No Age

Intro

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• vegan
• forefront
• raw
• visceral

• movement
• pod
• exploded
• dense

• prepackaged
• coop

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Even though the Internet can get any band’s music all around the world in seconds, the place you live is still important in music. It’s not just the opportunities your city can provide musicians that matter; it’s also the music community of a town that pushes its artists to greatness.

Beren thinks these cool young kids in Los Angeles are leading the next major musical movement. Have you heard of No Age yet? If not, let Beren introduce you.

Dialog

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Mason

Beren

Mason:  You know, I was thinking. It’s kind of funny how music seems to happen in little pods, like little geographical pods. Like, London exploded, New York exploded, Seattle exploded, and it kind of cycles around so I’m not sure where I should be looking next.

Beren:  I don’t know. There’s some good stuff coming out of LA. The weird thing about geographically dense places is when you hear about them and you’re not from there it maybe seems like all the bands are friends or whatever and really like, I’m sure the New York bands don’t really know each other when that happened, like they’re not all playing shows together. But it seems like LA right now it’s all a group of friends that run a coop, like a vegan coop all ages space. They’re all in really great bands and the one kind of at the forefront of that is No Age. They’re all over MTV. They just did…There’s a new MTV show hosted by Pete Wentz from Fall Out Boy and they’re featured on there.

Mason:  Really? Wow. Don’t you think that bands are getting discovered quicker these days?

Beren:  Oh yeah, definitely with the Internet.

Mason:  Like Vampire Weekend came out of nowhere and all of a sudden they’re huge.

Beren:  No Age seems like the type, just because the sound is pretty raw, you know visceral, people are comparing them to Nirvana and I don’t think they sound anything like Nirvana and they really don’t…

Mason:  But, like, the impact?

Beren:  Just the impact and maybe the connection to youth culture too. And they’re pretty positive. They’re a positive band. I think a lot of stuff right now is prepackaged and not really real.

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