Jail Weddings: Four Future Standards

Four Future Standards is Jail Weddings‘ follow-up to Love is Lawless(2010) and the prequel to Meltdown (coming soon). It is both a teaser – Meltdown is apparently going to be about, well, meltdowns, and these songs certainly presage that development – and a breather – these tunes are tremendous, but have a different kind of … Read more

July Video Challenge: Jail Weddings, The Spell Has Lifted

Jail Weddings, of Los Angeles, are in the process of an ambitious project: making a video for every single song on their new record Love is Lawless. This one, for The Spell is Lifted, is directed by Lauren Everett, and intersperses performance shots with vintage pictures of Los Angeles. Some of them evoke the glamor … Read more

Rock ‘n’ Roll Photog: Video Round-Up

This week, Jennifer makes NTSIB one of the few places on the internet where you will see the words “killer xylophone action” used together. No shows this week, so I’m dipping into the video vault (aka YouTube) to highlight some music I’ve enjoyed recently: Jail Weddings – I Just Thought You Were Someone I Knew … Read more