Who`s Jealous?
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Who`s Jealous?
The Birthplace of Stereophonic Sound - 1953 at January 2009 125 East 11th Street New York, NY websterhall.com/thestudio [email protected] • Sam Cooke and Frank Sinatra recorded here Powered By Who’s Jealous? Interviews With: The Deathset, Jealous Girlfriends and Colin Munroe JANUARY 3, 2009 Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad JANUARY 6, 2009 Natasha Komis, The Party Death & Wildstreet JANUARY 7, 2009 Theophilus London, MeLo-X & DJ Will Gates JANUARY 9, 2009 Bear Hands, Statehood, Holy Hail & Atarah Valentine JANUARY 14, 2009 Maggie Horn, Blaqstarr, Scottie B, Sammy Bananas & DJ Teenwolf JANUARY 21, 2009 Cubic Zirconia, Michna + DJ sets by Waajeed, Link & Daryl Palumbo JANUARY 24, 2009 Oxford Collapse, Suckers & Real Estate JANUARY 24, 2009 LATE NIGHT Joi, Free The Robots, Patty Crash JANUARY 28, 2009 TK Webb & The Visions, Black Acid & Headdress JANUARY 29, 2009 Kudu, The Prarie Cartel & The Girls JANUARY 31, 2009 Bambi, Emanuel and The Fear & Emperor City Motorcade Plus: Dance Class Thursdays w/ DJ Prince Terrence and Blue Jemz Trash! Fridays w/ DJ Jess and Alex Malfunction & Rock Box Saturdays Q & A with Johnny Siera of The Death Set By Mark Allen There has been much hype surrounding The Death Set’s outrageous live punk rock performances in recent years. I got the chance to chat with Death Set’s Singer Johnny Siera, who were recently on tour with Girl Talk: Where are you from? I am from the Gold Coast of Australia, which is a town near Brisbane in the Northeast. The guitarist is from the Sydney area but I met him on the Gold Coast as well. He is actually DJ who had been doing Electronic Music for a long time in the UK and we connected again. Our drummer is from Brooklyn. How do you describe your band’s sound? Spazzy cross-genre punk rock. I’ve wanted to write electronic music, but at the same time I have always been playing in punk rock bands so I could never shake that element… but it definitely has a lot of electronic elements. If anyone calls us electro-punk rock I want to vomit. What has your experience touring with Girl Talk been like? This is our second to last show with Girl Talk tonite in Foxborough near Amherst, and its been really good to play big venues that are always sold out. Its been basically a teeny bopper crowd where you’ve got kids lining up outside before doors open, and the kids are always super psyched. Its kind of scary at times when people are screaming out Girl Talk, but we just go out there and spazz and have fun. I just don’t give a f*ck. How was your experience playing at the Fuji Rock Festival in Japan? It was f*cking awesome, definitely one of the best shows I’ve ever played in my life. The crowd was so responsive to everything we played. We’re used to playing 95% of our shows in small DIY spaces and to be put out there onto this massive stage with 6,000 people was quite daunting, but the kids spazzed like I’ve never seen before… it was a real fun time. Who are some of your favorite bands to watch performing live? DMBQ from Japan… their shows are f*cking insane. Some Brooklyn bands i really enjoy would be Japanther, Matt and Kim, as well as Ninjasonik who we are playing with at the Webster Hall show. What kind of vehicle are your touring around in? Our graffiti covered van… our graffiti covered cop magnet van actually. Cop Magnet, whats the story behind that? Well we were around Madison, Wisconsin and we got pulled over by cops who made us get out of our van one by one, do the dance, with assault rifles pointed at us. I’ve never had a gun pointed at me before, it was gnarly. We were touring with this other band and we were just the most rediculous looking group of people. We had two Australians, French African dude, Colombian dude, Panamanian dude, and a big guy with a mohawk… so as a group we went into a convenience store and i’m sure the girl working there called the cops and said we had gun. We later had to drive to this jail covered in McCain signs because it was that sort of area… an ugly area. The Jealous Girlfriends returned to play at The Studio last night for the second time, along with Michigan’s Friendly Foes I asked Holly and Josh about their recent touring shenanigans and here’s what they said: Q & A with Holly Miranda & Josh Abbott of The Jealous Girlfriends By Mark Allen DID YOU KNOW THAT? Once in a while, I’ll drop some knowledge in the form of musical trivia. Here’s this week’s 4 trivial tidbits: 1. Axl Rose has a 90 year old wizened oracle who he refers to as Yoda, who lives in the Arizona desert and must be consulted on every decision that pertains to his music career by the record executives and upper management. 