Fool’s Gold on Fool’s Gold, Part Two
- story Matthew Schnipper
A giant collective as much as a band, the California lovers in Fool’s Gold, are a slightly unwieldy crew of folks who know how to wing a riff into the wild abyss. Or as Matt and Sal of the band say, they get into “pockets of ecstasy” when playing with 12 people on stage. To try to break down the enigma, the members of Fool’s Gold and Tehetena Yonas made FADER TV a little gift: Five bios about the band and its members. Yesterday, in the first two of five videos, we met members Sal, Matt, Erika and Michael, and today we meet Brad, Amir, Luke, Lewis, Jimmy and Garett who further uncoil the group’s psychic powers, occasionally in what looks like a hotel lobby.
Fool’s Gold on Fool’s Gold Part One
- story Hanly Banks
A giant collective as much as a band, the California lovers in Fool’s Gold, are a slightly unwieldy crew of folks who know how to wing a riff into the wild abyss. Or as Matt and Sal of the band say, they get into “pockets of ecstasy” when playing with 12 people on stage. To try to break down the enigma, the members of Fool’s Gold and Tehetena Yonas made FADER TV a little gift: Five bios about the band and its members. In the first two of five videos we meet members Sal, Matt, Erika and Michael, who explain the band’s magic, demonstrate it on thumb piano and get some ice cream. Come back tomorrow to meet the rest of the band.
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posted on Sep 28, 2009 in FADER TV, FADER TV MUSIC CHANNEL SPOTLIGHT, MUSIC CHANNEL tags FADER TV, Fools Gold
Video: Fool’s Gold, “Surprise Hotel” (For Real This Time)
- story Sam Hockley-Smith
If you saw thelast version of this video and were wondering why it looked like it was made by somebody who just discovered they could shoot videos with a cell phone…well, it might have been. We liked it though! The new video—which the YouTube summary tells us was not staged and “represents a typical summer day for Fool’s Gold” is a little more perplexing. Apparently the band naturally spends their time hanging out with pantless old guys in flourescent tall tees, which might actually be their secret inspiration for making some of the most feel good songs we’ve heard all year. Well that, the dogs and the infinity pool.
Video: Jokers of the Scene, “Baggy Bottom Boys”
Fool’s Gold pranksters Jokers of the Scene have been going through a “blue period,” if you will, making gothy mixes and having a general aura of doom about them, but this video might be their transition into another stage of artistry. Namely, muted piano tech, sparklers and ravers with a healthy dose of geometric animation that conjures the illuminati. And considering the massive amount of SICK sci-fi movies slated for the next six months, now would be a fairly zeitgeistical time to get in on that—some metaphysical happening at a club party might make for a good plot point. What was that vampire movie with a scene at a crazy rave, where the lights went out and a rain of blood gushed out of the fire sprinklers? Anyway, half this video is twitchy like a gif, and they’ve also got a new remix EP.
Fool’s Gold, “Nadine” (Memory Tapes Remix) MP3
- story Matthew Schnipper
There needs to be a collective blog about Memory Tapes written by everyone who blogs. Every time (like every 30 minutes, seriously) dude has a new jam we will all go update it and you can look there and that will be the end of it. Maybe that’s not fair. It’s not like healthcare reform only gets covered in the NY Times and not the Washington Post, or like ESPN doesn’t talk about Lance Armstrong coming in third at the Tour De France because it aired on Versus. Some things have a broad appeal, like rainbows and babies—and Memory Tapes, especially this total dreamwave (totally stole that from FADER editor Julianne Shepherd, sorry) remix of office favorite Fool’s Gold, who are made up of many members of other office favorite Foreign Born. California dandies remixed by Philly dude with a kid and no driver’s license sounds like mountain music. Maybe that will be the new environment people are into for bands—no more beach, just mountains. Nude Beach is a better name than Nude Mountain, though. Maybe not. Stay tuned to thefader.com for our new post: Nude Mountain, “Wild Fire Family Joy Wind” (Memory Tapes Remix) MP3.
