
Robbie, Lindsay, and Chris of Radical Dads sent us these answers to our questions in this next installment of the q and also a series. q: What is the last song you (really) heard? r: Turn Around (mp3) by Lunch . l: Birds of Paradise Lost (mp3) by Conversion Party . Not only did I hear them play it live the other weekend at Cake Shop 's 6th birthday party, my manfriend insists on scatting the bass line, so [...]
Get prepared for a Saturday night fever with Les Savy Fav who are gonna rock it up at the Point Ephémère. At the office, we're already prepared to be half naked and to stuck our faces on Tim Harrington's big belly! We have 3 tickets to go sweat, who's in?

Les Savy Fav | Photo by Audrey Leon Les Savy Fav lead singer Tim Harrington is a man of the people. The manic, nomadic singer and his fantastically long microphone cord traveled to every crease and crevice of Subterranean on Saturday night, touching and being touched by fans, singing and cracking jokes. The rest of the band may have been an afterthought to the crowd, but the music that radiated through all three floors certainly wasn't. In another life Tim Harrington [...]

BLOODIEST | Photograph by Saverio Truglia Summer is in full swing and there are plenty of outdoor activities to satisfy your musical lust including two chances to picnic outside the Logan Square Monument and watch some sexy local rock provided by the likes of Rabble Rabble or Califone and Bloodiest . As if that could be enough, adrenaline-pumping indie rockers Les Savy Fav are in town. There's so much rock, we'll have to start a new pile. Let's get to it, shall we? [...]

[ mix cover image by Patrick Tsai ] June 2011 Mix 01 Intro 02 Low - Starfire 03 Manganese Madness - Dame 04 Otis Harris - You'll Like My Loving 05 Plastic Bertrand - Ca Plane Pour Moi 06 Versus - Blade Of Grass 07 Heartbeat Hotel - Windowsill 1 08 Eternal Summers - Prisoner [...]
Here are Les Savy Fav with a video for "Sleepless In Silverlake" which is from last year's album Root For Ruin . Related posts: Les Savy Fav - Live In Studio Session on KEXP Ra Ra Riot - "Boy" Video, "You And I Know" Video Preview Jay-Z - "On To The Next One" Video She & Him - "In The Sun" Video
It's ten years since Michael Azerrad first published his defining DIY '80s scene portrait Our Band Could Be Your Life , which covered an independent music culture that changed irrevocably a decade before that with the release of Nevermind . Round anniversaries make apt opportunities for retrospectives, and in the case of Our Band , this year has been a sort of meta-reflection: between a panel at SXSW, and last night's show at Bowery Ballroom, 2011 has seen a few organized moments of the present "indie" culture celebrating and reflecting on how the blueprint Michael [...]
It's ten years since Michael Azerrad first published his defining DIY '80s scene portrait Our Band Could Be Your Life , which covered an independent music culture that changed irrevocably a decade before that with the release of Nevermind . Round anniversaries make apt opportunities for retrospectives, and in the case of Our Band , this year has been a sort of meta-reflection: between a panel at SXSW, and last night's show at Bowery Ballroom, 2011 has seen a few organized moments of the present "indie" culture celebrating and reflecting on how the blueprint Michael [...]

Holy Springtime, Batman! Eighty degrees, eh? Not long now until we hit the dog days of summer, and you know what that means: Street Fests! Huzzah! Some of the bigger festivals - Do Division, Wicker Park Fest and Green Must Fest - have already announced their initial music lineups. So, we thought it might be a good idea to update you on who's playing. • DO-DIVISION STREET FEST kicks the summer off with a bang on Saturday, June 4, through Sunday, June 5 on Division between Damen [...]

[Here we'll look at some things you probably passed up when you were a kid because you were too busy playing Star Wars with your friend who was actually a jerk… and who threw a tantrum when you schooled him in NHL '96. What a little bitch. There are roots in the ground that still nurture.] The Cat and the Cobra Les Savy Fav Frenchkiss, 1999 Produced by Les Savy Fav [...]

1,2,3 is performing between Rival Skies and Les Savy Fav at Black Cat on Saturday night. Enter to win a pair of tickets by e-mailing me (5actsblog at gmail dot com) with the subject "New Heaven." Contest ends on Friday at 1:23 pm ET.
In about 63 hours, I'll be throwin' some 'bows at Ear X-Tacy to make sure I get my hands on every Record Store Day release I need. Of course, "need" is hardly the proper term, but when you're standing there holding the last copy of a Japanese Les Savy Fav import on coke bottle clear and orange swirl vinyl - well, that's when "need" is the right word. With that in mind, here is my list of RSD desirables. In looking through the list, there were some entries I logically knew I [...]

Les Savy Fav - Sleepless in Silverlake
We already revelaed the three curators —Les Savy Fav, Battles, and Caribou—for ATP's annual Nightmare Before Christmas shows in the UK. Now comes news of some of the bands those artists have chosen to appear at the event, and it's starting to shape up like another rmust-see event from the organization. Archers of Loaf, Marnie Stern and No Age have been hand picked by Les Savy Fav; Flying Lotus, Walls, and the Psychic Paramount have been added by Battles; and Junior Boys, the Ex, and Omar Souleyman will appear on Caribou's day. The Battles/FlyLo match-up should make this worthy [...]

El excéntrico grupo originario de Nueva York sigue promocionando su quinto disco de estudio Root For Ruin , esta vez con un divertido video para la canción Sleepless in Silverlake . Tom Bingham fue el encargado de dirigir las visuales, que nos presentan una especie de triángulo amoroso entre tres cómicos personajes, performers callejeros, que se cruzan en una pileta de natación y en un bar. El video resulta la continuación de un vínculo entre la banda y [...]
Leave it to Les Savy Fav to make a video with an interesting array of costumes. It's an amazing piece from the Brooklyn band. Though the video first premiered on Adult Swim the other day, we've got it posted above as well. What's not to like?
You'd be hard pressed to find a bigger Les Savy Fav fan than me . But I was a little disappointed when Ezra sent me the the link to the band's new video for "Sleepless in Silverlake" calling it the "best song" on the band's latest, Root for Ruin . Despite having spent a few weeks on two separate occasions in Silverlake already this year-I get the sentiment-this track just doesn't do much for me. It's one of the rare LSF songs that ever falls flat. Ezra, I [...]
Here's further proof that Thursdays are magical: While a random Thursday in January saw the debut of videos from Lykke Li, No Age, and Sleigh Bells, this random Thursday in March sees the release of videos for Lykke Li's "I Know Places (Live on the Moon), Menomena's "Tao" (via Pitchfork ), and "Les Savy Fav's "Sleepless in Silverlake" . Most of us are eagerly counting down the hours to the weekend, but watching Lykke Li and her band rock the moon, or the boys of Menomena get their just desserts (wrassln' [...]