“Village Voice” Article with Zooey and Scarlett Johansson Album Comparison
Posted on May 12, 2008
Village Voice has an article mentioning Volume One in comparison with actress Scarlett Johansson’s debut album Anywhere I Lay My Head:
Anywhere I Lay My Head is inevitably going to draw comparisons to She & Him’s Volume One, another vanity-project album from a gorgeous indie-film actress. But even if Zooey Deschanel is both a more distinctive and a more technically gifted singer than Johansson, even if her “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” from Elf completely destroys Johansson’s “Brass in the Pocket” from Lost in Translation, Volume One strikes me as a much safer, less interesting record. Rather than a weirdo visionary like Sitek, Deschanel made her album alongside the amiable middlebrow indie-folk-popper M. Ward. I like Volume One just fine, but it’s a low-risk, low-reward affair, and it never strives for anything beyond a breezy utilitarian pleasantness. For all its pure goofiness, Anywhere I Lay My Head is a braver and heavier work, a slow dive into honeyed ether. It’s not a masterpiece, but it unfolds like a long, luxuriant, theatrical sigh, and I’ll take that.
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[official post] She & Him on NPR World Cafe on June 11th
Posted on May 8, 2008
The official website has some information on She & Him’s upcoming performance on NPR:
She & Him will be performing on NPR World Cafe w/ host David Dye on June 11.
You can find your local station airing World Cafe by scrolling to the bottom & choosing their state under “Find a Program Broadcast Time” at the following link:
http://www.npr.org/templates/stations/schedule/?prgId=39
or worldwide you can listen online to the WXPN/Philadelphia stream at 2pm to 4pm Eastern Standard Time by going to:
http://www.xpn.org/listen_live/listen.php
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She & Him Sign With Double Six Records for “Volume One” UK Release
Posted on May 8, 2008
According to AngryApe, She & Him has signed on with Double Six records for a July 14th UK release of “Volume One” and a July 7th release of a different single (“This Is Not a Test”) than the US.
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Vista Theater Photos and “Filter Magazine” Review
Posted on May 7, 2008
Thanks to tugmoose in the forums for pointing to some excellent photos from the April 29th Vista Theater show and a “90%” review of the April 29th Vista Theater show from Filter Magazine:
Suffocated by the smell of stale popcorn and surrounded by Egyptian décor and cylindrical chandeliers, the Vista Theater in the heart of Silverlake reeked of old Hollywood. A place typically frequented for its discounted movie tickets, the aged cinema lowered its blood-red curtains Monday and Tuesday for a special concert.
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“Prefix Mag” Review of Vista Theater Show
Posted on May 7, 2008
There’s a review of the April 29th Vista Theater show at Prefix Magazine :
She and Him’s relaxed performance at L.A.’s Vista Theatre on April 29 was neatly encapsulated within the performance of their Volume One standout, “Sentimental Heart.” The first half of the song, featuring only Zooey Deschanel’s trickling piano drops and smoky, cracked vocal yearning along with M. Ward’s minimalist, sympathetic guitar ambience, was a sepia haze of achingly fragile and enchanting country balladry.
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She & Him on “NPR Music”
Posted on May 2, 2008
NPR’s Day to Day has an interview that was done before one of their performances at Vista Theater. Check it out here (click Listen Now near the top-left of the page).There’s also an accompanying article:
Zooey Deschanel has always been an anachronistic sort of gal. At age 8, when she wrote her first song, she was “really into the early 1900s.”
“I think it was called ‘I’m Having Fun at the Fair,’” she tells NPR’s Alex Cohen, her big blue eyes peering out beneath bangs that have inspired fashion columns.
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“Change Is Hard” on Craig Ferguson
Posted on May 2, 2008
I’ve got a video capture from Zooey and Matt’s “Change Is Hard” performance on the “The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson”, which aired last night. Download it here (Quicktime MP4, 24.1 MB).
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“Variety” Review of April 28th Vista Theater Show
Posted on May 1, 2008
Variety has a (pretty positive) review of the Vista Theater show on April 28. [thanks to tugmoose in the forums for the heads-up]:
When most thesps try their hand at warbling, they usually treat live performances like they’re auditioning for the part of “Rock Star No. 1.” More often than not, they display an unconvincing false bravado, a series of poses and attitudes that never quite add up. But not Zooey Deschanel, the winsomely adorable actress who is the She of She & Him (the Him being singer-songwriter and indie-rock utilityman M. Ward). Her Monday-night perf at the Vista Theater was charmingly ingenuous — and she has both a voice and songwriting talent that mark this project as more than an actress on a lark.
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