Video: The Family Jams Trailer
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The early 2000s were a really good time for music if you were a dude with a beard or a woman who sounded like an old lady. Devendra Banhart and Joanna Newsom found their voices, Antony Johnson became an unlikely megastar, but more importantly, there was a lot of collaboration from everyone involved in the new folk/freak folk/whatever you want to call it scene. Now that we’ve got a little distance, filmmaker Kevin Barker is releasing The Family Jams, a documentary that follows Banhart, Newsom and Vetiver on their Summer 2004 tour. Our hope is that this will be part of an ongoing document of a pretty crazy movement, or at the very least, somehow answer where the hell Joanna Newsom went. Even if neither happens, you can expect childlike wonder and probably some tapestries.
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posted on Mar 24, 2009 in MUSIC VIDEO tags Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom, psych/folk, The Family Jams, Vetiver
Video: Vetiver, “Everyday”
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At this point it doesn’t even matter if this is a legit video (it is) because we fuck with things we can sing along to just as a general practice. Thinking about it, we would have preferred some more standard go-to Vetiver-related imagery like canyons, cliffs, a cactus, an old pickup truck just sitting in the middle of some sand, peyote, tumbleweeds, weed that you smoke and maybe some old washed out Polaroids from the ’70s. But you know what? Vetiver karaoke now kind of exists, and that is pretty cool. Tight Knit is out in all its AM Radio glory on Sub Pop right now.
