By Amrit Singh & Brandon Stosuy After a night of front-to-back ATP-approved "classics," it was nice to tackle a day of unpredictable sets. We missed the earliest acts -- Apse, Australia's garage rockers (and fine live band) the Drones, Growing,... CONTINUE READING ALL TOMORROW'S PARTIES NY: POLVO, LES SAVY FAV, LIGHTNING BOLT ROCK THE CATSKILLS»
Posted on September 21, 2008 in , (7 comments)
Tags: All Tomorrow's Parties | Fuck Buttons | Harmonia | Les Savy Fav | Lightning Bolt | Low | Om | Polvo | Shellac | The Kills | Thee Silver Mount Zion Orchestra | Wooden Shjips
By Amrit Singh & Brandon Stosuy Aaaaand we're back. Quite a weekend in Chicago, and this is the post to put a Fork in our coverage of this year's party in Union Park. For day last, the threat of... CONTINUE READING PITCHFORK MUSIC FESTIVAL 2008: SUNDAY IN PHOTOS»
Posted on July 21, 2008 in (20 comments)
Tags: Bon Iver | Boris | Cut Copy | Dinosaur Jr | Dirty Projectors | Ghostface Killah | HEALTH | High Places | King Khan | Les Savy Fav | Pitchfork Music Festival | Raekwon | Spiritualized | Spoon | The Dodos | Wu-Tang Clan
Pants were optional at last night's New York x New York indie rock trivia event, NY Mag's first of the year and latest in a series that's included karaoke with Michael Showalter and of Montreal, dinner with Man Man,... CONTINUE READING INDIE ROCK TRIVIA W/ ZACH GALIFIANAKIS & LES SAVY FAV @ HIGHLINE BALLROOM, NYC 5/21/08»
Posted on May 22, 2008 in , (9 comments)
Tags: Les Savy Fav | Zach Galifianakis
By Amrit Singh & Brandon Stosuy You know what sucked for every band following Les Savy Fav yesterday? The fact that they had to follow Les Savy Fav yesterday. Under intensely blazing Indio heat, Harrington and his hockey blogging... CONTINUE READING COACHELLA: FRIDAY IN PHOTOS»
Posted on April 26, 2008 in (21 comments)
Tags: Aphex Twin | Black Kids | Black Lips | Coachella | Cut Copy | Diplo | Jack Johnson | Jens Lekman | Les Savy Fav | M.I.A. | Marla Hansen | Sharon Jones | Tegan And Sara | The Breeders | The Dap-Kings | The National | The Raconteurs | The Verve | Vampire Weekend
Those are two different actions, by the way. Anyhow, it's fun watching Les Sav Fav live. We might've said that before. Turns out, it's also fun listening to them live, like without Tim Harrington's stripteases. LSF are releasing a digital-only... CONTINUE READING LES SAVY FAV COVER SUPERCHUNK, TAKE US BACK TO ATLANTA 2005»
Posted on April 16, 2008 in (8 comments)
Tags: Les Savy Fav
We all need one more festival, right? Guess nobody sells records these days, so live shows are where it's at, etc. Anyhow, if you're in the Seattle area, you can just about ride SP20 into the Stranger's 11th annual Capitol... CONTINUE READING VAMPIRE WEEKEND, THE HOLD STEADY, GIRL TALK TO CRASH 2008 CAPITOL HILL BLOCK PARTY»
Posted on April 16, 2008 (9 comments)
Tags: Chromeo | Girl Talk | Jay Reatard | Kimya Dawson | Les Savy Fav | The Dodos | The Hold Steady | Vampire Weekend
Tim Harrington's resumé of extracurriculars is extensive -- from drug culture expert to proprietor of home and apparel company Deadly Squire to malaria spokesman -- but you don't need a beard, a belly, and a showman's magnetism to find life... CONTINUE READING LES SAVY FAV'S SYD BUTLER BLOGS ABOUT HOCKEY»
Posted on April 11, 2008 (8 comments)
Tags: Les Savy Fav
Nobody needs to tell you Tim Harrington and the Savy Fav put on a righteous live show. In recent years, maybe you saw the sunburned shamanism on display during our show at McCarren Pool a couple of summers ago. Or... CONTINUE READING NEW LIVE LES SAVY FAV - "SWEAT DESCENDS"»
Posted on March 20, 2008 in (0 comments)
Tags: Les Savy Fav
Last night manic street punkers Les Savy Fav got their second big break, bringing the "Patty Lee" dance party to Conan's house. Tim starts as a superhero, but you get a sense of where things are headed when the cape comes off and the hips start gyrating a bit. The sliced bird head, that's still a little wtf. Bonusly, you'll find even more reasons to think Tim Harrington is the coolest man alive: He picks up after himself. What a great guest.
Conan giving a post-performance bow is a sign that they should be back in the future. That shit was deadly squire.
