Sat 3 May 2008
Ladybug Transistor = New York City
Posted by Jeff Kuykendall under Ladybug Transistor
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Go behind the scenes of the Ladybug Transistor’s video “Always on the Telephone” by streaming episode 75 of New York Noise. Lead Ladybug Gary Olson interviews musician and video director Isobel Knowles, who explains how she managed to secure no less than a zeppelin for the climactic ending of the video.
The Ladybug Transistor has also been added to the lineup of the 2008 NYC Popfest, which is being held June 12-15. An exact schedule for the Popfest is still to be announced, but the lineup is growing, already including Tullycraft, From Bubblegum to Sky, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, and more. Check out the festival’s official website here for tickets, and their MySpace page for lineup updates.
Thanks to Becky for these items on my favorite NYC band.
Music fans who aren’t already regular Yeti readers (or devotees of McGonigal’s old zine Chemical Imbalance) probably won’t buy this volume for its fantastic blues and gospel cuts, Scott Seward’s history of folk-metal, or Justin Taylor’s Will Oldham interview, but for the four songs (and pen and ink illustration) submitted by some guy named Jeff Mangum. If you’re one of the legions who’s been stalking Mangum since Neutral Milk Hotel’s late-1990s dissolution, these old 78s won’t come as much of a surprise. The two cuts by Greek folk singer Marika Papagika sound like shortwave transmissions from a century-lost world, her grave and luminous voice streaking like weak winter sunlight through a crust of hiss and pops. A choral rendition of traditional Georgian (as in Russian) folk song “Suliko” is lovely, if unremarkable, and not as exciting as the fourth track– an unidentified waltz that’s probably Asian, most likely 30s, and definitely haunting. Fed with tomatoes and radio wire indeed.
Lou2ser has kindly pointed out that Flagpole, the Athens weekly, has nominated numerous Elephant 6-related artists in their annual 
