baby, “Head Dress”

While everyone else is reflecting on 2008, we are already stockpiling our choices for best new music in 2009 and have decided that Amazing Baby are by far the Number One Psych Glam Band From Greenpoint. Seriously, lead singer Will Roan is wearing, we think, the rug from our grandma’s sun room in Tucson, and the rest of the video is the rest of the band being really jazzed about a bonfire. Some kind of purple crystal element in there, too. Will someone give these guys enough money to act out their most ludicrous rock ‘n’ roll fantasies already? We have stories to write.

Video: Amazing Baby, “Pump Your Brakes”

The Amazing Baby New York City 2009 checklist:

-oversized women’s cardigans
-pharoahs (egyptology, i.g.)
-dashikis
-wolves (kinda played)
-mountain bikes
-wican basketball
-jams

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