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Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Live at WNYC: Les Savy Fav

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2010

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

A special set of songs from Brooklyn art-rock band Les Savy Fav, featuring Tim Harrington and Seth Jabour. Les Savy Fav's newest album is "Root for Ruin".

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Julia from San Francisco. I'm Scott from Seattle. I'm Hart from Portland, Oregon. The

0:05.4

Sound of Young America is produced independently and supported by listeners like you and me. You should

0:10.7

support the show like I did. Just visit maximumfund.org slash donate. I'm Jesse Thorne live on tape from

0:17.9

my house in Los Angeles. It's the Sound of Young America from maximumfund.org and PRI public radio

0:24.6

international. It's the Sound of Young America. The musical guests at our live in New York

0:35.3

City show were Tim Harrington and Seth Jubur from Las Avifas doing a special set of their songs

0:41.4

throughout the night that we've stitched together for this podcast. The first of them is hit by train.

0:46.8

Just real quick, the audience can see this, the house can see this, but for folks at home,

0:55.8

Tim Harrington, you're... I thought it was going to be a live just broadcast,

1:02.5

not with people. And you're wearing a robe and frankly what look like quite nice pajamas.

1:10.5

Yeah, I just... I was... I had a real bad misunderstanding about Seth. Didn't call me. Nope.

1:18.7

Take full responsibility. Seth, you're fully dressed. I want to be clear. There are two members

1:23.3

of Las Avifas here. You're going to go fully. He's not wearing underwear.

1:29.6

So guys, this is sort of an unusual set that you're going to play. It's just you, Tim, and you,

1:36.4

Seth, you typically it's the full band. What are we going to see tonight?

1:41.5

These songs that we've recorded over the years, whenever we go to Australia, we make these

1:46.6

weird seven inches that don't sell. Are bands, if anybody... I haven't heard of my band?

1:52.4

Thanks to the rest of you didn't. It's not like this. The Australian song sound a little bit more

1:57.8

like a school play type songs. And this one we're going to play is actually about getting hit by the

2:05.4

subway. It's kind of funny though. But it's kind of touching. Just like the sound of being America.

2:12.4

That's what we thought. Las Avifas.

2:29.3

That's okay. That's part of...

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