The Thermals

The Thermals — Fuckin A

Recorded with Death Cab For Cutie's Chris Walla, the sophomore disc from Portland's The Thermals contains only one song over three minutes long. The power-pop trio's tunes exemplify everything that you'd expect to come with such brevity — they're fun, loose, somewhat snotty and immediately endearing. "How We Know" (the long song) is a...
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The Thermals - Fuckin A

SXSW 2009 - Wednesday

Photographer: 
Steve McLean
Venue: 
Red 7
City: 
Austin, TX
Date: 
March 18, 2009
The Thermals

SXSW 2009 - Wednesday

Photographer: 
Steve McLean
Venue: 
Red 7
City: 
Austin, TX
Date: 
March 18, 2009
The Thermals

SXSW 2009: New And Old For Day Two

I'm on a quest to hear great music until the first few days of spring at the South By Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas, and I intend to do it without spending a penny on food. Here's the report from my second day in the live music capital of the world: I arrived at the Bitch Magazine/Kill Rock Stars party at Club De Ville by noon to...
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Amanda Palmer

The Thermals Can See On Tour

Portland, Ore. indie rock trio The Thermals have a pretty extensive North American tour coming up in support of their fourth album, Now We Can See. The record will hit stores on April 7 through the band's new label, Kill Rock Stars. Singer/guitarist Hutch Harris and bassist Kathy Foster recorded Now We Can See as a duo and later re-recorded it...
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The Thermals

Thermals Devise Money-Making Schemes While Skewering The Christian Right

Keeping up with the different styles of modern music can be difficult. New sub-genres are seemingly birthed weekly as bands strive to create something different — or at least make it sound like they have. Being the enterprising trio that they are, The Thermals are taking advantage of this. Seeing how so few strike it rich in indie rock, the...
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The Thermals

Decemberists, Dandy Warhols And Others Cover Tunes For Charity CD

Arena Rock Recording Company has enlisted such musical luminaries as The Decemberists, The Thermals, The Minus 5 and The Dandy Warhols to help with a compilation to benefit homeless youth in the label's base of Portland, Oregon. The 19-track Bridging The Distance, which arrives in stores on April 17, features modern covers of classic (and some...
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The Decemberists

Hear The Pre-Thermals On Urban Legends Compilation

Once upon a time, the core of alt.punk group The Thermals, Hutch Harris and Kathy Foster, called themselves Urban Legends. Now with the success of the Portland, Ore. trio's third Sub Pop release, The Body, The Blood, The Machine, their old label, Contraphonic, is taking a walk down memory lane and will release a 19-track compilation that brings...
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Hutch Harris
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