{"id":13690,"date":"2015-05-21T22:40:30","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T02:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=13690"},"modified":"2015-10-22T13:53:55","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T17:53:55","slug":"weed-shares-new-video-announces-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=13690","title":{"rendered":"Weed shares new video for &#8216;Thousand Pounds&#8217; + announces tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vancouver&#8217;s Weed have shared the video for their single <em>Thousand Pounds<\/em>, directed by\u00a0Courtney Garvin of the The Courtneys.\u00a0The footage of the band was shot in Queen Elizabeth Park in Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I went with reversal black and white Super 8 film for a punk vibe, and also for the purpose of having a positive film print,&#8221;<\/em> says\u00a0Garvin.<em> &#8220;I then doodled on the film directly with a finely sanded piece of wire. Because the frames are insanely tiny I used magnifying goggles to see what I was doing. I then had all the film telecined to a digital format and the technician said only this to me, &#8216;I hope the band appreciates all that scratching.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>Check it out below via YouTube.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6ChaT1e8DUg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-CA&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The video&#8217;s release also comes in conjunction with the announcement of an upcoming tour throughout July.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tour dates:<\/strong><br \/>\n7\/2\/15 &#8211; Milwaukee, WI @ Lucky Dog<br \/>\n7\/3\/15 &#8211; Detroit, MI @ Lo &amp; Behold<br \/>\n7\/4\/15 &#8211; Kingston, ON @ Artel<br \/>\n7\/5\/15 &#8211; Toronto, ON @ SHIBGB&#8217;S<br \/>\n7\/7\/15 &#8211; Oklahoma City, OK @ The Shop<br \/>\n7\/8\/15 &#8211; Kansas City, MO @ Green Desert<br \/>\n7\/9\/15 &#8211; Omaha, NE @ The Sweatshop Gallery<br \/>\n7\/10\/15 &#8211; Sioux Falls, SD @ Total Drag<br \/>\n7\/11\/15 &#8211; Fargo, ND @ House Show<br \/>\n7\/12\/15 &#8211; Minneapolis, MN @ TBA<\/p>\n<p><strong>More about Weed?\u00a0<\/strong>With a noisy, gazey sound that&#8217;s gloriously murky and overdriven, Vancouver&#8217;s\u00a0Weed\u00a0have everything it takes to be a part of the proud lineage of bands they are so obviously influenced by. A quick listen to a few songs from their second LP,\u00a0&#8216;Running Back&#8217;, and names like\u00a0Sonic Youth,\u00a0My Bloody Valentine, and\u00a0Dinosaur Jr.\u00a0will spring to mind readily. Like those groups, Weed harness the power of abrasive guitars played very, very loud; they have pedals that make things go whoosh; they have a drummer who hits the cymbals like he&#8217;s trying to shatter them into shards; and above all, they have the kind of dynamic energy that makes the music come alive.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no doubt that Weed are doing some serious excavation of the past, but they aren&#8217;t just re-creating it in some lifeless, predictable fashion. They write songs that are memorable and hooky, sing and play them like every note really matters, and masterfully bowl over any reservations one might have about yet another band playing this same style. Similar to what\u00a0Nothing\u00a0did on their excellent album\u00a0&#8216;Guilty of Everything&#8217;, Weed don&#8217;t sound like hoary revivalists at all; instead, they sound like they are here to teach other revivalist bands how to do things the right way. Anyone looking for such a lesson can turn to the swooning <em>Muscles<\/em> and the deeply melancholic <em>They Don&#8217;t Ask Me<\/em> to see how to make shoegaze that twangs the heartstrings real hard, look to the raucous<em> Never Leave<\/em> for tips on rocking out noise pop style without overdoing it, or check out <em>Meet Me with Ease <\/em>to learn how to sound exactly like the\u00a0Swirlies.<\/p>\n<p>Pick pretty much any song and you&#8217;ve got a masterclass on how to mash up brain-rattling noise, pillowy dream pop, and warped shoegaze into something exciting and new. Or into something that&#8217;s basically as good as the music they are working so hard to revive &#8212; that&#8217;s the real trick and Weed pull it off on\u00a0<em>Running Back<\/em>\u00a0with ease. &#8211; Tim Sendra, AllMusic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Vancouver&#8217;s Weed have shared the video for their single Thousand Pounds, directed by\u00a0Courtney Garvin of the The Courtneys.\u00a0The footage of the band was shot in <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=13690\" title=\"Weed shares new video for &#8216;Thousand Pounds&#8217; + announces tour\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23,25,28,30],"tags":[3598,3597,2995,1245,2994],"class_list":["post-13690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indie","category-live","category-music","category-new-release","tag-courtney-garvin","tag-the-courtneys","tag-thousand-pounds","tag-tour-dates","tag-weed"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/weed.jpg?fit=1000%2C663","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B2TV-3yO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31214,"url":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=31214","url_meta":{"origin":13690,"position":0},"title":"Froth share new song &#8217;77&#8217;","author":"cultureaddicts","date":"June 4, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Los Angeles' noise-rock trio return with their new LP,\u00a0'Duress'\u00a0due out\u00a0June 7\u00a0via\u00a0Wichita Recordings.\u00a0Ahead of the album,\u00a0Froth\u00a0has shared a beat driven new single 77, accompanied by a playlist cataloging the new album's inspirations at\u00a0FLOOD Magazine. 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