The ultimate Michael Jackson cover band, Who’s Bad, played on the Bryan Center plaza of Duke’s campus yesterday. Here’s a video of the band playing “Don’t Stop ’til You Get Enough.”
Mike Posner friend/collaborator Big Sean, also an associate of Yeezy, is dropping a new mixtape today. You can download U Know Big Sean, Vol. 2 at his Web site, and you can catch Mike Posner and the Brain Trust with Big Sean Wednesday, April 22 at Duke’s LDOC celebration on the Main Quad at 6 p.m.
Courtesy angryasianman.com
Thao with the Get Down Stay Down performs at the Duke Coffeehouse on East Campus with Sister Suvi and Samantha Crain and the Midnight Shivers Saturday. Tickets are $8. Doors open at 9 p.m., show starts at 9:30 p.m. She is also making an appearance at Chaz’s Bull City Records at 5 p.m. for an acoustic set.
Jessie Tang: I can’t believe it’s been a year since your record’s been released.
Thao Nguyen: Yeah, you and me both. It was a quick one.
JT: Looking back, what were some of the highlights of the tour?
TN: Let’s see… it feels like it was one really long tour. We were on the road for most of it, which is frustrating for me because I am a fruit fly. Highlights were touring with Rilo Kiley, which was a lot of fun getting to play with an established, well-known band. And we’re fans of theirs. It was a big morale boost as far as thinking that we’ve legitimately tried to do this and it was well received that we didn’t just put out a record and no one heard it.
What else? There were little things. The thing was that I was trying to give you an overview because I thought that it would be more professional of me. But the true highlights were, well, one time in Canada I bought this western shirt with eagles—American eagles, I think, and I always thought that was funny. There is a clear contrast between eagle and the white of the fabric. This other time, [bassist Adam Thompson] found out he had been sleeping on this wet, brown stain. We thought it was blood, and I went down to the office to ask the woman. She took it to the back and returned with it, telling us it wasn’t blood—it was feces, which is a hilarious story, but Adam almost died.
We accidentally got married this year because of the time commitment. We’ve definitely solidified as a band and feel comfortable and are trying to navigate how to make music for a living, you know, and how to maintain having a life when you’re in a band all the time.
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To test this theory I’ve just watched the trailer for Marley and Me. It looks quite bad. And yet, if you told me that Von Trier had directed this, I worry that I’d be quietly filing it as some subversive art-film in the guise of a romcom, perhaps with the naughty dog serving as a metaphor for unchecked American imperialism. And for this I blame Von Trier; that infernal tease, that dastardly jester. We have reached the point in our relationship when I can’t tell if he’s pulling my leg or not.
Will Antichrist be another piece of garbage torture porn? We’ll have to wait until May. (Also, can anything that Serge Gainsbourg is remotely connected to be that bad?)
Courtesy Pitchfork.
Of Montreal hit Cat’s Cradle Monday night with one of their trademark shows: Kevin Barnes in a dress, people in black bodysuits and red masks playfighting mid-song, pig and tiger masks and absolutely limitless energy.
I missed the first opener but caught most of the second, a punk band named Inkwell that had nothing in common with Of Montreal. They played capable synth-aided indie punk and successfully managed to get some of the crowd dancing in advance of the real show, but possibly the highlight of their set was the intentionally awkward banter between the vocalist and lead guitar. Pretty adorable.
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