The submissions have been read and the judges' votes have been tallied and we officially have the winners for the MOC Virgins Contest.

Thanks to all who submitted and played along at home. The winner of the MOC Virgins Contest with a submitted tale of real life grand theft auto is dontlosehope.
She will get: (1) Autographed Ltd Edition Poster and The Virgins 12" 180 gram Vinyl (full record)

2nd place goes to xleighxcore
She'll get: (1) Ltd Edition Virgins 7” Import

and 3rd place goes to Reagan
She wins (1) Virgins Button pack

Thanks again to everyone.

The winning entry:
When i was fourteen years old i moved to Las Vegas, NV from a small town in Oregon. One of my first friends was trouble. I lived with my Grandma and my Grandpa. They were always worried about me because i would sit on the phone in my room and talk for hours. Little did they know i was on dating hotlines all night with perverted mid twenty year old men. One day my friend convinced me to steal my Mother's car keys to go to the local store. I grabbed them out of her purse, snook out and took off in the minivan. We picked up strangers on the way and almost killed ourselves. We finally arrived to our destination scratch-free and when we were ready to head back, it locked into park. We sat there freaking out..close to breaking the shift eventually figured it out. The next day my Grandpa told my mom that when he was watering the lawn he saw me take off in the van with my troubled friend.

My mom didn't believe him because i never had driving lessons. so eventually i admitted to it when i got older..and it is still held against me to this day at age 22.



The Virgins The Virgins album is out now.

With the instant availability of live performance videos on the internet, why are you still buying tickets and actually going to shows? The Blogotheque aka Take Away Shows and Black Cab Sessions exist to show bands performing in intimate settings. Well, here’s another one, Handheld Shows.

Using the now proven premise of taking bands away from their normal securities and filming a new version of their material, Handheld Shows already have a number of performances under their belt including shows by St. Vincent, The Black Lips, The Pigeon Detectives, El Perro Del Mar and Tyler Ramsey.

Prediction is that in 2 years On Stage In Front of a Crowd Shows will be all the rage on the internet.


#3.1 The Blow - How Naked Are We Gonna Get from Handheld Shows on Vimeo.

Handheld Shows

[via Rawkblog]

They think it will make you want new shoes but instead you will most likely feel uncomfortable. Not to mention all of the questions you're gonna have to ask yourself.

Kissing With Ross

You heard it was coming and now it’s here. Directed by Andy Bruntel.



Video: No Age “Eraser”

At last week’s Hove Festival, Animal Collective took the opportunity to run through the Panda Bear penned “Daily Routine”. The track has a Who-esque opening but then quickly heads back to AC territory.

The footage captures the band right before they were fully engulfed by purple smoke.



Animal Collective “Daily Routing” Live at Hove Fest

Yeah, not happening. Ever since the Libertines went kaboom, there have been rumors about chief Libertines songwriters Pete Doherty and Carl Barat regrouping to work together again. And once again the rumors have proven to be rubbish. At least for the time being.

The most persistent rumors were of Barat and Doherty not working on a Libertines rehashing but instead working together on writing a new musical. Many had hoped that that would lead to a Libertines reunion but both are apparently off the table for the time being.

In what has to be the best quote ever, Carl Barat said "I'm too busy concentrating on my other projects," he said. "I haven't seen Pete for donkeys. The musical is off – the window closes."

Time will tell if these two ever do work together again. And for all of you haters, educate yourselves. Up the Bracket is easily one of the best albums in the past few years. These two writing together again would be epic. Epic I say.

Barat and Doherty Not Writing a Fancy Little Musical Together

In order to be a legendary band, you must have a Daniel Johnston cover in your repertoire. Somebody let Spiritualized know that and the band has recorded a live cover of Johnston’s “True Love Will Find You In the End” for the “Soul On Fire” UK Single.

Pierce’s former co-conspirator Spectrum also covered this song first giving him dibs if the two ever end up on a tribute disc.

Spiritualized “True Love Will Find You In the End” Cover

Man Grows Out of Hole In Ground.

Hey, the Old Lady Isn’t Home, Let’s Go Break In. Say, What’s On These Videotapes? Oh Good God.

♪ I Want Chicken / I Want Liver / Meow Mix Meow Mix Now For Children ♪

Bill Clinton Says Obama Must “Kiss My Ass” For Support. Obama Declines Because He Knows Where That Ass Has Been.

