At first I met the drummer Malcolm, and we were both actors and kind of musicians - we knew how to play. Read their conversation below.ĮD DROSTE: How did the band get started? How did each member come into the fold?įINN WOLFHARD: We’re a band from Vancouver. Wolfhard took some time out of his busy day of attending school and being on set to chat with Droste on the phone, discussing their respective bands’ creative processes, what he’s listening to, and his experience as both an actor and a working musician. But before that happens, Stereogum gave Wolfhard a chance to talk about the EP with another one of his longtime musical idols: Grizzly Bear frontman Ed Droste.
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The full collection comes out this Friday, 6/15, on Royal Mountain Records, the same label that releases music by PUP and Mac DeMarco. And as a result of that introduction, James ended up producing Calpurnia’s entire six-track debut EP, Scout, at Twin Peaks’ studio in Chicago.Ĭalpurnia have already shared three tracks, City Boy,” “ Louie,” and “ Greyhound,” from the upcoming EP. After learning he was a fan, Wolfhard’s older Stranger Things castmate Joe Keery, aka Steve Harrington, offered to introduce him to Twin Peaks frontman Cadien Lake James. What Wolfhard’s big break acting on Stranger Things has afforded him is a chance to actually meet some of his musical idols. And he’s at least as passionate about music as he is about acting, citing contemporary acts like Grizzly Bear, Mac DeMarco, Ariel Pink, Foxygen, and Twin Peaks as influences alongside classics like the Beatles, the Cars, the Velvet Underground, and the Modern Lovers. Most of the four young musicians have been playing together for years, since before Wolfhard became a semi-household name.
But Calpurnia, his scrappy Vancouver indie-rock band, isn’t just some celebrity’s vanity project. Retrieved May 23, 2021.You probably know Finn Wolfhard as Mike Wheeler, the de facto leader of the band of kids battling Demogorgons and Demodogs on Netflix’s Stranger Things. "Das Racist Rap Over Grizzly Bear, Daniel Rossen Drops 'Silent Song '". ^ Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks (music video in HD) Veckatimest out now (video).
Pitchfork Media ranked the song at No.162 in their "Top 500 Tracks of the 2000s" list. Upon its release, "Two Weeks" was acclaimed by music critics, and many regarded it as a highlight of Veckatimest. It's like, "What part of the song, what essence of the song, is that artist gonna pick up on and use?" Take the "Knife" video, which was really out there as well- it was like, we liked what those artists had done, and we said "You know what? Just do what you're gonna do and we'll release it." Reception They're always almost the opposite of what I would've imagined them, which is actually what's really fun. We don't ever dictate our videos, which is why they're each so different. When interviewed by Amanda Petrusich, band singer Ed Droste expressed unhappiness for the music video, stating that the group weren't given permission to make video clips as the way they intended to make: It features the band members sitting on an altar at an empty church, singing along to the song as slowly their heads and faces start to glow, then sparks fly from their heads and ultimately their heads catch fire as the video ends. The video for "Two Weeks" was directed by Patrick Daughters.