2. The “oh!” in EMF’s Unbelieveable is an Andrew Dice Clay sample. 3. Esteemed British music magazine Wire once wrote a review of the Ghost World soundtrack and wrote something like “This is a great collection of early blues and ragtime, but what’s the deal with the Blueshammer track? This is a horrible song and completely out of place.”, referring to the modern blues rock band that the R.Crumb-type character sits through while he waits to hear the Charley Patton-type headliner. 4. On Tony Iommi’s last day at his job at the metal factory before he planned to focus on music full-time, and at the age of 17, he sliced off his finger tips on his right hand and had to completely re-learn guitar. -Nick Diamonds I S L A N D S You’ve recently been on tour with Indie Icons Nada Surf and the Delta Spirit from California… What was that experience like? Holly: It was our second time on tour with Nada Surf and they are like family at this point. It was our first time meeting Delta Spirit and they were very cool. I actually got into some heated debates with some of them while on tour. Do you have any fun tour stories? Josh: Well I’ll give you a quick pants splitting story. We were playing a show at the 9:30 Club down in DC, it was a pretty insane show, possibly one of the coolest shows of our lives. Everybody ran on stage after Nada Surf’s last song, and Matt from Delta Spirit says he’s gonna do a stage dive. Granted, this was not really a stage dive kinda audience. So he goes ahead and jumps into the crowd and the audience caught him for a second, before dropping him to the ground. When he stood up his pants were completely gone. He was walking around in these little tight purple boxer briefs. Needless to say, I really like those guys. I remember catching you here at The Studio for your CMJ show in October, how did you feel about that show? Holly: It was our most funnest CMJ show this year. It was us and Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson, who is an old friend of ours. We had a rad time. Smoked a lot of weed and drank a lot of whiskey back stage. Do you have anything special planned for your show tonite at The Studio? Holly: We have a secret weapon tonight, he is Brendan Coon from a local band called Ludlow Lions. He’s gonna get up and sing on our song “Wolf Band”, which is a tribute to all of the wolf bands out there. What’s the story with this “wolf” band name trend? Holly: Well i personally think the wolf is done. Bear is the new wolf. Black was the new bear. But now I think that Crystal is the new black. So we’re gonna change our band’s name to Crystal Dicks or Crystal Cocks. Or possibly go really emo and name ourselves Tears Without Gravity. Josh: Or maybe we could be the Crystal Courtney Cox. Q & A with Colin Munroe By Mark Allen I sat down to chat with Toronto-based artist Colin Munroe, who performed at The Studio last night to promote his latest effort, “The Unsung Hero”. What is the story with the title of your mixtape record, “The Unsung Hero”? I identify with that persona of being the underdog, never being the biggest kid in class, never the strongest kid. And I think that a lot people can identify with that persona as well. Do you have a personal hero? I’m kinda obsessed with Winston Churchill because he is one of the few individuals who can say he singlehandedly saved the world. At a time when no one was paying attention to what was going on in Germany, Churchill was the stand up and say watch out for Hitler. And it wasn’t until the last minute when everyone else caught on, and got on board with his important message. I don’t think many people can say they have saved humankind the way Churchill has. What are some of the advantages of being Canadian? Well I feel at home there like no other place on earth. I like the fact that my hometown of Toronto is beautiful and clean, everything I need is easily accessible and just a walk around the corner. Do you have a favorite band at the moment? I am a big fan of a Canadian band called Gold Dogs. They aren’t a very big name but they are a very cool band with incredible songs and musicianship. They have that indie-alt rock thing happening that Canadians bands do so well. Why have you chosen to call your current record a “Mixtape”, rather than an “Album” or “LP”? Its my personal take on a mixtape. It has various remixes, original songs, and a handful of MC’s guest appearing. There is also something I call a “revox”, or revocalization of a Bob Dylan tune. Its a different take on his song. I prefer to cover a song and remix it at the same time. Give it a listen when you have a chance.