he's pretty good but you never get to really enjoy it when he's on muchmusic. the going coastal and much on demand interview bits are too short. and he's kind of started being just a zany character. he's really a pretty good interview guy, though. he's my favorite interview guy ever, i think. it's neat to hear him pull out some super-obscure question.

they could delete one episode of becoming from the schedule and fit in a nardwuar show.

WEEELLL-COOOOM TO MY (TO MY)
CAAAAAAAAAAA-SSSSTTLLEEE!

WELCOME TO MY CASTLE!
WELCOME TO MY CASTLE!
WELCOME TO MY CASTLE!
WELCOME TO MY CASTLE!
WELCOME TO MY CASTLE!
WELCOME TO MY CASTLE!
WELCOME TO MY CASTLE!
WELCOME TO MY CASTLE!

(etc.)

Doot doola doot doot...

I GOTTA RASH!

I'M GOING TO FRANCE!

also, new album has a song written by former Chretien advisor Warren Kinsella!

I do know that most of his releases are also available on 8-track.

NO ONE TOLD ME!

I am so fucking into this right now. Three hours of YouTube!

dude's clear love of blowfly and millie jackson are huge points in his favor

henry lollins is such a dick to him

RAHZEL interview is so abstract and funny
TAUGHT ME THEN TAUGHT ME

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUKssQ4W0BI

ahahahahah weird al ahahahahaha

Theres a DVD go buy it IMHO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inXcIcblLDI

omg rahzel imitating him is wonderful

I posted a couple of my favourite Nardwuar bits in this thread:

Bands/artists you now respect more only because they were so rad to Nardwuar

Total classic. Aside from being funny, he actually does a lot of research into his subjects and constantly comes up with questions that leave them shocked at what he knows... Well, I think that David Cross says it best at 2:10 here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTHFIvHW1b8

There's actually two DVD. The second featuring a lot more of his really early stuff. I own both but I've never gotten around to watching the second.

totally inviting dude to summerstage

I watched a couple last night also.. the lady gaga one was cool bc I learned that she loves new kids on the block & she's never heard of andrew wk.. the nirvana one was uncomfortable and as if I needed another reason to dislike courtney love, she refers to Sloan as "The sloan band" at least twice.

to be honest i watched that last night and i thought courtney was far more normal and courteous than kurdt or noveselic, unless you are just bound and determined to hate her

ohhhhh this lil b one is making me really like both of them a lot

hahaha, the end of the lil b interview.

he is my city's finest, his band the evaporators was one of my favorite live acts when i was a teenager, and he's done so much for vancouver's music scene. when my friend was starting to release albums narduwar was willing to spend hours on the phone with him giving advice about DIY music. he talks normal when he's not in character, it's actually a little jarring to see the switch

"check this out little b!!!" *hands him a bunch of records*
"this is great" (lil b has the expression & intonation of someone who really doesnt want to hurt their grandmother's feelings when they get socks for christmas)

my reaction was pretty similar to forks when i discovered nardwuar a year or two ago, ie. where has this guy been all my life

Haven't heard this in a few years :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqWI45d2DTs

I didn't realise that he'd done so much. My favourites are the earlier interviews - the one with sonic youth for instance.

he is my city's finest, his band the evaporators was one of my favorite live acts when i was a teenager, and he's done so much for vancouver's music scene. when my friend was starting to release albums narduwar was willing to spend hours on the phone with him giving advice about DIY music. he talks normal when he's not in character, it's actually a little jarring to see the switch

It's a fact that he has done more for local music than practically anyone else. He's put on hundreds of gigs (mostly all-ages) interviewed or showcased pretty much every little band that makes an effort to contact him, helped god knows how many musicians in thousands of ways and done more to promote the history of Cdn punk/rock than anyone.

I quibble with the last sentence though. He is generally less shrill and less confrontational in real life but he's *never* "not in character". He is always Nardwuar.

dyin at david cross repeating the celebrity poker question

watching nardwuar hand Greg Ginn a copy of my black flag book on camera in his interview was a total unexpected "oh fuck wow wow" moment for me

as much for, like, nardwaur has read my book as, wow, greg ginn now owns a copy of my book

And he's going to call you up and say "Hey wait I would have done some interviews" and then Rollins will feel left out and do the same thing and you can have the revised edition with everyone's stories at last and retire rich and famous. (I like thinking this is how the world must work.)

yeah, that's usually the point at which i wake up...

in case anyone doesn't know, Nardwuar has a show on WFMU available streaming here: http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/NW.

my fav nardwuar moment is the last 2 min of the white stripes interview where he reads to jack white from groupie central dot com :o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbNAMStU4o0

"those are some good lies"

He is generally less shrill and less confrontational in real life but he's *never* "not in character". He is always Nardwuar.

