RCRD LBL Freeload: Kurt Vile, “Beach on the Moon (Recycled Lyrics)”
By our count, Kurt Vile has been at least partially responsible for two of the more cohesive and enjoyable albums we’ve heard in the last 8-12 months: War on Drugs’ constantly-in-rotation Wagonwheel...
View ArticleSxSW 2009 Photos – The Rest Of What We Saw
With: J. Mascis, Angel Deradoorian, Bearsuit, Best Friends Forever, The Beets, Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, Desolation Wilderness, Evangelicals, Golden Boots, Harlem Shakes, Kurt Vile, Local...
View ArticleAudio/Freeload: Kurt Vile, “Breathin Out” + “Deep Sea”
Kurt Vile‘s music exists in a hazy half-finished world, his songs all begin like sketches, blueprints for something huger and more robust, and then by the end you realize that the sketch is the song: …...
View ArticleKurt Vile Signs To Matador
The indie juggernaut going so far as to call their new roster addition "one of the more important figures in American music circa 2009." Vile's first full-length on the label, Childish Prodigy, is set...
View ArticleFADER TV: A Gang of Videos from the Woodsist/Captured Tracks Festival
New York labels Woodsist and Captured Tracks release so many songs you could listen exclusively to them for a week and A) not repeat any song once and B) be pretty happy about the whole … read more »
View ArticleKurt Vile, “Overnite Religion” MP3
Kurt Vile seems sensitive. He sings like a sensitive man who replaced gravity with Hawaiian steel guitar and feathers. “Overnite Religion” is the first MP3 from his Matador debut, Childish Prodigy. He...
View ArticleKurt Vile Performs on WFMU
Yesterday Kurt Vile and the Violators performed live at the WFMU studio for Brian Turner‘s show. They somehow managed to break strings, noodle like guitar store regulars and play a loping live version...
View ArticleParty in the Pines at Big Sur, Part 1: Dungen
We spent this past weekend at Party in the Pines, a low-key festival in a sun-dappled northern California forest presented by Kemado Records, Mexican Summer and (((folkYEAH!))). FADER TV captured all...
View ArticleParty in the Pines at Big Sur, Part 2: Kurt Vile
We spent this past weekend at Party in the Pines, a low-key festival in a sun-dappled northern California forest presented by Kemado Records, Mexican Summer and (((folkYEAH!))). FADER TV captured all...
View ArticleKurt Vile, “Hunchback” MP3
As far as Kurt Vile songs go, “Hunchback” is on the rockier end of the spectrum—guitars spiraling endlessly while Vile mumble-yelps stuff about having a hunchback as big as a humpback whale. The song...
View ArticleVideo: Kurt Vile, “He’s Alright”&“Breathin Out”
It’s a good thing we like Kurt Vile‘s music so much, because he’s turning out the jams almost faster than we can listen to them. Here he is again in a video shot by the … read more »
View ArticleMatador Just Posted Like Every Kurt Vile Video Ever
To ramp up for the release of Kurt Vile‘s swirling, introverted, guitar-melting Childish Prodigy, Matador has been posting every live video of Vile they could find on the internet. Call it a press...
View ArticleStream: Kurt Vile’s Childish Prodigy
Finally! For the last couple months we’ve been walking around talking about Childish Prodigy like you could just walk in the store and grab it right off the shelves, which is totally not the case. …...
View ArticleThe FADER Issue 64 Podcast MP3
For our annual photo special, we focused our sights on issues in contemporary America through the stunning domestic and landscape photographs of Peter van Agtmael and Victoria Sambunaris. And who...
View ArticleVideo: Kurt Vile, “Freak Train”
Somehow this video went up on YouTube on Thursday and FADER editor Sam didn’t put it up. And today Sam is in Montreal. So theoretically, Sam hasn’t seen this video yet and probably won’t see … read more »
View ArticleOpen Bar With Kurt Vile Pt. 1
This was FADER TV’s second time filming Kurt Vile (the first being Party in the Pines), and we’ve concluded that it is impossible to make this guy look anything short of badass. He could do … read more »
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