Tagged: Smith Westerns
Smith Westerns, “End of the Night” (Peaking Lights Remix) MP3
When the guitars and drums drop away and it’s just the piano pulsing and Cullen Omori singing, Everybody wants to be a star on a Saturday night, you can’t help but feel the Smith Westerns … read more »
Smith Westerns’ Lead Singer is a Threat to All American Girls
Smith Westerns stopped by the A.V. Club to perform for their ongoing A.V. Undercover series, in which bands are asked to sportingly humiliate themselves covering popular classics. Tom Petty’s “American Girl” seemed like the obvious … read more »
Smith Westerns Live at the FADER FORT by FIAT
The Smith Westerns were looking real tall and lanky today at the FADER FORT by FIAT. They probably haven’t eaten their share of barbecue yet while here in Austin? Watch the video above, and catch … read more »
The Tripwire: Those Smith Westerns Proved Us Way Wrong
I have always been a bit of a lo-fi/chillwave apologist (so long as I don’t have to literally defend the latter term). Sure, I could have done without the ubiquity of the subgenre on certain … read more »
Stream: Smith Westerns’ Album Dye it Blonde
Does anyone do coke in Pump Up the Volume? Memories of Christian Slater with no shirt? Smith Westerns kind buzzsaw is color saturated in well meaning uppers and the unpretentious sad joy of the early … read more »
Stream: Smith Westerns, “All Die Young”
What’s the general vibe on senior prom as a concept? Such a touchstone in some ways. So much so, in fact, that the more we think about it, the more its become marginalized. Like as … read more »
Video: Smith Westerns, “Weekend”
Man, watching this Focus Creeps directed video for the first Smith Westerns single from their new record has us kind of bummed about the way we spend our weekends. Like, usually we get up and … read more »
Stream: Smith Westerns, “Weekend”
Smith Westerns are still young, but they’re getting older. And “Weekend,” the first single from Dye it Blonde on Fat Possum, is evidence of that. Gone are the bratty snarls and garage meets glam moments. … read more »
Surfer Blood & Lots of Other Bands Played CMJ
Michael McGregor reminisces. read more »
Video: Smith Westerns, “Be My Girl” (Live at Monster Island)
The Smith Westerns and their shouty, glammed demand for lady-friendship made its debut right here and also appears on our first Visionary Podcast, but it took Ray Concepcion‘s jerky video, from the band’s recent show … read more »
