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Cut From A Different Fur: The Morning Benders “Excuses”

By will | Published: February 10, 2010


The Morning Benders, and a rag-tag click of San Francisco’s finest guitar pickers, string ticklers, drum kickers and ooh ahh singers–who go by The Echo Chamber Orchestra–are caught here at Different Fur Studios performing “Excuses,” the first song from the band’s momentous new album, Big Echo. And keeping with custom, the boys wrote a little letter, to Mr. Phil Spector.

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Freddie Gibbs “Murda On My Mind”

By will | Published: October 13, 2009


What you don’t see….

Freddie was pretty twisted on Henny, Fat Tire and Swisher by the time this shoot actually happened.
After we wrapped, before taking off to Keelay’s house, Freddie fell asleep sitting up on the studio couch.
Freddie drives slow homie, coming across the bay bridge I swear he never went above 40 mph.
In between takes, Freddie worked on his Luther Vandross impression, but had to quit because Pimp C already did that.
The upcoming cut of “Boxframe Cadillac” goes even deeper.

Freddie Gibbs – Murda On My Mind

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Cut From A Different Fur: Girls “Laura”

By will | Published: September 18, 2009


I asked JR to show up to the studio around 7 and told him that he could invite some friends to come watch the show and drink the beer I brought for them. They started loading in around 8 and as their set time drew closer, the main room at Different Fur Studios became so stuffed with mission kids, loose affiliations and folks whispering about cryptic “secret show” text messages that the glass to the control room started to fog up. Before they played the first notes of “Laura,” all the beer was gone, the PA was acting up and the Different Fur staff were looking at me like, “When is this going to be over, Will?” But the combined powers of Nate Chan, Eugene Cheung, Nic Pope and Patrick Brown somehow pulled this out and made something we’re all very proud of.

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Cut from a Different Fur: Crocodiles

By will | Published: August 27, 2009


Art Fag, the tiny San Diego based label, and bearer of the incredible Best Coast “Sun Was High (So Was I)” 7 inch, is getting ready to release a 4-way split 7 inch between the Crocodiles, PENS, Crocs sweetie Dum Dum Girls and Graffiti Island. We caught a glimpse of the Crocodiles contribution to this collaboration awhile back when they visited us at the Different Fur studios for one of our first sessions. The PA system was shite and we about shit ourselves thinking this  whole thing was a wash, but thanks to the engineers at the Fur, we have this awesome live video of our favorite Crocodiles song. Special thanks to Steven & Brandon and Nic for this one.

For more original photography of Crocodiles from YT’s own Babak Khoshnoud, hit the jump.

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Cut From A Different Fur: Fergus & Geronimo & The Teenage Cool Kids

By will | Published: August 27, 2009


When the Denton, Texas quartet of Fergus & Geronimo rolled into the studio, their faces wore a dazed look – a cross between travel exhaustion and utter excitement.  As they powered through “Powerful Lovin’,” a garage rocked doo-wop ditty with enough soul to spare, it was clear that some real emotion bubbled beneath the layers of fuzz and static in the mix.  There’s a true bluesy strain running through the lyrics, and a fervor that made the strain seem welcome.

Fergus & Geronimo’s “Tell It In My Ear” is available in limited supply via Transparent Blog, who also premiered the above video. Thanks guys.


Getting in touch with the Teenage Cool Kids wasn’t easy. They didn’t even have an email address on their myspace page, c’mon guys! Luckily I triangulated their position by reaching out to the good folks at Transparent Blog in hopes that they might have a line on the boys from Denton, and they did. The band set up for a quick session at Different Fur where they ran through a rawking version of “Foreign Lands” from their album of the same name. New internet friends, the Weekly Tape Deck, premiered this video over at their lair, pay them a visit, and be nice, or we’ll find out.

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If you bring the water, I’ll bring the matches

By will | Published: August 17, 2009


“Baby Darling Doll Face Honey” isn’t just the title of the Band of Skulls debut album, and it isn’t the first line to leave Russel’s lips at the beginning of “Fires.” It’s the precise list of pleas you’d use to dig your way out of the doghouse when your name might as well be mud. And while this song may not be entirely about a girl, it’s safe to assume one might have something to do with it.

“Fires”, rendered this way, with three arms swinging in unison against six steel strings, feels warm, like the friction you’d feel from rubbing your palms together against a fading fire; the flickering orange licking at your fingertips; and the blues at the base of the flame reminding you that “we are fires in the night, let us bathe you in our light, we are fires in the night, let us bathe you in our light.”

Band of Skulls “Baby Darling Doll Face Honey” is available now via Shangri La Music.

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Loney Dear: Cut from a Different Fur

By nate | Published: July 23, 2009

thanks to lindsey, pat elliott, the different fur team and art perez for making this happen, awesome dudes!

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Exile is “In Love” with his MPC

By bob | Published: June 27, 2009

Exile is behind the boards of my favorite hip-hop album of the last 5 years and I’m not that old, so it’s a big deal. His latest solo project, Radio, was made entirely from samples pulled from LA’s crowded airwaves and is an exercise in patience and scrapbooking. In these 2 pieces -shot at SF’s Different Fur Studios- Ex speaks on getting his start finger drumming, coming up with the concept of his new record, how it was almost titled “Car Stereo,” and what making beats while plugged into the cigarette lighter on long road trips was like. He then follows that with a couple of rub-your-eyes-is-this reality re-creation of “In Love,” and another jam from Radio.

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P.O.S. brings Minneap to the Bay

By will | Published: May 11, 2009

POS and the Doomtree crew crash landed in the mission on one of those soaking San Francisco evenings that makes you think, “Maybe LA ain’t so bad.” As Plain Ole Bill got the decks set up on a way too wobbly card table, Stef kept quiet, nursing his road-kill vocal chords by double-fisting white grapefruit juice and piping hot tea. After his vow of silence subsided, he began to tell us about growing up different in Minneapolis and then launched into the vicious spit and 808 kick of “Savion Glover.”

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