(Now Playing) Hot Chip
Jun 2, 2008
Hot Chip are suspiciously guarded with their geek pride.
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Series
In Practice Space we invade the dark caves where bands hone their craft and ask them probing questions about their art and other stuff.
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62 episodes
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Spiritualized
Kim meets up with Jason Pierce ahead of Spirtualized's eerily brilliant live ...
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Sep 16, 2008
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Acrassicauda
Acrassicauda is Iraq's first and greatest metal band.
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Jun 9, 2008
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Sian Alice Group
Sian Alice Group is one of the few British bands in recent memory whose music...
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Sep 30, 2008
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The Virgins
Wet-behind-the-ears leisure rockers on opening for Patti Smith at their third...
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Feb 7, 2007
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Hot Chip
Hot Chip are suspiciously guarded with their geek pride.
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Jun 2, 2008
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Hong Kong Blood Opera
Mexico's Hong Kong Blood Opera smuggle some pills into the US (and tunes).
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Jul 15, 2008
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Silverio
Who knew Mexico had its own Har Mar?
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Jul 8, 2008
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1349
Delving further down the rabbit hole of Norwegian black metal.
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Apr 19, 2007
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Jack Penate
Britain’s rising pop star is OCD about getting signed.
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Apr 24, 2007
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Oath to Vanquish
Oath to Vanquish are to Israel what suburban metal bands are to America. They...
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Sep 17, 2007
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These New Puritans
Christian Dior’s bashful “house band” keep mum on the details.
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Aug 28, 2007
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Sam Champion
Practice Space Host Ryan Duffy On School Buds Sam Champion
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Sep 11, 2007
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Babyshambles
Opiate inhibitors, laser-sighted BB guns, and underrehearsal with Pete Dohert...
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Feb 5, 2007
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The Walkmen
On the humor of getting wrongfully arrested at SXSW for losing a room key.
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May 2, 2007
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Diamond Nights
Funny guys in good bands make the world go round.
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Feb 19, 2007
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Clockcleaner
The most honest band in Philadelphia shits all over their contemporaries.
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May 22, 2007
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NX2
Tel Aviv's NX2 digest the last three decades of British music for Israeli con...
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Aug 21, 2007
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Modrocket
Eating oreos with New York’s best teenage girl group.
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May 4, 2007
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The Bronx
Pissing your pants because you forgot to pull them down is just the way these...
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Mar 8, 2007
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No Age
Getting awkward with Randy Randall and Dean Spunt in a woodshop/jam space.
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Nov 12, 2007
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Mike Bones
Staying in for the evening with New York’s best guitarist.
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Feb 26, 2008
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Cheeseburger
A trio of Brooklyn dirtbags get tanked before giving it their all.
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Feb 14, 2007
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Carbonas
Atlantan punks mix their death-metal metaphors.
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Oct 14, 2008
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A Place to Bury Strangers
Death By Audio's house band shows us around their studio/pedal workshop/domic...
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Apr 8, 2008
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Grizzly Bear
Quashing the City of Lost Children-soundtrack myth.
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May 8, 2007
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Young Love
Dan Keyes is hated in the city and the country.
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Apr 4, 2007
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White Rabbits
The closest band in Brooklyn give us a tour of their loft.
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Apr 12, 2007
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Vampire State
Filipino punks refuse to have the life sucked out of them by Manila’s c...
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Jul 17, 2007
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These Are Powers
Drumming without a stool may seem "cool" and "hard" now, but there's nothing ...
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Apr 22, 2008
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Sweatheart
Jazzercise and J.J. Fad come together in this band of Philadelphia art freaks.
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Jun 19, 2007
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Odio A Botero
Going against the grain with Colombia’s notorious art-punk rabble-rousers.
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Jul 31, 2007
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O'Death
Breaking the Americana mold with down-home city slickers in Queens.
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Aug 14, 2007
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Monkey Son of a Donkey
Ditching the Israeli army to rock.
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Sep 4, 2006
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Mark Sultan
aka BBQ, aka the best one-man band in Montreal/anywhere.
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Apr 15, 2008
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The Rapture
In this episode The Rapture show us some of their favorite Lower East Side lo...
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Feb 22, 2007
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Maria Daniela
Electro fuck jams from La Condesa.
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Jul 1, 2008
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Malas Amistades
Experimental folk from a loose collective of Colombian musicians and friends.
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Jul 24, 2007
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Los Dynamite
Mexican dance-punk in Colonia Roma.
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Jun 16, 2008
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Live Fast Die
GG Allin’s musical heirs make plans to bring down the internet.
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Nov 27, 2007
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Regina Spektor
PRACTICE SPACE HOST RYAN DUFFY ON MEETING REGINA SPEKTOR'S TOUR-MATES
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Apr 10, 2007
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Lissy Trullie
Only redheaded musicians who look like Sissy Spacek can pull off the bowler.
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Aug 7, 2007
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Lightspeed Champion
A former Test Icicle and the East London squalor he calls home.
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May 19, 2008
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Late of the Pier
Just a couple middle-class Nottingham kids in the bathtub.
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Mar 11, 2008
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Jessy Bulbo
Hyperkinetic crescendos and epicene yowls from a Mexico City siren.
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Jun 23, 2008
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I-Voice
Freestyling in a refugee camp with an 18-year-old Palestinian rapper.
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Sep 25, 2007
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The Honorary Title
Saccharine indie rockers prouldy share embarrassing stories about life on the...
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Jun 5, 2007
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Holy Fuck
Toronto’s mostly analog electronic act show us some of their gear.
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Jun 12, 2006
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Handsome Furs
Own the biggest pair of hoop-earrings we've ever seen.
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May 20, 2008
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Espers
Intricate psychedelic folk from a circle of Philadelphia’s finest plunk...
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Jun 26, 2007
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Enslaved
A basement chat with Norway’s Black Metal award winners.
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Apr 17, 2006
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El-P
Goofing off, eating shrooms, and donating his services to music-industry scie...
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Mar 20, 2007
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Despised Icon
Larynx abuse with Quebec's thrash-metal proteges.
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Oct 23, 2007
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Demon's Claws
Rootsy rock ’n’ roll from a bunch of Montreal “liars and sc...
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Sep 2, 2007
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CPC Gangbangs
Silver-faced hoser rock from Montreal's East End.
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May 25, 2008
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The Coathangers
The spirit of Raooul lives on in four young gals from Atlanta.
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May 27, 2008
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Brutal Knights
No-frills, near-perfect hardcore from Toronto’s burgeoning scene.
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Oct 16, 2007
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Blood on the Wall
Blood on the Wall give us a night to remember.
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Aug 5, 2008
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Battles
Boozing it up with some of New York’s most proficient.
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Jul 10, 2007
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Barbara
Black Lips' Jared Swilley interviews Tel Aviv's finest metal duo.
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Oct 9, 2007
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Amps 4 Christ
Henry Barnes shows off his clever noisemakers and equally astute political co...
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May 11, 2007
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A-Sides
Refined pop and unabashed voyeurism from Philly’s Fishtown.
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May 24, 2007
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Growing
The anatomy of making glorious noise from two of Brooklyn’s biggest ge...
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Feb 26, 2006
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TakeItOrLeaveIt
7 months ago
this is a fun idea. I could see a "ASK ONE QUESTION TO... (INSERT ARTIST) contest on VBS, you kno...