It’s time to put on your frolicking boots and bust out your frisbees for our first-ever Bay Area Thank You, Come Again! We’ve got a sweet line-up for a beautiful day of jamming, hanging, playing, grubbing, and generally just living it up-ping. Plus a sweet vegan potluck! Many of these bands will be playing music specifically crafted for this semi-acoustic occasion, and it’ll be neat to see what creative things they come up with.
The purpose of this event is to strip a concert experience to its birthday suit. We have a performer in their most vulnerable state, an audience, and communal activities for all! Nothing will be handled but good vibes. Remember that when you come to a fmly event, you represent fmly. To those of you who do show up with substances please keep them to yourself, away from the group, and don’t be the one that ruins the day for everyone.
This is a FREE DAY SHOW in a public environment. Come on time because it gets chilly late in the day!
There will be group jamming throughout the day. Bring your instruments and/ or whatever you have lying around your house. Washboards and tambourines encouraged.
Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are what the world regards as one’s mistakes. -Oscar Wilde
It’s almost time to put on your frolicking boots and bust out your frisbees for our first-ever Bay Area Thank You, Come Again! We’ve got a sweet line-up for a beautiful day of jamming, hanging, playing, grubbing, and generally just living it up-ping. Many of these bands will be playing music specifically crafted for this semi-acoustic occasion, and it’ll be neat to see what creative things they come up with.
The purpose of this event is to strip a concert experience to its birthday suit. We have a performer in their most vulnerable state, an audience, and communal activities for all! Nothing will be handled but good vibes. Remember that when you come to a fmly event, you represent fmly. To those of you who do show up with substances please keep them to yourself, away from the group, and don’t be the one that ruins the day for everyone.
This is a FREE DAY SHOW in a public environment. Come on time because it gets chilly late in the day!
There will be group jamming throughout the day. Bring your instruments and/ or whatever you have lying around your house. Washboards and tambourines encouraged.
Too much of the animal disfigures the civilized human being, too much culture makes a sick animal. - Carl Jung
We’re on a sinking ship and Shaw is somewhere underneath, trying to patch up the cracks – a merman swimming through a sea of heavy reverb, drum machine claps, and harmonic animal noises. Pretending We’re Not Animals - soon to be the first of two five-song EP’s – lyrically traverses the world through the eyes of various creatures, only to unearth a bit about our nature as beat-making beasts. Lyrics aside, this dude’s voice packs a sweet, edgy punch, and we can’t wait to hear what he and his gal have planned for our first-ever Bay Area Thank You, Come Again next weekend.
Check out his site, go to his space, or grab his album here.
The fly honeys from the Splinters had their new album drop yesterday and we here at FMLY are puuuuumped. These new tunes still make you wanna boogie down, jump around, and chant along à la Splintered Bridges – but Kick has also got some songs up it’s sleeve that’ll give you a serious dose of gooseflesh. I’d recommend grabbing a convertible, some sunshine, and some sweet shades before putting this on your car stereo. I’d then recommend driving that convertible to Austin and singing along with them at our very own Thank You, Come Again.
In the meantime, director Natalie Tsui’s deadly adorable music video for “Mysterious” does a super job of curbing our Splinters cravings. It’s kinda like Hitchcock on speed, but waaaay cuter.
If Drop Dead Fred mated with a Michel Gondry short they’d defs birth this alternate version of Kid Cudi’s music video for “Pursuit of Happiness”. Watching this not only gave me a new appreciation for Kid Cudi as a lyricist, it also gave me vertigo!
Directed by Brody Baker, produced by Josh Hartnett and Alex Orlovsky. Peep the OG video here.
Oddsac, Animal Collective’s “visual album”, opens at the Guggenheim today. Tickets sold out right quick, but it looks like a second NY date is being added before this “demonic” and “horrific” piece of audio-visual art goes on tour with members of Animal Collective and Danny Perez, the collaborator who made this psychedelic, vampiric, and allegedly epilepsy-inducing masterpiece possible.
