Photos: Washed Out & Memoryhouse @ Highline Ballroom

Washed Out & Memoryhouse @ Highline Ballroom - April 22, 2012
Photos: Chloe Lee

On Sunday night at Highline Ballroom, revered synthpop artist Washed Out headlined a sold out show with Sub Pop labelmate Memoryhouse before both bands played Music Hall of Williamsburg again the following night. That show was also sold out. If the turnout is any indication, Ernest Greene (Washed Out’s sole songwriter who tours with a live band) has quite the year ahead of him.

Despite a crippling equipment theft, Memoryhouse will plow on with their tour with Washed Out, before both artists head off in different directions. Our photographer Chloe Lee was there to document Sunday night for us, and you can take a look at her set of photos below…

FN News Roundup: March 20, 2012

Happy Spring, true believers! We've got a glut of great news to share today, check it:

• Oh yes. As foretold by the seers, Neil Young And Crazy Horse will be releasing their new LP Americana on June 5. The legends' first new album since 2003's Greendale AND the first to feature the full Crazy Horse lineup since 1996's Broken Arrow will be a full-on American folk tribute with tracks like "This Land Is Your Land" and "Oh Susannah" (Rolling Stone)


• Tickets for Hot Chip's 2012 summer shows are on sale!!!!! (Hot Chip)


• Check out the video for "Adult" from Ceremony's very awesome new LP Zoo below (Matador)


• Stream Sharon Van Etten's Tramp B-Side "Life of His Own," and then catch her on Conan later on tonight! (Pitchfork)


• Questlove of The Roots continues to be a total badass by curating Shuffle Culture at BAM, a two-night (April 19 & 20) musical experience featuring Reggie Watts, Deerhoof, & more! (BAM)


• Sub Pop will be fully rocking Record Store Day (April 21) with a limited edition blue vinyl 7" of rare & unreleased Beach House tracks, an artist sampler, and much more. You can pre-order Beach House's new album Bloom (out May 15) to get it on limited edition white vinyl. Good times, guys (Sub Pop)

Sub Pop Releases Dntel's "Life Is Full Of Possibilities" 10th Anniversary Deluxe Version

One of our (or at least my) favorite things to do on occasion at FN is make people feel old in surprising ways... and here's another one! Dntel, a.k.a. indie electronica maven Jimmy Tamborello, is celebrating the 10th (yep, Tenth) anniversary of his debut album Life Is Full Of Possibilities today with a deluxe reissue via Sub Pop. Those of you keeping track will note that this album featured the first collaborations between Dntel and Death Cab For Cutie's Ben Gibbard, who would later team up as The Postal Service and release an album that served as conversational fodder for pretty much every date I went on in 2003. Nostalgia can be a weird thing sometimes.

Anyway, pick up the vinyl version at Sub Pop before October 25 (tomorrow) and you also receive a free 12" of the Anyone Anywhere Remixes. We love Sub Pop, and highly recommend you do that. Meanwhile, check out the video for penultimate Life Is Full Of Possibilities track "(This Is) The Dream of Evan and Chan" featuring said Gibbard below.

Interview: Mark Arm (Mudhoney, Green River)

Mudhoney (left to right: Steve Turner, Guy Maddison, Mark Arm, Dan Peters) Photo credit: Shawn Brackbill

by Francesca McCaffery

Mudhoney are probably one of the most defining and significant bands of the early Seattle underground music scene in the early nineties, which of course became horrifically termed “grunge” forever after. With wailing lead singer and guitarist Mark Arm, drummer Dan Peters, guitarist Steve Turner, bassist Matt Lutkin (present bassist, Guy Maddison), Mudhoney’s roaring, nostalgia-free punk sound both inspired and paved the way for Soundgarden and Nirvana’s astonishing commercial success. Mudhoney continue to play their wonderfully searing and sonic punk rock today. Singer Mark Arm recently spoke with us about the band’s early success, his favorite bands as a kid, Mudhoney’s upcoming album, and that damn callous in his throat.

Francesca McCaffery: I wanted to start out and ask about your very, very beginnings-how you actually got to be a real, authentic rock star without selling out for a second. We’re particularly interested in your beginnings with one of your first bands: Green River. (Half of the band, Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament went on to form Pearl Jam.)

Mark Arm: I really at this point don’t remember all the facts, necessarily. It’s so long ago! I kind of remember…but when things happen so long ago, it’s kind of hard to remember what was real, after telling the story so many times. I’m not sure how far away from the truth they are, if that makes any sense? But when we got together for the Sub Pop 20th anniversary in 2008, you know, I had to go back and listen to Green River records. And it really just became apparent to me, the way the music was, the way it was produced… it was kind of, much lighter than the shit that I was bringing to it.

Low playing Bowery Ballroom 4/27

In support of the upcoming Sub Pop release "C'mon", Low will be headlining a tour of their own after opening for Explosions in the Sky @ Radio City Music Hall on 4/6.

Tickets for the 4/6 date are still on sale, and tickets for the 4/27 show just went on sale at noon.

I will be covering the show on 4/27, come back for photos and a review.