How a pair of misfits reconfigured what it means to be cool and earned one of music’s most unique fanbases.
Amy Rose Spiegel talks to They Might Be Giants on the evening of their sold-out performance at Brooklyn’s Music Hall of Williamsburg, the band’s founding fathers John Linnell and John Flansburgh are backstage preparing to present the first of the many ambitious projects they have slated for 2015. Read in full at RollingStone >>
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These performances were culled from shows on They Might Be Giants’ 2013 world tour. John Flansburgh and John Linnell are joined by their stellar band — Dan Miller on the guitar,
Danny Weinkauf on bass, and Marty Beller on the drums. There is also a guest appearance by the Avatars of They.
THE STORY OF THE PINK ALBUM
They Might Be Giants’ first album, also known as the “pink album” because of the distinctive pink skyline in Rodney Allen Greenblat’s cover illustration,” was a turning point for both the band and the burgeoning world of indie rock.
They Might Be Giants had been performing in downtown NYC clubs and had become a fixture on the East Village scene where performance art and music flowed together in a vivid late night club scene. In those earlier years, the band was making recordings for their Dial-A-Song service and their demos were actively passed around town. While the album’s release in late 1986 was met with raves from critics (including the rare “A” rating from the Village Voice’s Robert Christgau), with no major label push or immediate radio interest, it seemed destined to settle comfortably into the Miscellaneous T section within a number of months. All that would change quickly when the band collaborated with video director Adam Bernstein, on a series of original clips that would get serious play on MTV…
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1 of 3 OFFICIAL WINNERS of the TMBG “Am I Awake?” music video contest!
Directed, Produced, and Edited by ALEX ITALICS
Cinematography by BRODY ANDERSON
Starring:
News anchors:
DANIEL DAVID HIGGINS
MARK KLUGHEIT
STEVE MCKEE
RAY C. MERRIL
Field reporters:
CARL JOHNSON
ALEX ITALICS
Eyewitness:
MOLLY BATES JOHNSON
Newsmen:
DANIEL GEFFRE
GRANT HUNKER
MIKEY DEAN AGIUS
Police:
BOB FLYZIK
KEITH LOPEZ
JOEY RUDMAN
Passersby:
MARK BIERY
KATE CANNON
PAM WITTENBAKER CRANDALL
SHANE GUNTHER
ADAM NIXON
DANIELLE STEPHENSON
CRYSTAL VALENZUELA
JORDAN MARIE WILSON
Special Thanks to:
ASHLEY NIXON
HUNTER MACPHERSON
DAVID NEFF
EVERETT FORBES
MICHAEL MULCAHY
DAN BATES
HELEN STEPHENSON
DEAN AND MELISSA PORTER
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1 of 3 OFFICIAL WINNERS of the TMBG “Am I Awake?” music video contest!
Writer – Paul Swiatek
Producer – Mike Swiatek
Locations – Josh Swick
Director – Joe Cuomo
Cinematographer – Kelsey Talton
Set Dresser – Bridget Topp
Editor – Jesse Newman-Lindorf
Actors – Leah Huebner & Nate Weisband
Preorder “Am I Awake?” on the brand new release “Idlewild: A Compilation”
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