On April 29th, 2008, Brooklyn art-punks Les Savy Fav - probably the best showmen in indie rock - finally release a live album. After The Balls Drop is a fifteen-track document of the band's historic 3:00AM performance at Bowery Ballroom in New York City on January 1st, 2008. Loaded with old Fav standbys, and tracks from last year's raucous return-from-hiatus Let's Stay Friends, the digital-only release is a document of a band that, according to Rolling Stone, has finally "hit its peak." We think they've been peaking for years now, but it's hard to argue with Friends, or the wildfire performances from it included here.
In addition to cannon faves like "Sweat Descends" and recent winners such as "What Would Wolves Do," the album features Tim Harrington and company riffing through renditions of CCR's "Hey Tonight," Nirvana's "Sliver," Misfits' "Astro Zombies" and Pixies' "Debaser." Dream come true, right? April 29, 2008. Finally!
In other Les Savy Fav live news, the band has a smattering of April dates on the docket, with an east coast twofer with label mates The Dodos and The Big Sleep planned for April 4th and 5th, in DC and Philly, respectively. Then, later that month, the band will descend upon the Cali desert for Coachella, before heading to San Fran to re-join The Dodos at the Great American Music Hall.
04-04 Washington, DC @ The Black Cat (W/ The Dodos & The Big Sleep)
04-05 Philadelphia, PA @ TLA (W/ The Dodos & The Big Sleep)
04-25 Indio, CA @ Coachella
04-27 San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall (W/ The Dodos)
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