December 2011
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Tone Quest
Tracking guitars today for the new Fang Island album, recording at Machines with Magnets
Life Coach
thanks Josh Pfaff for sharing your Fang Island “Life Coach” video with all of us.
If Only....
Gifs could be album covers….
In The Studio - Will Be out in January....
October 2011
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HAPPY HALLOWEEN - FREE ALBUM FROM FANG ISLAND TO...
In honor of Halloween, we are giving away all day today Fang Island’s debut LP !! Nobody loves Halloween more than those guys so we thought it appropriate. So if you don’t already have it? Or you love it please share the wealth and tell your friends to get it today! FREE ends at Midnight . We Love You // Fang Island & Sargent House. HIGH FIVES FOR ALL CLICK TO DOWNLOAD
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September 2011
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Fang Island Talks In Tampa
There has come a time when we’ve all wanted our own musical score to accompany our lives. The mundane being jazzed up by our theme song. Epic encounters backed by frenzied guitar riffs, video game-esque music mashing all climaxing into a heart-wrenching crescendo. If there ever was a band that could be the soundtrack to your life, Fang Island would be it.
Fang Island, a self-proclaimed...
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Fang Island Remix / The Joy Formidable "Cradle"...
Welsh shoegaze bashers the Joy Formidable’s debut LP, The Big Roar, dropped earlier this year via Atlantic and Canvasback; now, maximalist math-rockers Fang Island have done up an expectedly zany remix to The Big Roar cut “Cradle”. DL: The Joy Formidable: “Cradle (Fang Island Remix)”
August 2011
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September Shows Coming Up
Time to play. Between finishing the writing and before heading in to finish recording their new album Fang Island will head out for some shows in September as direct support to The Joy Formidable and some of their own headliners as well.
FANG ISLAND LIVE 09/10 - Pawtucket, RI @ Machines With Magnets w/ Dan Deacon 09/21 - Washington DC @ Red Palace 09/23 - Charlotte, NC @ Tremont Music Hall...
July 2011
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Crawdaddy Magazine Interview
Fang Island is how art school students rebel against art school. First off, it’s hard to believe there exists a band that plays pop-punk instrumental math-rock that, if represented as a graph on the Cartesian plane, would show pretension and quality in an inverse function. It is equally confounding and refreshing that a band that started as an art project at the prestigious Rhode Island...
June 2011
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Best Dancing By A Parrot to A Fang Island Song...
This Parrot has the sweetest moves to the grooves of Fang Island. Love this.
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Flab Mag: 20 Questions with Drummer Marc St...
Marc St Saveur, Fang Island
Origins:
When and why did you start playing drums?
I started when I was 11 or 12, so around ’97/’98. My dad had a giant all-chrome Ludwig kit in the basement, so that definitely sparked my interest. And Dave Grohl. Can’t forget about him.
What, if anything, transpired to keep you playing all these years?
Constantly being interested in what was going on in the...
May 2011
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Fang Island Loves NY
Fang Island: Infinite High-Fives
NBC’s Nonstop Sound had the chance to chat with Brooklyn-based rock outfit Fang Island before their “Deli Magazine” showcase at Brooklyn Bowl. The band generates an impressive wall of sound with their three screaming guitars, and they’re proud of it, describing their music emphatically as “everyone high-fiving everyone.”
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$5 Show at Brooklyn Bowl / Deli Fest B.E.A.F.
Why should Schubert have all the fun? In both sound and attitude, Fang Island’s self-titled 2010 debut was all about the overture. Slabs of three-guitar ham steak shouldered happily against wiggy electronics and a crowded ruckus of wails, the sort of joyous choruses you’d hear from the Polyphonic Spree or even the Flaming Lips, whom these guys have toured with. It was outsized. It...
April 2011
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Nick Takes The Guest Spot at ALARM Magazine
Fang Island, with its three-guitar attack and lightning-fast riffs, knows a few things about shredding. Logic dictates that it also knows a fair amount about guitars. For guitarist Nicholas Sadler, there’s one axe in particular that stands out: a weirdly human girl-guitar of mysterious origins. In this piece penned for ALARM, Sadler laments the fact that he didn’t conceive of...
March 2011
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Austinist Review Fang Island - SXSW 2011
Fang Island at Lipstick 24 (3/19/11) - SXSW It was a telling sign when Fang Island guitarist Nicholas Andrew Sadler asked everyone at Lipstick 24 to raise one of their hands and high-five the person next to them before the band’s set. That inclusive gesture perfectly encapsulated the overall feeling of the band’s performance, as their exuberance and undeniable musical talents made for a set...
