http://www.thefader.com The FADER is the definitive voice of emerging music and the lifestyle that surrounds it. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 05:13:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://www.thefader.com/2011/08/01/video-grass-widow-plays-music-for-gorillas-at-the-zoo/ http://www.thefader.com/2011/08/01/video-grass-widow-plays-music-for-gorillas-at-the-zoo/#comments Mon, 01 Aug 2011 21:40:55 +0000 Alex Frank http://www.thefader.com/?p=129888 Grass Widow are part of a project called Music For Animals, which, as the name suggests, is dedicated to having bands play songs for a variety of species. They recently performed for gorillas at the … read more »]]> http://www.thefader.com/2011/08/01/video-grass-widow-plays-music-for-gorillas-at-the-zoo/feed/ 4 http://www.thefader.com/2011/04/12/grass-widow-and-trash-kit-tour-diary-video/ http://www.thefader.com/2011/04/12/grass-widow-and-trash-kit-tour-diary-video/#comments Tue, 12 Apr 2011 18:27:11 +0000 THE FADER http://www.thefader.com/?p=103571 Grass Widow and Trash Kit took a little tour of the U.K. recently and documented every rolling hill they climbed and each picturesque field they skipped through. So inspired were they by the scenery, they … read more »]]> http://www.thefader.com/2011/04/12/grass-widow-and-trash-kit-tour-diary-video/feed/ 2 http://www.thefader.com/2011/01/05/stream-mp3s-grass-widow-and-everyone-do-the-nerves/ http://www.thefader.com/2011/01/05/stream-mp3s-grass-widow-and-everyone-do-the-nerves/#comments Wed, 05 Jan 2011 17:30:05 +0000 Maia Stern http://www.thefader.com/?p=84880 Are you still wondering what cassette you want to pop into your kinda cool new/old cassette player that your dad gave you for Christmas after he won it on eBay in the last five seconds? … read more »]]> http://www.thefader.com/2011/01/05/stream-mp3s-grass-widow-and-everyone-do-the-nerves/feed/ 1 http://www.thefader.com/2010/11/04/the-fader-issue-70-podcast-mp3/ http://www.thefader.com/2010/11/04/the-fader-issue-70-podcast-mp3/#comments Thu, 04 Nov 2010 18:00:41 +0000 THE FADER http://www.thefader.com/?p=76892 Man, do we have a John Boehner (no Tea Party) for our FADER 70 podcast. It’s a grimy one, reading cover to cover, staring with Yelawolf and ending with Trash Talk. In between, we’ve got … read more »]]> http://www.thefader.com/2010/11/04/the-fader-issue-70-podcast-mp3/feed/ 1 http://www.thefader.com/2010/10/29/gen-f-grass-widow/ http://www.thefader.com/2010/10/29/gen-f-grass-widow/#comments Fri, 29 Oct 2010 18:29:57 +0000 Alex Frank http://www.thefader.com/?p=76038 Grass Widow won’t admit to having predecessors. The San Francisco trio is newly signed to legendary label Kill Rock Stars, an originator and subsequent hotbed of riot grrrl and all of its subsets of dewy, … read more »]]> http://www.thefader.com/2010/10/29/gen-f-grass-widow/feed/ 0 http://www.thefader.com/2010/10/26/video-premiere-grass-widow-give-me-shapes/ http://www.thefader.com/2010/10/26/video-premiere-grass-widow-give-me-shapes/#comments Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:30:21 +0000 Alex Frank http://www.thefader.com/?p=75370 This is maybe the fourth Grass Widow video to be shot in stop motion. It’s not that they’re lazy, we dont’ think, but more that a disjointed shake fits their music’s jangle like white on … read more »]]> http://www.thefader.com/2010/10/26/video-premiere-grass-widow-give-me-shapes/feed/ 0 http://www.thefader.com/2010/09/23/video-grass-widow-11-of-diamonds/ http://www.thefader.com/2010/09/23/video-grass-widow-11-of-diamonds/#comments Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:00:35 +0000 Alex Frank http://www.thefader.com/?p=70954 Not a bad move for Grass Widow to stick with the black and white color palette for videos, since their ghostly vocal harmonies have always conjured up images of old jangly silent movies and Victorian … read more »]]> http://www.thefader.com/2010/09/23/video-grass-widow-11-of-diamonds/feed/ 1 http://www.thefader.com/2010/08/25/video-grass-widow-fried-egg-2/ http://www.thefader.com/2010/08/25/video-grass-widow-fried-egg-2/#comments Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:52:23 +0000 David Bevan http://www.thetripwire.com/?p=34691 http://www.thefader.com/2010/08/25/video-grass-widow-fried-egg-2/feed/ 