Video: Megapuss, “Adam & Steve”
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The new Megapuss video, directed by Amy Jo Diaz is a cavalcade of former FADER cover stars acting like morons, but we’re most excited about is that there is apparently a new coffee shop across from the Ukrainian Cultural Center. LA is really nailing it these days. Get Megapuss’ Surfing LP right now wherever you can find it.
Freeload: Megapuss, “Crop Circle Jerk ‘94″
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Back in June, we revealed Megapuss to be FADER Number 48 coverstar Devendra Banhart and Priestbird’s Greg Rogove. The boys have since been joined by The Strokes’ Fab Moretti, also of new LA semi-supergroup Little Joy with Binky Shapiro and Rodrigo Amarante, the latter of whom appeared on “Rosa” from Devendra’s Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon née Jewish Anarchy. The whole gang will be touring the West Coast together starting tomorrow, September 24th, at the Casbah in San Diego, and it’s hard to imagine it won’t just be an open jam session with dick skirts and long hair and probably some music. We’ve been enjoying both band’s albums lately, so we can’t be mad. Totally unrelatedly, we just received “Crop Circle Jerk ‘94″ from Megapuss’s upcoming album Surfing, and it just so happens to be one of our favorites. So enjoy, and check the tour dates after the jump.
Download: Megapuss, “Crop Circle Jerk ‘94″
Megapuss Revealed or: I Believe Your Dick Skirt Is Caught on My Microphone
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LA’s finest gypster girls and their sandal-wearing bros packed into the marble courtyard at the Hammer Museum for last night’s debut performance of Devendra Banhart’s Megapuss. Sharing the stage with Priestbird’s Greg Rogove, Devendra and his usual gang cranked out eight originals and teased between songs with a loose cover of “Everybody Wants to Rule the World.” Devendra, wrapped in a skirt of rubber dicks, and Greg, draped in a loose-fitting summery man dress, were physical embodiments of Laurel Canyon’s spirited music scene. A full moon overhead, and a crowd of hundreds cross-legged at their feet, the band sweated and smiled through a rough and tumble hour-long set, with Greg handling most of the vocals.
