Premiere: The Fresh And Onlys, “Invisible Forces” MP3
- story Peter Macia
- photo Brian Pritchard
At the recent Woodsist/Captured Tracks festival in Bushwick, San Francisco’s The Fresh And Onlys stood out both onstage and off, looking like a nomadic weed tribe with dark secrets and sounding like wild evangelicals with deep musical gifts. Of course, then lead singer/brokenhanded keyboard player Tim Cohen cracked a bunch of funny jokes and the illusion of black magic was shattered. What a jerk. The music was awesome though, most memorably this song, “Invisible,” from upcoming LP Grey-Eyed Girls, out September 15th on Woodsist. Check the album’s tracklist after the jump along with a bunch of tour dates with Malkmus, The Oh Sees and more.
Download: The Fresh And Onlys, “Invisible Forces”
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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.
