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Posted in music | tour dates | video on March 7, 2011

Xray Eyeballs get even more NSFW in 'Crystal' ---- (BV video premiere, new album info & tour dates too)

X-Ray Eyeballs
X-Ray Eyeballs

Village Voice: What is "Crystal" about?

Xray Eyeballs frontman O.J. San Felipe: "Crystal" started off as a song about these girls I knew who did too much crystal meth, but somehow it evolved into kind of a break-up song, unexpectedly. So now it's a crystal meth breakup song!

Village Voice: What inspired it musically?

Xray Eyeballs frontman O.J. San Felipe: I was inspired by New York City in the late-night hours. Just ending up at random places with random people and situations and exposure to danger and shady things . . . I like going out dancing, and I wanted to make a song that DJs can throw on and make people dance at the immediate drop of the needle, or right when the bassline kicks in . . . kinda like when the Cure's "Just Like Heaven" comes on at a party and people freak out. Not to say we sound like the Cure or anything, but the way people lose it when that first bouncy drumbeat and bassline comes on, that's a hard thing to capture.

Poppy, garagey, punky, and even dancey, Brooklyn band Xray Eyeballs have released the previously (and hotly) discussed "Crystal" video from their upcoming LP Not Nothing, due April 19 On Kanine Records. The preview pictures weren't really that NSFW but the video definitely is (not to mention a bit bloody and violent too). Like Frankie Rose before them, the Brooklyn ladies of Golden Triangle/Xray Eyeballs (Alix Brown and Carly Rabalais) show a surprising amount of skin. Check the video, which also stars members of The Pains of Being Pure at Heart and Girls at Dawn, for the first time below.

Xray Eyeballs play DC tonight (3/7) as part of a tour through SXSW that ends on 3/26 in Ohio. All tour dates and the new album tracklisting are below...

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Xray Eyeballs "Crystal"

Xray Eyeballs' Debut LP, Not Nothing Tracklisting:
1. Crystal
2. Nightwalkers
3. Egyptian Magician
4. Po' Jam
5. Drums Not Dead
6. Broken Beds
7. Xray Eyeballs Theme
8. Big Toe
9. Kam Sing Knights
10. Fake Wedding
11. Escape From That Girl

XRAY EYEBALLS - 2011 TOUR DATES
3/7 - Black Cat - Washington, DC*
3/9 - Pinhook - Durham, NC &
3/10 - Little KIngs - Athens, GA
3/11 - 529 - Atlanta, GA
3/12 - Savannah Stopover Festival - Savannah, GA
3/13 - Siberia - New Orleans, LA
3/14 - Warehouse Live - Houston, TX
3/15 - 3/20 - SXSW - Austin, TX
3/22 - Valley of the Vapors Festival - Hot Springs, AK
3/23 - Hi Tone - Memphis, TN $
3/24 - Schubas Tavern - Chicago, IL %
3/25 - Atlas Bar - Detroit, MI @
3/26 - Beachland Ballroom - Cleveland, OH

* w/JEFF the Brotherhood
& w/Spider Bags
$ w/Surf City, PUJOL, Turbo Fruits
% w/Nones
@ w/Terrible Twos

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Tags: Golden Triangle, X-Ray Eyeballs, Xray Eyeballs
posted at 5:20 PM on March 7, 2011 in music | tour dates | video | Comments (68)

Comments (68)

This is Brunchwave.

Posted by Anonymous | March 7, 2011 5:27 PM

How is this "NSFW" if it's on YouTube? Laaaaame attempt to grab click thrus.

Posted by Anonymous | March 7, 2011 5:53 PM

"How is this "NSFW" if it's on YouTube?"

that question makes no sense. did u watch it?

Posted by Anonymous | March 7, 2011 6:11 PM

these kids used to be into my chemical romance like 2 weeks ago.

Posted by Anonymous | March 7, 2011 6:16 PM

actually they used to be in golden triangle 2 weeks ago

Posted by Anonymous | March 7, 2011 6:18 PM

I can get behind the "brunchwave" thing if hummus is being served.

