We welcome DFA into Oregon with our open arms.
Right before I Believe In You came out last year, I got an email from Jonathan Galkin of DFA Records asking me if I wanted to go on tour with LCD Soundsystem. The tour started two days from that phone call, because the scheduled support band couldn't get US Visas. I said yes.
The tour was epic. LCD Soundsystem were (and are) the nicest people you could imagine, so on a day off in Portland we made this song as sort of a love letter to them. A year later, after we'd played the song a ton of times on tour, celebrating both the Southern and Northern hemisphere's summers, DFA asked us if they could release it. We said yes.
This is DFA's first audio-handshake with a Northwest band. We are honored and giddy to be that band. In honor of this awesome moment, we present to you: Summer Song, the musical-based video. Say yes!
YACHT - SUMMER SONG EP
a1 Summer Song 3:34
a2 I'm In Love With A Ripper (Party Mix) 5:15
b1 It's Boring/You Can Live Anywhere You Want 8:51
b2 So Post All 'Em (Salvia In The Club Remix) 4:23 *
* iTunes exclusive track
The Summer Song EP is available on iTunes (with an exclusive bonus track). The 12" hits a shelf near you very soon. I guess now is as good of time as any to casually announce that we're also putting out a new album, also on DFA, in early 2009! It's called See Mystery Lights and the songs on this single will be on it, along with other songs that are not on this single. More on that soon.
I'd been a fan of Tapeheads for a good while, my parents used to have a gas station in Astoria that had a room with video rentals in it. The Tapeheads box totally intrigued me, and I think the movie was one of my early inspirations for making video stuffs. I'd forgotten all about it until earlier this year when we found it in a video shop in Brooklyn and rented it with some friends. Claire and I freaked out about how goddamned good the movie was and decided right there and then that we wanted to remake the "Baby Doll" scene shot-for-shot. Luckily Portland is the kind of place where you can do something like make a music video with no money. Judah Switzer did the video on "spec," we had a team of super helpful interns I gathered from Flickr (no shit), and the rest we scraped together with amazing friends like Curtis Knapp of Marriage Records, Steve Schroeder of States Rights Records, and brilliant photographer Sarah Meadows.
After Judah first showed us a rough cut of the video we jokingly said we were going to reshoot every scene shot-for-shot with different Portland bands. IMAGINE!
One million thanks to everyone involved in this weird production: Judah Switzer, who directed the thing, Mike Merrill, Curtis Knapp, Steve Schroeder, Dean Chen, Amanda Clem, Rachel Liberman, Barrett Hanrahan, Christine Rutan, Geoff Nudelman, and Sarah Meadows for taking beautiful photos. We love you.
Also, I made a Summer Song micro-site for press and record stores.
...and now we're off:
August
23rd - Leeds, UK @ The Favesham
24th - Cheshire, UK @ Creamfields Festival
26th - Sheffield, UK @ Bungalows & Bears
27th - Southsea, UK @ The Fat Fox
28th - London, UK @ ICA
29th - Manchester, UK @ Ruby Lounge
31st - Stradbally Estate @ Electric Picnic
September
2nd - Cardiff, Wales @ Shape Function @ Clwb Ifor Bach
5th - Isle of Wight, UK @ Bestival
6th - Brighton, UK @ The Arc
Truly,
Jona
Is that you in a Converse Ad??? If so, looking good! If not, you are totally getting ripped off. You could single handedly bring that sweet grunge style back and maybe MTV will start playing Sonic Youth's 100% again!
Continuously amazing. I always loved Tapeheads, and especially that scene. Come back to Canada soon.
I wish you were really playing Austin Pennsylvania! My Dad was born there! The entire town flooded a couple of times. I have seen shows at the bottom of the cracked dam. I'm telling you it would be a once in a lifetime experience!
Hello friends,
As you may know, White Fang is planning to tour the U.S. next month. We were relying on the sale of Kyle’s car, a 2000 Chevrolet Cavalier, in order to purchase a van.
Unfortunately, today we were leaving a jam session and the worst thing that could ever happen, did indeed happen.
Kyle, thinking that his car was in reverse, pushed on the gas sending the front of the car straight into the truck parked in front of us. The truck is fine, but Kyle’s car is now, basically, totaled.
The hood is smashed and the radiator is busted. So is the left headlight.
Now, not only do we not have a way to get a van, but we are not going to have almost any money for tour. We were planning to make a profit in the sale of the car and the purchase of the van, in hopes that we would have a tour fund.
Our resolve is as good as ever, but this puts us in a whole other realm of hurt.
We are almost done booking the tour, but now we need to ask anyone who knows anyone for help.
If you have a van, or know someone who has a van, and are willing to let us borrow it for our tour, you will be forever be our savior.
And if you have any donations that you’d like to make, you will get every White Fang album, tape, shirt, etc. for free for life.
Please, please help your band.
I know the world is in shambles right now, with the economy and the state of things in general, but if you can help we will never forget it.
Thanks for reading,
White Fang
Hey compression nerds, you can get FLAC files of the single here:
http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=119575