― everything

I dunno. I've seen him be just John. Not in public places, tho.

slipknot interview is great

nardwuar gets one of the silent clown dudes talking about naughty by nature and suddenly the dude just gets so embarrassed that he runs away

CLOWN NUMBER THREE! COME BACK!

"Sean number six clown of Slipknot....."

"you guys did an interview where you told FHM-- slipknot said to FHM magazine that, quote, they've: PLEASURED GROUPIES WITH LOBSTER CRUSTACEANS!!!!!"

*awkward silence*

"...i don't know anything about that"

"and what i was wondering is: when you pleasure the groupies, number three, do they want you to wear the mask, or not???"

"...i don't pleasure them"

"where's number three going??? number three! number three!"

http://nardwuar.com/gallery/albums/nardpics/slipknot.sized.jpg

I've seen him be just John. Not in public places, tho.

― relentlessly ugly frat hedonist retard anthems I have loved (staggerlee), Thursday, March 24, 2011 1:22 PM (2 hours ago)

Yup.

"check this out little b!!!" *hands him a bunch of records*
"this is great" (lil b has the expression & intonation of someone who really doesnt want to hurt their grandmother's feelings when they get socks for christmas)

― ℳℴℯ　❤＼(◕‿◕✿ (Princess TamTam), Thursday, March 24, 2011 5:55 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

haha. it might have been bcuz he gave him a record for the wrong Choppa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY3IOq4uzpc

god the last minute or so of that video is insane, he's gotta be blazed

man i wish i had my headphones with me so i could listen at work. haven't seen a bunch of these.

It's fun to watch the reactions he elicits on them but really he's not that impressive. Most of the thing that makes up his act is throwing out random and obscure trivia at the artists and watching them struggle to remember it and perhaps appear impressed at someone investing that much time in looking up stuff about them. The reaction is natural and sometimes entertains the artists simply because they're used to people asking the same questions all the time and it feels refreshing to have someone bring out some rare records and ask you about that first band or bad haircut you had.

that Curren$y interview had me loling in my office

It's fun to watch the reactions he elicits on them but really he's not that impressive. Most of the thing that makes up his act is throwing out random and obscure trivia at the artists and watching them struggle to remember it and perhaps appear impressed at someone investing that much time in looking up stuff about them. The reaction is natural and sometimes entertains the artists simply because they're used to people asking the same questions all the time and it feels refreshing to have someone bring out some rare records and ask you about that first band or bad haircut you had.

― Moka, Friday, March 25, 2011 4:06 PM (57 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

otm this is also why the jay-z one in partic didnt impress me so much, since the more obscure trivia about him is pretty well known

also why its kind of goofy that he messed up the different Choppa's

Most of the thing that makes up his act is throwing out random and obscure trivia at the artists and watching them struggle to remember it and perhaps appear impressed at someone investing that much time in looking up stuff about them.

yes, sometimes this ^^ but stuff like a groupie's report on Jack White's style in bed, or a totally batshit, off-the-wall string of connections between Slipknot, Ross Robinson, some bass player, Vanilla Ice and Naughty by Nature, is not really designed to "impress" -- more like "provoke," see how much an artist can take before breaking down on camera (Jack White clearly can hang; Slipknot guy w/ long nose, not so much)

if that's what makes up most of your act, you're doing fine.

i have a lesser opinion on sonic youth after seeing their nardwuar innerview.. they keep trying to break his records!

the mars volta one is pretty fun

the pulling out records thing is a gimmick but i like to hear the rappers esp because you see what big fanboys they are at heart and just to hear them react to something they love instead of typical music journo questions is really cool and kinda touching to me

^ yes

the pharrell interview is so great

hahahaha the curren$y one is so fun in every way

KRIZZA!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93zbaLjsLh0

Krit is impressed.

i love this one. krit seems like a sweet guy

have heard this guy on WFMU a couple times

can't stand it

pranking musicians = shooting fish on a dinner plate

If you think he is prankingthem, youi miss the point.

i love this one. krit seems like a sweet guy

yeah, watched this one the other day and had the same reaction. esp when he gets the question about being booed in nyc.

