Posted on 19 February 2010
If you weren’t at last night’s Cold Cave set in Los Angeles, you might have to wait awhile. The darkwave synthpop project and BTW centering around Wes Eisold canceled the remainder of their US dates, resuming their tour in the UK in March. Apparently it’s a lineup shakeup that’s at fault: While this photo set shows that ex-Xiu Xiu lovely Caralee McElroy is M.I.A., Cold Cave was still an all-star assemblage of sorts, playing last night with the addition of ex-Mika Miko telephone operator/actress Jennifer Clavin and ex-Hercules & Love Affair guy Guy Licata, alongside reliable accomplice, noise aesthete Dominick Fernow (Prurient). No word on what version of Cold Cave will make the trip to Europe, but by this gallery I’d say Guy and Jennifer look good as vampires. Andrew Youssef delivers these shots, along with those of the openers on a stacked bill that included much loved Bethany Cosentino aka Best Coast and scraggly, glam-struck Chicago garage-pop crew Smith Westerns. Dope bill, you should be on all these bands.
Posted on 19 February 2010
Headline says it. Yesterday you saw photo and blurb that introduced this far-flung pop cultural consortium, today it materializes. What does it say about this band that somehow this lineup of Friends Of Vampire Weekend not only doesn’t surprise but seems entirely logical to me? Like of course RZA, a JoBro, Lil Jon, and Donnie Darko are gonna get down with Contra. Because at this point who isn’t? Can’t stay mad at an album that drops and repeats so effortlessly, save those critics with overly prickly sensitivities for the embedded semiotics of race and class issues in pop music. Anyway this video is super fun: You may recognize the main lady here from the “Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa” video (her name IRL is Jenny, because of course her name in IRL is Jenny), you’ll definitely recognize most of the rest of the faces from their being famous. Tennis is the game, RZA’s the line judge, Gyllenhaal is funny, this is all sort of great. Here’s what Ezra had to say about pulling it together.
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