It can be daunting, being in a band that winds up one of the influential acts of its day. If Boston’s Come, one of the most acclaimed groups to emerge from the early-’90s indie scene, had released nothing but debut album Eleven:Eleven, its importance for musicians in that scene would likely have been established anyway. Hard, noirish, frequently violent in its approach to blues patterns and styles slowed to a molasses-drip pace, few bands hit as heavy as Come. And few musicians, in Come or elsewhere, came as hard to the stage and the studio as Thalia Zedek. Now comes Via (Thrill Jockey), a record that finds her striking off in new aesthetic and collaborative territory. Zedek will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our brand new feature on her.
Zedek: I first realized that there might be a problem while I was attempting to recover from the flu by serial watching Jersey Shore episodes. At one point, I realized that I had spent 15 minutes watching Vinny try to get a rubber ball off a roof with a stick. And I was completely enthralled the whole time. Something’s wrong, right? I recently had my own personal brush with reality TV when Wicked Single came in to film a scene in the restaurant where I work! As I was the only server working that day, I gamely said yes when they asked me if I would “play” the waitress in the scene. Of course they didn’t pay me a dime! I’m the hand refilling the girl’s ice tea in the pizzaria in case you want to look for me.
Video after the jump.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpJsCd15rfI
