Video: No Age, “Losing Feeling”
- story Sam Hockley-Smith
Not to blow this video’s spot, but it ends with the revelation that the stop motion mouse who hides in the No Age shoe (nice) is actually drummer Dean Spunt and also gives us serious early-’90s music television vibes. Needless to say, we’re pretty bummed that we won’t be catching this video on late night MTV following an episode of The Head and a bunch of Sonic Youth videos, but we’ll take what we can get. Reality bites! (via P4K)
Live: No Age @ MoMA
- story THE FADER
After showing a Patrick O’Dell selected variety of skateboarding videos spanning the last thirty years, everyone moved upstairs to MoMA’s atrium, double fisted some of those tiny airplane beers, and No Age got to work at the Museum’s atrium. They bumped old hits and a few new ones, not quite right for a museum, though also somehow appropriate with their youthful nihilism. Isn’t that the point of art? No Age is the new Basquiat. Fittingly, before this all went down, we stopped in the bathroom and heard an official yelling at no one in particular about how this place is a museum, damn it, and there should not be any graffiti in the bathroom. High/low culture clash—careful what you wish for. Check it all out filmed by the inimitable Ray Concepcion.
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posted on Oct 19, 2009 in EVENTS CHANNEL, EVENTS SPECIALS, FADER TV, FADER TV Spotlight tags FADER TV, MoMA, No Age, Ray Concepcion
No Age Make a Mix Available Exclusively in Your Inbox
- story Sam Hockley-Smith
Ever since No Age perfected the art of releasing quick-turnaround 7-inches and vinyl, a bunch of bands have taken their cue, dropping albums just as quickly as they can record them. In internet hours, which moves at 100 million times the speed of real life (no joke we actually calculated it), No Age are basically known as The Fathers of Your Whole Style—meaning they birthed and sonned everybody so hard that all bands should aspire to put the same kind of care into their music. When we last brought up Turnstile’s free email subscription mix service, we lauded them for exposing the curatorial side of bands and giving internet presence heavy labels like Transparent another outlet to explore their curatorial leanings. No Age’s mix, which you can sign up for here, is a little closer to their hearts, reminding us of jams from PPM artists Gun Outfit, No Age bro/artist/Black Dice dude Eric Copeland and a bunch of other harsh/beautiful noise all accompanied by brief sentences that make us feel like the first time we walked into a legit record store and read all the blurbs and had no idea what anyone was talking about.
Video: No Age Live-Scores a Dramatic Bear Chase
The cool thing about seeing bands provide live scores to movies is that you’re essentially privy to their basement stoner jam, complete with visuals. No matter the film, whether it’s 8 1/2 or Weekend at Bernie’s, the band will inevitably tap into their inner John Cage vs. Charlie Chaplins, making some ambient dramatic noise waves with minor comedic embellishments, and unless you are sober, you will think the thing would be way better amped with a small, legal amount of medicinal “jazz sweaters.” Last weekend No Age scored the classic nature film The Bear in Los Angeles, and as this video (courtesy Videothing) proves, their cool improv swells were not exempt from the awesome pull of the tension-building wall-of-guitar-noise or dramatic cymbal clangs, so dramatically paired with this gigantor grizzly bear (no hova) eating berries from a tree and running away from a dude with an unfortunate hat. (via Aquarium Drunkard)
No Age, “You’re A Target” MP3 + Bear Movie from the ’80s
The bear is not from the ’80s, the film is (although who knows, bears could have awesome life spans). This Sunday in Los Angeles the Silent Movie dudes will screen The Bear, and stalwart LA boy wonders No Age will soundtrack it live for approximately 90 minutes. This should go well considering IMDB calls The Bear “The most majestic nature film of the century—pure escapism into the subtlety of life!” and The FADER calls No Age “A simple, subtle [band] regarding nature which gives us a true essence of the meaning and beauty of life.” It’s like a peanut butter sandwich upon which you add more peanut butter! In case you need to be emotionally prepared for this foray into the pure substance of nature, No Age is hitting you off with this new track “You’re a Target,” which both foreshadows the hunter/hunted dichotomy in this filmic masterwork, and provides some unexpectedly dreamy noise pop from the scraggy dudes of our time.
