Vampire Weekend and White Williams are teaming up for what is sure to be the best-dressed tour of the year. The sartorially savvy bill comes to Midwestern and West Coast cities in September, capped by two L.A. performances with equally rad dudes Abe Vigoda.Both VW and WW have solo dates before and after their tour together. Vampire Weekend's next show is August 22 in Reading, England, and Willi...
Written and recorded in various bedrooms over the past few years, White William's debut, Smoke, is quickly becoming one of 2008's sleeper hits. DiS met up with its creator to talk touring with Vampire Weekend, his relationship with Girl Talk and declaring his love of Roxy Music~~
The setting:This Sunday was the coldest that it had been in NYC all year. En route to see Brookyln-based White Williams at Studio B, I shuffled in 3 layers of clothes to the edge of Greenpoint - where the wind was making lampposts quiver and all signs of human life had demolished into little flecks of snow on the sidewalks. This was for the love of music my friends.The inspiration:First time I ...
This week's sunday sampler is an android's wet dream...a circuit breaker's lament...a digital baby laughing... you get the idea, right?First up: Holy F*ck (aren't you glad I put the asterisk there?) playing "Lovely Allen". Think of the Octopus Project...but for adults. A weird little melody that's distorted and jubilant in equal measures.Secondly, Suburban Kids with Biblical Names playing "L...
Yesterday, I was "In the Club" with White Williams. Alfred University's Knight Club to be exact. After enduring a pretty generic rock band playing pretty generic rock songs and freshmen who had a bit too much energy and a bit too much inclination to mosh to absolutely anything, White Williams arrived. With very few lights on the small Knight Club stage, it was hard to see, but he looked par...