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Vivian Girls

astralwerkor  said about 3 years ago  or at  2:12PM on Wednesday, June 11 2008 in music

Good. Maybe like a female No Age, but less reverby and more punky and surfy and poppy. Their debut is out, but sold out of the initial 500 LP vinyl release. Its around if you look hard enough though. Blake, its time for the interjection!

You can hear them here.


Ubu  said about 3 years ago:

This thread makes me sad that I missed seeing Aussie Vivian Girls live.


blake3030  said about 3 years ago:

I've been keen to hear these guys for a while. I downloaded their LP, but haven't listened to it yet.


astralwerkor  said about 3 years ago:

Nice to know you don't have something negative to say yet blake. ;) Listen to it when you get a chance, its good.


necktie  said about 3 years ago:

their influence is all over the current crop of semi-popular underground bands all over the country these days. and rightly so...amazing band!


necktie  said about 3 years ago:

...the aussie one that is. this other stuff is ok. just ok.
fuck the singer of No Age sounds like the singer from Polvo...or is this just me?


astralwerkor  said about 3 years ago:

Good.


trafficsounds  said about 3 years ago:

one of my favourite chapter releases in the days of yore.

i know it's not the same as the one astral's talking about, but still.


switchbladesisters  said about 3 years ago:

Aussie Vivian Girls are wicked. gotta track down that Chapter split!


jimmytrash  said about 3 years ago:

The best.


trafficsounds  said about 3 years ago:

i might have copies left in the traffic sounds catalogue switchy. i will look tonight


switchbladesisters  said about 3 years ago:

ooh fantastic! I feel bad that only 4 posts so far have related to the group the thread is about.


trafficsounds  said about 3 years ago:

yeh well, thats what you get for naming yourself after an already rad band existed!


kelele  said about 3 years ago:

yes gorilla vs bear blog is well good


Ubu  said about 3 years ago:

They had a non split album as well, didn't they?...the aussie VG that is.


anok  said about 3 years ago:

there was a tape that i've got laying around somewhere, maybe?


astralwerkor  said about 3 years ago:

Ok dudes, I'll rectify this situation so my thread has no posts but at least is related to the actual band.


astralwerkor  said about 3 years ago:

Actually, I can't be fucked. You guys came into my thread, you guys rectify the situation.


blake3030  said about 3 years ago:

This band's LP goes for soooo much on ebay.

Not worth it in my opinion.

Getting repressed anyway.


runoutgroove  said about 3 years ago:

What is the story with people asking (and probably paying) $100 for this given a repress is coming soon? Has this band been around for a while?

I wouldn't mind hearing some more of this though. is it rude to ask for a gmail hookup?


astralwerkor  said about 3 years ago:

Firstly, I'm not sure about the crazy amount its going for, but I certainly think its bloody good.

Secondly, it is definitely not rude and your request has been happily obliged. :-)


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untold/animals  said about 8 months ago:

BC/DDG/FR are pretty shit in my opinion.. very one-dimensional.


Velodrone  said about 8 months ago:

The Australian Vivian Girls have a full-length album. I have it if anyone is after a copy.


untold/animals  said about 8 months ago:

I have it too. Good nostalgia listen but I like the new American ones far more.


tugboat  said about 7 months ago:

http://tube.hk/en/music/events/2011-07-09/Vivian Girls

playing in Hong Kong, so.... Melbourne show?


nyx  said about 7 months ago:


untold/animals  said about 7 months ago:

From this funny Prattfolio university promo thing:

But recently there has been a string of up-and-comers: There is Vivian Girls, whose guitarist and vocalist Cassie Grzymkowski (B.F.A. Illustration ’08), commonly known as Cassie Ramone, went to Pratt.

Ramone of the Vivian Girls, an all-girl band of angsty, lo-fi surf punk, says Pratt’s creative community and the Brooklyn environs are perfect incubators for a band. “The bar is set higher here than in many other cities,” Ramone observes, because so many bands are based here. In fact, New York’s indie music world has been shifting from the East Village and other downtown neighborhoods, to Bushwick, Williamsburg, and other parts of Brooklyn over the last 10 years.

Cassie Ramone of Vivian Girls creates all of the band’s album cover art and T-shirts.

Ahhh, university. You can make anything seem daggy.


untold/animals  said about 7 months ago:

Oh, and I guess this is pretty interesting too.


mistletone  said about 6 months ago:

BIG PUSSY  said about 6 months ago:

people still give a shit about this band in 2011?


thedropkick  said about 6 months ago:

Saw them last week in London. Pretty boring


untold/animals  said about 6 months ago:

Almost frustratingly, that song really grew on me. Although that film clip doesn't make me love them more. I don't know — I still struggle with them a bit. The Bruise Cruise / Uncensored Interview one-two personality punch.



tugboat  said about 3 months ago:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4azDMOD947s&feature=share

Doing Sweater Song withTitus Andronicus


tigers  said about 3 months ago:

That was fucking gross.


untold/animals  said about 3 months ago:

Fuck.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4azDMOD947s&feature=share

Looks like the part of the gig where everybody gets weirdly revved up by nostalgic recognition and I start to feel sick for liking a band that plays oafish and pointless covers.

http://pitchfork.com/tv/60-seconds-left/1812-la-sera/2964-60-seconds-left/

Fucking unbearable. That whole series is fucking unbearable.


labrish  said about 3 months ago:

Does anyone have anything by the Sean Bailey Vivian Girls? So annoying to google.


untold/animals  said about 3 months ago:

Yeah, I have that CD somewhere at home.


tugboat  said about 3 months ago:

But but but..Cassie looked like she was having fun though....


tugboat  said about 1 month ago:

For Untold/Animal

http://t.co/09OPqWBz


mrmagoo  said 10 days ago:

Katy makes a Vivian Girls choose your own adventure game

http://iamkatygoodman.webs.com/adventure.htm


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