FADER TV: Open Bar with The Stills
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Every couple of weeks we meet up with some of our favorite artists at Heathers Bar in the East Village. They play songs while everyone else ties on one.
Tim Fletcher and Dave Hamelin of The Stills stopped in to play an intense acoustic rendition of “Eastern Europe”—from their latest album and first for Arts & Crafts Oceans Will Rise—for us last week. Stills keyboardist Liam O’Neill was there too celebrating a birthday, or trying to uncelebrate it from the night before at least. The night after they joined us, the band played an excellent show at Bowery Ballroom and reminded us yet again to wonder why they are so underrated. See if you agree, when they hit the western US in October with the newly dandified Kings of Leon, where hopefully they won’t have to watch those dudes have fiery sex on the tour bus.
Video: Rock Dudes Making Videos
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Each of these videos touches on opposite ends of the special effects spectrum. Conor Oberst is lo-fi projection screen magic that you could probably reproduce if you had enough time and unemployed friends. The Stills probably took a lot of one semi-nerdy dude’s time sitting in front of a computer, but is much fancier looking. Which is better? How could possibly ask us that, you jerk? Above: Conor Oberst, “Souled Out”. After the jump: The Stills, “Being Here”. Both songs off of reliably great albums by musicians who have been on the cover of The FADER.
Levi’s®/FADER Fort Video: The Stills
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Certain former FADER editors, both present and absent at the Levi’s®/FADER Fort this year, have been known to express an admirable, untainted, undying love for The Stills. The present one even yelled in between songs that she wished the absent one was there to see this. This was dudes shredding songs from Logic Will Break Your Heart, Without Feathers and their upcoming debut on Arts & Crafts, and we can’t really blame these former editors or anyone else for being in love. In the above video, they slam through “Being There,” a song supposedly from said debut, even though it will not come out until late summer, so who knows. If it does, it will be good.
