Topic: Times New Viking

Times New Viking make noise, avoid backlash

For indie rock bands of the Internet age, leading a new trend is a bit like whitewater rafting. As relatively unwitting members of the distortion-heavy, DIY subgenre known as "lo-fi," the Columbus, Ohio, trio Times New Viking have been forced to navigate ...
Reviewing stand-up comedy isn't normally part of The Spin's job description, but given the slew of shows canceled by last weekend's whiteout, we were forced to improvise. So we headed over to The End Monday night to catch Neil ...
Check out the slideshows for more photos: If those people from Ohio are in the band Times New Viking, it will be a good-natured guffaw, a mildly jolly chortle, a bemused but friendly shrug. So yeah, there weren't as many people ...
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Columbus, Ohio's Times New Viking are coming to Nashville, and they'll be playing at The Basement Monday, Feb. 1. Things like guitars or vocals that sound muddy or distorted on a GBV record sound utterly demolished on a Times New ...

VALUE ADDED

This spring Animal Collective released its latest offering, the three-LP Animal Crack Box. The coup for the Animal Collective is that the Crack Box was, before most of us had even heard it, already among their most valuable releases. By this I ...

Work and Piles at Betty's, Aug. 8

Betty's continues to be the place to get your stuff-that's-noisy fix. The former takes the gritty lo-fi you've come to love from the likes of Times New Viking and Wavves but focuses the style more toward skronk than melody ...

Crap Out

Back in the early '90s, there was a whole mess of rock bands that took pleasure in releasing the shittiest sounding records possible. As the pop culture cycle turns, we now have a new crop of hiss-loving bands-Eat Skull and Siltbreeze labelmates ...

Font of youth

Little Amps," the uncannily catchy third cut on Times New Viking's Present the Paisley Reich, drummer Adam Elliott exclaims, " Everything in "Little Amps"-and the whole album, actually-is distorted to the point where it's hard to tell if Elliott is ...