Classic without doubt. Crazy serendipity -- was just reading some old Roctobers on the plane and stumbled upon his genius interview with N.E.R.D. where he blows their minds by pulling out a gatefold Carl Sagan / Cosmos LP: "He was to me what A Tribe Called Quest was to Music. He was just food for the mind. The way he thought and the way he articulated."

Big Krit interview is so damn great it makes me want to run out and buy his records

is there a working version of the Henry Rollins interview online somewhere? the one on youtube is totally fucked (no audio, choppy video — I don't think it's just my computer being weird...?) which was v.disappointing

haha watching that just made me smile

(xpost)

really want to see curren$y's old movies now too

just search youtube again, there's a couple versions of it on there

just watched the david cross one, love how genuinely disconcerted he seemed by nardy being so clued into details of cross' life - i could've watched an hour of that

okay I watched rollins — kinda killed the posi vibe for me tbh — gonna listen to that dirty projjies cover of "rise above" in a sec to cheer up

i just wrote nard to invite him out to $ummer$tage shows and got a response like twenty minutes later with the subject line of "Incoming Nard Message!"

hahahaha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Om5AGyq71fo
^some weird long reach influence going on here but if it gets people to listen to this track it's all good

er, see top comments for that youtube

is this guy an aspie?

he plays one on youtube

yeah but who doesn't

girls applying makeup

This is pretty cool:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkSUazeI2nM&feature=youtu.be

thumbs up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj8xWppxHq4
how did he fuck up the doot doot so many times
ajesusgoat 1 hour ago

he got wayne
looking forward to watching this

while waiting i watched the gwar one and holy shit it's great

I now love Nardwuar for turning me onto this track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hR_0POjBs8

Basically the blueprint for that 90s Cash Money sound.

uh wow that drag rap cut

Was just listening to Drag Rap again and recognized that "alright, alright" vocal part. Burn One used it to build that Starlito song 'Alright' around.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYuMnf2bE8w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip5flP5QFLI

Nothing.

curren$y returns and everything is cool now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVvzAZh7LKs

looooool @ last 1 min of that tech n9ne video, AMAZING

OMG curren$toned

Saw this at the checkout the other week:

http://www.lilwaynehq.com/images/blog/lil-wayne-xxl-mag-july-aug-issue.jpg

so dude is on pharrell's youtube channel now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFaDlRMW9PE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=GmmxXmoqW-s&NR=1

^^love this w/DJ premier

man crazy stuff, talks MC eiht, suge vs. cube fist fight, lady of rage being a bouncer at a club (!!), rodney o joe cooley, jay z in the jaz-o era, and more

really looking forward to watching this.
I love that now that pharell is helping with the booking, everyone is so obedient and impressed by Nard from jump

I think you linked the wrong one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAcL8XI8CNA

oops yeah sorry i linked off that one when i was done w/premo

the ghostface one is good too

i didn't know premo was from texas! so the whole bun b makes a lot more sense now i guess
and went to college in LA

Just finished it, enjoyed it. Preems voice is so gnarly.

dude has lived so much hip hop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgaU-DXQAQE
somehow i missed the charlie murphy interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqlW-tFHNbc&feature=g-all-u

The reaction he got out of the otherwise placid Dave Rowntree of Blur in 2003 was definitely something, eh? Although Dave himself subsequently revealed that was because he was very much coming down off a cocaine binge from the night before and apologised to Nardwuar, although it took him years to do so...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkNvk2MgiCc

I like how tyler the creator tries to outweird him and gets sonned

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_Qcn4ITGtA
mostly people seem to kinda know what they're getting into; kinda prefer it when folks are just straight up blindsided as Juicy J is here

I <3 Nardwuar. Our bands used to gig together in the mid-90s. He's a total sweetheart, and some of his interviews have left me in tears.

oh blur... so mean, so embarrassing.

nadwuar is such a great interviewer. his technique is so successful - the results he gets through oddball sincerity and killer research are amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaJvtLCutxk&feature=g-all-a

'hook me up nard'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tthNGitJv3o
FORTY WATER

Hmm...via FB, a friend posted this:

If you haven't heard this week's Nardwuar/WFMU podcast, I can't recommend it enough. After half an hour of badgering Ian MacKaye - mostly about a Fugazi show from 1991 - Ian finally snaps and gently but devastatingly punctures Nardwuar's whole persona, playing the part of a kindly uncle who can't stand to see you act foolish in public anymore. It actually left me a little shaken....The most amazing thing is Nardwuar DOES NOT GET IT. It truly is like screaming at a wall.

http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/47614

The most amazing thing is Nardwuar DOES NOT GET IT. It truly is like screaming at a wall.

