Two Views of Times New Viking

One light, one dark. The light is in a parking lot at this year’s South by Southwest fest. The dark carries only the cryptic legend “Bourbon Street 2006” – a club? the actual Bourbon Street? I especially like the building intro to “Teenage Lust!” on the latter clip (the third of three songs that they rip through in four and a bit minutes).

Their new and second record, The Paisley Reich, is growing on me all the time. And now word comes that in the middle of a busy workweek, on April 18, they’re playing in Detroit city, a long four hours down the 401, and – get this – they’re opening for Yo La Tengo. Aw, c’mon, now the cosmos is just taunting me. (I get that feeling a lot, actually.)