If I was in NYC this week, I'd be nothing more than another voice in the crowd of journalists and bloggers claiming the Deerhunter/Dan Deacon/No Age/White Williams/Ponytail showcase was a life altering affair. Instead, I'm here in Cleveland hungover from a painful baseball game. Ok, who am I kidding? If I was at CMJ this week, I would have been annoyed by the hipster set going ga ga over Dan Deacon, I would have been yelling "Less talk, more Rock," at Deerhunter, and I'd still be exhausted. Still, in spite of my skepticism at the buzz [...]
Before a week ago, I only distinguished White Williams as the guy who was touring for a while with Girl Talk / Dan Deacon . One would assume that his sound would naturally be along the same lines as those two artists, right? After listening to a few tracks off his upcoming debut Smoke , due out November 6, I was proved to be very much wrong in that assessment. The only similarity between them is the fact that each uses a laptop. That's pretty much [...]
White Williams "Headlines" - The sort of shocking thing about White Williams is that the sophisticated, strangely ageless music contained on his first record was in fact written and performed by a 23 year old guy, and not, say, someone about two or three decades older. Or maybe someone from two or three decades ago? Williams' music is often built upon scraps of familiar tunes by old family favorites -- Bowie, Eno, T-Rex, and Neu! are all interpolated and integrated, and he straight up covers Bow Wow Wow -- but Smoke is more than just [...]
Download : White Williams - "The Shadow" So, I already did a post on Dan Deacon , but I feel the need to do an entirely separate one on White Williams . They opened for the Deac Friday night, and will be returning to MPLS on Nov. 7 (one week after their new record drops) with Battles . I highly recommend swinging by that show if you have the chance. Musically, White Williams is very New Wave, but not in a tiresome way. I think the biggest problem [...]
White Williams has sparked my interest recently and has me anticipating his November 2nd release of Smoke, his debut album from Tigerbeat6 Records. White Williams, aka Joe Williams, has been playing music for a good while now alongside Girltalk's Greg Gillis. Williams' music reflects Gillis' in a certain way, but then again not at all. Williams' crafts pop songs emersed in life. His use of samples and synthesizers build homes, hills, and mountains around his timid vocal melodies. He pushes the definition of pop songs to new levels much like [...]
White Williams is part of a new wave of new wavers. Currently on tour with Dan Deacon and every 16 year old kid's new favorite lap-topper Girl Talk, White carries on the sound of early Depeche Mode, accented with lush vocals and funked out basslines. It's lo-fi electro for the post-everything age. Noooooice and smooth. Download the New Violence EP at eMusic This post has: 1 MP3
The lucky one. Another long week at work after a jam packed weekend flying to Portland to photograph my best friend from high school's wedding. Enjoy. White Williams – Headlines Jon, Grace, Lindsey (Oklahoma), Forest and I are all going to see White Williams, Dan Deacon and Girl Talk tonight at the Echo in Echo Park. I first heard about White Williams from this opening slot so I had to check it out. I've [...]
Master of the Bmore indie electro universe Dan Deacon established a temporary Castle Greenskull at St. John's Church Tuesday night with White Williams and Girl Talk . Someone stole Dan's glasses and later gave them back. White Williams did not have glasses so we gave him some. He also had two guitarists playing along with drum machines, a laptop, an array of vocal effects and a synthesizer. Girl Talk almost made us feel bad about being in church in the dark next to sweaty tenderonis and a giant inflatable spider. Two samples from Williams' [...]
Here's a look at a few things that will be going down in Austin for the rest of September. As always, check Showlist and Do512 for a comprehensive list of local happenings. Thursday: 9/20 The Jungle Rockers , at Emo's The Jungle Rockers - "Sugar Shack" Coming around to their current sound rose out of a general frustration with the indie music scene and its sometimes icky leaning towards [...]
Dan Deacon - credit Pittsburgh's Girl Talk and Baltimore's Dan Deacon have teamed up for a tour that is selling out over the place. White Williams will be joining them as opener. They will be in the area for most of this week. 9/18/07: 2640 Space , Baltimore 9/19/07: Black Cat , DC 9/20/07: Satellite Ballroom , Charlottesville Dan Deacon - The Crystal Cat Dan Deacon - Wham City Girl Talk - Bounce [...]
DOWNLOAD: White Williams - New Violence (MP3) Dan Deacon @ Hideout Block Party, Chicago - Sept 8, 2007 ( CRED ) Girl Talk, Dan Deacon & White Williams at Webster Hall this Saturday is sold out, so they've added a 2nd show that very same night - afterwards at Bowery Ballroom. Tickets are $12. Doors open at 10 PM. White Williams will be on at 11 PM, Dan Deacon at 12 PM and Girl Talk at 1 AM. For [...]
No Context by Zach Baron White Williams Mercury Lounge September 5 White Williams , a/k/a the 23-year-old New York-via-Ohio Joe Williams, is a young guy. Press legend has him opening for Black Dice and the Rapture in '99, which would've then made him 15, give or take; eight years later, in a week or so, he takes White Williams on the road with Dan Deacon and Girl Talk , his buddy from back when, whenever that could've [...]
DOWNLOAD: White Williams - New Violence (MP3) ( via ) White Williams (real name = Joe Williams) was first brought to my attention when he was added to the Dan Deacon / Girl Talk tour . Since then I've been listening to an advanced copy of his forthecoming album Smoke pretty regularly (out nov 6 on TigerBeat). Think laid-back-laptop-dancey-electr o-pop-sometimes-sing-along-lik e-Hot-Chip. One song is a cover of the 80's hit "I Want Candy". And Williams (23 years old) [...]
Occasionally we'll hear some music that's so perfectly in tune with our tastes it feels like somebody has been making field recordings inside our brains. At the moment we suspect that somebody is White Williams. His debut album Smoke offers off-kilter pop-funk in seven shades of whimsy. We like them all.
The Long Island ladies of Northern State made their "comeback" of sorts in '07 with their first record in three years (after parting ways with a major) -- the Adrock/Chuck Brody produced Can I Keep This Pen? -- and lending their voices to OKX ... and they're celebrating by mixing some piña coladas with hallucinogenic properties on "Better Already." Raps, L7 melodies, and green screen enabled cartoon flights of fancy. Starring winged unicorns, god, and FRIENDSHIP!
We found this dude White Williams over at the Fader this afternoon, and were immediately drawn in by this joint's funky bassline and vaguely Odelay -era Beck -ish feel. Oh, and that hideously awesome cover art was a major factor, as well. mp3: White Williams Violator White Williams goes on tour with Girl Talk and Dan Deacon this fall, and his Smoke LP is due October [...]
White Williams was one of the acts that truly stood out for me at this year's, in my opinion, bland SXSW. (Check out this great post on Coolfer about the amount of March glut down in Austin these days.) Not knowing anything about him, (Is he from San Francisco or Cincinnati?) WW was a pleasant surprise after checking out Dandi Wind at the Tigerbeat6 showcase. WW's smooth vocal delivery, grooving basslines and electronic keyboard inflections immediately got me hooked. Definitely some smooth and groove stuff. [...]
Does the weather play a part in what kind of musical mood you are in? I'm thinking yes, the weather has been pretty dismal this past week, and my last.fm stats tell me that Chromatics and Eluvium have made up the majority of songs listened to, now this is no bad thing because Chromatics and Eluvium are both agonizingly amazing, but I dunno, their songs just seem to tie in nicely with rain and cold and breeze. Today however the low pressure and the clouds have vanished, replaced by that ridiculously bright [...]
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