Posts tagged as Titus Andronicus
Titus Andronicus, "A More Perfect Union"
"The New Brunswick performance was a particular bright spot in a day packed with highlights—we were shooting Titus playing a basement show at a place called Fuck Mountain. The show was wall-to-wall with college kids who were really fired up to see the band return to their low-ceilinged roots." READ MORE
Live From Last Night: F***ed Up and Titus Andronicus
Here is a video of the Canadian punk rock band Fucked Up playing their encore last night at Le Poisson Rouge in the West Village. I was at the show. It was awesome. READ MORE
Tom Scharpling Makes Good Music Videos
Here is the latest video directed by WFMU radio host Tom Scharpling, who is becoming a sort of indie-rock video auteur. His work is full of people in goofy costumes in pedestrian places and marked by a dorky, let's-put-on-a-show enthusiasm—albeit one tempered by a New Jersey native's acceptance that nothing's ever going to really work out anyway. Scharpling used to be a writer for the TV show "Monk," which was funny and great just like his videos. Watch more of them. READ MORE
A Q&A With Amy Klein Of Titus Andronicus
A literate, anthem-prone punk band from New Jersey, Titus Andronicus put out their fantastic second album, The Monitor, in 2010. Shortly after its release, multi-instrumentalist Amy Klein joined the group to play guitar and violin; she also brought along a fierce and charismatic personality that plays a big role in making Titus' live shows some of the most riveting in contemporary music. READ MORE
Titus Andronicus, "No Future Part Three: Escape From No Future"
Strangely, Titus Andronicus's new video about the popular topic of rest stops on the New Jersey Turnpike doesn't include any of the 200,000 solar panels the state's Public Service Electric Gas Company is putting up on telephone poles everywhere. (It must have been very challenging, since, as the Times reported yesterday, "If they were laid out in a solar farm, the 5-by-2.5-foot panels would blanket 170 acres.") READ MORE
Free Energy and Titus Andronicus, "I'm Going Down" (And Bruce Springsteen Covers Throughout History)
Philly's Free Energy and Jersey's Titus Andronicus just finished a tour together. At one of the last shows, last week in Atlanta, the Titus guys joined Free Energy for a beery, raucous rendition of "I'm Goin' Down," a song from Bruce Springsteen's 1984 album, Born in the U.S.A. It's pretty great. READ MORE
Titus Andronicus, "A More Perfect Union"
The video for Titus Andronicus' "A More Perfect Union" is slightly imperfect union between the video for U2's "New Year's Day" and the scenes from the movie Revolutionary Road featuring actor Michael Shannon if he had a big beard. Great song, too.
The End of the 00s: The Ballad of That Guy From Titus Andronicus (As Told To Matthew Perpetua)
My band, Titus Andronicus, has played a lot of shows since I last blogged about a gig back in late 2009, and if I'm being honest with you, a lot of them have not been fun. It seemed harmless at the time, but I now realize that it was a big mistake to agree to only play Weezer songs at that horrible Vice Halloween party last year. That set a bad precedent. I don't want to admit to how many private shows we've played throughout 2010 where we had to do other people's music instead of our own, but I'm grateful that very little evidence has surfaced online. I suppose that by mentioning this here it only gives people an excuse to go looking for it. That's the price of honesty. READ MORE