Posted by Anonymous | March 7, 2011 6:24 PM

I approve of this video

Posted by Anonymous | March 7, 2011 6:29 PM

I was inspired by New York City in the late-night hours. Just ending up at random places with random people and situations and exposure to danger and shady things

Wow that is some silly naive comments there worshiping the NY brand put forth by bad movies.
Not that NY doesnt have "shady" things, but boy that sounded cliche and dumb.

Posted by Anonymous | March 7, 2011 6:34 PM

it's mardi gras in brooklyn!

Posted by Rat Nagourney | March 7, 2011 6:37 PM

"garage rock" is boring. titties.

Posted by Anonymous | March 7, 2011 6:38 PM

If this song came on while I was out dancing, I would take a piss break.

Posted by Anonymous | March 7, 2011 6:38 PM

If this song came on while I was at brunch, I'd order another round of bellini's for me and my friends.

Posted by Anonymous | March 7, 2011 6:46 PM

um, I think tonight's DC show is with Heavy Cream not JEFF the Brotherhood.

Posted by Anonymous | March 7, 2011 6:47 PM

Carly = punk rock Mia Farrow

Posted by Anonymous | March 7, 2011 6:50 PM

"I like going out dancing, and I wanted to make a song that DJs can throw on and make people dance at the immediate drop of the needle, or right when the bassline kicks in."

Well, better luck next time.

Posted by Anonymous | March 7, 2011 6:50 PM

my penis just danced!

Posted by shit needle | March 7, 2011 7:05 PM

vomiting is so IN right now!

Posted by Anonymous | March 7, 2011 7:09 PM

this would have looked way better on film. I know, that sounds pretentious, but whatever. Fucking amateurs

Posted by anonhummus | March 7, 2011 7:11 PM

"it's mardi gras in brooklyn!"

you have obviously never been to Mardi Gras. and possibly not even Brooklyn.

Posted by Anonymous | March 7, 2011 7:12 PM

"this would have looked way better on film. I know, that sounds pretentious, but whatever. Fucking amateurs"

Another loser with a 7D

Posted by Anonymous | March 7, 2011 7:18 PM

"Another loser with a 7D"

No, I'm another loser who doesn't have a camera of any kind.

Posted by Anonhummus | March 7, 2011 7:23 PM

How do you say "boring" in Dutch, French and Spanish?

Posted by Anonymous | March 7, 2011 7:24 PM

Brunchgolf, Brunchvague and Brunchondulación

Posted by Anonymous | March 7, 2011 7:27 PM

"Another loser with a 7D"

"No, I'm another loser who doesn't have a camera of any kind."

Noooo I was agreeing with you and calling these people losers

Posted by Anonymous | March 7, 2011 7:32 PM

Are dudes starting to look like Courtney Taylor-Taylor because I can totally support that.

Posted by Anonymous | March 7, 2011 7:32 PM

Another loser with a 7.5.

Posted by Anonymous | March 7, 2011 8:38 PM

"Noooo I was agreeing with you and calling these people losers"

says the really attractive (i'm sure) nobody who sits around insulting people he doesn't know on blogs. Go create something, dick.

Posted by pfft | March 7, 2011 8:55 PM

This was a good video

Posted by Anonymous | March 7, 2011 9:17 PM

and it still is

Posted by Anonymous | March 7, 2011 9:17 PM

It's gothtastic

Posted by Anonymous | March 7, 2011 9:28 PM

n1ggaz l1ke hummuss

Posted by Anonymous | March 7, 2011 9:39 PM

cool vid

Posted by Anonymous | March 7, 2011 9:43 PM

just like heaven is better

Posted by Anonymous | March 7, 2011 9:52 PM

just like alix brown is better

Posted by Anonymous | March 7, 2011 10:30 PM

I watched the video hoping for some nudity. I got 1.5 seconds a little bit of tit.

But man, thats some shitty, shitty music. Thanks, nudity, for inspiring me to avoid this band.

Posted by Anonymous | March 7, 2011 10:48 PM

OH! I totally saw that dude during Bruise Cruise. So that's who he is...

Posted by Anonymous | March 7, 2011 10:59 PM

tug on ya cock mate

Posted by Anonymous | March 7, 2011 11:01 PM

FIsher Price "My First Video". Mazel, kids!

