Heard they just signed to Sub Pop?
― Ben Boyerrr, Saturday, 15 September 2007 18:54 (sixteen years ago) link
^^^yes.
this is awesome. new album soon i guess?
― Jordan Sargent, Saturday, 15 September 2007 18:57 (sixteen years ago) link
"Everybody's Down" = greatest song evr.
― Preview of the Matrix 12, Saturday, 15 September 2007 19:00 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't get this band AT ALL. To be fair, I only heard the 'collection' and not the individual EPs, but the drone stuff is pointless and the rock stuff - well, don't Japanther do this same thing, but, you know, better? Way too self consciously 'eclectic' for me, I guess.
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Saturday, 15 September 2007 20:04 (sixteen years ago) link
hmmm, maybe I haven't heard enough Japanther, but I found their "noise/drone" less pretty/interesting and don't remember the songs very well.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 15 September 2007 20:14 (sixteen years ago) link
I just freaked out an ordered all of the singles, a combination of 7 inches and 12 inches. Is there any plan to release Weirdo Rippers on vinyl?
Great band.
― Z S, Saturday, 22 September 2007 22:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah Weirdo Rippers is great, lovely mix of fuzzy noise and noisy pop. Unfortunately I only got into them after they played here so I didn't go. Damn.
― Chris in Belfast, Saturday, 22 September 2007 23:13 (sixteen years ago) link
i like the feedback-y noise parts/songs so much i almost wish there was no singing.
― Jordan Sargent, Sunday, 23 September 2007 01:37 (sixteen years ago) link
almost.
BILLIANT
― latebloomer, Sunday, 23 September 2007 03:22 (sixteen years ago) link
love it
― sleep, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 02:32 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't like their faces
― Dan I., Wednesday, 26 September 2007 03:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Great thanks. I'd seen this before (as evidenced above) but couldn't find it. It wouldn't come in search for me. Great band!
― I know, right?, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 20:32 (sixteen years ago) link
MY LIFE'S ALRIGHT WITHOUT YOU!
― I know, right?, Saturday, 13 October 2007 19:57 (sixteen years ago) link
I hate you!
Oh I hate you!
― I know, right?, Saturday, 13 October 2007 19:58 (sixteen years ago) link
no age is great. wives were great too, especially live. "strip club" by 100 flowers is one of my favorite things ever.
― dan, Saturday, 13 October 2007 20:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Wives? Hang on...
― I know, right?, Saturday, 13 October 2007 20:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Q: Do wives sound exactly the same and maybe if it were not impossible better than No Age?
― I know, right?, Saturday, 13 October 2007 20:14 (sixteen years ago) link
how is there is another person named Dan who thinks "strip club" by 100 Flowers is one of my favorite things ever? I keep running accross other Dan's with identical obscure interests as mine. Sometimes I wonder if it's myself posting from the past...or the future.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 13 October 2007 21:02 (sixteen years ago) link
never heard Wives though. I remember when they came around and there was a lot of "neo-hardcore" hype so I ignored it as my interests in hardcore, past and present, was pretty limited. Since then I've come to appreciate certain aspect of hardcore, and those aspects seem to be those that No Age works the most.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 13 October 2007 21:04 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/45884-guest-list-no-age
― I know, right?, Thursday, 18 October 2007 10:20 (sixteen years ago) link
At least I found somebody who agrees with me on M.I.A.!
― I know, right?, Thursday, 18 October 2007 10:23 (sixteen years ago) link
I saw these guys at the Other Music in store yesterday. It was pretty fantastic. Not only did they play really well and got the crowd really excited but they were really great and didn't complain at all when the power went out and used it as an excuse to show us all how funny they were. So good.
― jonathan - stl, Thursday, 18 October 2007 14:05 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm listening to Weirdo Rippers and its like perfectly distilled fun, so immediate & the riffs are immense. This is the sort of record I would have loved any time since I got into music, "warm & fuzzy" is right.
― ogmor, Thursday, 18 October 2007 18:35 (sixteen years ago) link
this is like sub japanther
― chaki, Friday, 19 October 2007 08:14 (sixteen years ago) link
that's the second time that's been mentioned here. Maybe I haven't heard enough Japanther. I used to see them live when they started playing around NY and it never did much for me. I really don't have much interest in a lot of the bands working various post-no wave revival skronk/noise craziness, and I like No Age's balance between the utterly accessible and often beautiful ambient partts, and the also utterly accessible and totally catchy minimalist hardcore punk riffing.
― dan selzer, Friday, 19 October 2007 14:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Maybe I haven't heard enough Japanther.
nah you probably have
I guess the upthread poster was actually recommending japanther but chaki is just h8n
― dmr, Friday, 19 October 2007 16:17 (sixteen years ago) link
yah. sub japanther at best. dan i thought you had a better ear than this.
