Fucked Up Cover Blitz, Descendents With Ezra Koenig

I never thought I'd be writing a headline even close to that, but in less than a year, Fucked Up's gone from the light bulb factory to playing all their indie-rock cards just right. That said, it's hard to get even slightly cynical about this: During the Toronto crew's 12-hour marathon last month, Vampire Weekend frontman Ezra Koenig showed he listens to more than Paul Simon and Peter Gabriel in his off time, giving spirited performances of Blitz's "Someone's Gonna Die," also covered by Rancid, and the Descendents' "Parents." Who would've ever thought they'd see skinheads pumping their fists hardcore style to a Koenig vocal turn on a classic UK punk song? (Not me.) The latter was written by the recently deceased Frank Navetta, so this one goes out to him.

Oi! Conan should be impressed.

The Chemistry Of Common Life is out via Matador.

Posted at 9:32 AM by brandon in Video
Tags: Blitz | Fucked Up | The Descendents | Vampire Weekend

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I'm sure there will be a lot of haters, but that was fucking awesome.

Posted by: Black Jesus at 11/25/08 10:13 AM  | Reply
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h8 h8rs

Posted by: eric  in reply to Black Jesus's comment at 11/25/08 10:49 AM  | Reply
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It's about fucking time they put those videos up!
I was there. Erza's a really nice dude.

Posted by: Jacob at 11/25/08 11:07 AM  | Reply
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Ezra*

Posted by: Jacob  in reply to Jacob's comment at 11/25/08 3:21 PM  | Reply
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anyone with a solid foundation of good punk rock is a-ok in my book

Posted by: pauly at 11/25/08 11:12 AM  | Reply
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Koening has proven he is a-punk

Posted by: glazzy at 11/25/08 12:42 PM  | Reply
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