Peaking Lights Video on Vice TV

Vice TV/VBS' new SOUND BUILDER series started last week with a video following Peaking Lights around on their tour. Amazing scenes from the band that made Imaginary Falcons, one of our Top 5 albums of 2009.

Visit the site over HERE, or just watch it here (but I did leave a nice and insightful response to a misguided commenter, which you'll obviously want to go and read):



Here's the Vice intro:

"We travel to Madison, Wisconsin to visit Peaking Lights, a married musical duo famed for their pulsating looped-rhythm tracks composed on re-purposed scraps, stereos, and lo-fi gear. We watch as husband and wife prepare for tour by paring their studio down to the bare essentials needed to produce Peaking Lights’ distinctive sound.
While we were hanging out, we got a peek into Aron’s completely untechnical, yet highly rigorous process of Frankensteining long forgotten consumer electronics. Using the most unassuming hunks of wood, metal, and plastic, Peaking Lights produce surprising and highly personal results."

HedgeHog

HedgeHog are a power pop trio from China, two boys one girl that briefly featured in a VBS TV Music World documentary.

Atom(阿童木) plays the drums better than Meg White, but only just, and the two guys Box(博宣) and Zo(子健) make an ultra melodic shoegazey Sonic Youth/Pavement indie noise that sticks in your head like glue covered chopsticks. I could describe their history but their website does it better:


"In the spring of 2007 they make contract with ModernSky which is the most famous independent music company in china. When ZO BoX and ATOM met each other in January 2005 they decided to make a fantastic band named "HedgeHog". These Beijing Boys&Girl who create simple, hooky songs have become the sexy point of the BigCity. And the record [HAPPY IDLE KID] which released in 2006 greatly hit the Chinese conservational Rock&Roll"

They released Noise Hit World in 2007 and now they have a new record out this month called Blue Daydream. Check it!

Hedgehog Myspace: www.myspace.com/hedgehogcn