Vivian Girls

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EVOLUTION, GIRL-STYLE

Vivian Girls up the "fi"

Those Of You Who Missed New York Noise Can Enjoy Weird Vibes, Now Streaming At MTV

That chyron makes being a buzzband sound a lot more fun than it is. ​Last year the local-music show New York Noise was unceremoniously given the heave-ho by NYC TV, but creator (and NYC indie-scene lifer) Shirley Braha has returned with a new half-hour video show on MTV Hive, the indie-leaning ... More >>

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That chyron makes being a buzzband sound a lot more fun than it is. ​Last year the local-music show New York Noise was unceremoniously given the heave-ho by NYC TV, but creator (and NYC indie-scene lifer) Shirley Braha has returned with a new half-hour video show on MTV Hive, the indie-leaning ... More >>

The Black Lips' Top Five Reasons Your Band Should Play A Booze Cruise

Last winter, the Black Lips—along with with fellow dumpster docksiders Ty Segall, Jacuzzi Boys, Turbo Fruits, and Vivian Girls—set sail on the Bruise Cruise, which sailed from Miami to the Bahamas. Those of you who couldn't get together the scratch for the trip, but who might be wonderi ... More >>

COASTAL COOL

Although East is still better, amirite?

Times New Viking+the Babies

Although East is still better, amirite?

Win Tickets To The Black Lips' Concert At Webster Hall

​We're giving away a pair of tickets to the Black Lips/Vivian Girls show at Webster Hall, which is happening tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. To enter, just email the Sound of the City inbox with the answer to this question: Who produced the band's new album, Arabia Mountain? Answers will be accepted unt ... More >>

Black Lips

​We're giving away a pair of tickets to the Black Lips/Vivian Girls show at Webster Hall, which is happening tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. To enter, just email the Sound of the City inbox with the answer to this question: Who produced the band's new album, Arabia Mountain? Answers will be accepted unt ... More >>

The Babies

​We're giving away a pair of tickets to the Black Lips/Vivian Girls show at Webster Hall, which is happening tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. To enter, just email the Sound of the City inbox with the answer to this question: Who produced the band's new album, Arabia Mountain? Answers will be accepted unt ... More >>

SWEET SUNSTROKE

Don’t worry, the real Best Coast is still East

WELCOME TO TOMORROWLAND

A rocker retreat with mere mortals

READY FOR THE TRENCHES

L.A. ladies strike hard and fast

Take A "Bruise Cruise" To The Bahamas With The Vivian Girls

​Finally, the take-a-cruise-with-a-rock-band phenomenon trickles down to the Jelly Pool Party set: Mark your calendars for February 25-28, 2011, whereupon a "Bruise Cruise" sets sail from Florida to the Bahamas with the Black Lips, Thee Oh Sees, and, yes, the Vivian Girls aboard for your liste ... More >>

The Backstreet Boys vs. The Vivian Girls: An Intellectual Summit

​The Vivian Girls. The Backstreet Boys. Both bands are on tour this summer; both have a penchant for wobbly harmony; both have experienced relatively recent line-up changes. For some, these coincidences wouldn't register, but for savvy Paper Magazine editor (and former Voice cohort) Elizabeth ... More >>

Vivian Girls Part Ways With Their Second Drummer

Let the Spinal Tap jokes begin: the Vivian Girls seem to have shed another drummer. It's their second after O.G. skinslady Frankie Rose, who split a couple summers back; since then, the band's drummer has been the capable Ali Koehler. Now, evidently, it is not. The band's publicist confirms the pe ... More >>

PROCEED WITH CAUTION

YellowFever are known to be contagious

Your All Tomorrow' Parties New York 2010 Video Sampler Is Here

Apologies in advance for how loudly this SOTC contributor will bang the All Tomorrow's Parties NY drums for the next two-plus months, but there really aren't many, if any, better music festivals in the United States. (All due respect, Bonnaroo, but no.) At ATP NY, you're nestled in a remote part of ... More >>

Tonight! Holy Fuck, Adam Green, Nickel Eye, Vivian Girls, Reading Rainbow, Harlem, Gang Gang Dance, Hot Chip, Titus Andronicus, Das Racist, Boy Crisis, TOBACCO, Real Estate, HEALTH, Andrew WK, Cold Cave, 17th Annual WBAR-B-Q, And Charlotte Gainsbourg

Norman Wong​Take a look above at Holy Fuck. Those blank, wide-eyed creatures make berzerker caveman grooves, a primitive stomping of drums and keyboard mashing. This vented fury is best exemplified by their MySpace quote: "Who the fuck is Bilbo Baggins?!" They begin your Friday night at Cake S ... More >>

