Viceland.com - MANGIA! - Il Nuovo Capo Delle First Nation

Le First Nation sono Melissa, Nina, e Kate. Hanno passato gli ultimi due anni a jammare insieme, tirando fuori vibrazioni sensazionali. Tutta questa enorme jam che è la loro vita troverà il culmine su un jammosissimo album che sta per uscire per la Paw Tracks, l’etichetta degli Animal Collective.

Nel frattempo sono state in tour con i Collective e i BARR, vale a dire una delle line up migliori che si possano ricordare negli ultimi dieci anni e per cui potrai dire “Io c’ero”.

Melissa suona la batteria, Nina la chitarra e Kate le tastiere. Anche se si alternano volentieri, perché sono molto amiche e si sa, fra amiche condividere è una gioia. Addirittura cantano tutte insieme. Tutto ciò produce un suono davvero delizioso, sano e riposante che ti fa sentire improvvisamente bene.

Avevamo pensato di organizzare una gara di torte fra le ragazze, e la vincitrice sarebbe stata il boss della band per un mese. Ma è venuto fuori che Nina è vegana, e le torte vegane non sono così facili da trovare. Abbiamo optato per dei dolcini vegani che abbiamo trovato. Tali dolci si sono rivelati così pesanti e difficili da masticare, che, ai fini della gara, sono risultati molto più adatti delle torte. Comunque, eccovi la cronaca del contest:

Vice: Pronti, Partenza, Via!

(Le ragazze si gettano sui dolci)

Nina: Cazzo, sono gommosissimi.

Kate: Mi serve del latte.

(sempre masticando)

Melissa: fatto!

Hai vinto! Ci hai messo 31 secondi.

Melissa: Non c’erano dubbi.

Ora sei il capo della band per un mese. Cosa vuoi che facciano per te?

Melissa: Oh no, sono un pessimo capo. Non lo so…

Nina: Che ne pensi se ti portiamo birra e popcorn per un mese?

Melissa: Si, che carine. Grazie a tutti, davvero.

MEG SNEED
Il singolo delle First Nation, Coronation, è fuori su Paw Tracks. A maggio dovrebbe uscire l’album.

Comments:

Subject: PROSPECT HUMMER...
Date: Apr 04 2006 12:07:51 PM
Author: d.p.moran.t

...is all you need to compare these girls to nicely done "jam" music.

Subject: "FIRST NATION" IDIOCY
Date: Mar 19 2006 04:20:52 PM
Author: roachbeard

When these girls played in Vancouver with AC, it was interesting that their native-fetish thing got mercilessly mocked whenever the name was mentioned.I felt sorry for them myself; way too wimpy to play the size of room that they were saddled with and they've probably never met a real "Indian" in their lives. East Coast hippie-savant fetishiztion of all things aboriginal tends to come off as inadvertant ignorance in places where the First Nations are a major part of the local culture. After a certain point of discussing how poseur their name was, they were referred to exclusively as "Native Pride". Coming to Winnipeg or Vancouver with a name like that is like playing in the Australian Outback as "The Aborigines". Not like more than a handful of First Nations people were there anyhow. But -and I know nobody cares because this magazine is so defiantly anti-P.C.- since aboriginal nations are autonomous peoples, "First Nations" is the nomenclature which best suits the current discourse in Canada. On the urban East Coast, indigenous people are largely historically distant ghosts with a "trippy" culture to thieve. Well-meaning hippies are cultural appropriators too, it would seem. Wait, haven't hippies always thieved from traditional cultures?

Subject: wtf
Date: Mar 18 2006 04:34:28 PM
Author: dasha

Major superiority to reading vice online: when you stumble across SHIT ASS retarded fucking good-for-nothing articles like this about some fag'ot bands that you don’t give two squirts of piss about, you can just click away and not be thwarted that a whole fucking page of a limited-page mag was waited on such scum.

Honestly. Props.

but I take that back for putting this pathetic excuse of an article out in the first place. Anywhere. Damn site.

YOU SUCK.

Subject: first nation
Date: Mar 18 2006 11:03:35 AM
Author: myspace.com/justineppie

yeah, i agree with max. i saw these chicks open up for animal collective recently and they totally reminded of that awful sound of when i first started "jamming" guitar with my friends at the age of 13. none of us had any idea what we were doing and our voices hadn't changed yet either so we sounded like a bunch of girls playing discordant, ummelodic, crappy music. i'm sure they're cool chicks in real life, but i have no idea why anybody would let them open up for a band as tight as animal collective. i remember during their whole performance i was thinking after every song "ok, i think they were just kidding about that last song. NOW, they're gonna get good." but, it never happened.

Subject: this band rules.
Date: Mar 17 2006 02:49:28 PM
Author: max

this is a fucking terrible "we're so different!" style band. unfortunately, "different" does not equal good. and if harmonies are your thing, you could at least have the decency to sing slightly on key. really offensive to the ears, you are.

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