Wouldn't acknowledging Ian's criticism require breaking persona?

Maybe the reason for Ian's annoyance is that he's had to endure the schtick for four or five interviews. By now he may have been hoping for a much deeper conversation. Nardwuar gets his best reactions when the musician is thrown off guard by his knowledge and generosity.

Wow, in 20 years of listening to Nardwuar I have never heard an interviewee give him as severe a dressing down as that.

Said it before but..."Nardwuar" is not a persona. He's a real person who behaves and talks like that all the time.

If that's the case why was Mackaye so disappointed that his friend (as he repeatedly called him) disappeared when the recorder went on?

eh, that wasn't that bad. nardwuar interviews obviously more fun when he's interviewing someone who has a sense of humor. or a stoned rapper. ian didn't "snap". he just wants everyone to be plain like the amish.

listening to them i feel like they both are characters you couldn't imagine being like that 24/7, but they probably are!
for some reason, i could easily imagine snoop being like that 24/7.

When I saw Fugazi all the house lights were put on for their set, Mackaye seemed self-consciously unsure about whether this was he right thing to do or not.... yawn

all edgers are lame

xpost to philip i believe the proper spelling is SNOOP LION

god this guy is so fucking exhaustingly lame

mckaye, natch

"hey, stop singing in character!"

um, i'm only about 25 minutes in so far, but nards - who i generally think is awesome - has been ragging on this hockey rink story and implying ian was out of order for being perceived as being annoyed about playing an ice hockey rink for ages, and i'm not really surprised ian is getting wound up.

Don't think either of them come out of it particularly well

Does 'happy aggressive' exist?

mackaye is such a bore

yeah i'm only part way through, but at half-time nard is definitely being a colossal dick

i get if people find ian's "i am mr reasonable with constructive criticism for you" bit condescending, but considering narduwar - in the middle of his usual nonsense barrage - got unwarrantedly harsh and guilt-trippy about a 20 year old concert - i don't get how anybody can think mackaye was being an asshole here.

unless someone just jumped ahead to the end and missed that bit

it is kinda like that superfan thing where someone sees their idol in public and says: hey you probably don't remember this *and then goes into looooong dull anecdote about meeting idol decades ago and some "weird" thing that happened that they have thought about ever since it happened and the idol has no fucking clue what they are talking about*. and usually that creates an awkward moment. at least ian remembered the show!

and know nardwuar has been thinking about the fugazi show he set up since the day after the show.

yeah but this is like their 3rd/4th interview. he went ham on a regular guest in a format that already has them off balance, he got some relatively considered criticism considering.

The Lydia Lunch/Exene Cervenka interview is classic.

"You don't like the past, do you Lydia?"

"Listen Nardo..."

i think if someone wrote a blog rant saying he wouldn't be able to put on shows again, despite turning a profit and getting a thank-you note, because the band had been mean to him about the acoustics, we'd be pissing on that person from a great height. and this is someone making that argument 20 years later.

I think you're overlooking something very basic here, which is the Narduar character is supposed to be kind of obsessive and annoying. It's comedy.

It's often more than comedy, his method can yield great interviews. Ian's not the guy to try it with though.

dud

i'd say it's a pretty good method on ian -- can you think of any other method that would elicit an endorsement for bananas?

overlooking the comedy would be saying "why is this asshole talking about k-stew and junkyard?"

and yeah, ian's mostly game for this stuff in his usual stiff way. if it wasn't for the "remember when you were mean to me in 1991?" bit i'm sure nard wouldn't have gotten the "i wish we drank tea together and spoke like adults" critique.

nardwuar drinking tea with snoop is a good premise.
sorry snoop LION.

anyone watched the riff raff one yet?

i don't think it's any mystery why naruwar's interviews with ppl who are a part of the 80s punk scene that he was a part of have a different vibe, more adversarial vibe, than the ones he does w/rappers or newer artists...newer ppl see him as this loveable wacky guy and for the 80s ppl more accustomed to that kinda punk humor bit he plays as being sort of faux naive and dickish under the veil of being an innocent

Said it before but..."Nardwuar" is not a persona. He's a real person who behaves and talks like that all the time.

