The new New Pornographers?

Neko Case has been keeping busy on the road lately, recording with the Dodos, spending lots of time with Jakob Dylan, and even sometimes playing with her band The New Pornographers, so it's nice to know that she (and the rest of the New Pornos) got the day off when they were making the video for "Moves" from their recent album Together.

In their place is a cast of funny characters including Julie Klausner (as Neko), Jon Wurster (as one version of Carl Newman), Kevin Corrigan (as Dan Bejar), and Ted Leo (as Kathryn Calder). Also look for Todd Barry, Other Music, Death By Audio, Wyatt Cenac, a mound of cocaine, Gabe Delahaye, Max Silvestri, Horatio Sanz, Bill Hader and Paul Rudd (the cast of Expectant Dads) and many more in the Tom Scharpling (who directed this Ted Leo masterpiece) directed video, that you can watch with full credits listed, below...

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photos by Greg Cristman, words by Black Bubblegum

Village Voice: So who is this band Faust? I don't think I've ever read about them on Stereogum.

WFMU Music Director Brian Turner: Oh wow....well...

I'm just kidding.

Oh (Laughs.) I'm sorry...

But how did you get them? They don't really tour the States that often.

I think they had been wanting to come over for years, but it's fairly involved with them doing a big tour, they drag a lot of stuff around with them, apparently. I think on their last tour they had a sheep as well as tons of heavy industrial stuff.

A sheep?

Yeah, I think they had a sheep on their last tour that they'd bring out as this symbolic thing of peace.

Oh. What did they do with the sheep?

I didn't see those shows, I'm not quite sure. I think it just wandered around or something. I know they had a sheep every night. But they would also go down to railroad tracks and get a lot of broken glass and debris and industrial stuff and bring it in.

No sheep this time, but Krautrockers Faust still made a go of it as headliners of the first night of WFMU Fest at Music Hall of Williamsburg. Support for the evening came from Aluk Todolo (who also played Union Pool on 10/4) and the new Wesley Eisold (XO Skeletons, Give Up The Ghost, Some Girls) project Cold Cave.

Cold Cave recently released Cremations on Hospital Productions, as well as Love Comes Close on Eisold's Heartworm Press. The latter is being re-released by Matador in November. The band is prepping to tour the UK in the tail end of October, but will be back in NYC with Sonic Youth at Terminal 5 on Nov 21. That show is sold out.

Cold Cave member Dominick Fernow, recently released the new Prurient, Rose Pillar via Heartworm. Fernow also runs Hospital Productions.

Faust are still touring the US, concluding with dates in Athens, Ga this weekend. Before Brooklyn they played a show and a workshop in Philly. After Brooklyn they headed north for Pop Montreal.

The rest of the pictures, and tour dates for Cold Cave and Faust, below...

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Photos by Lori Baily

Killdozer are back (for now), and this past Sunday, November 2nd, they played a NYC show at Knitting Factory with openers Hunchback (from New Brunswick) and Awesome Color. Two days later (yesterday) they played a live set on Brian Turner's show on WFMU. Listen to that at WFMU's site.

Killdozer only have one more scheduled show left, and it will be in Austin this weekend at Fun Fun Fun Fest. More KF pictures and the setlist (Neil Diamond cover included) below...

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