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NPR Song of the Day : "Daisy"
It takes maybe two seconds for Fang Island’s “Daisy” to announce itself as a mope-free zone — a sunny summer jam in which emotion gives way to perpetual motion. Opening with a rich chorus of “oohs,” the song announces its intentions right away: to live up to the band’s stated wish to sound like “everyone high-fiving everyone.”
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Live Review: The Bowery Ballroom 3.11.11
There’s a strange bifurcation when it comes to Fang Island. The Brooklyn-by-way-of-RISD band either immediately strikes a chord (more like a symphony) with its newcomers, or it simply doesn’t click.
Most likely, the former category contains some prerequisites like being a punk/prog rock fan; appreciating the flawless execution of an arpeggio; having played Dungeons & Dragons; and...
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A Night Of High Fives - Live Review NYC
A critic far sharper than this one wrote that Fang Island’s self-titled debut LP sounded like “everyone high-fiving everyone.” Not coincidentally, bassist Mike Jacober arrived onstage for the band’s encore just before midnight on Friday at The Bowery Ballroom and proceeded to slap hands with as many people as he could reach. This was just deserts for the first few rows of an audience that...
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The Deli - SXSW 2011 Issue
Fang Island grace this months cover of The Deli Magazine’s special SXSW 2011 Issue. Check out the Full Issue HERE
February 2011
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Official SXSW Show March 19th @ Emo's Annex
Fang Island will be playing the Sargent House & Rodriguez Lopez Productions official show this year at SXSW - Saturday March 19th at Emo’s Annex. Doors at 7:15pm Lineup Below. (Badges/Wristbands) Pay at door is first come first serve.
Native Cast Spells Gypsyblood Therapies Son Zechs Marquise Adebisi Shank Le Butcherettes Fang Island Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group
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SXSW - March 18th "Death Match" Show
Death Match, Friday, March 18th at Scoot Inn Santos Party House w/ Andrew WK Presents
Outside Stage 4:30pm - Too $hort 3:30pm - Odd Future 2:30pm - Das Racist 1:30pm - Killer Mike 12:30pm - Danny Brown
Inside Stage 5:00pm - Pentagram 4:00pm - Green & Wood 3:00pm - Sweet Apple 2:00pm- Fang Island 1:00pm - Balance and Composure
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March Shows & SXSW
Fang Island have rested long enough over the holidays! So it’s time to play some shows, maybe even try out some of the new jams they have been working on for the new album. So don’t miss out as the gang heads to Austin to play this years SXSW at the Sargent House / Rodriguez Lopez Official show at Emo’s Annex along with a few other parties while in Austin. Fang...
December 2010
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RCRD LBL Features - Patterns On The Wall
This is the song I want playing during the movie montage of all my happiest moments, or as the band perfectly self-describes its own sound, “everyone high-fiving everyone.” Brooklyn’s Fang Island lays down a cover of a Joe Buzzell track that is light without losing complexity and all things joyously raucous. Is that Andrew W.K.’s operatic falsetto leading a last...
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Pitchfork Top 50 Videos of 2010 : Daisy!
Pitchfork names their Top 50 Videos of 2010 and lookie whose up on that list? It’s our very own Daisy video. Good work and thanks to Director Carlos Charlie Perez.
November 2010
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Jason Bartell & Pete Watts Art Opening 12/2
You are all invited to the Opening of Jason Bartell & Pete Watts Art show on December 2nd At Rabbit Hole Studio at 33 Washington Street , Brooklyn, NY. With a special live show from Delicate Steve. Stop by from 5pm - 9pm for the opening reception.
October 2010
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7" Vinyl & Headline Tour with Delicate Steve!
FANG ISLAND are heading out on their own headline tour with Delicate Steve joining them on all the dates. They will also have with them a special 7” treat, a limited edition run - with hand made packaging, made by yours truly the band! (we’ll post pictures once we have some). It features the song Patterns On The Wall written by Joe Buzzell who also sings on the track along with...