― everything, Tuesday, October 2, 2012 7:47 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

how could you possibly know this unless you were around him all the time...

i mean it's like dr. sphincter type shit right?

i love nard don't get me wrong...i just think he's way better and comes off more genuine w.artists who are outside of his realm

and as much as i love his stuff he IS being faux naive and dickish sometimes!

when nardwuar was doing a radio interview with harlan ellison and he dropped some news that a colleague had died and ellison was dubious at first before having to hang up for a bit to process this, nardwuar wasn't doing a sing-songy voice, but it was still nardwuar foisting a nonstop stream of trivia at a guy. so i imagine nardwuar is never really not "on" but he dials it back maybe 20%?

Many people have wished that Nardwuar avoided being dickish and faux naive off air but that is often not the case.

He is, after all, a punk at heart.

Sean P as SEANWUAR vs. Pharoahe Monch!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al_acQUUrIQ&feature=relmfu

damn, trinidad james is a nice dude!

http://youtu.be/cjoPAJxlkas

Totally comes off like a humble and just happy to be there type of guy.

i like that he gives love to sparrow

the historic first meeting of trinidad james and macklemore

lol that was kinda lame and pointless but whatever

damn, he snuck this one in when i wasn't paying attention
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9xVPWhZkUE

wow

I bet he'll have a bunch of new ones from SXSW.

i keep trying to get him to come to summerstage but he don't do much nyc, sadface
he sends very friendly response emails tho

lol pharrell is so bad at this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrrGEgvasbo

what a herb

Do you guys think Nardwuar doesn't translate well to other parts of the world?

I showed someone in Los Angeles his videos and he said, "Why does he talk that way?" And had a really confused look. His shtick totally went over his head.

I knew a guy whose friend's room mate was Nardwuar. Apparently, he never got out of character. I believe that, but I've also heard people say that he does go out of character some times. The thing about this last part is that I think people mean he is just less in character, but he seems to have fully embraced it 100% of the time. If you listen to or watch him in the 80s or early 90s, you can see his persona transforming into what would now be his staple character. Just my thoughts.

And Nardwuar has some really classic moments. His knowledge on the Canadian/Vancouver punk/metal scene is incredible.

How long did it take your persona to transform into your staple character

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=609HPdYyi7Q
these guys totally have the right spirit
i had that disney album
great ending too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8X7Re7PbPY

FOURTY SIX MINUTES?!

A good twenty minutes probably consist of ?uestlove laughing/crying/being dumbfounded.

big smile plastered on my face for basically this whole thing

This is their second goround ain't it?

wow, he really fucks quest up at 32 minutes in

Man I wanna get famous enough that Nardwuar brings me stuff.

Well that bar isn't too high. He did recently interview Anthony Fantano.

he kinda just needs to dig you or for you to be really famous

He still interviews relatively unknown local bands regularly on his radio show.

Well that bar isn't too high. He did recently interview Anthony Fantano.

― MarkoP, Friday, May 3, 2013 10:19 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

nooooooooooooooooooo!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOJsIkZKu60
RA seems coked up... or is he just like this all the time?

Biggie broke RA's toilet? i have never heard this story.

that was really fun.

That was a good one.

lol

RA seems genuinely interested in knowing about Nardwuar. I've not seen any other interviewee show so much interest.

R.A. is one of those dudes who I can just hear tell old rap stories forever even if i rarely fuck with dude's records, anyone here remember when he had a column in Vibe back in the early '00s?

a lucky chestnuttttt for jellllo biafra!

la c'etait une partie surpriiise
juste en pleine crisee
j'etais sans chemiise
ma place est repriiise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMf7YuEWvaI

fresh crop of sxsw nards; great interview with Gunplay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHz91aXMrL8

don't miss the bun b and bushwick interviews
smokes up with schoolboy

I just spend 3 hours in the Nardwuar youtube zone. This guy should be every music interviewer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E92qnnRlQ2w

This one is hilarious!

http://scontent-a.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xaf1/t51.2885-15/10755768_344174242441047_409737741_n.jpg

Lydia Lunch reminds me exactly of the whole ILM poster vibe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E92qnnRlQ2w&list=WL&index=235

what an asshole (LL)

Great interview.

if you disrespect nardwuar = automatic DUD

Ripple Rock by the Evaporators (Nard's best album) is on Spotify now btw.

