Live: Devendra Banhart Plays A Secret Show at Webster Hall
- story Daniel Arnold
- photo Daniel Arnold
Last Friday Devendra Banhart played a secret show at Webster Hall, it was loose and he looked a whole lot like Frank Zappa. Little Joy performed afterward and Banhart got on stage with them too. After the jump read FADER contributor Daniel Arnold’s rundown of the whole thing, including video and photos.
Video: Devendra Banhart, “Baby” (Live at Webster Hall)
- story Peter Macia
D-Banz played a secret show within the Little Joy show on Friday night at Webster Hall in New York and showed off not just a few new songs from his forthcoming album What Will We Be, but a new face hairstyle that makes him a dead ringer for Frank Zappa. We’re totally going to grow our eyebrows and pubes out RIGHT NOW. It’s almost the 40th anniversary of 1970!
Live: Little Joy In Orange County, California
- story THE FADER
Not once during Little Joy’s set at Detroit Bar did we complain about having to go to Orange County to see them. Our spirits were buoyed by the fact that we got to see one Stroke and someone named Binki. Thankfully, Little Joy didn’t just sit back looking pretty: They actually managed to play an entire set of songs from their pretty great self-titled album without getting mobbed by admirers. Though what kind of bugged us out was how much their live set sounded like that record. If they don’t start screwing it up a little, we might have to start some Milli Vanilla rumors. Or since having dudes prod you with beer bottles to get closer to the stage (as it was in our case) isn’t the ideal way to watch a show, maybe we’ll just encourage you to forego the show altogether and listen to the record . Or maybe forego Orange County. Either way, the band just put out an mp3 and video for “No One’s Better Sake,” both of which are available at Little Joy fan site/music blog Gorilla vs Bear.
Little Joy in New York City
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Not true, there’s tons of joy here. People are joying all over the place. In this particular case the joy is actually Little Joy — a band that we have until now enjoyed more in the privacy of our homes than waving it around in public — who will be performing at Maxwell’s in Hoboken tonight and for free at the Virgin Megastore in Union Square on Monday. For those not in the know, Little Joy is Strokes’ drummer Fab Moretti, Banhart buddy Rogrigo Amarante and Binky Shapiro who was heretofore not famous (boooo). Little Joy also used to be a great dive bar in Echo Park, Los Angeles where you could pretty much pee wherever and hook up with members of the aging indie rock establishment. Connect your own dots there. Anyway, Little Joy, the band, just put out their great little album a week or so ago, and more recently released the first video from it, which you can watch above. And below, listen to Amarante do his best Casablancas on “Keep Me In Mind.”
Little Joy, “Keep Me In Mind”
