As promised, here's the latest installment of our "Apartment Stories" series, with Toronto's Still Life Still. In the middle of their month-long weekly residency at New York's Mercury Lounge in January, the guys — who have been making music together since they were 13 — were kind enough to let us invade their Brooklyn apartment for an afternoon, where they debuted a new song, "Werewolves."
Still Life Still are currently on tour with the Wild Beasts. Dates after the jump.
When we named The Bloodsugars as our favorite new band of 2009, it was on two merits: the strong tunes that make up their debut album and their impressively energetic live show.
Those same two merits, plus the fact that they've pretty much earned the status of "band we force anyone with a half-mile radius to listen to" here at soldout, also netted them a prime slot at our soldoutmusic launch part at Santos Party House in NY on Feb 10.
To celebrate the upcoming launch, we recently crammed the guys of The Bloodsugars into soldout Liz's apartment for a soldout Aparment Story session-1 flipcam, 1 song stripped to its bare essentials, no redoes or editing.
Atlanta’s Tealights recently self-released their first E.P., Take Us By Sea, and it is hands and feet and heads and tails and faces and arms and all that, too, above and beyond the best, most forward-thinking thing I’ve heard in 2009. Glistening pop melodies and gorgeous boy/girl vocal-interplay combined with clued-in stuttering electronics and classical instrumentation-I swear if there was a Tigerbeat for electropop Tealights would be cover stars.
When they were in NY over the past weekend for two shows-one at Matchless in Brooklyn which sadly couldn’t happen because of van issues (“take us by sea”, indeed!) and one at The Tank in Manhattan, Tealights filmed their first-ever acoustic take on my favorite of their songs, “Passport”…on a couch in a Manhattan apartment.
Thus is born soldout’s “Apartment Stories”-one great band, one great song stripped down to its essence, in an apartment, nothing plugged in instrument-wise. And, kicking it off? Tealights, with “Passport”
Tealights: Passport (Apartment Stories session)
Photos from the Apartment Stories Session:
Mary Tealight
Brett Tealight
Nancy Tealight
Mikey Tealight
Yes, all of their last names are “Tealight”.
Visit Tealights’ website and online store for spiffy shirts, EPs (produced by Snowden’s Jordan Jeffares) and other Tealight love, and watch soldout for more live Tealights film.
Still Life Still, 