Posted on February 1, 2008 in (24 comments)
2007 was sort of a breakthrough year for the Savy ones, winning notable year-end love from not entirely expected outlets and cornering the market for indie rock malaria awareness. Now they're answering their on hypothetical questions; if this vid is... CONTINUE READING NEW LES SAVY FAV VIDEO - "WHAT WOULD WOLVES DO"»
Posted on January 17, 2008 in (3 comments)
Tags: Les Savy Fav
Every time we turn around seems like deadly squire Tim Harrington's up to some sorta video hijinx, be they dropping drug lingo, monkeying around backstage before Les Savy Fav's big break, or now, dressing up like a mosquito and hassling... CONTINUE READING WHAT WOULD MOSQUITOES DO»
Posted on November 8, 2007 in (0 comments)
Tags: Les Savy Fav
Those lovable NY art-punks Les Savy Fav have schooled us on drug lingo and perfume ads and patterned products, but gearing up for last week's Randall Island show with Arcade Fire, LCD Soundsystem, Blonde Redhead, and Wild Light, the "obscure... CONTINUE READING LES SAVY FAV'S BIG BREAK»
Posted on October 17, 2007 in (4 comments)
Tags: Les Savy Fav
For the fun-loving falsetto/party-punk part of Let's Stay Friends gem "Patty Lee" (and some of the subsequent descent into creepier corners), this here vid stars but one lovely lass, working a one-chaired (and otherwise bare) stage with some good-for-an-amateur dance... CONTINUE READING NEW LES SAVY FAV VIDEO - "PATTY LEE"»
Posted on September 18, 2007 in (6 comments)
Tags: Les Savy Fav
Those New York art-punks and video-contest bigwigs Les Savy Fav don't need much of an introduction, but maybe their jobs do: Guitarist Seth Jabour works as an art director in the marketing department of a fragrance company (he comes up... CONTINUE READING QUIT YOUR DAY JOB: LES SAVY FAV»
Posted on August 22, 2007 in , (2 comments)
Tags: Les Savy Fav
Les Savy Fav are all about YOU. Or at least, all about getting you involved in their diabolically wild little universe. A few months ago they asked you to ring 'em up and sing after the beep, harvesting those calls... CONTINUE READING GATHER YOUR FRIENDS FOR LES SAVY FAV'S LET'S STAY FRIENDS VIDEO CONTEST»
Posted on August 16, 2007 (1 comments)
Tags: Les Savy Fav
Indie rockers rejoice as today Pitchfork has a new Les Savy Fav song, specifically track 5 from Let's Stay Friends, out 9/18 on Frenchkiss. Echoes of the Strokes in the intro riff, but plenty of shredding and howling in the... CONTINUE READING NEW LES SAVY FAV - "WHAT WOULD WOLVES DO"»
Posted on July 12, 2007 in (15 comments)
Tags: Les Savy Fav
Welcome to the resurfacing of Orenda Fink, one-half of now defunct dream-pop duo Azure Ray. Since Ray's '04 disbanding, Ms. Fink soldiered on with her Saddle Creek solo release Invisible Ones the next year, later forming Art Belle (essentially constituents... CONTINUE READING NEW ART IN MANILA - "THE ABOMINATION"»
Posted on June 28, 2007 in (2 comments)
Tags: Art In Manila | Les Savy Fav
Not that the subsequent Beantown overreaction wasn't amusing, adult swim, but as far as publicity campaigns go, we prefer the release of a free album of indie cuts to guerrilla Lite-Brite-planting tactics any day. The off-kilter cartoon network offers up... CONTINUE READING WARM & SCRATCHY»
Posted on May 21, 2007 in (3 comments)
Tags: 120 Days | Broken Social Scene | Les Savy Fav | Liars | TV On The Radio
The great zine Chunklet and Super Deluxe had Les Savy Fav's Tim Harrington and The Polyphonic Spree's Brian Teasley make hams of themselves on the streets during SXSW. Tim's a natural. Surprised? Les Savy favatics can hear tiny bits of... CONTINUE READING A LESSON IN DRUG CULTURE FROM TIM HARRINGTON & BRIAN TEASLEY»
Posted on April 13, 2007 in (4 comments)
Tags: Les Savy Fav | The Polyphonic Spree
One thing to know about Oslo: Most people are honest (except cabbies), friendly (except customs agents), extremely beautiful (no exceptions), and obsessed with the export of their arts. So Øya is ostensibly an international festival, drawing on credible, on-the-rise indie... CONTINUE READING NOR-WAVE GOODBYE TO OSLO: STEREOGUM @ ØYA 2006»
Posted on August 15, 2006 (27 comments)
Tags: Band Of Horses | Beck | Cold War Kids | Doveman | Hot Chip | Les Savy Fav | Liars | Love Is All | Midlake | Morrissey | Snow Patrol | Spank Rock | The Smiths | The Twilight Singers | The Whitest Boy Alive | The Wrens | Yoko Ono
Thanks to everyone who made it out to Les Savy Fav at McCarren Park yesterday for the Stereogum/Ice Cream Man-curated kick-off of JellyNYC's rock 'n' roll pool parties. Especially those who Tivo'd Zinedine Zidane's headbutt in order to see great... CONTINUE READING LES SAVY FAV @ MCCARREN PARK POOL, BROOKLYN 7/9/06»
Posted on July 10, 2006 in (23 comments)
Tags: Beans | Holy Fuck | Les Savy Fav
Dave spilled the beans before I was able to tell you guys, but on July 9th, Stereogum & Ice Cream Man will be curating a show at McCarren Park Pool. Headliners: Les Savy fuckin' Fav! And it's FREE. This concert... CONTINUE READING LES SAVY FAV COMING TO A BROOKLYN NEAR YOU»
Posted on June 12, 2006 in (4 comments)
Tags: Les Savy Fav
