Found this on TCritic. Here’s a Times New Viking t-shirt that you can purchase at Art in the Age Of Mechanical Reproduction.
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Photos from the Parking Lot Blowout
Cassie Lewis took some photos of Saturday’s Parking Lot Blowout. Click here to see them all. Great shots of Times New Viking, Brainbow, El Jesus de Magico, Great Plains, and more.
What Do People on the Streets of Dallas Think of Times New Viking?
Fun feature put together by The Dallas Observer.
Times New Viking Robbed in London
This might start a war between Ohio and England. It could happen.
From Drowned in Sound:
Their van was broken into last night in London, where they played at the Stag & Dagger festival. Also on the move, illegally: their sat-nav. Say our friends at Matador, the band’s label, of the incident:
“The band’s van was parked behind The Old Blue Last after a show as part of the Stag & Dagger festival. We commiserated with Old Street kebabs at 3am.
“Obviously, if anyone saw anything please get in touch.” (full details)
[thx Nick]
Your Columbus Weekend: 4/11 – 4/13 2008
The New Pornographers
The weather is getting better in Columbus, people, so that means you should do your best to spend time inside our sweaty rock clubs. Here’s what’s up:
Friday
It’s been some time since The New Pornographers have been in Columbus, and this time out they’re upgrading to the larger Newport Music Hall. Their last album, Challengers, was on my favorite albums of 2007 list, so you can imagine I am pretty excited about this. Opening the show is Okkervil River, a band that could headline on their own.
Saturday
Over the last few years, CD101 Day has not had any major headliners. While earlier versions brought bands like The Black Keys and Dresden Dolls, the more recent versions have been made up of rising bands who have yet to make their mark. And while I’m always a little disappointed that there’s never a bigger name involved, I also think it’s a good thing to have a radio station put together a show with bands of this smaller size and get behind it both on the radio and with an affordable $5 price tag. Saturday’s version at Promowest includes such rising stars as The Whigs, Von Iva, The Duke Spirit as well as locals The Whiles (who have not updated their website since the Reagan administration).
Sunday
John Vanderslice (mp3) returns to Columbus for an early show at Skullys. Yesssss. The last time he was here was when we brought him to an early Monday show at High Five. That show was great, so I’m expecting this one to be 30 times better.
Also on Sunday, and also early, Times New Viking are playing Bourbon St for what they’re calling “their last Columbus show in awhile.” Details here.
From Saturday: Times New Viking in Columbus
After playing 93 shows during SXSW, Times New Viking return to their native habitat, Bourbon St, for a homecoming show:
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Waterloo Records SXSW Day Shows, Mess With Texas 2 Finally Announced
Waterloo Records has posted their schedule for shows during SXSW.
And we finally have details for the Mess with Texas 2 event featuring The Breeders. As far as I know, this is the only event that The Breeders are playing. Keep reading for details.
An Interview With Times New Viking: An Intervention to Societal Apathy
Photo by Erica Anderson, Wexner Center. Adam’s on the right.
MP3: Lion and Oil, the band’s first song ever released on Columbus Alive’s No Token compilation compiled by Steve Slaybaugh
MP3: DROP – OUT from Rip it Off
MP3: (My Head)/R.I.P. Allegory from Rip it Off
Get the Word out!!
Times New Viking just dropped Rip It Off on Matador Records and they have a release party at the Wexner Center tonight. The show will be opened by The Feelers (Hi Gay Aleks) and The Ponys. Playing at the Wexner is an almost impossible feat for a Columbus band. But they aren’t just any Columbus band. They made a disobediently loud, fuzzy, lo-fi pop album that in many ways captures the spirit of the times. The band’s drummer and sometimey vox, Adam Elliott bartends at Bourbon Street here in Columbus where I get drunk during the bar’s weekly Hip Hop Night, So What Wednesdays, and discuss the things that are pertinent to the leaders of the Vanguard.