0 http://www.thefader.com/2010/08/24/video-grass-widow-fried-egg/ http://www.thefader.com/2010/08/24/video-grass-widow-fried-egg/#comments Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:00:42 +0000 Sam Hockley-Smith http://www.thefader.com/?p=41297 Grass Widow is big on shooting videos on hills. What’s up with that, guys? Granted, the whole sustained scenery thing looks pretty cool, and “Fried Egg,” is vice-grip tight. Falsetto vocals careening over elastic bass … read more »]]> http://www.thefader.com/2010/08/24/video-grass-widow-fried-egg/feed/ 0 http://www.thefader.com/2010/08/05/premiere-grass-widow-fried-egg-mp3/ http://www.thefader.com/2010/08/05/premiere-grass-widow-fried-egg-mp3/#comments Thu, 05 Aug 2010 19:15:01 +0000 Alex Frank http://www.thefader.com/?p=39094 San Francisco’s Grass Widow keeps the Egyptian shoo-wop of past songs, sliding the sound on a darker, more foreboding edge. Which is really rad, because it means that Grass Widow has tricks up its sleeve, … read more »]]> http://www.thefader.com/2010/08/05/premiere-grass-widow-fried-egg-mp3/feed/ 1 http://www.thefader.com/2010/07/27/video-grass-widow-shadow/ http://www.thefader.com/2010/07/27/video-grass-widow-shadow/#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:45:05 +0000 Alex Frank http://www.thefader.com/?p=38110 You’ve got to be thankful for San Francisco and the Pacific Northwest because they’ll never stop pushing the genre that made them the heartland of Alternative Nation in the late ’80s and early ’90s. Because … read more »]]> http://www.thefader.com/2010/07/27/video-grass-widow-shadow/feed/ 0 http://www.thefader.com/2010/06/22/grass-widow-shadow-mp3/ http://www.thefader.com/2010/06/22/grass-widow-shadow-mp3/#comments Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:15:06 +0000 Matthew Schnipper http://www.thefader.com/?p=34361 read more »]]> http://www.thefader.com/2010/06/22/grass-widow-shadow-mp3/feed/ 0 http://www.thefader.com/2010/06/07/freak-scene-57-chaos-in-tejas/ http://www.thefader.com/2010/06/07/freak-scene-57-chaos-in-tejas/#comments Mon, 07 Jun 2010 18:30:59 +0000 Jamie Johns http://www.thefader.com/?p=32103 In this week’s Freak Scene, Jamie Johns reports from Austin, Texas, where she attended the Chaos in Tejas. For reviews of Bastard, Bastard Noise and other non-Bastard named groups, check after the jump. PLEASE NOTE: … read more »]]> http://www.thefader.com/2010/06/07/freak-scene-57-chaos-in-tejas/feed/ 0 http://www.thefader.com/2009/12/21/freak-scene-49-the-year-end-edition/ http://www.thefader.com/2009/12/21/freak-scene-49-the-year-end-edition/#comments Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:03:10 +0000 Jamie Johns http://www.thefader.com/?p=21054 read more »]]> http://www.thefader.com/2009/12/21/freak-scene-49-the-year-end-edition/feed/ 0 http://www.thefader.com/2009/12/01/listen-to-grass-widows-celebrate-the-mundane-live-at-wfmu/ http://www.thefader.com/2009/12/01/listen-to-grass-widows-celebrate-the-mundane-live-at-wfmu/#comments Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:09:04 +0000 Nat Roe http://www.thetripwire.com/?p=31984 read more »]]> http://www.thefader.com/2009/12/01/listen-to-grass-widows-celebrate-the-mundane-live-at-wfmu/feed/ 0 http://www.thefader.com/2009/10/08/grass-widow-lulus-lips/ http://www.thefader.com/2009/10/08/grass-widow-lulus-lips/#comments Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:17:25 +0000 Nat Roe http://www.thetripwire.com/?p=30566 read more »]]> http://www.thefader.com/2009/10/08/grass-widow-lulus-lips/feed/ 0 http://www.thefader.com/2009/07/13/video-grass-widow-over-the-hill/ http://www.thefader.com/2009/07/13/video-grass-widow-over-the-hill/#comments Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:10:12 +0000 Sam Hockley-Smith http://www.thefader.com/?p=9364 read more »]]> http://www.thefader.com/2009/07/13/video-grass-widow-over-the-hill/feed/ 0 http://www.thefader.com/2009/07/10/grass-widow-yellow-balloons-mp3/ http://www.thefader.com/2009/07/10/grass-widow-yellow-balloons-mp3/#comments Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:04:44 +0000 Sam Hockley-Smith http://www.thefader.com/?p=9160 read more »]]> http://www.thefader.com/2009/07/10/grass-widow-yellow-balloons-mp3/feed/ 2