Early Saturday evening, on an empty stomach, we watched our favorite glammy Norwegian neo-wave quartet New Violators play a streamlined set of their excellent Echo & the Stardust anthems. Streamlined because hired-gun guitarist Stian Westerhus left the past Puppet Show... CONTINUE READING STEREOGUM DOES CMJ: NEW VIOLATORS @ MERCURY LOUNGE, NYC 10/20/07»
Posted on October 22, 2007 in (1 comments)
Tags: CMJ | Larry King | New Violators
Band To Watch New Violators, our favorite new wave-y Norwegians, have posted a new track over at their MySpace. Yup, that's a lot of "new"'s in one sentence -- guess we're hoping they'll actually release a new album! Despite putting... CONTINUE READING NEW NEW VIOLATORS - "MESSIAH"»
Posted on September 7, 2007 (4 comments)
Tags: New Violators
Band to watch and Puppet Show alum New Violators are back in Trondheim, Norway after their wave of NYC and Austin shows in March, adding to the queue of unreleased gems by writing and recording even more (still don't even... CONTINUE READING NEW NEW VIOLATORS - "YOUR DEVILISH EYES"»
Posted on May 1, 2007 (2 comments)
Tags: New Violators
Not sure what the contributing factors were, but it seemed like everybody was a little frustrated yesterday down at SouthBy; people showing up to the right day party at the wrong time, jumbling their schedules, taking wrong turns in what's... CONTINUE READING SXSW: THURSDAY IN AUSTIN»
Posted on March 16, 2007 in , (10 comments)
Tags: Amy Winehouse | Andrew Bird | Bat For Lashes | Cloud Cult | Danava | Elvis Perkins | Marnie Stern | Midnight Movies | New Violators | Sloan | SXSW | The Besnard Lakes | The Hylozoists | Tiny Masters Of Today | To Live And Die In LA | Under Byen
With more than 3,024 bands yet to see, Meat Puppets' set at last night's Puppet Show is bound to be one of, maybe the, highlight of the week. "This is our first gig together in 11 years," the Brothers... CONTINUE READING SXSW: THE STEREOGUM PUPPET SHOW»
Posted on March 15, 2007 in , , (3 comments)
Tags: Lo-Fi-Fnk | Meat Puppets | New Violators | SXSW
Here's a clip from a cool project from The Blow beatsmith and Stereogum Puppet Show DJ, YACHT. This track comprises samples Nirvana and ONLY Nirvana, right down to the fractured shards of drum. The track comes from a split 12"... CONTINUE READING NEW YACHT VIDEO - "HEALTHY STUDENT"»
Posted on March 13, 2007 in (6 comments)
Tags: New Violators | YACHT
Those of you making your way down to SXSW this year probably already have fairly full day and night dance cards, but consider this your formal invite to join us as we welcome back the Meat Puppets! This year... CONTINUE READING THE STEREOGUM PUPPET SHOW - AUSTIN, TX 3/14/07»
Posted on March 6, 2007 in (10 comments)
Tags: Lo-Fi-Fnk | Meat Puppets | New Violators | SXSW | YACHT
New Violators don't have an album out just yet, but the Norwegian quintet -- sextet, if you count the phenomenal female back-up singer accompanying them last time out -- should be a hit when they set foot on U.S. shores... CONTINUE READING BAND TO WATCH: NEW VIOLATORS»
Posted on February 21, 2007 in (4 comments)
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