Posted by SPK | March 7, 2011 11:03 PM

YO ONE TIME I NUTTED ON A GIRL'S TITTIES AND THEN WE ATE CORN DOGS TOGETHER!

Posted by Anonymous | March 7, 2011 11:08 PM

at least its not as boring as Widows Peak or one of those other boring reverb bands.

Posted by Anonymous | March 7, 2011 11:14 PM

widows peak is like eating garbage

Posted by Anonymous | March 7, 2011 11:31 PM

does the doll come with the 7"

Posted by Anonymous | March 8, 2011 12:16 AM

this is just.... really bad.

Posted by Anonymous | March 8, 2011 2:10 AM

i just did a spit-take watching this while eating cheerios. entertaining.

Posted by Anonymous | March 8, 2011 7:15 AM

is this better than the jacuzzi boys?

Posted by Anonymous | March 8, 2011 8:16 AM

cool tits but this song is terrible

Posted by Anonymous | March 8, 2011 9:26 AM

Why is it that BV commentators always have to shit on anything that's actually cool but can never name anything they consider is? HATERS!

Posted by Anonymous | March 8, 2011 9:27 AM

this isnt actually cool by a long shot. i bet you're in the band.

Posted by Anonymous | March 8, 2011 9:37 AM

These folks need Auto Tune

Posted by Anonymous | March 8, 2011 10:25 AM

Those are the kind of girls I wanna hang around with , not the kind where its all about make up and jewelery , not the ones that just dont get off your back , just fun girls , and being in a band makes them like a million times more awesome.

Posted by Anonymous | March 8, 2011 10:30 AM

"Yeah and then we'll have a bathtub scene but we'll fill the tub with bubble bath so we'll really only have to show, like 1/4 of a boob each to get people to talk about it." The voudou doll idea isn't terrible but the NSFW element here is waaaaaaay gratuitous and lame.

Posted by Anonymous | March 8, 2011 10:40 AM

This is so fun! Also, I really really like the song!

Posted by Anonymous | March 8, 2011 10:49 AM

Every day something comes along that is worse than the day before.

Posted by Anonymous | March 8, 2011 11:01 AM

So he's dead because he didn't follow record store etiquette?

Posted by Anonymous | March 8, 2011 11:07 AM

"Why is it that BV commentators always have to shit on anything that's actually cool but can never name anything they consider is? HATERS!"

yeah totally! this is cool!!!

Posted by Anonymous | March 8, 2011 12:08 PM

10:30 - yeah its totally cool for women to degrade and whore themselves out to sell records - its so bohemian! its so feminist! brunch-step!

Posted by Anonymous | March 8, 2011 1:48 PM

TOOTH IMPRINTS ON A CORN DOG!

Posted by Anonymous | March 8, 2011 2:16 PM

Do you REALLY think this video degrades them? At the very least, it shows they are capable of letting loose and having some fun without letting words like bohemian and feminist cram up their butts.

Posted by Anonymous | March 8, 2011 2:17 PM

Not bad until the vocals. Then it had to be stopped.

Posted by Anonymous | March 8, 2011 2:46 PM

this is a good video and song. i like it.

Posted by Anonymous | March 8, 2011 4:27 PM

all this and nobody talking about how kanine is the worst label on earth

Posted by Anonymous | March 8, 2011 6:08 PM

This is music for total musical losers. Also not even cool tits.

Posted by Anonymous | March 9, 2011 1:26 PM

1:26

Show us ya tits mate

Posted by Anonymous | March 9, 2011 8:28 PM

mardi gras!!!!

Posted by Anonymous | March 9, 2011 8:46 PM

mardi gwar!!!!

Posted by Anonymous | March 9, 2011 8:50 PM

Always love a good NSFW post! Kind of a creepy looking bunch of people if you ask me!

Posted by nsfw | April 15, 2011 4:19 AM

6:08, I kinda like Dinowalrus.

Posted by Anonymous | April 19, 2011 8:42 PM

hi

Posted by Anonymous | December 15, 2011 5:22 PM

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