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VIDEO Interview with The Drone - Paris
Shot in Paris, a video interview by The Drone with Jason from Fang Island. Click the Full Screen button for best viewing
September 2010
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American & Canadian Action
USA 09/23 Urbana, IL @ Pygmalion Music Festival 09/24 Cincinnati, OH @ Midpoint Music Festival MATT & KIM / FANG ISLAND 09/28 Seattle, WA @ The Showbox * 09/29 Portland, OR @ Roseland Ballroom * 09/30 San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore * 10/01 San Diego, CA @ House of Blues * 10/02 Los Angeles, CA @ Henry Fonda Theater * 10/03 Pomona, CA @The Glasshouse * 10/06 Tempe, AZ...
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Paris Action
lot’s of fun.
more videos from La Flèche d’Or Paris HERE
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UK Action
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EUROPEAN TOUR - Then Tour Some More
Fang Island are heading overseas for some headlining shows in the UK and Europe, with some Festivals thrown in, starting in Dublin at the Electric Picnic Music Festival and also playing the Berlin Festival.Then immediately following two quick stops in the American heartland for the Pygmalion Music Festival and Midpoint Music Festival Then its off to the West Coast for October tour with Matt...
August 2010
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Free Summer Jams LSTN #11
Check out the new Urban Outfitters LSTN #11 24 Great songs, all FREE featuring our very own track Life Coach. Along with songs from Yeasayer, Arcade Fire, Cotton Jones, Superchunk, !!!, Neon Indian, Clinic, Les Savy Fav, Of Montreal, Best Coast and more. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD
July 2010
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SPIN PRESENTS: Live Broadcast of Fang Island &...
It’s SPIN’s 25th anniversary year, and to celebrate, we’re throwing a week-long party in New York City, with five consecutive nights of shows, presented by ZYNC from American Express and headlined by the Smashing Pumpkins, the Flaming Lips, the Black Keys, the National, and Spiritualized. But you don’t have to be in NYC to see these amazing gigs — each night...
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INTERVIEW: The Deli - Who You Calling Snarky
Fang Island high fives till the hands fall off by Dale W. Eisinger
Some of what Fang Island has to say might be taken with a grain of salt – they are notoriously snarky in interviews, but that sort of goes along with the playful nature of the band’s powerful tunes. No matter what, they’re funny to read they’re even more fun to contemplate as the transcendent force of pure fun and...
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TOUR UPDATE: LIPS, PILOTS, EUROPE
It all starts July 4th. Shows in USA & Canada with The Flaming Lips, then we join up with Stone Temple Pilots, then head to Europe for our very own Headline Tour. Sprinkled along the way we get to play a lot of other good time events /festivals with some really great bands.
Fang Island Shows
07/04 Atlantic City, NJ @ Showboat Casino * 07/05 Rochester, NY @ Water Street Music Hall // ...
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VIDEO: Careful Crossers Premiere
“When supercharged Brooklyn rockers Fang Island get together to do just about anything, you’ve got to imagine that they have a ridiculously good time doing it. At least that’s what the clip for “Careful Crossers”, from the band’s BNM’d self-titled effort, suggests. Directed by ZFCL (who also recently helmed the similarly frantic clip for...
June 2010
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UK REVIEWs: Fang Island / MOJO /VICE /Rock sound /...
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SoundCheck Magazine #24
The latest issue #24 of Soundcheck Magazine is online. Featuring exclusive photography and interviews with The Flaming Lips, Deftones, Local Natives, Free Energy, The Besnard Lakes, Fang Island and The Bright Light Social Hour.
Go To Soundcheck to see Full Feature with all the Photos Here
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TOUR: Starts SOON
Dream come true. Playing a bunch of shows with The Flaming Lips, and many other good time events.
Fang Island Shows
06-24 Brooklyn, NY - CRUSH FEST at Public Assembly 06-26 Chicago, IL - Subterranean w/Maps & Atlases 06-27 Chicago, IL - Green Music Festival 06-28 Rock Island, IL - Daytrotter Presents- Huckleberry’s w/Paleface 07-04 Atlantic City, NJ - Showboat Casino $ 07-05...
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CRUSH FEST: June 24th! Brooklyn
Crush Fest is going to be a good time, come on you know you want to go. You can get tickets here
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KEXP: IN STUDIO VIDEOS
Videos from our nice visit at KEXP 90.3FM Seattle
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SARGENT HOUSE: POSITIVEXPOSURE: Fang Island Issue... →
Fang Island interview in this months Positivexposure issue #6 we sat down for a pretty informative and lengthy chat.
May 2010
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EUROPE / AUSTRALIA RELEASE: Fang Island
Fang Island’s Self Titled LP will be released on Sargent House in Europe through Cargo Records Distro and in Australia via Other Tongues on June 7, 2010.