S4LEM, Santos Party House 3/19/11

 

doctorzachary:  haha

hmm i like how this is my only photo that i snapped last night

http://twitpic.com/4bc2kz

it's how i want to remember it

me:  can i put that on soldout

doctorzachary:  of course

 i wish i had a great photo of john

so we could call the article "GANDALF SWAG"

Chicken daddy swag

So S4LEM 's big headlining New York show was meh. Relatively unmemorable if not for the witch house cover of Alice Deejay's "Better Off Alone" (a trick they used on their 'Raver Stay Wif Me' mixtape)....and one of the support acts, Lil Ugly Mane, who graced us with this amazing piece of composition: "Chicken Daddy".

Salem: Getting To The Root

 It's been what feels like ages (but is in fact a year) since we sat down with Salem during 2010's South By Southwest festival. In that time, they've released a stunning debut record--one of our favorites of the last year--and continued to amass controversy.In anticipation of their forthcoming NYC show at Santos Party House (if we were into labeling things in a fashion akin to Lil' B, someone who actually finds a kindred spirit in the weird earnestness of Salem's Jack Donoghue, John Holland and Heather Marlatt, we'd call this a #rare #based performance), we caught up with Jack, John and Heather via email to discuss music critics (particularly Chris Weingarten), song lyrics and being the poster children for a scene. And what we found out...was amazing. These guys, after everything, are just three friends who enjoy making music. Sharing it with the world? They're cool with that, also. The fact that some people like it? That's just a plus. Strip away the ascribed image and you'll find what we did: there's no manipulation, no metaphor, no ulterior motive behind these words. Read them for yourself and realize: S4LEM: they're just like you and I.

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Our gift (guide) to you.

We have seen about 500 different gift guides over the past three weeks but none of them really appealed to our refined tastes.  Where's the gift roundup for young fans of Stevie Nicks who wear too-tight black jeans and silver jewelry and lurk in the corner of underground after-hours clubs and occasionally indulge in a watermelon-fourLOKO-and-cough syrup cocktail.  WHERE'S THE WITCHHOUSE GIFT GUIDE?

We realized, of course, that everyone was leaving that one up to us.  And so we present to you, dear readers, the least-cheery gift guide of all.  Happy holidays or whatever from your friends at soldout.

A Witch House/Grave Wave/Fuckcore Gift Guide from Soldout.

 Starting off easy and obvious...

SALEM on vinyl, for your live-mixing needs.  And cuz it's classier than the illegal download you've been listening to all year..

SALEM King Night on Vinyl, $12.99

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SALEM SOLDOUT

From the times magazine style pages.

So the band whose members couldn't bother to wake up for the NYT interview now lets the Times dress them up in Alexander McQueen? (413xaNdr Mc2u33n?)  John (We meant Jack, sorry. I think if we know anything it's who is who in Salem, Marley just wanted to get this up as quickly as possible given that we were all WTF SALEM + ALEXANDESTER CROWLEY MCQUEEN WTF--Ed.)

 got to wear his own white tee, although he's stylin an $1800 foxtail. And I'm sure slightly soiled off white white tees are Dior Homme's next big thing. 

...there's a selling out and soldout. pun in there...can you make it for us?