Nardwuar!

He's very Canadian, but I like him.

lunch comes across like an insecure high school kid compensating by being abrasive and edgy but not quite committing enough to the act

I hate Lydia Lunch, so that was quite revelatory just now.

I mean, I feel a bit giddy, even.

LL reminds me of this horrid woman i knew in college whose every utterance was tinged with gratuitous sarcasm and 'tude. she was completely toxic and hateful, and even at age 20 i thought she was being childish. how old is LL here? 35? 45?

Dear me that became rapidly unwatchable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahqm1OlMx4c

Totally worth it for the ending.

Trina is charming

V fun

On the weekend Nard had a stroke while out at a local show. Not sure if this is similar or connected to the brain aneurysm that almost killed him a few years ago. Hopes & prayers etc. This town will be a hell of a lot darker without him.

Oh no! Fuck.

He's recovering in hospital but no word on his condition or anything.

hope nards ok

this sucks. get better man!

he's a true institution & I wish him all the best

So much stuff locked up in that brain, I hope for a speedy and complete recovery.

Please get well, Nard.

Doot-Doot.

oh fuuuuuck

well this fucking sucks

Ah shit, heard about this today, get well soon human serviette

sad to hear, get well soon nard dog.

Stroke on Saturday, announced on Wednesday, still in hospital... does not bode well

found it odd the halsey interview (and the travis scott 1 maybe?) dropped in the interim idk maybe that bodes better

sending good vibes to nard. doot-doot

aw sad stuff. recover please

discharged today!

https://twitter.com/nardwuar/status/675720933743595520

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CWCkmiCVEAAAuUh.jpg

Hooray.

Glad to hear, lotsa trepidation opening this thread!

man, he is just the most likable muso ever

http://www.brianjohnsonracing.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/ACDC-Brian-Johnson-Rock-Icon.jpg

http://www.planetslade.com/images/andycapp/14img602.jpg

Nardwuar is the best. Love the Pharrell interview.

Glad he's on the mend

some good new 1s from sxsw

<3 metro boomin when nard is like so do you trust trump & metro is all im not really answering who I trust and whatnot but (leans in to the mic) no of course not who could trust that nigga

so glad he's recovered enough to go to SXSW. i can't take Nardwuar dying young.

I can't take it at all

Sorry Nard you gotta outlive every other member of the human race

If only so you can ask newly evolved intelligent flying octopi about the punk bands they were into in middle school

Jesus Christ, I saw this link at the top and after his recent health scare, I feared the worst

Glad he's okay.

Doot-doota-loot-doot...

ugly god completely demolished by the nard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCr1F60R41U

https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/arts/music/nardwuar-marks-30-years-of-interviews-and-keeps-onrockin/article36293249/

yeah!

somehow ended up watching a Henry Rollins interview w/a friend and the suggested videos had both of Nardwuar's interviews

it's beautiful, he completely reveals the insecurities and cracks in Rollins's shtick! love you Nardwuar

Nardwuar fucking rules.

so glad he recovered, love this guy

seeing him do a video exhibition thing in December, stoked!!

I see Slow have reformed to do something.

Thread bump made me nervous

He's pretty prolific on instagram. Most recently, reposting all the people who dressed as him for Halloween; fun stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFG-b21aW_w

the best

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIPhoeHKme0

damn nardwuar got on stage with him, dude's so cool

Logic was super kind and chill

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ND5y5ugCn9A

He was (finally) added to the BC Walk of Fame yesterday, which was proclaimed Nardwuar Day in Vancouver.

https://scontent.fcxh3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/71118710_10157427263694890_5664036053435023360_n.jpg?_nc_cat=101&_nc_oc=AQkQ22QxQpil_06PAmLqDfGP95Uf7Ge4J_ZjUAcNXdgCDss56rf6nzvZwkKnNurArj4&_nc_ht=scontent.fcxh3-1.fna&oh=3ebc7859f071919811243737e68f7bd1&oe=5E364963

Praise him 🙏

missed out on the option to DOOT DOODLE OOT DOOT HEREBY PROCLAIM

Nard's mom was apparently in the ICU for most of 2021, he did an amazing remote interview with the medical team as a benefit for the hospital
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1bTL0j9B6Q

just an absolute marker beacon for how to be a good human

he's recently back with some very good interviews with Flo Milli, jpegmafia, J Cole.

