The ABSOLUT FADER Visionary Podcast #5 — Something
- story Peter Macia
The penultimate installment of the Visionary Podcast series, curated by The FADER and presented by ABSOLUT as part of our ongoing efforts to advance and advocate the art and music we love, is about “Something.” Yes, everything is about something, true, but if that something is nothing then what does anything really mean? Who knows!
Oddly, the most ambiguous of all the podcast inspirations was the easiest one to select. We took something from our girl Bethany Cosentino bka Best Coast, a few things from Sincerely Yours signee JJ, a little more something from Free Energy, everything from Tanlines, and finished it off with a horizon-gazing track from Nosaj Thing. Check the tracklist after the jump, and come back soon for the final Visionary podcast, inspired by all things “Exceptional.”
Download: The ABSOLUT FADER Visionary Podcast #5 — Something
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posted on Oct 5, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Absolut Visionary Series, Best Coast, Free Energy, jj, Nosaj Thing, Tanlines
Free Energy, “Something in Common” MP3
- story Matthew Schnipper
- photo Alex Welsh (F63)
Guesses on what the song’s anonymous she and DFA rock upstarts Free Energy have in common: shitty Philadelphia apartments with decent backyards, malt liquor, clothes with fringe, scratched AC/DC records. Free Energy is all in the bass here, though someone (James Murphy/Eric Broucek) added a lot of Cloud One synth bloops. Free Energy walk the line of life changing/totally ignorable, which is the perfect line to walk for a band who used to be called Hockey Night (and, briefly, Dude Bros). The first rule to our band could be your life is making sure the band is the band’s life, and for Free Energy, you know it’s everything.
Download: Free Energy, “Something in Common”
Schnipper’s Slept On
- story Matthew Schnipper
Each Tuesday, FADER editor Matthew Schnipper highlights an underappreciated recent release he thinks we need to know about. This week it’s Free Energy’s “Free Energy” 7-inch. Download the song and read Schnipper’s thoughts on it after the jump.
The FADER Issue 63 Podcast MP3
- story THE FADER
- photo Jason Nocito (F63)
Our annual Fall Fashion issue is covered by the unlikeliest of stars—Drake, the former teen heartthrob turned hottest thing in rap, and Girls, whose main man escaped a Christian cult to write ragged pop songs. We’re all about switching up life plans this autumn and opting for the unexpected—partially inspired by these guys, partially by performance arty fashion designer Henrik Vibskov, also featured in the issue, who we’re using as our muse into 2010 (don’t freak out if you see us in the street wearing yarn over our faces). The latest issue podcast reflects our transformational attitudes, with disparate but equally awesome tracks by Pissed Jeans, Glasser, Douster, Kingdom, Free Energy, French Montana, plus a ton more, and of course the aforementioned cover stars. Download it below while asking yourself, “HOW CAN I BE MORE AWESOME THIS AUTUMN (if that is even possible)?” And keep TheFADER.com on lock, for on September 1st, we shall post the PDF of our entire issue for free, because we’re just that into you.
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Check the tracklist after jump.
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posted on Aug 20, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Douster, Drake, F63, FADER podcast, Free Energy, French Montana, Girls, Glasser, Kingdom, Pissed Jeans
Video: Free Energy, “Free Energy”
- story Peter Macia
Free Energy’s “Free Energy” from their upcoming album Stuck On Nuthin on DFA is now for sale on iTunes and for free right here at what we’re assuming is a lower bitrate? Either way, learn to love this band because in an age when new rock bands (a bunch of which we love) seem obsessed with zero fidelity, these semi-grubby dudes who never seem to leave their practice space in Philly (we shot them there for their Gen F in the new issue, this video is there) play the dumbest, cleanest hi-fi party rock in recent memory.
Free Energy, “Free Energy” MP3
- story Peter Macia
Maybe there are a million bands making Cheap Trick/Thin Lizzy-style rock these days, but most of them, we are guessing, are made up of dudes with bald-tops and girlfriends whose saggy bellies hang precariously out of the front of their tank tops, not skinny Evan Dando types who dance like your 6-year-old niece trying to copy the latest Ciara video. The latter is what Free Energy is and that is why we like them, aside from the fact that they do what they do really well and James Murphy makes it sound like the last couple decades didn’t really need to happen.
Download: Free Energy, “Free Energy”
Bonus: Free Energy Live on MPR’s The Current
Freeload: Free Energy, “Dream City”
- story THE FADER
Hey, are you watching Dazed and Confused? You’re not? Because it sounds like you are. Oh, we’re just listening to Free Energy on our headphones? Sorry, we got mixed up. Free Energy, who kinda sorta used to be Lookout! Records’ Hockey Night, linked up with James Murphy and recorded an album of Thin Lizzy-loving, ’70s classic rock soft triumphs. “Dream City,” the first track to surface from their fall-slated DFA debut, is a light doozy of chants, handclaps and guitar power that smells like sweat and beer. But not a lot, because the people that smell like sweat and beer are never the people who you want to own that movie authenticity. They’re just gross. Free Energy isn’t gross. Or maybe they are, we don’t know them. See for yourself, they’ve got a few shows coming up in Philadelphia and New York City, where we hear dreams come true.
Download: Free Energy, “Dream City”