You Can’t Take It With You So … I’m Gonna Need That.

Young Boy With OCD Thought His Actions Caused 9/11 Attacks. Boy Is He Going to Be Relieved.

Florida: Forever Making Leaps and Bounds to Move Backwards.

You Know How Everyone Always Says Russian Mail Order Brides Are the Way to Go? Might Want to Rethink That.

Student Tells Teacher Where to Go, Teacher Gives Him 2 Points for It and a “See Me After Class, Wink Wink”.

Victoria Has a Burning Secret.

Photo: West Digital

No Age will premiere the video for “Eraser” on FN MTV tonight (8pm) from the recently released Nouns, No Age’s Sub Pop Debut. Guitarist Randy Randall was great enough to speak with us here at MakeOutClub.


• Most people are aware that No Age came about from the dissolution of the band Wives. How did Wives begin?
Wives started, um, just through some mutual friends. I knew the drummer (Jeremy Villalobos) and the drummer knew Dean (Allen Spunt). So we became friends just from going to shows and hanging around LA. And yeah the idea was ‘Hey, we should all play music together’. That’s how I met Dean under the guise of ‘hey you should meet my other friend and we should all play’ so that’s how that all started.

• No Age’s initial releases came in the form of 5 different EPs on 5 different labels. How did that decision come about?
It was kind of a crapshoot for us. It was a funny idea. We had just started this band, we didn’t really want to make a record, we felt like we had ideas that were going in a lot of different directions. It just felt too soon to record a whole record cause it felt like we were a good band writing kind of small songs. It just sort of seemed… we wanted to do it in a big way. Make small records in a big way. So the idea was to come up with (and we easily thought this was never gonna happen, no one was gonna agree to do it), we kind of came up with the idea to release 5 EPs at the same time, on 5 different labels in 5 different countries. The kind of stuff you just happen to come across in, you know, a 7” bin. And you know ‘oh, what’s this? never heard of these guys’ in a way that’s more small community based. You weren’t gonna see it at a store, or something. It was gonna be something you’d come across, you know, flipping through vinyl.

• How was the process been changed with Sub Pop, in terms of recording and putting an album out?
Right um, it kind of felt like we really want to make a record where we sit down and kind of shape everything and listen to the songs and kind of take a step back and kind of see how it fits together as a whole unit you know? All the songs, do they compliment each other? Compliment meaning any number of things, in our minds you know, do they fit? Was it a balanced record? So we went about writing songs that way and if we felt there was a sound that wasn’t on the record that we wanted to hear, we would write a song that would express that.

• Did you have the same freedom with the Sub Pop record (Nouns) that you had with the previous EPs?
Oh yeah, totally. We actually started recording Nouns, the Sub Pop record, before we were even on Sub Pop. A good number of the songs were already written. And we had an opportunity to record stuff. So we started recording before we knew even what label we were gonna be on. So it was definitely the same way, we turned it in and you know, there was no notes or anything you know, after the record, that’s it. We paid for it, here it is.

• Have you noticed the reception on the road has changed? Are you getting a different crowd now?
Ah you know, not really. I feel like it’s pretty cool and pretty consistent. I feel like it’s a lot of people that we either know or a friend of a friend or at least that’s how it feels from the people that come and talk to us. Seems fairly organic and pretty normal.

• What are some of the cities and venues you really like to go to?
Um, where do I like to go? I really like um, good question, the Triple Rock in Minneapolis is a great club you know. Liars and us played there to nobody but everybody there was cool and real nice to us. They still gave us a meal and some drink tickets even though we didn’t bring, you know, we probably brought like 10 people in there. So places like that that are totally supportive and cool. They’re still cool when nobody gave a shit who we are. Ah, that place is really cool and also we really love the Todd P shows in New York. He doesn’t have a single venue or solitary venue, he kind of does it in different places but he’s an old friend.