I only just learned that the Doot Doodle Oot Doot bit is called "Shave and a Haircut."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shave_and_a_Haircut

HAVE YOU NEVER SEEN WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT?????

good on nardwuar. exemplary.

HAVE YOU NEVER SEEN WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT?????

Not since I was a kid. I know what I'm doing this weekend, thanks!

lol I've never seen (and tbh still haven't watched) his Ted talk!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkSUazeI2nM

(don't want to spoil for those that haven't seen it, but wfrr? is where i first learned the "shave and a haircut" bit)

his ted talk roolz.

I've always known shave and a haircut, from Looney Tunes cues on down/up. The wiki informs me that, among other facts:

The tune has been used innumerable times as a coda or ending in musical pieces. It is strongly associated with the stringed instruments of bluegrass music, particularly the 5-string banjo. Earl Scruggs often ended a song with this phrase or a variation of it. On the television show The Beverly Hillbillies, musical cues signifying the coming of a commercial break (cues which were in bluegrass style) frequently ended with "Shave and a Haircut". It is the most popular bluegrass run, after the G run.

Johnny's Theme, the music that opened The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, famously ended with the "shave and a haircut" flourish every weeknight for 30 years and 4,531 episodes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hcqb3hAmr8

Les Paul and Mary Ford's Capitol recording of "Magic Melody" concluded with the phrase minus the last two notes ("two bits"). Responding to complaints from disc jockeys, Capitol in 1955 released "Magic Melody Part 2"—consisting solely of the missing notes—on a 45, said to be the shortest tune on record/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2O06pa9mjU

The original version of "Love and Marriage" by Frank Sinatra (recorded for Capitol Records in 1955) ends with the tune.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpeiuVL5hLs

Les Paul and Mary Ford's Capitol recording of "Magic Melody" concluded with the phrase minus the last two notes ("two bits"). Responding to complaints from disc jockeys, Capitol in 1955 released "Magic Melody Part 2"—consisting solely of the missing notes—on a 45, said to be the shortest tune on record/

lol, this is fantastic, A+++ response

actual lol

nardwuar's GOAT record.

Daniel Kaluuya! was finally wondering which celeb would call nardwuar out.

What are you referring to?

I had to Google it myself. I guess the actor was on Hot Ones, and compared the host to Nardwar, positively.

sorry, yeah the hot ones show. nardwuar on that program would be amazing.

was v anxious for a minute there that narduwar did something terrible

Yeah tbh it was a very cryptic and misleading post...

"Magic Melody - Part II" even has a discogs entry:
https://www.discogs.com/release/22510415-Les-Paul-Mary-Ford-Magic-Melody-Part-II

The label lists the time as "one second". There's a bit of debate as to whether it's shorter than a split 7" with Napalm Death's "You Suffer" on the first side and Electro Hippies "Mega Armageddon Death Part 3" on the B-side:
https://www.45cat.com/record/pro234

But that was a commercial release whereas the Les Paul single was a promo only. As one of the posters points out one second is shorter than a single rotation of a 45rpm 7", so the songs have to be padded out with silence. Unless the groove didn't cover the whole circumference of the record, which would probably be murder on styluses. Stylii?

the Lizzo interview feels like one of the rare times where it's pretty clear who supplied some of the question material.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNGIsDFTj9Y

nardwuar hijacking the best show is exactly as great as you'd expect it to be.

Behold: An hour of Nardwuar with Nickelback

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X2PrFAn_uA

release the nickelback talk box tape!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62ti0DAAvVY

finally got his (outside of neil young) white whale!

lol hearing security say "yo nardwaur's good"

Unless i missed it he still didn’t get the doot doot from uzi though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fiZB-TvPFU

Man, he's getting all A-listers now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcThqNPKKgw