The Singles Collection – Teenage Lovers, City Center, Jeffrey Novak
It's Easter week and we're back to business as usual 'round here at The Singles Collection. Hopefully you enjoyed last week's video sojourn into the realm of Sacred Bones, one of our favorite labels,...
View ArticleSmith Westerns, “Girl in Love” MP3
Not quite as good as the other track with the word “girl” in the title from the same album, but still great, the Smith Westerns excel at making ramshackle snottiness sound endearing. Maybe it’s the …...
View ArticleThe ABSOLUT FADER Visionary Podcast #1 — Doing
Welcome to the first Visionary Podcast, curated by The FADER and presented by ABSOLUT, as part of our ongoing efforts to advance and advocate the art and music we love. With these words—Doing Things...
View ArticleVideo: Smith Westerns, “Be My Girl” (Live at Monster Island)
The Smith Westerns and their shouty, glammed demand for lady-friendship made its debut right here and also appears on our first Visionary Podcast, but it took Ray Concepcion‘s jerky video, from the...
View ArticleStream: Smith Westerns, “Weekend”
Smith Westerns are still young, but they’re getting older. And “Weekend,” the first single from Dye it Blonde on Fat Possum, is evidence of that. Gone are the bratty snarls and garage meets glam...
View ArticleVideo: Smith Westerns, “Weekend”
Man, watching this Focus Creeps directed video for the first Smith Westerns single from their new record has us kind of bummed about the way we spend our weekends. Like, usually we get up and … read...
View ArticleStream: Smith Westerns, “All Die Young”
What’s the general vibe on senior prom as a concept? Such a touchstone in some ways. So much so, in fact, that the more we think about it, the more its become marginalized. Like as … read more »
View ArticleStream: Smith Westerns’ Album Dye it Blonde
Does anyone do coke in Pump Up the Volume? Memories of Christian Slater with no shirt? Smith Westerns kind buzzsaw is color saturated in well meaning uppers and the unpretentious sad joy of the early …...
View ArticleThe Tripwire: Those Smith Westerns Proved Us Way Wrong
I have always been a bit of a lo-fi/chillwave apologist (so long as I don’t have to literally defend the latter term). Sure, I could have done without the ubiquity of the subgenre on certain … read more »
View ArticleSmith Westerns Live at the FADER FORT by FIAT
The Smith Westerns were looking real tall and lanky today at the FADER FORT by FIAT. They probably haven’t eaten their share of barbecue yet while here in Austin? Watch the video above, and catch …...
View ArticleSmith Westerns’ Lead Singer is a Threat to All American Girls
Smith Westerns stopped by the A.V. Club to perform for their ongoing A.V. Undercover series, in which bands are asked to sportingly humiliate themselves covering popular classics. Tom Petty’s “American...
View ArticleSmith Westerns, “End of the Night” (Peaking Lights Remix) MP3
When the guitars and drums drop away and it’s just the piano pulsing and Cullen Omori singing, Everybody wants to be a star on a Saturday night, you can’t help but feel the Smith Westerns … read more »
View ArticleBrooklyn Bound: Smith Westerns Live at Converse Rubber Tracks
There’s a great American tradition of New York being a welcoming port and FADER teamed up with Converse’s new Rubber Tracks studio in Brooklyn to further it. Once a month, we’ll be welcoming touring...
View ArticleBrooklyn Bound: Smith Westerns Interview at Barcade
There’s a great American tradition of New York being a welcoming port and FADER teamed up with Converse’s new Rubber Tracks studio in Brooklyn to further it. Once a month, we’ll be welcoming touring...
View ArticleBrooklyn Bound: An Exclusive Download From Smith Western’s Converse Rubber...
There’s a great American tradition of New York being a welcoming port and FADER teamed up with Converse’s new Rubber Tracks studio in Brooklyn to further it. Once a month, we’ll be welcoming touring...
View ArticleGEN F: DIIV
Zachary Cole Smith’s mother was a Vogue editor, and he grew up in Connecticut where her boyfriend taught him to play guitar as a weapon against boredom. It’s certainly one way to get into making … read...
View ArticleStream: Smith Westerns, “Varsity”
Smith Westerns have shared the lead single off Soft Will, their third full-length LP, and it’s a first-rate reminder of the Chicago-bred band’s ability to craft glossy, big-sounding tracks with just...
View ArticleVideo Vault: Smith Westerns’ 1990s Favorites
Next week Smith Westerns will release their third album, Soft Will, a fine evolution for the still-pretty-young trio from Chicago. An excellent summer LP, it swims in clean guitar sounds, dreams...
View ArticleExclusive Freeload: The Smith Westerns, “Be My Girl” MP3
The Smith Westerns are from Chicago, and as far as we can tell are either named after a tourist trinket manufacturer in Tacoma or a chain of honkytonk restaurants in south England. Maybe both. Imagine...
View ArticleThe Smith Westerns at The Levi’s/FADER Fort NYC
Fresh-faced youngsters, The Smith Westerns, stopped by The Levi’s®/FADER Fort during last week’s CMJ festivities. They sat on the beds in Room 501 and strummed out the would-be 1970′s teen movie...
View ArticleTouching Voids, “Untied” MP3
Touching Voids is a new, three-dude Chicago band, comprised of childhood friends Ziyad Asrar and Malcolm Brown and drummer Julien Ehrlich. (Asrar and Ehrlich both play with Smith Westerns; Ehrlich...
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