The Dismenberment Plan.Two sold-out nights at the Bowery Ballroom The Bowery Ballroom is a music venue in the Bowery section of New York City. The structure, at 6 Delancey Street, was built just before the Stock Market Crash of 1929. It stood vacant until the end of WWII, when it became a high-end retail store. in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . "Genius," says the Village Voice, a remix album plus a DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. in the works.., too bad they're breaking up and there ain't no offer from no label big or small that can stop them. Ha! Ha ha ha! Travis is gonna do a record with some folks from Engine Down and Death Cab For Cutie cut·ie also cut·ey n. pl. cut·ies also cut·eys Informal A cute person. , which is where some of the DisPlan songs might find a home. But anyway, here's an interview Jared Soares did with Travis Morrison, Jason Cadell, Eric Axelson, and Joe Easley in Lawrence, Kansas last winter, where they played on the same night as Beck and The Flaming Lips. Anyway. Who are we kidding? Travis, In the song "Okay Jokes Over,"' you turn into a freestyle rapper. Have you ever done any Ludacris, or stuff by any other rapper who's hot at the moment? Travis: Well, I wouldn't call it freestyle, 'cause somebody else wrote it. It's just an opportunity to appreciate/free associate songs. It's really exciting. Now, can I at the drop of the hat re-imagine melody and lyrics from random songs that just occurred to me? Sometimes I fail. That's not something you guys discuss before a show? Travis: There'll be suggestions. Sometimes at a sound check I'll start singing something and it might show up that night. Eric: When we toured with Death Cab we would bust into one of their songs in the middle, and then back into our own song. This tour we cut into some Spoon. It's premeditated pre·med·i·tat·ed adj. Characterized by deliberate purpose, previous consideration, and some degree of planning: a premeditated crime. . Travis: The song is free of time and key changes by our standards. We have tricky chord shifts and rhythmic shifts, which make it hard to improvise, but that song is modal, kind of a drone. It' in four, so it's easy to improvise. On your website you have a Top-10 list of songs and albums. Did you guys steal that from the movie High Fidelity? Travis: It reflects our psychological similarity to the characters in that movie. Jason: We stole it from Burning Airlines. Travis: David Letterman dropped the bomb with that Top-10 List. People forget that before Top-10s, there were no Top-10s. It wasn't really a thing, then David Letterman made the Top-10 a cultural entity. Joe: What was Casey Casum? Top-20? Top-40. Eric: It's fun though. People walk up and say they never heard of a band until they saw them on our Top-10 list. And they download the song off Morpheous and now they love Tom Waits or whatever What do you guys listen to in the van during the long drives? Eric: We always put on NPR NPR In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Nepal Rupee. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. . The new Flaming Lips gets a lot a play and the new Beck. Joe: That is really good. So laid back is good for long drives, like today across Kansas. Are you all into Andrew WK? Eric: He's not my thing. I saw him on this MTV MTV in full Music Television U.S. cable television network, established in 1980 to present videos of musicians and singers performing new rock music. MTV won a wide following among rock-music fans worldwide and greatly affected the popular-music business. special where they sent him to a predominately African-American college. He spent a day in an all-girls dorm. They put his hair in cornrows Cornrows are a traditional style of hair grooming of African origin where the hair is tightly braided very close to the scalp, using an underhand, upward motion to produce a continuous, raised row. and tried to teach him how to dance. Eric: Why can't we do that? I wanna wan·na Informal 1. Contraction of want to: You wanna go now? 2. Contraction of want a: You wanna slice of pie? get corn rows. Travis: Andrew, you so crazy with yo bloody nose. |
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