― chaki, Friday, 19 October 2007 16:37 (sixteen years ago) link
I can recommed a good ENT doctor, if you need one, Dan.
― sexyDancer, Friday, 19 October 2007 16:40 (sixteen years ago) link
did u guys ever see when peter criss went to the ear doctor on 321 contact?
― chaki, Friday, 19 October 2007 16:46 (sixteen years ago) link
http://youtube.com/watch?v=y4YM3fSbKQU
― sexyDancer, Friday, 19 October 2007 16:49 (sixteen years ago) link
thats not it! the doctor said the cymbals were killing him.
― chaki, Friday, 19 October 2007 16:53 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah chaki my ears were destroyed...from having to sit through japanther at countless shows in brooklyn a few years ago.
― dan selzer, Friday, 19 October 2007 17:00 (sixteen years ago) link
"this is... a not joke"
― J0rdan S., Friday, 19 October 2007 17:06 (sixteen years ago) link
just saw a clip of Japanther on the Death By Audio myspace page and sure, not that different from No Age and pretty good. There's a fine line between hyper distorted 90s indie rock and stuff that resonates more with punk from the past.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 20 October 2007 01:05 (sixteen years ago) link
The 90's are the past!
― I know, right?, Saturday, 20 October 2007 12:03 (sixteen years ago) link
the wounds are still healing though.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 20 October 2007 15:07 (sixteen years ago) link
ok ok pretty fun
― 69, Sunday, 21 October 2007 06:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Are No Age a punk band? They seem more like 90s no-wave to me.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 18 November 2007 16:26 (sixteen years ago) link
They are way more punk then 90s no-wave, which is why I like them. They have their ambient/noise intros and whatnot, but the heart of most songs are simple 2/3 chord riffs, the kinds that make me imagine young kids with skateboards stage-diving.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 18 November 2007 19:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Hmm... going to see Jay Reatard, No Age, and Mika Miko at the Smell tonite... is this guy gonna be there?
http://www.theconnection.org/content/2005/07/19/0720newyorker173.gif
― morris pavilion, Sunday, 18 November 2007 19:24 (sixteen years ago) link
(...I hope so -- for once I won't feel like oldest / least hep dude @ the Smell)
― morris pavilion, Sunday, 18 November 2007 19:40 (sixteen years ago) link
I doubt it, he lives in New York. OBVIOUSLY.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 18 November 2007 21:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Good point - he's probably more a Japanther fan
― morris pavilion, Sunday, 18 November 2007 22:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Meantime, what No Age were up to yesterday.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 19 November 2007 00:09 (sixteen years ago) link
i don't want to hear this band. i'm protesting!
actually, sad to say, i think this is my one big prob with sasha's stuff. and i DO think he's a good writer and all that. but he never makes me want to hear something after i'm done reading a piece/review. which isn't his job or whatever. or is it? i read that thing last night and i wanted to be excited by it and i just got really bored. bored with their scene and their smell. and then they got on stage and the drummer played drums and the other guy played guitar and then the guy sang and it was as if they were doing it for their friends! fuck their friends. okay, i'm jealous. i have no friends. but still...zzzzzzzzz.....
― scott seward, Monday, 19 November 2007 01:15 (sixteen years ago) link
eh
― chaki, Monday, 19 November 2007 01:33 (sixteen years ago) link
ah
― scott seward, Monday, 19 November 2007 01:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Well the article was pretty boring.
I actually prefer Japanther too (esp. "Skuffed Up My Huffy"), though haven't seen them live yet
― morris pavilion, Monday, 19 November 2007 02:32 (sixteen years ago) link
man i basically forgot about these guys and this new album is a fuckin' lovely hit of sunshine
― alpine static, Sunday, February 11, 2018 10:52 PM (nine months ago)
― j., Wednesday, 21 November 2018 07:21 (five years ago) link
i still think it's one of 2018's most underrated great albums. i see literally no one nowhere talking about it.
― alpine static, Wednesday, 21 November 2018 14:35 (five years ago) link
definitely one of my top albums this year.
― campreverb, Wednesday, 21 November 2018 17:14 (five years ago) link
this is lame but i didn't listen to it earlier this year because it wasn't on spotify and i didn't see it in any of the other usual places (bandcamp, npr first listen or whatever). but it's there now (guess drag city had a change of heart), so i finally listened to it last night! the energy of it reminds me of Everything In Between, which was one of my favorite albums of 2010 (and one of the more underrated releases of the decade, i think).
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 21 November 2018 17:51 (five years ago) link
Yes to Everywhere In Between being a top rock album of the decade.
