Forget the overpriced tickets and breaking bank on greasy movie theater popcorn. Taking movie showings into your own hands and host a Private-Public Screening of Efterklang & Vincent Moon‘s collaboration: An Island.
An Island is an unconventional music performance film and an abstract documentary about a band and an island. The running time is 50 minutes. In August 2010, French filmmaker Vincent Moon met with Efterklang’s 8 piece-live band on an island off the Danish coast to make a film of performances, experiments and collaborations. For four days, the band collaborated with more than 200 local musicians, children and their families to create new performances and interpretations of songs from their 2010 release, Magic Chairs.
The film premieres in February and people can now sign up to host their own screenings running anywhere and anytime from February 1 until March 31. And we do mean anywhere – coffee shops, homes, auditoriums, a beach, but you decide.
To host a screening, visit here. For an updated list of showings to attend a screening, visit here.
The rules are:
• The screenings need to have free entrance
• The screenings need to be public.
• The screenings need to have a minimum capacity of 5 people
• The screenings need to be verified by Efterklang & Vincent Moon and only screenings that are featured on www.anisland.cc are official Private-Public Screenings
Forget what your parents told you about steering clear of drugs because just this once, it is ok to get hooked. D.R.U.G.S. is the name of the new indie collaboration between former members of Underminded, From First to Last, Matchbook Romance and Story of the Year. Craig Owensfronts the group slated to release their debut on Decaydance/Sire in early 2011.
D.R.U.G.S. stands for Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows. Owens formed the band to reflect some of the growth and soul-searching he went through after leaving his previous band. He recruited musicians who went through similar situations.
The band is currently offering up its first single, “If You Think This Song Is About You, It Probably Is” on Facebook here. If you like what you hear, be sure to catch them on the Rise From the Ashestour this December with Eyes Set to Kill and New Medicine.
Tour Dates:
11/28 Pontiac, MI The Pike Room @ The Crofoot
11/29 Pontiac, MI The Pike Room @ The Crofoot
12/03 Los Angeles, CA The Key Club
12/04 Bakersfield, CA Jerry’s Pizza
12/05 San Luis Obispo, CA Downtown Brew 12/08 Lawrence, KS Bottleneck
12/09 Des Moines, IA Vaudeville Mews
12/10 Indianapolis, IN Emerson Theater
12/11 West Dundee, IL Clearwater Theatre
12/12 Lansing, MI Mac’s Bar
12/14 New York, NY Studio at Webster Hall
12/15 Providence, RI The Met Café
12/16 Burlington, VT Higher Ground
12/17 Albany, NY Valentine’s
12/18 Lancaster, PA Chameleon
12/19 Altoona, PA Archway Center
As an adolescent, Brad Oberhofer went to Tacoma School of the Arts just half an hour south of Seattle. He recorded some songs with a band in his parents’ basement, and then moved to Brooklyn where he has since created a bit of a name for himself. I mean, his music just appeared in a Sobe commercial. And he’s about to release his debut 7″, perplexingly titled o0O0o0O0o.
Being from the Tacoma area myself, I always love hearing about success stories from our little corner of Washington. I can’t help but feel a sense of pride when listening to Neko Case’s “Thrice All American” (which is about growing up in Tacoma), and now Oberhofer can also show the rest of the world that Seattle isn’t the only place in this state that breeds good artists these days.
Having already released a set of free songs on his MySpace, Oberhofer now officially will release his three-song 7” in the physical sense. The titular song and single, I’m guessing refers to the “ooo ooo ooo” that encompasses most of the chorus, but it doesn’t really matter. This is the song that hit the television in the new, hip advertisement for Sobe. Even though it’s the most commercial on the 7″, this track employs fuzzy guitars, lo-fi drums, toy piano, glockenspiel, and Oberhofer’s scrappy shouts and coos. That’s actually what I like the most, because the instrumentals aren’t all that distinct from a lot of the independent artists coming from the underground these days, but Oberhofer’s vocals mirror the styling of both Noah Lennox and Dave Portner of Animal Collective, but a bit more youthful. And I love me some Animal Collective, so what’s not to like about Oberhofer, right?
I couldn’t find much that I didn’t like. Especially, since this isn’t the first I’ve heard of him. A friend of mine who went to art school with Brad put his song “Away frm U” on a mix CD a while back, and I got curious. “Away frm U” was one of the songs Oberhofer released for free via their MySpace page, so I suggest you go there first to have a sample before shelling out the coin for the 7” in August.
The next two songs on o0O0o0O0o aren’t nearly as catchy as the title track, “Don’tneedya” and “Smylez,” but you can see that Oberhofer is creative with his song titles. “Don’tneedya” is a darker song with far more electronic instruments than the title track – which I’m sure if I played around with Garageband for long enough, I could figure out how to put something similar together. But the cheesy synthetic noise mixed with the raw quality of all the other layers makes for an especially interesting debut. “Smylez” again uses the familiar guttural “ooo ooo ooo” prevalent on the first track. Now the title is making a little more sense.
The only downside to the o0O0o0O0o 7″ is that you don’t get more tracks. And even though Oberhofer has a similar wall-of-sound style as Animal Collective, they aren’t playing epic eight-minute songs that Animal Collective. I just hope it’s a small taste of what is to come from the Tacoma native. Okay fine, so Brad Oberhofer moved to Brooklyn before getting all the publicity that he has (which is why I think he moved to Brooklyn in the first place), but Oberhofer’s parents’ basement isn’t in Brooklyn. It’s in Tacoma.
If you pre-order the vinyl right now over at InSound, you’ll get the mp3s right away to take a listen.
PopWreckoning is pleased to announce our newest addition – a music podcast by Melissa Cowan and Casey Osburn. In PodWreck‘s debut, Melissa and Casey spoke with Pierre de Reeder (solo artist and bassist for Rilo Kiley). They also share two songs from his debut solo album.
Comic Arj Barker, popularized as Dave from Flight of the Conchords, will release his debut album LYAO Tuesday, January 26 in a CD/DVD combo. This release follows Barker’s Comedy Central special on Sunday, January 24. You can pre-order the release here.
Tour Dates:
Jan 14 -16 - Hyena’s Comedy Nightclub / Dallas, TX
Jan 20 – Washington & Lee University / Lexington, VA
Jan 29 – University of Wyoming / Laramie, WY
Feb 4 – 6 – Parlor Live / Bellevue, WA
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Concert Calendar
Nov 23, 2011
HaHa Tonka @ Recordbar, Kansas City MO
Nov 25, 2011
Thee Oh Sees @ The Granada, Lawrence KS
