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NAME: The ThermalsPROGRESS REPORT: Releasing their fourth LP, Now We Can See, on April 7 (Kill Rock Stars). Recorded at Supernatural Sound in Oregon City.Portland's Thermals have released three LPs of consistently great punk rock. The changes between them have been of degrees: on each album they get a little more polished, a little more political, a little angrier. The band's next LP, Now We Can See, was written during 2007 and 2008, but there's something about it that seems to fit the mood of the country: it's a little more optimistic. "People say 'cautious optimism.' That's how we're approaching the first Obama term. But I think that's a pretty good phrase. That's gonna describe our record too," says guitarist/vocalist Hutch Harris. The band's 2006 record, The Body, The Blood, The Machine, drew the map of a country ruled by fascists and Christian extremists, where the only means of escape was running away and never looking behind you. This record finds a sort of self-awareness through another escape: death. "When we say, 'Now we can see,' we say, 'Now that we're dead we know everything and now we finally learned something,' explains Harris. "There's a lot of death on the record. It definitely picks up where we left off on the last album. It's songs about life from the perspective of death."
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The long-running, hard-pogoing Portland punk trio the Thermals will drop their new album Desperate Ground in a couple of months, and first single is a righteous rager called “Born To Kill,” an anthemic call-to-arms that ends in less than two minutes. It’s not like this band ever got pretentious, even at their most a...
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The Thermals’ video for “Not Like Any Other Feeling” has a charming lo-fi look to it, from the chalk-drawn sets to the cardboard television set. According to the band, the video took six months to film in Seattle and Bellingham Washington. The animations were drawn onto a giant piece of a wall surrounding the Sound ...
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The Thermals: – “Never Listen To Me”
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Here’s another one from The Thermals’s latest, Personal Life. It’s the second single (after “I Don’t Believe You“), and it’ll be available on 7-inch on 10/19.The Thermals – “Never Listen To Me”Personal Life is out now via Kill Rock Stars.
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Weezer: Thermals Cover Weezer
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Weezer alert: the Thermals, a band that is not Weezer, covered Weezer’s “My Name Is Jonas” at their show in Bend, Oregon last night. They played it as part of the band’s encore, because it’s a crowd-pleaser. Watch:(via Frequency)
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Carrie Brownstein stars in this funny video for Personal Life single “I Don’t Believe You.” Directed by Whitey McConnaughy, who has also directed videos for Band Of Horses and the Gossip. Watch until the end for the twist:(via P4K)Personal Life is out 9/7 via Kill Rock Stars.
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