Woods Daytrotter Session Is Way Better Than We Expected
- story Sam Hockley-Smith
Along with fall comes a million opportunities to shuffle through the Woods back catalog. Although we’re partial to the newest record, it still can’t touch personal classic At Rear House, which gets busted out pretty much as soon as the thermometer hits 58 degrees. Not to discount Songs of Shame too much, but these Daytrotter sessions are much more related to those older Woods jams. They’re sparse, a little lonelier and a little more desolate, guitarist/singer Jeremy Earl’s falsetto hovering alien-like over the entire thing. If we had no morals and a lot more money, we’d bootleg these onto vinyl and go sell them next to the dude that sells bubbles and copies of the Criminal Minded Deluxe Edition outside of our office.
Download: Woods Daytrotter Session
Party in the Pines, Episode 3: Woods
- story Hanly Banks
We spent this past weekend at Party in the Pines, a low-key festival in a sun-dappled northern California forest presented by Kemado Records, Mexican Summer and (((folkYEAH!))). FADER TV captured all of the many ultra-lax musicians on hand—Kurt Vile, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, Dungen, Saviours, Vietnam and more—and will somehow put up all the footage this week if we don’t decide to just linger on forever in hazy Big Sur. If there is a better way than this to bid summer one last hurrah, let us know. In this episode, we went for it, putting Woods in the woods just for the sake of a visual pun. Come back next week for many more clips.
The Babies, “Meet Me in the City” MP3
Besides having one of the greatest band names ever (why has anyone never thought of this before?) the side project of Cassie from Vivian Girls and Kevin from Woods (not the Traveling Wilburys or anything, but respectable) is a perfect dollop of garage pop: simple, sweet, raucous, overdriven, karaoke-able, vaguely screamy, encapsulating some archetypal “cool kids hanging out” image (meet me downtowwnnn!) and over before you get a chance to miss it. Or, as their MySpace puts it, “sounds like: road sodas.” Yeah let’s rent a car and drive to Sonic for some cherry lime rickeys before summer dies.
Download: The Babies, “Meet Me in the City” (via White Guys with Beards)
FADER TV: Woods Plays The Whitney Live Series
- story Hanly Banks
Woods lit incense and played weird cassette tape instruments last Friday evening in another installment of the weekly Whitney Live series. And once again, the downstairs gift shop was filled with an assortment of long-haired hippies and middle-aged squares, all looking for some entertainment (and marijuana too, probably). Here’s Woods playing “Rain On,” which we have been singing falsetto in the back of our throats all weekend-long. Now it’s your turn!
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posted on Jul 28, 2009 in FADER TV, FADER TV MUSIC CHANNEL SPOTLIGHT, MUSIC CHANNEL, MUSIC LIVE SHOW tags FADER TV, Whitney Live, Woods
FADER TV: A Gang of Videos from the Woodsist/Captured Tracks Festival
- story Sam Hockley-Smith
New York labels Woodsist and Captured Tracks release so many songs you could listen exclusively to them for a week and A) not repeat any song once and B) be pretty happy about the whole situation. Variety is the spice of life and all that, but sometimes it’s cool to follow a Woods track with a Ganglians track with a Dum Dum Girls 12-inch with a Mayfair Set 7-inch. Last holiday weekend, this unofficial bond became real as both labels banded together to blow minds in an empty lot underneath the J train—and a whole lot of people showed up.
In between drinking beers, getting dripped on by the subway up above (grossest thing ever) and eating Polish sausage, those people watched almost every band on both labels. A couple highlights: Kurt Vile’s miniature stadium rock punctuated by the tentative pop of the 4th’s first fireworks, and Dee Dee bka Dum Dum Girls appearing live for the first time ever as some sort of gothy dream-like Stevie Nicks, singing beautifully while waving long black fringe. We managed to Flipcam songs from a bunch of the acts, including Vile, Dum Dum Girls, Ganglians, Woods, Fresh and Onlys and Vivian Girls, all of which are below.
Ganglians
Fresh & Onlys
Dum Dum Girls
Woods
Kurt Vile
Vivian Girls
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posted on Jul 7, 2009 in MUSIC LIVE SHOW tags Captured Tracks, Dum Dum Girls, Fresh and Onlys, Ganglians, kurt vile, Vivian Girls, Woods, Woodsist
RCRD LBL Freeload/Video: Woods, “To Clean” MP3
- story THE FADER
Yesterday we trained it out to Fort Tilden to catch the FREE ALL AGES UNAMPLIFIED ACOUSTIC BBQ 2009. There was no barbeque and a lot of bands played. We couldn’t hear most of them because of the waves and also because some girl decided to get topless and pretend to crucify herself on a cross made out of driftwood while yelling about how photography was a scam. Anyway! Shit was mostly awesome, and the one thing that was missing was Woods, who we imagine would have been able to perform loudly and clearly over the din. If they had played, they probably would have played “To Clean” minus any electricity. A lot of people would probably have listened. Woods also recently made a stop-motion video for the song, which you can watch up above. “To Clean” is from Songs of Shame, which is out right now on—what else—Woodsist.
Audio/Freeload: Woods, “Sunlit” +”Military Madness”
- story THE FADER
Ever since we first caught Woods‘ spare “Don’t Pass on Me,” we’ve watched the band go from acoustic hush to full-bodied sunburned psych before becoming something that combines both ends of the spectrum into perfectly catchy lo-fi folk rock nuggets. In another time these guys would be living in Laurel Canyon with the Byrds and Frank Zappa and Graham Nash (whose “Military Madness” Woods cover below), but instead they live in New York, probably listen to A LOT of Grateful Dead bootlegs and make music we could drive forever to if we had cars.
Woods, “Sunlit” (From a Woods 7-inch out on Captured Tracks in March)
Download: Woods, “Military Madness” (from Songs of Shame out this April on Shrimper)
Video: Woods, “Military Madness” & “Blood On The Sand”
- story THE FADER
Here are two videos of folky New York dudes Woods playing in what looks like a very dark bookstore, which is actually the best place they could possibly play since they live in New York and can’t play next to a babbling brook or a waterfall or something. So yeah, the New York city equivalent of a waterfall is a dimly lit library or bookstore or private home with an experimental folk band playing in it. Also, Woods are playing with FADER pals Abe Vigoda at the Silent Barn this Friday, get stoked!
Video: Woods, “Don’t Pass On Me”
- story THE FADER
Last winter Woods‘ “Don’t Pass On Me” was our staying inside when it was really cold jam. It was also our wishing it was warmer jam. Now, for some reason, they’ve released a video of them performing the song in a backyard in t-shirts. It kinda flipped our perceptions of when this song should be listened to (only in winter), but we’re still not mad because there is a recorder solo and a solemn little hand drum.
