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MTV is relaunching 120 Minutes with Matt Pinfield, the series and host that shaped so many of our tastes for so many years back when that M stood for something meaningful. They’ve also launched the companion series 120 Seconds, which is, literally, a sign of the times. I was honored to be featured for its premiere last week. Matt and I sat in Hi-Fi bar on Ave. A in the East Village on the eve of SXSW and talked about new bands for oh about 120 minutes without stop — an easy thing to do with someone as gracious, engaged, and knowledgeable as he is. Lots of good talk and good bands didn’t make the cut, but such is the series’ conceit. Hope you enjoy. If not, it only cost you two minutes.
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This is the pilot episode of a new video series we’ve launched at Stereogum, pairing emerging artists with iconic ones; I moderate. We’ve called it EXPOSURE, so named in honor of a song by its first icon: Mr. Peter Gabriel. It came about by Scott Lapatine being a walking Peter Gabriel Wiki entry, basically. (Also, because Peter was in town rehearsing for a pair of sold-out shows at Radio City Music Hall promoting Scratch My Back, his all-orchestral indie rock covers LP; it’s phrased as an “exchange of ideas,” with the often-much-younger artists he covers expected to return the favor or complete the implied “and I’ll scratch yours,” making the underlying premis of the interview particularly a propos. We filmed at SIR NYC, where Peter was rehearsing his symphony.)
Here Peter speaks with Neon Indian’s Alan Palomo and me about music, the creative process, and electric cars (the last moment after the credits is priceless). The conversation was an hour; Peter was engaged, charming, eloquent, and hilarious throughout. It was necessarily edited to a five-minute video by 8 Ft Tall (the production company we’ve enlisted), which means so much excellent footage (and most anything I said) wound up on the cutting room floor, including Alan’s talk with Peter about music videos. Peter of course is a pioneer of the form, and Palomo had just returned from filming “Sleep Paralysist,” his first video, directed by the mavericks at Focus Creeps. It’s sensational, you’ll see it soon. For now, there’s this, which made for a very good day. Peter later invited us to the RCMH show, which made for a very good night. (Lou Reed came out and covered “Solsbury Hill,” as Peter advertises in this interview, and hearing his own classics recast as lush orchestral pieces tingled spines.)
This Memorial Day weekend I bought a Peter Gabriel 1982 tour tee to memorialize it, wear it on my sleeve, scratch my back, invite people to come talk to me, and other Peter Gabriel puns as well.
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Here’s a chat I had with Chris Chu of the morning benders, down at Stereogum’s Range Life party at SXSW 2010. It was my birthday down there — if you can have an entire city throw an open bar concert for four days the week of your birthday, I highly recommend it — and this was early on Saturday morning (Day Last), so the fact that Chris and I are relatively coherent (and still have our voices) is half the reason I’m posting this.
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