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May 25, 2005

Indie Rock Cribs

From Pernice Brothers' official site:

It came to me as if in a dream, but I was wide awake, coveting a mesh onion bag full of suet hanging from a bird feeder: There ought to be a show like MTV Cribs for indie musicians/actors. Maybe MTV2 could do it (if they haven't already) and call it MTV2 Cribs. Think about it.

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You go straight into the musty crawl space of that dude from Spoon. You put in some hang time in Cat Power's mud room, is what you do. You give a Bill Curtis-worthy examination to the carport where the Tyde parks their rental van.

Watch episode one here. Fascinating stuff.

The Pernice Brothers have a new album out on Flag Day. It's lovely and you can stream half the tracks here. While you're listening, you can read about Joe's strict two-week liver cleanse ("My wife and I took my mother-in-law to a movie for Mother's Day. Don Cheadle's voice was so smooth and smoky, all I could think about were those hickory flavored Pringles and a cream soda").

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"Water Ban" by the Pernice Brothers is one of the greatest songs ever. And that tv show would be awesome for mtv2.

Posted by: adi at 05/25/05 12:03 PM | Reply
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Sweet. I happened upon the new Pernice Bros. tracks last week but didn't have my headphones at work so I couldn't listen. Thanks for the reminder. Sounds a little glossier than "Yours, Mine and Ours". I'm always hearing The Smiths and The Zombies being invoked when reading about The Pernice Brothers, but on those first two new tracks, I'm distinctly hearing echoes of Nick Lowe's "Pure Pop For Now People" (or "Jesus of Cool" for you Brits).

Posted by: bullrider at 05/25/05 12:19 PM | Reply
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The Jason Schwartzman section of the Devon Sawa episode of the real thing was pretty close.

Posted by: Hillary Brown at 05/25/05 12:37 PM | Reply
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"overcome by happiness" is one of the best pop records to come out in the last 15 years and i still listen to it constantly.

Posted by: jt at 05/25/05 2:29 PM | Reply
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those guys were in an awesome band back in Northampton, MA. years ago called the Scud Mountain Boys. I really dislike most of the alt-country stuff but they were better than that and not milking it as a gimmick. I haven't heard too much Pernice Bros. stuff but what I've heard I absolutely love. I'm always happy to see them in the press. They're mensch.

Posted by: jed at 05/25/05 3:03 PM | Reply
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I love Joe Pernice's sleepy voice. I have a live show downloaded somewhere and his weird staggery speaking voice is especially great when telling stories about the songs. When they announce they're going to play "Grudgefuck" (which just might be the one of the top ten greatest break-up songs, ever) some guy yells out at the top of his lungs, "Yeah! YEAH!" and Joe goes, "Easy, easy. I swear people scream the loudest for the most hateful numbers. It's really true."

Posted by: caley at 05/25/05 3:51 PM | Reply
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I've never heard "Grudgefuck". Where can I find it?

Posted by: sebrown000 at 05/25/05 5:04 PM | Reply
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"grudgefuck" is on the scud mountain boys "massachusetts" record.
joe's side thingys "chappaquiddick skyline" and "big tobacco" are also lovely.

Posted by: emily at 05/25/05 7:59 PM | Reply
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i'd love for this to be on mtv2. you know hanging with chan marshall or malkmus in their "crib". that would be wonderful, hopefully cribs will catch on, because there are only so many b-list sports starts they can cram into an episiode with one somewhat famous musician (isn't mtv supposed to be about the music)?

Posted by: rohan at 05/25/05 9:56 PM | Reply
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That is some dope stuff. Made me Laugh. I would like to invite you all to check out Chicago's Indie spot - http://Flowfeel.com
Peeze!

Posted by: Drdick at 05/27/05 10:20 PM | Reply
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