I'm not sure why this new one isn't getting more buzz. It's fantastic, and Send Me is easily one of my favorite songs of the year.
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 21 November 2018 18:07 (five years ago) link
feel like No Age sorta feel thru the cracks. the indie press that championed them in 2008 don't care anymore and they never broke thru to a higher level. I don't think they ever established a solid fan base that would be with them no matter what. I saw them at a warehouse here in 2008 and it was packed, dangerously overcrowded even, and only five years later it was basically empty just a few weeks after An Object came out (fwiw I think that's their unsung masterpiece).
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 21 November 2018 18:31 (five years ago) link
Snares is their best since Nouns. Top 5 of the year. I think I like it better than Everything In Between.
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 21 November 2018 20:03 (five years ago) link
this is lame but i didn't listen to it earlier this year because it wasn't on spotifylame but true for me too
glad to see it's there now!
it would seem that their style/genre is... not really in vogue
― niels, Thursday, 22 November 2018 11:00 (five years ago) link
― flappy bird, Wednesday, November 21, 2018 1:31 PM (two months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
It's interesting looking at their discogs, where cost of the vinyl is somewhat indicative of a band's cult following. It also has to do with the amount of copies out in the wild of course, but usually the record that corresponds to a band's peak will hold on to some value and it seems sellers can't even get rid of Nouns.
Their style may not be the hottest thing for the current indie crowds but it doesn't feel as dated as some other yelpy indie-punk trends of the past, or much less some other style that was once big like freak folk etc.
― Evan, Monday, 28 January 2019 16:04 (five years ago) link
Side note: I would LOVE to hear the guitarist try his best to make music similar to Jefre Cantu-Ledesma. I think he'd be great at it!
― Evan, Monday, 28 January 2019 16:36 (five years ago) link
yeah that's what confuses me, it's not dated at all, they're a great rock band with great songs. the light incorporation of electronics is distinct from p much every other band of their era bc they never sounded like they were using samplers to sound like animal collective
― flappy bird, Monday, 28 January 2019 17:24 (five years ago) link
whew i was worried they had an apartment building too
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 28 January 2019 17:39 (five years ago) link
lol
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Monday, 28 January 2019 17:54 (five years ago) link
New song streaming now and album due in June: https://www.stereogum.com/2074375/no-age-turned-to-string/music/
― stop torturing me ethel (broom air), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 15:59 (four years ago) link
― nxd, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 08:30 (four years ago) link
modern modern lovers
I do like this song. That write-up is accurate in noting it sounds like Parquet Courts (in a good way).
― tamagotchi revival artist (morrisp), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 21:32 (four years ago) link
best band
― alpine static, Thursday, 5 March 2020 00:14 (four years ago) link
So good
― billstevejim, Thursday, 5 March 2020 03:32 (four years ago) link
Their last album was overlooked
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Saturday, 7 March 2020 19:45 (four years ago) link
very very very very very much so ^
― alpine static, Sunday, 8 March 2020 09:29 (four years ago) link
'Snares' might be my favourite No Age album. I also loved Randy's Sound Field project from last year - one of the best pure ambient albums I've enjoyed in recent times. I don't think I know anyone else who's listened to it, though.
― cooldix, Monday, 9 March 2020 10:22 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAPeP4G1zfY
― devvvine, Monday, 30 March 2020 20:58 (four years ago) link
Tune
― cooldix, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 01:20 (four years ago) link
https://noage.bandcamp.com/album/goons-be-gone
― j., Tuesday, 16 June 2020 23:02 (three years ago) link
it's really nice!
― maf you one two (maffew12), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 23:59 (three years ago) link
August 28, 2007 11:56 AM (twelve years ago)
gaaah
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 00:30 (three years ago) link
i kind of check in and out on this band but the vocals on the new one sound weird to me, like really dry and up front. have they been doing that for a while or is it new on this album?
― na (NA), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 14:28 (three years ago) link
tbh i think the vocals have always been a sticking point for me with no age, even though i love a lot of singers with "bad" voices
― na (NA), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 14:29 (three years ago) link
I like the new one, though feel like it hits its stride with the last three tracks. Which is kind of the opposite of 'Snares' for me. Need to spend more time with it.
― cooldix, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 14:44 (three years ago) link
^^^ otm. This is the first No Age I'm indifferent to.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 14:46 (three years ago) link
I get what you mean. The vocal thing was actually a bugbear of mine with "Everything in Between" back in the day for similar reasons. Still never really got into that album.
An album poll could be fun.
― cooldix, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 15:10 (three years ago) link
haha eib my favourite no age record
― nxd, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 16:19 (three years ago) link