2010 River to River Festival, Featuring Free Energy, Best Coast, Antibalas, YACHT, Bear in Heaven, and More, Announced

River to River is the sort of secret weapon free summer arts series in NYC, with more appealing surroundings than the Williamsburg Waterfront and less pomp and circumstance than the line- and child-ridden Celebrate Brooklyn stuff at Prospect Park. Just roll up wherever, and watch for a while, basi ... More >>

Tonight! Acid Mothers Temple, Best Coast, The Babies, So Cow, Surprisers, and Midlake

Best Coast just needs a friend.​Japanese psych-rock emperors Acid Mothers Temple are playing tonight at the Knitting Factory. But "psych-rock" is not a term to be taken lightly here -- the band's latest effort destroys the beautiful Terry Riley piano orchestration In C and instead erects a mas ... More >>

Tonight! The Babies, Best Coast, Bitters, Dr. Dog, MiniBoone, Mariachi El Bronx, And Suckers

Marielle Solan Look, it's MiniBoone! And free Monopoly money!​Get past the silly concept of an indie supergroup and go see the Babies (Cassie from the Vivian Girls and some dude from Woods) at the Knitting Factory. Expect uppity Vivian Girls sass, but with discernible lyrics and a healthy lowe ... More >>

Best Coast+the Bitters+the Babies

Marielle Solan Look, it's MiniBoone! And free Monopoly money!​Get past the silly concept of an indie supergroup and go see the Babies (Cassie from the Vivian Girls and some dude from Woods) at the Knitting Factory. Expect uppity Vivian Girls sass, but with discernible lyrics and a healthy lowe ... More >>

Vivian Girls Played a "Nearly Acoustic" Set at SXSW, Thanks to the Austin Chill Wave

Rebecca SmeyneVivian Girls The biggest shocker of this year's SXSW was that it was bitterly cold in Austin on Saturday. Seriously freezing, out of nowhere, 37 degrees. The kind of abnormal Texas temperature that had yours truly shamefully wearing legwarmers purchased off the street (?!?) because th ... More >>

Raising the Babies Song Count to Three: "Breakin the Law"

​Oh, new the Babies track--"Breakin' the Law" is all kinds of vindication of a theory once advanced in these pages, namely that Vivian Girls frontlady Cassie Ramone and Woods bassist Kevin Morby "have a really appealing bad-karaoke rapport, not so much singing as cheerfully yelling at each oth ... More >>

Dum Dum Girls+Frankie Rose & the Outs+Happy Birthday

​Oh, new the Babies track--"Breakin' the Law" is all kinds of vindication of a theory once advanced in these pages, namely that Vivian Girls frontlady Cassie Ramone and Woods bassist Kevin Morby "have a really appealing bad-karaoke rapport, not so much singing as cheerfully yelling at each oth ... More >>

The Growlers

​Oh, new the Babies track--"Breakin' the Law" is all kinds of vindication of a theory once advanced in these pages, namely that Vivian Girls frontlady Cassie Ramone and Woods bassist Kevin Morby "have a really appealing bad-karaoke rapport, not so much singing as cheerfully yelling at each oth ... More >>

Les Savy Fav

​Oh, new the Babies track--"Breakin' the Law" is all kinds of vindication of a theory once advanced in these pages, namely that Vivian Girls frontlady Cassie Ramone and Woods bassist Kevin Morby "have a really appealing bad-karaoke rapport, not so much singing as cheerfully yelling at each oth ... More >>

The Beatboxed Vivian Girls Cover You've Been Waiting For Has Arrived, BTW

Curiously, this was linked off the band's Twitter for a few minutes before being unceremoniously deleted. So maybe they don't like the cover? For reference, the actual "Before I Start to Cry":

Free Real Estate/Babies Show Tonight at Brooklyn Bowl

​As sponsored/put on by The Fader. Real Estate were sort of sleepy and affectless the last time we saw them but the Vivian Girls/Woods/Bossy combo project Babies tend to be a more lively affair. Plus it doesn't cost any money. Remember "Meet Me in the City"? Good song!

Interview: Real Estate Frontman Martin Courtney on Touring with Girls, the Romance of the Suburbs, and Selling His Grandmother's House

​"What you want is just outside your reach," Martin Courtney sings at the opening of Real Estate's debut self-titled album. For this young New Jersey band, that's not really the case anymore. After a marathon year of playing nearly every week in New York, the band's been rewarded with both a l ... More >>

This Weekend! Monsters of Folk, Girls, Basement Jaxx, And Wolfmother If You're Nasty

Here be monsters​It seems that even people you'd think would hate that Monsters of Folk record warmed to it -- more monster, less folk, I guess. The M. Ward/Conor Oberst/Jim James/less famous dude partnership hits United Palace Theatre tonight and the Beacon Theatre Sunday.

Vivian Girls

Here be monsters​It seems that even people you'd think would hate that Monsters of Folk record warmed to it -- more monster, less folk, I guess. The M. Ward/Conor Oberst/Jim James/less famous dude partnership hits United Palace Theatre tonight and the Beacon Theatre Sunday.

New Vivian Girls Video: "Everything Goes Wrong"

"We were all singing the whole thing," is the not very edifying thing Cassie Ramone told us about this song when the Vivian Girls took us track by track through their new album last week. "I think it's the only song we're singing the whole way through." Noted! Sarcasm aside, "When I'm Gone" is sti ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Vivian Girls, All Tomorrow's Parties, Mike Judge's Extract, 'Mondo Fandom' at Anthology, and More

Hm, that ghost up there in the top left corner looks familiar. Vivian Girls photo by Santiago Felipe.​In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla goes one more round with The Vivian Girls, and comes away from their record release show a sweatier and more fulfilled man. Christopher R. Weingarte ... More >>

Give the Vivian Girls a Break

The Applebee's-loving reverb queens triumphantly return with more of the same

Stream the New Vivian Girls Record Everything Goes Wrong

​Spinner is currently streaming Everything Goes Wrong, the slightly lusher, sweeter, and equally endearing sophomore album by Brooklyn's Vivian Girls. They are better songwriters than they were a year ago, and they were pretty good songwriters then, too. Recommended: "When I'm Gone," which dia ... More >>

DEATH BY VIVIAN GIRLS

Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love lo-fi

Free All Points West Alternatives Galore

​ Big gigantic music festivals featuring people with names that even those living deep in the Amazon forests or on the wild, wild plains of New Zealand have heard of tend to suck up most of the cultural airspace when they come to town--All Points West being no exception here. But this is an ex ... More >>

On Vivian Girls' "When I'm Gone"

"You'll listen to it 100 times without realizing it," goes the praise; yeah, exactly, goes the reasonable retort. The first track to emerge from Vivian Girls' Everything Goes Wrong (out in September) won't do much to alter their remarkably polarizing aura, but parsing very subtle shades of grey here ... More >>

Vivian Girls Side Project Babies Already Enraging People

At the Saturday night Market Hotel afterparty to the two day Woodist/Captured Tracks Festival, Babies--a new band featuring members of Vivian Girls and Woods--played a set, to the delight of the one guy standing in front of the YouTube cameraman and the utter distain of the BV comments section, wh ... More >>

DIY DAYS

Two plucky local labels join forces for one fest

Download and/or Watch the Video for Woods' "To Clean"

Brooklyn's Woods, who put out records on Woodsist alongside the similiarly lo-fi Vivian Girls, Wavves, et al, have a new video out for "To Clean," an ace, Flying Nun-reminiscent track off their newest, April's Songs of Shame. The video is sort of needlessly epileptic/terrifying, but there's someth ... More >>

Vivian Girls' "Moped Girls" Video: Kickball Katy Gets a Milk Shampoo, Gives Their Ali Drummer a Bloody Nose

Because we are juvenile and uncouth and easily amused, we generally prefer blogging about music videos that star naked people, but we'll make an exception for the Vivian Girls, since we always do. This one's called "Moped Girls," a breezy, under-two-minute tune that's from a Rough Trade seven-inch ... More >>

Comet Gain

Because we are juvenile and uncouth and easily amused, we generally prefer blogging about music videos that star naked people, but we'll make an exception for the Vivian Girls, since we always do. This one's called "Moped Girls," a breezy, under-two-minute tune that's from a Rough Trade seven-inch ... More >>

Inauguration Day Punk Show

Because we are juvenile and uncouth and easily amused, we generally prefer blogging about music videos that star naked people, but we'll make an exception for the Vivian Girls, since we always do. This one's called "Moped Girls," a breezy, under-two-minute tune that's from a Rough Trade seven-inch ... More >>

HANUKKAH IN HOBOKEN

Light the Menorah with Yo La Tengo

BLOOD BROTHERS

King Khan and BBQ sound better together

ALL HE KNOWS

Don't mess with Jay Reatard