With comparisons to The Arcade Fire and an excellent album title (The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations’ Millennium General Assembly), D.C.-based Le Loup is making waves in the indie rock channels.
The seven-piece outfit is currently on tour, and had they not taken the stage at the not-safe-for-work hour of 11:15 this past Wednesday, I would have been at T.T. the Bears cheering them on. I love the cacophony of instruments and the mash-up of vocals at the end of this clip:
Really liked George Saunders’ piece in this week’s The New Yorker, making the case for washboarding:
People have been washboarded for centuries. It’s almost as if the urge to washboard is intrinsically human. Is it pretty? No. Does it work? It appears to. So what’s the big deal? If we’re going to be in this thing, let’s win this thing. I myself have been washboarded. It’s true. I used to live downstairs from an oldtime jug band. And, believe me, it was not torture. It was torturous, yes—especially at three in the morning, what with the banjo and the jug and the high, whiny singing and (horror of horrors) the occasional harmonica—but torture?
Read the full piece here. I recommend his story collection Pastoralia.
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