• A lot of mention was made a few months ago when Colin Greenwood (Radiohead) had a No Age shirt on…
(RR laughs)
Was that a surprise to you guys?
Ah, no not really, well, the idea of Colin Greenwood at all, first, was a surprise but we were notified. His people got in touch with our people, I think his record label got in touch with our record label and said he was gonna come to the show. We played a show just outside of London and he came with his wife and a friend who’s a photographer. He was so cool. It was just surprising you know we were like ‘oh wow, that’s the guy from Radiohead’ but his wife came up and said that she was a fan and that she grew up kind of listening to the DC hardcore music and so she was a fan of our music and also she had said that they had played Weirdo Rippers, the album before Nouns, in the car and the kids would like play along, like air drums, play along with it. So I feel like maybe Colin got dragged in by his wife, and I don’t know if, she may have put him up to wearing the shirt. But they were also really nice and bought a whole bunch of merch. We would’ve given it to them but they insisted on paying for it.

•Have any you had any other attention or support from other bands like that since?
Um, I don’t know. No, definitely not from anybody we don’t know. Like the guys from Liars. We had known, just from living in LA, so that was really awesome they asked us. So it’s cool with those guys but yeah, you know nothing really that crazy.

•Growing up in LA, were there any memorable shows that you went to that let you know that this is what I want to do?
Wow, um yeah. I think probably one of the first shows I went to where I really felt like I could do this was, I saw Mike Watt play solo at the Smell in North Hollywood, its first location. And it was definitely, I walked away from the best show with a firm belief in my head that I could do that. There’s no way that I’m not gonna do that and that totally made sense that that was what I wanted to do.

• What is next for No Age?
We’re gonna do this tour with Abe Vigoda all around the US; Abe Vigoda and Mika Miko and then we keep touring. We go back to Europe and bounce around for awhile and then I think we’re gonna sit down and start working on new ideas you know we’ve kind of been writing small parts and pieces of things but after these tours we’ll start to fit them together for the next record.

•Would that planned to be a full length or another EP?
Um, I don’t know. We’re really excited about doing another EP but yeah, I don’t know. I think in a sort of way…we’ll just wait and see how the pieces all fit together. The other thing we’re gonna work on is the music video for the song “Teen Creeps”.

No Age's "Eraser" Video Premieres Tonight on FN MTV. Nouns Is Available Now.

Constantly being the opening band gets old. People talking, looking for their seats, ordering at the bar… you can either constantly yell “shut up” from the stage or find a plan b. If you garner enough attention, your plan b can be headlining your own tour.

After busting their humps in opening slots for Xiu Xiu and Rilo Kiley, Thao and the Get Down Stay Down are getting the chance to go out on their own.

Starting next month, TATGDSD will be headlining a tour month tour across North America including dates with tune-yards, Horse Feathers, David Schultz and the Skyline and Pepi Ginsberg.

7/19 Columbus, OH @ Milo
7/20 Cincinnati, OH @ Northside Tavern - w/ tune-yards
7/22 St Louis, MO @ Off Broadway - w/ tune-yards
7/23 Des Moines, IA @ Vaudeville Mews - w/ tune-yards
7/24 Denver, CO @ Hi Dive - w/ tune-yards
7/25 Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court - w/ tune-yards
7/26 Stanley, ID @ Pioneer Park
7/29 Portland, OR @ Holocene - w/ Horse Feathers, Harper Simon
7/31 San Francisco, CA @ Independent - w/ Horse Feathers
8/1 Irvine, CA @ Phoenix Grille @ UC Irvine - w/ Horse Feathers
8/2 Los Angeles, CA @ Troubadour - w/ Horse Feathers
8/3 San Diego, CA @ Casbah - w/ Horse Feathers
8/4 Tucson, AZ @ Solar Culture - w/ Horse Feathers
8/5 Lubbock, TX @ Bash Riprock's - w/ Horse Feathers
8/6 Austin, TX @ Emo's - w/ Horse Feathers
8/7 Dallas, TX @ Club Dada - w/ Horse Feathers
8/8 Lawrence, KS @ Jackpot Music Hall - w/ David Schultz and the Skyline
8/9 Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle - w/ David Schultz and the Skyline
8/11 Northampton, MA @ Iron Horse - w/ David Schultz and the Skyline, Pepi Ginsberg
12 Cambridge, MA @ TT The Bear's - w/ David Schultz and the Skyline, Pepi Ginsberg
8/13 New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom - w/ David Schultz and the Skyline, Pepi Ginsberg
8/14 Washington, DC @ Black Cat - w/ David Schultz and the Skyline, Pepi Ginsberg

Thao and the Get Down Stay Down to Tour