Tag: The Coathangers

PRIMER: The Coathangers’ Top 5 ‘Golden Girls’ Episodes

Julia Kugel of The Coathangers @ SXSW 2010

Photo by Aaron Richter

Here’s something you probably didn’t know about the Coathangers: they’re huge fans of the greatest geriatric sitcom of all time, The Golden Girls. Well, frontwoman Julia Kugel is at least. As she revealed in a recent eMusic interview, the band’s latest LP—the barnstorming Larceny & Old Lace “is the name of a Golden Girls episode. I’m obsessed with the Golden Girls. I wrote two papers in college on the show, and I was watching one of my favorite episodes and I saw the name and was like, ‘I love the way that sounds together.’ Then I found out the play Arsenic and Old Lace was about a killer, so it all came together.”

In the following exclusive, Kugel breaks down five of her favorite GG-related YouTube clips for the uninitiated…

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TEST PRESSING: Stream the Coathangers’ New Split 7” Single

Photo by Aaron Richter

Sample both sides after the jump, and snag a limited copy of the Coathangers/Numerators 7” here.

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1MM @ SXSW: The Coathangers Dismantle Beauty Bar, Matias Aguayo Closes the Night at Emo’s Jr., and More from Friday in Austin

Photos by Aaron Richter

self-titled maindude Andrew Parks promised his art director that if he took some rad photos, he wouldn’t have to actually write anything at SXSW. So in lieu of any over-analytic write-ups, here are some Friday photos of Harlem and Japandroids (at the Levi’s Fader Fort), So Cow and The Coathangers (absolutely owning it at Beauty Bar’s Panache showcase), BRAHMS (at the Billboard yard) and Matias Aguayo (sealing the night for the dancing crowd at Emo’s Jr).

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FROM THE STACKS: The Coathangers

The Coathangers

By Aaron Richter

We get a lot of crap CDs at the self-titled offices. But once in a while, a pleasant surprise slips into our promo stack. Here’s a recent delivery that knocked the S/T staff on its collective ass.

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