In this interview, Adam and I talk about his philosophy of Romantic Nihilism, Art, Matador, Columbus, politics, and a song about a not so romantic nihilist.
Wes Flexner: So lets get it poppin. What is Romantic Nihilism?
Adam Elliott:It’s a philosophy pretty much that has been developing. It’s a stupid coined term. But I think it does exist amongst 20 somethings or whatever. The concept of nihilism has existed in popular culture. The concept of free will. Where people don’t really have choice in their lives. They just accept it. Why? It’s just the way it is. Romantic Nihilism is me finding a way to connect to the world around me. If I see shootings in Sudan. An earthquake in the Philippines. Someone gets shot at Weber Market. I am equally connected to all those things. I am equally disconnected from all three of those things at the same time.
It’s kinda like I am in love with the new Britney Spears song for all the same things that play into as I am in love with the Velvet Underground. It’s accepting everything in world for what it is. And looking into it a little more for what is.
WF: How is this nihilist?
AE: Nihilism is the belief that I don’t really believe in anything. It’s based on the philosophy that there is no meaning in anything. The Nietzsche-postmodern concept of everything has been done before. Nihilism lets me lump it in and say I don’t believe in anything.
WF: Then you add Romance to this?
AE: It doesn’t work.
WF: So it’s not a technical philosophy. It’s more of a device for comprehension of the state of things.
AE: It’s not a technical philosophy. It’s an idea that does exist in the post-modern landscape. The idea of nothing being romantic doesn’t exist physically but it can exist in philosophy. But philosophy never exists in reality. There is no way of really fundamentally saying this philosophy does exist. Other than when people talk about it.
WF: How do you apply this to making music?
AE: Lyrically it’s the easiest way. It’s like Crass. To me they were first Romantic Nihilists. The idea that we really have no hope. People are seeing that there shouldn’t be hope. But we still have hope. The songs are kind of anthems. We kind of see songs as anthems, I think. We still fit a lot of words in. Most of the times we are just using words we use all the time, anyway. We have a lot of repeat words or whatever.
I think the romance kinda comes in, just in how everything falls into place. The words. The titles. The subtleties. The way music sounds. The way we produce product. There are millions of bands turning out product. We actually produce product.
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Donewaiting.com Staff Favorites of 2007: Stephen Slaybaugh
Having done one of these top tens every year for some time now, looking back it’s hard to recall a year as pervasively boring in terms of music as 2007. There were few new ideas from new places, while veteran acts (Arcade Fire, Spoon, Radiohead, Wilco, etc.) seemed content to merely meet expectations rather than surpass them. I found it hard to put together this list, and as such was tempted to put a book (Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris) on here instead of a record as it’s probably the best thing I’ve read in five years and was more rewarding than anything I heard this year. But this is a music list for a music website and admittedly all of the below are well worth your time.
10. The Lodger, Grown-Ups (Slumberland)
Sounding (to these ears) somewheres between the Delgados and Housemartins, the debut from this Leeds, England group is an arresting bout of vitriolic pop.
9. CocoRosie, The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn (Touch & Go)
While I dug the Casady sisters’ debut, their sophomore album lost me. Less nefariously obtuse then, their third album is an enchanting mix of worldly rhythms, hip-hop chants and siren singing.
8. Calla, Strength in Numbers (Beggars Banquet)
One of my perennial favorites, Calla parted their oceansize electric guitars with acoustic reveries and Tex-Mex accents for their fifth record. The result is no less consuming.
7. Githead, Art Pop (Swim)
The “other” band of Wire’s Colin Newman, Githead bears much resemblance to Newman’s main preoccupation: glassy guitar riffs, angular rhythms and a mix of pop and avant garde ideas. The band’s second full-length strikes the perfect balance of these qualities.
6. Times New Viking, Present the Paisley Reich (Siltbreeze)
Locals Times New Viking’s last release with the rejuvenated Siltbreeze label before their out-soon debut with Matador, the Paisley Reich shows the band continuing its expert dismantling of pop archetypes.
