Les Savy Fav To Release First Ever Live Album On April 29 (Digital Release Only)
Includes Covers of CCR, Pixies, Misfits, Nirvana & Love
On April 29, 2008, Brooklyn art-punks Les Savy Fav - probably the best showmen in indie rock - finally release a live album. After The Balls Drop is a fifteen-track document of the band's historic 3:00 a.m. performance at Bowery Ballroom in New York City on January 1, 2008. Loaded with old Fav standbys, and tracks from last year's raucous return-from-hiatus Let's Stay Friends, the digital-only release is a document of a band that, according to Rolling Stone, has finally "hit its peak." We think they've been peaking for years now, but it's hard to argue with Friends, or the wildfire performances from it included here.
In addition to cannon faves like "Sweat Descends" and recent winners such as "What Would Wolves Do," the album features Tim Harrington and company riffing through renditions of CCR's "Hey Tonight," Nirvana's "Sliver," Misfits' "Astro Zombies" and Pixies' "Debaser." Dream come true, right? April 29, 2008. Finally!
Download and Share "Sweat Descends" from After The Balls Drop by Les Savy Fav [Frenchkiss Records]:
http:/dev.theorchard.com/jaclyn/mp3/lessavyfav_sweatdescends.mp3
In other Les Savy Fav live news, the band has a smattering of April dates on the docket, with an east coast twofer with label mates The Dodos and The Big Sleep planned for April 4 and 5, in D.C. and Philly, respectively. Then, later that month, the band will descend upon the Cali desert for Coachella, before heading to San Francisco to re-join The Dodos at the Great American Music Hall.
04.04 Washington, DC @ The Black Cat (W/ The Dodos & The Big Sleep)
04.05 Philadelphia, PA @ TLA (W/ The Dodos & The Big Sleep)
04.25 Indio, CA @ Coachella
04.27 San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall (W/ The Dodos)
After The Balls Drop:
01 Equestrian
02 Patty Lee
03 What Would Wolves Do?
04 Sweat Descends
05 Yawn Yawn Yawn
06 We'll Make A Lover Of You
07 The Year Before The Year 2000
08 The Lowest Bitter
09 Who Rocks The Party
10 Tim Speech
11 Hey Tonight [Creedence Clearwater Revival Cover]
12 Debaser [Pixies Cover]
13 Astro Zombies [Misfits Cover]
14 Sliver [Nirvana Cover]
15 Everybody's Gotta Live [Love Cover]
And Incase you missed their amazing Conan O'Brien performance (check out Tim's strip tease): watch it here.
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