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'03 - Les Savy Fav :: Obsessed with the Excess b/w Hello Halo, Goodbye Glands , seven-inch single (Chunklet Magazine, issue 17 - 2003) _____________________________________ Another LSF single that forms the anthology, singles album Inches . In the past, this one had to be procured from picking up issue no. 17 of Chunklet magazine and features a guest - David Cross, who if I am not mistaken provides ...

Photo by Emma Svensson Last year, amid rumors of Kele Okereke's unceremonious removal from Bloc Party , the band posted a cartoon of the group intact, drawn as characters from "The Simpsons" and said, "see you soon." No joke: the site's been updated with a note from Kele announcing the band has signed to Frenchkiss , the label run by Les Savy Fav's Syd Butler and home to a roster including the ...

Tim Harrington of Les Savy Fav Turntable.fm is now street legal. After assembling a stable of partnerships with the Universal, Sony, Warner, and EMI music groups, Turntable users now have instant and unfettered access to millions of songs, marking the latest step in the gradual eradication of record sales as we know them. In days past, music fans—at least those not pirating albums—transitioned ...

Allow this man to put your children to bed. (image via 3news.co.nz) Tim Harrington, the charismatic frontman of New York indie fixture Les Savy Fav, is publishing a children's book. The book is a "humorous, fresh take on the nursery rhyme 'This Little Piggy,' featuring drumming, dancing, and superhero toes," according to the deal report on Publisher's Marketplace. William Morris Endeavor's Andy ...

Chris "Clunk" Selby, right, is once more booking bands in Northwest Arkansas. Great news for live music fans in Northwest Arkansas: Chris "Clunk" Selby is back in the game, according to KUAF 91.3 and The Fayetteville Flyer . That's right, the man who brought Les Savy Fav, Built to Spill, At the Drive-In, Modest Mouse, The Shins, Royal Trux, The Dismemberment Plan, Pinback, Enon, Trans Am, The ...

Under the name Caribou, and before that as Manitoba, Dan Snaith has shown a mastery of many genres: shoegaze, IDM, krautrock, psych-pop, and even, on last year's Swim , a luminous style of underwater disco not far removed from the chillwave mini-movement. Along with Les Savy Fav and Battles, the Ontario, Canada-based shape-shifter picked artists for the U.K. All Tomorrow's Parties' annual ...

                            In Part 2 of our 5-part look back at Steve Hopson's Fun Fun Fun Fest photos we revisit 2009, the year of Melt Banana, Shonen Knife, Les Savy Fav, Mika Miko, Neon Indian and Street Dogs . [ more › ]

                                          D.C. natives Trans Am remain a potent and versatile live band capable of quoting from a wide array of styles and genres -- a fine compliment to the droning noise-rock instrumentals of The Psychic Paramount and the usual antics of Les Savy Fav at the 9:30 Club last Friday. [ more › ]

WHAT: Iceland Airwaves WHEN: October 12-16 WHERE: Reykjavík, Iceland WHO: Björk, Beach House, James Murphy (DJ set), Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band, tUnE-yArDs, Iceage, Liturgy, Glasser, Owen Pallett, Austra, SBTRKT, Active Child, YACHT, and more. WHAT: Neon Marshmallow WHEN: October 14-16 WHERE: Brooklyn, NY WHO: Tim Hecker, Tim Harrington (of Les Savy Fav), Grouper, Rhys Chatham, The Men, James ...

                                                        Photos of NYC outfit Les Savy Fav's headlining set last night at Mohawk, as they kicked off the first of Mohawk's four-day long birthday celebration . Photos by Pooneh Ghana . [ more › ]

Les Savy Fav :: Rodeo b/w Blackouts On Thursday , seven-inch release (Sub Pop Records, SP 411 - 1997) And I've also got a quick bonus seven-inch to post, I've been steadily working towards collecting all(3/9) of LSF's single releases that make-up their seminal Inches (Frenchkiss Records, 2004) album. Here is an interesting concept that this NY via RI band initially set out to do. From the very ...