5. The Maps, We Can Create (Mute)
The debut full-length from the Maps (a.k.a. James Chapman), is a lovingly textured mix of shoegazed electronica. Awash in warm tones, the record is much more affecting than the sum of its effects.
4. Von Südenfed, Tromatic Reflexxions (Domino)
This curious collaboration between the Fall’s Mark E. Smith and electro experts Mouse on Mars, turned out to be one of the best of both’s output. Mutated pulses and jarring beats clash with Smith’s distinct mutterings, making for a truly unique and ingenious record.
3. M.I.A. Kala (Interscope)
With her second record, M.I.A. proved that her multicultural tract on debut Arular was no flavor of the month. She returned with an album enriched with sundry influences manifested in cohesively infectious songs.
2. Shout Out Louds, Our Ill Wills (Merge)
Sweden’s Shout Out Louds increased the pop quotient for their second album, creating a contrasting blend of bittersweets and melodies.
1. The Horrors, Strange House (Stolen Transmission)
I once had a friend tell me that “there are two kinds of people in the world: freaks and weirdos.” So with its liner notes transcription of “Psychotic Sounds for Freaks and Weirdos,” could these British upstarts’ debut unite the two? I don’t know, and it certainly doesn’t matter. The band’s blend of Iggy-ed caterwauling and Birthday Party?recalling rumble is top-notch, while their sense of humor (“Sheena Is a Parasite”) helps lighten the batcave aesthetic. I’m always suspicious of the authenticity of any band (especially one that’s British) with this much put-on, but when it’s this good, best just to suspend any disbelief.
Donewaiting.com Staff Favorites of 2007: Wes Flexner
1. El-P, I’ll Sleep When Your Dead (Definitive Juxtaposition)
Rap music is great because it hypnotizes you and convinces you that caring about anything but making money is a sign of mental illness. And I thank rap music for this, normally. But El-P’s album reminded me the reality is that we are still paying “30 Percent a Year to Fund the World’s End”. And the everday conversation with many of youse may be worse than the government’s intentions. El touches on that as well.
Video:El-P performing TPC and Smithereens at Little Brothers in Columbus
2. MIA, Kala (XL/Interscope)
M.I.A.’s record is kinda like a futuristic Robin Hood if Robin Hood was a female that made music that people will dance to in Third World Countries 50 Years from now after the American dollar becomes more worthless than a Congolese franc. I also want to be the first to point out that MIA is not physically attractive. I’d hump a terrorists daughter on GP, but she still is pretty average looking.
3. Times New Viking Presents The Paisley Reich (Stiltbreeze)
I have a friend that paints graffiti a lot and works a really shitty job. He is really nice and only listens to Lil Wayne and Nirvana because they sing romantically about despair, love,drugs, and death. Lil Wayne is a lot funnier than Nirvana as is TNV. My 2008 resolution is to get him into TNV.
Video:Some Guy in Canada named “DipsetMuthafucka” Dancing to TNV’s Little Amps.
4. Wu-Tang Clan, The Eight Diagrams
Most of all the other Hip Hoppers were out here trying and failing at trying to figure out the formula to sell records, ring tones, and themselves. Wu remembered that they are the sole controllers of their universe, and it is their duty as poor righteous teachers to civilize the uncivilized in the Wilderness of North America. So they made a Wu-Tang album that sounded like a good Wu-Tang album. Can a devil fool a Muslim?
Hypem:Wu-Tang Clan-Campfire
5. Lil Wayne, The Drought
Lil Wayne boasted in Fader that he does nothing all day but take xtc, and receive oral sex while constantly recording. The result of drug use, work ethic, and an inability to keep his music from being uploaded meant we got to experience exactly what was going on in Wayne’s brain at all times.
HYPEM:Lil Wayne-Dipset
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