Download: No Age, “You’re a Target”
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posted on Aug 26, 2009 in EVENTS, MP3 / STREAMS, MUSIC NEWS, OTHER tags Los Angeles, No Age, The Bear
Stream: No Age, Losing Feeling EP
- story Sam Hockley-Smith
- photo Gabriele Stabile (F58)
Streaming music is the hottest shit around right now, so of course perpetual innovators No Age are streaming their digital/vinyl only EP Losing Feeling before it hits Oct. 6th. Seems like forever since No Age released Nouns, but it wasn’t that long ago. Even so, in the time since that album’s release, they’ve expanded their sound, focusing on layered guitar lushness and—holy shit!—clear vocals, less buried and unsure. There is even some near-falsetto on EP highlight “You’re a Target.” Pre-order the 12-inch for 8 bucks right here, and, with registration, stream the entire thing from the link below.
Stream: No Age, Losing Feeling
Freeload: Fucked Up, “No Epiphany” (No Age Remix)
- story THE FADER
The great thing about No Age entering the remix game is that they can pretty much be like,”We’re going to make your song sound like a beautiful sunset, or maybe we’re going to make it sound like we recorded it in a cave on the beach, but don’t worry because either way it will be awesome.” No Age’s disorienting remix of Fucked Up’s “No Epiphany” falls somewhere between both of those hypothetical situations and is definitely worth a listen. Buy the 7-inch here and then track down their remix of Bloc Party’s “Better Than Heaven” when that comes out as part of Intimacy Remixed on May 11th.
Download: Fucked Up, “No Epiphany” (No Age Remix) (Via Gorilla vs. Bear)
Freeload: Gun Outfit, “In The Dark”
- story THE FADER
There was a distinct reason we chose to put No Age on the cover of our recent 10th Anniversary/Curators Issue: They are one of our favorite bands, but they also champion their favorite bands via the Post Present Medium label. One of the newest to come off PPM is Gun Outfit, from Olympia, WA, whose first singles we called “scuzzily excellent” in our “Goat Hurt” video post last summer. We stand by that heady assessment for Gun Outfit’s new album Dim Light, too, especially this brief gust of malaise known as “In The Dark.” It’s pretty representative of the rest of their stuff — trebly, hypertensive, burn-out vocals — so pick up the album on February 17th if you like it.
Download: Gun Outfit, “In The Dark”
FADER 58: No Age Cover Story and Interview
- story Eric Ducker
- photo Tierney Gearon
No Age may have been one of the unlikely successes of 2008, but really, was it that much of a surprise? The duo of Dean Spunt and Randy Randall have shown just how far a modest band can go on the strength of good music, good ideas and good vibes. We haven’t been able to shut up about them since the first time we saw them in 2007. Since then we’ve featured them three times in the magazine, culminating in us putting them on the back cover of our 10th anniversary issue. After the jump read that story with an extended version of our interview with No Age only available on TheFADER.com.
YouTubes Of People Enjoying Music From The New Issue Of The FADER
- story THE FADER
Last week, Erol Alkan, who is the subject of a big feature in The FADER #58, sent us the above embedded video of a kid adding an acoustic guitar part to “Veronica’s Veil” by Fan Death, who are in the Gen F section of #58. (While, you’re at it, check out tygerbomb1992 playing guitar to Glass Candy and MGMT as well.) Then this morning No Age, who are on the back cover of #58, posted a video of a girl in bright green pants dancing to their song “Cappo” at seven in the morning. But what’s funny is that we went to a No Age show last night, and thirty people were doing this exact same dance. Maybe this is the next Crank That Soulja Boy phenomenon.
