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NYC: Benefit Concert With White Williams and Acrylics

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We’ve been wondering when weirdo scuzz rock was gonna start bettering the world. Turns out it’s next Wednesday the 29th at Brooklyn’s Bell House at a benefit concert for young artist Rory O’Sullivan, who was recently diagnosed with brain cancer. Headlining the event are Brooklyn darlings White Williams, whose
new wave swagger has charmed us time and again (and who we haven’t seen around in a minute!) and Brooklyn’s glammy Acrylics. The shift from White Williams’ clean cut funk to whatever in god’s name The Fugs have planned and then straight back to Acrylic’s glam jams will be fun to watch, along with Golden Triangle and a host of other groups. More info, regular tickets and VIP packages with a sweet ass gift package are available at the Rock4Rorz site.

posted on Apr 22, 2009 in MUSIC NEWS tags Acrylics, rock, White Williams

Video: White Williams, “Violator”

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Yesterday we posted about Helen Storey’s Wonderland, a fashion project involving water-soluble materials with a video consisting of a lot of dyes floating in water. And today White Williams came out with a video of of him wearing fashionable clothes and dyes floating water. Coincidence??? Actually probably, but whatever, have you guys read Gladwell’s article in the New Yorker? Good ideas float around everywhere.

posted on May 16, 2008 in MUSIC VIDEO tags electronic/dance, Intellectual Ventures, Malcolm Gladwell, White Williams

LA: Yeasayer and White Williams At The Echoplex

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A couple FADER favorites are jamming LA’s Echoplex this weekend, but we aren’t going to tell you who they are. They are Brooklyn’s Yeasayer, who we’ve expressed near inappropriate volumes of love for recently (in person), and White Williams, whose low-key lazerfunk got our brains pregnant last fall (twice!) at CMJ and the FADER 50 party. Yeasayer is Saturday and is joined by also excellent MGMT, while WW covers Sunday evening. If you’re crafty enough you could probably stake out a spot under the bridge near the entrance on Saturday night, get Sunday brunch at Masa and not even bother going home between shows.

posted on Jan 25, 2008 in OTHER tags electronic/dance, rock, White Williams, Yeasayer

FADER/Southern Comfort 7″ Series #5: Rubik’s Cube

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We’ve been staring at Matt Furie’s cover art for hours trying to pick our favorite crazy looking monster thing. Right now we are stuck on the melted marshmallow ghost but ask us again in a minute and it might be the Rubix Cube robot in the bottom left. We don’t have to wonder about which song on this FADER/Southern Comfort 7″ we like the most, because both are ill. Side A is a Dirty Projectors edit of their own cover of Black Flag’s “Police Story,” going down compelling and uneasy, while Side B holds “Blue Steel,” a warm and relatively low key White Williams piano jam full of hidden layers and an 8-bit undercurrent that will keep us listening breathlessly until the next record.

~~We have a handful of copies to give away, so email your mailing address to contests@thefader.com with the subject heading “Seven.”~~

posted on Jan 7, 2008 in MP3 / STREAMS, MUSIC tags Dirty Projectors, FADER/SoCo 7-inch, FADER/Southern Comfort 7", Matt Furie, Series, White Williams

Photo: FADER/Cornerstone 150 Jumpoff

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Last night we all had a lot of fun. After admiring the Ford Focus (with FADER decals!) out front of the Bowery Ballroom, we went inside and responsibly drank Pepsi, even more responsibly drank some Bud Select. Then we moved on to drinking straight SoCo, at which our responsibility was truly tested. After composing ourselves, we swooped upstairs to watch White Williams, lost our shit times a million to Justice (distinguished FADER editors were stage diving!) and then reminisced with Mos Def. In between sets, we went wild for Tony Touch and DJ Enuff, and somehow ended up at home, where we showered and came to work. Check for the epic photos after the jump. Prediction for parties in 2008: TRUST FALLS.