Download: Fool’s Gold, “Nadine” (Memory Tapes Remix) (via some other blog)
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posted on Aug 25, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS, MUSIC tags electronic/dance, Fools Gold, Memory Tapes, Nude Mountain, rock
Around the World with A-Trak, Part XXIV: 10,000LB Hamburger Tour—The Second Serving
- story A-Trak
- photo Pooya Nabei
Time for the final recap of the 10,000LB Hamburger Tour; the second serving, if you will. For those just catching on, this lasted all throughout July, traveling across North America on a tour bus with Treasure Fingers and Theophilus London. We did an extensive run across enormous Canada. Normally I have a rule: no more than four shows in a row. I’m not sure how but that rule got broken, or bent, and we did a five city blitz. The day before that started, I was in Vancouver and decided to get a massage at my hotel to try and ease the tour wear-and-tear. Then we went to our first Canadian show in Victoria, which involved putting the bus on a ferry. There’s something pretty phenomenal about putting an entire bus on a boat. But hey, Archimedes wasn’t kidding, buoyancy is very real. We also saw some porpoises in the water as we were leaving the docks. How do you recognize a porpoise? By its fin! In Victoria, about an hour or two before my set my neck started stiffening up. It got bad really fast and I had to play my set whilst in pain. Damn massage! On the lighter side, a girl asked me if I was Amish.
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posted on Aug 19, 2009 in AROUND THE WORLD tags 10, 10000 LB Hamburger Tour Pt. 2, A-Trak, Fools Gold, Theophilus London, Treasure Fingers
Exclusive: Duck Sauce (A-Trak & Armand Van Helden), “aNYway” Stream
For the last four months, we’ve been seeing the Fool’s Gold fam randomly twitter the words “Duck Sauce.” When it happened once we thought it was some sort of weird new inside joke, or a diss, or A-Trak was lunching at Panda Express at an airport somewhere. But they just kept twitting it, back and forth, A-Trak saying “DUCK SAUCE” and Catchdubs @’ing him back all “YERP,” and we were like What the fuck dudes! Enough with the Duck Sauce! But then we found out what Duck Sauce is and now we’d like to officially reverse our position on that. We’re totally fiending for the Duck Sauce! MORE! DUCK! SAUCE! Because it’s a collabo project between A-Trak and Armand Van Helden! We got a few of the gossamer club tracks yesterday, and the one streaming below sounds like rollerdisco’ing with the crew from Central Park through a flashing neon rainbow while drinking a milkshake. Please excuse us while we pass out now.
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posted on Jul 15, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags A-Trak, Armand Van Helden, Duck Sauce, electronic/dance, Fools Gold, nick catchdubs
Video: Fool’s Gold, “Surprise Hotel”
- story Matthew Schnipper
The dude wearing the robe that goes over his head is my favorite. LA’s Fool’s Gold made a video meant to look like a Sublime Frequencies handicam doc. The singing in Hebrew is helping win the exotic points. Made up of members of a bunch of dudes from Foreign Born, Fool’s Gold sounds like Foreign Born. Except they jam that guitar line for way longer than Foreign Born. Actually, Foreign Born might do that, too. Wait, no. Ok I got it, Foreign Born is sundown, Fool’s Gold is sun up. If you don’t want to watch a bunch of longhairs and khaki hats jam over and over, grab the MP3. The video of shredding Cali brosephs is after the jump.
Around the World with A-Trak, Part VIII
- story THE FADER
Join The FADER’s newest weekly columnist, A-Trak, who will be sharing with us the life and times of a superstar DJ and globetrotting gentleman. His column is called Around the World until he tells us otherwise.
Part VII: paintball, Daft Punk, Nike Air Max, Slick Rick, Kanye West, Catchdubs
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posted on Nov 24, 2008 in AROUND THE WORLD tags Around the World with A-Trak, Daft Punk, Diplo, electronic/dance, Fools Gold, hip hop, Kanye West, Mad Decent
