New Zealand's fourth-most popular guitar-based digi-bongo a cappella-rap-funk comedy folk duo joined forces for a tour through their deep (one-album-and-some-TV-shows deep) catalog at a sold-out Greek Theatre this past weekend. They played the hits -- "The Most Beautiful Girl In... CONTINUE READING FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS @ THE GREEK THEATRE, LOS ANGELES 5/24/09»
Posted on May 27, 2009 in , (22 comments)
Tags: Arj Barker | Eugene Mirman | Flight Of The Conchords
A news anchor in New Zealand reads viewer mail making fun of a recent female guest's mustache. It's funny 'cause he's a dick, and it's funny 'cause of Flight Of The Conchords (aka "the source of most of what I... CONTINUE READING THEY HAVE ASSHOLES ON TV IN NEW ZEALAND, TOO»
Posted on March 31, 2009 in (28 comments)
Tags: Flight Of The Conchords | New Zealand
Last night's Flight Of The Conchords had a cameo by Art Garfunkel, of all people, but my favorite part was this song in which the show makes fun of what is lost in translation between those who make karaoke videos... CONTINUE READING FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS POKES FUN AT KARAOKE»
Posted on March 2, 2009 in (7 comments)
Tags: Bret McKenzie | Flight Of The Conchords | Jemaine Clement
To be fair, season 2 of Flight of the Conchords has merely been "decent." But it might become "great" with the February 15th episode, which is directed by Michel Gondry. Nice. We'll finally be able to put all those burning... CONTINUE READING ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS»
Posted on February 6, 2009 in (0 comments)
Tags: Bret McKenzie | Flight Of The Conchords | Jemaine Clement | Michel Gondry
Stop pretending to look busy at work and actually do something with your time. HBO's slated the return of Jemaine and Bret for 1/19, but that's only for people who don't have internet. People who have internet should watch the... CONTINUE READING WATCH THE SECOND SEASON PREMIERE OF FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS RIGHT NOW»
Posted on December 17, 2008 in (6 comments)
Tags: Bonnaroo | Flight Of The Conchords | Nine Inch Nails
As it was originally conceived, the idea behind Operation Watch This was to present you with new talent in the on-line world that you might not have heard of before. It has allowed us to highlight comedians like John Roberts,... CONTINUE READING OPERATION WATCH THIS: NEW EPISODE OF FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS»
Posted on December 17, 2008 in , (15 comments)
Tags: Bret McKenzie | Flight Of The Conchords | Jemaine Clement
The Flight of the Conchords won four awards at the New Zealand Music Awards, including Breakthrough Artist, Best Group, Best Album, and International Achievement. They weren't able to attend the awards because they were in the United States taping the... CONTINUE READING FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS PRE-TAPED ACCEPTANCE SPEECHES BETTER THAN ALL THE NEW FALL SITCOMS»
Posted on October 10, 2008 in (6 comments)
Tags: Coachella | Flight Of The Conchords
Our second and final Sasquatch! dispatch comes with fewer bands than Part One, but a deeper look at them. Last time we teased Wayne Coyne's ability to convince young girls to get on stage and dance naked during his U.F.O.... CONTINUE READING SASQUATCH 2008 IN PHOTOS PT. 2»
Posted on May 28, 2008 in (39 comments)
Tags: Battles | Death Cab For Cutie | Flight Of The Conchords | Grammys | Katy Perry | Sasquatch! | Stephen Malkmus | The Cure | The Flaming Lips | The Hives
Few shows come through NYC these days that make us feel guilty for missing 'em even a week after the fact. So fuck you, Flight Of The Conchords. Everybody loved the two sold out nights at Town Hall. Everybody except... CONTINUE READING NEW FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS VIDEO - "LADIES OF THE WORLD"»
Posted on May 14, 2008 in , (5 comments)
Tags: Flight Of The Conchords
New Flight of the Conchords video, guys: Since their HBO show is just interstitial scenes thrown together to support their music videos, it's almost as good as watching a whole show, although personally the interstitial scenes were usually my favorite.... CONTINUE READING THE FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS ARE ATTRACTIVE»
Posted on May 14, 2008 in (8 comments)
Tags: Brett McKenzie | Flight Of The Conchords | Jemaine Clement
When I was in high school, we had to write papers for our class projects. Kids these days get to make videos and put them on YouTube, the lucky bastards. Usually they're of awkward sketches about the dangers of peer... CONTINUE READING THESE COOL KIDS REMADE A FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS VIDEO FOR A CLASS PROJECT»
Posted on May 8, 2008 in (3 comments)
Tags: Boom King | Class Projects | Flight Of The Conchords
We mentioned Sub Pop's 20th Anniversary a ways back -- well, it's officially time to party (especially if you live in the Pacific Northwest). The rumors have been circling the web, and now we have official details about SP20, a... CONTINUE READING SP20: SUB POP'S 20TH ANNIVERSARY BENEFIT FESTIVAL PARTIAL LINEUP ANNOUNCED»
Posted on April 15, 2008 (13 comments)
Tags: Beachwood Sparks | Comets On Fire | Fleet Foxes | Flight Of The Conchords | Foals | Grand Archives | Green River | Iron And Wine | Kinski | Low | Mudhoney | No Age | Pissed Jeans | Red Red Meat | Seaweed | The Helio Sequence | The Ruby Suns | Wolf Parade
You can tell the communication tech geeks sitting through Comcast's presentation at the Consumer Electronics Show don't quite know what to make of Jemaine and Brett as they stroll out with the guitars and LES-via-New Zealand shtick. (Mostly by their... CONTINUE READING FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS SHOW OFF THEIR GADGETS, GET DOWN TO "BUSINESS TIME" AT CES 2008»
Posted on January 10, 2008 in , (9 comments)
Tags: Flight Of The Conchords
Summer TV is killing us -- so dire our plight that we've actually seen every single John From Cincinnati (after watching the first 20 minutes post Sopranos finale, we swore that'd never happen). Suddenly, that John and his magic trousers... CONTINUE READING DO THE CONCHORDS FLY ON YOURTUBE?»
Posted on July 6, 2007 in (62 comments)
Tags: David Bowie | Flight Of The Conchords