According to the band’s Q&A after the video’s original premiere at Sundance last week, the video is four years of footage craftily compiled into 54 minutes, originally inspired by the image of “a sad vampire in a rowboat” (via). I aim to check this out when it hits the left coast but, if you see it first, let us know you came out in one piece.
The latter half of the 20th century saw the built environment merged with media space, and architecture taking on new roles related to branding, image and consumerism. Augmented reality may re-contextualize the functions of consumerism and architecture, and change in the way in which we operate within it.
Two things have seriously been vying for my attention the past few days: chat roulette and augmented reality. Pretty much every other conversation I’ve had involves one or both of those concepts. And each one gives me the willies in its own way, but augmented reality, “where data from the network overlays your view of the real world” – turning your palm into a phone, your glasses into a data-infused, semi-transparent screen, and (oh shit!) your body invisible – won the battle with flying colors. Literally, figuratively, whateveritively [via].
The video above is Keiichi Matsuda’s off-putting visualization of what our future as cyborgs might hold. If you’re into it, you can check out this fascinating, comprehensive talk + live demos (!) on the future of AR.
Watching this interview my mind went from Wikus Van De Merwe and deep-space aliens to body-jerking bewitchment to “ew, gross” to “wow. It looks really hot over there.”
Cape Town- based trio Die Antwoord – which translates from Afrikaans to the answer – drop some serious “next level beats” and um, pretty intense rhymes that include psychic visions, raves, period blood, and naked babes galore. Check out their sweet web design here and the freaky-deaky diespace here.
There’s been rumors that Die Antwoord is a big fake-out, possibly meant to reap publicity for MaxNormal.TV, and it looks like its working. I’m not sure what’s going on here, but it’s either totally brain-numbing, fokken brilliant, or some brand spanking new combo of the two. We’ll see what happens with these dudes.
p.s. Man. I can’t believe her mom gave her that haircut.
Hey you. Maybe you feel like taking a break from patching up your neon hot-air balloon(s), kayaking nude across the Atlantic, patenting the wireless, waterproof ear-buds you invented last week or whatever other amazing thing it is that you’re up to these days. If so, you should watch Herbie Hancock work the keytar in his mind-blowing performance at the 1984 Grammy awards.
Shit goes ‘naners at 1:55. You might wanna hold on to your socks.
I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours. – John F. Kennedy
Thank You Come Again
Lady Bird Lake Trail
March 20, 3PM
w/ dead gaze, easyboy, mistlefinger, big whup + pizza!, white fang, jonesin', tempo no tempo, dream panther
FMLY Group Hug
Dominican Joe, 515 South Congress
March 20, 8pm
w/ MillionYoung, Truman Peyote, Michael Parallax, Wampire, Idiot Glee, I Am The Dot, Magic Man, Philip Seymour Hoffman fbook event
Los Angeles
Kria Brekkan & Drawlings
McWorld
March 24th fbook event
Evan Voytas, WAMPIRE, Battlehooch, Pizza! + Afterparty for Tobacco (of Black Moth Super Rainbow) and The Hood Internet
McWorld
March 25th Fbook event
FMLY RIDE
April 3rd 2010
Dinowalrus, Tempo No Tempo
May 1
Santa Cruz
FMLY RIDE
April 3rd 2010
Pacific and Water
Boston
FMLY / Breakfast of Champs Fest
PPALMM's Chinatown Loft
April 16
New York
FMLY / Breakfast of Champs Fest
April 18
Tobacco (of Black Moth Super Rainbow) & Philip Seymour Hoffman
The Knitting Factory
April 24 fbook event
IcyDemons, Truman Peyote, Trouble Books
Glasslands
May 2
San Francisco
Thank you Come Again
The Neighbors, Wes Leslie, Shaw, Maus Haus, Mistlefinger, Goliath the Giver
March 21st
Dolores Park f book event
Questions? Comments? Want to play a FMLY event? Want to learn how you can play an integral role in your FMLY? Shoot us an email anytime, we're usually around. We also accept demos, songs you're into, songs you've made and bribes.
