Jason Kupfer

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As those who frequent Mills/50 and/or the Redlight Redlight neighborhood may have observed, earlier this year, indie artist Matt Pond did a sort of residency (if you will) in Orlando, cherry-picking some talent that has carried some great local bands (notably, the Pauses, Saskatchewan, Great Deceivers) and ultimately taking them on the road with him. But it seems that while he was in town, he also took some time to get to know not just how our indie music scene gets down but also how Orlando as a city works it out in terms of nightlife and the sort of experience that I personally have had in Orlando: late-night bike rides, visits to Mills, dogs in bars, crazy people downtown. And he condensed that experience into this seriously wonderful tribute to his time spent here, in the form of a music video for his song “Hole in My Heart” from his new album The Lives Inside the Lines in Your Hand (our review here!), which you can view below:

And while Orlando musicians are supercute enjoying their town, I have to give the biggest nod to the Pauses’ guitarist Jason Kupfer who directed the video and whose film work I’ve admired as much as his songwriting (and almost as much as his beanie!). I could link you to the Pauses videos I love most, each with a better concept than the last, but instead if you have an Xbox or Roku, I’d most recommend tracking down his short horror film The Sleuth Incident, which is unforgettable and the most delightfully disturbing footage of a teddy bear that I have ever seen. Here’s the trailer.

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Interview Magazine is premiering the video that I directed for Matt Pond. Honestly could not have been possible without these lovely folks: Producer: Tighe Arnold Cinematographer: Chris Tharp Editor: David Ouellette Colorist: Marco Cordero Visual Effects Assistant: Brian Campbell Production Assistants: Kate Ransome Wilcox, Tyler Whicher

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Are you avoiding The Pauses shows because you're just too embarrassed about your Interact-O-Vision inexperience? In just 3 minutes, our handy How-To-Guide will show you all you need to know to make friends, impress the ladies/fellas, and even help you to evaluate your apparent vulnerability for getting easily embarrassed. But you don't have to take my word for it.....buh dun dun.

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The Sleuth Incident on Indieflix

A teddy bear with a very dark secret. A desperate cop with nothing left to lose. The Sleuth Incident is now available on XBox, Roku, and old fashioned Interwebz via IndieFlix. (The whole "desperate cop" thing may or may not have have actually ever been written, shot, or edited into the film at all)

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Hey, I won an Addy for the musics. I know at least my mom will be excited. (Also the entire deserving campaign won Best of Show. Congrats team Deeb/Anson)

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When John Deeb leaves town, bands get stuck with me. Farewell photo for our Tierney Tough. 6 weeks until any of us are allowed to smile again.

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“Wub Wub Wub” - by me. “Everything else” - by Deeb Studios.

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New Deeb Studios joint with some new toe-tapping Kupfer jamz, John Deeb eye candy, Mike Quinn Jr. chopping skillz, and Tighe Arnold parental supervision. Enjoy.

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Jason's Unsolicited Top 10 Albums of 2012:

Jason's Unsolicited Top 10 Albums of 2012: 1. Mother Mother - Sticks 2. The Life and Times - No One Loves You Like I Do 3. A Tie of EPs ( Hammer No More the Fingers - Pink Worm / Robbers On High Street - Anything Could Happen) 4. Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel 5. Aimee Mann - Charmer 6. Clair Morgan - No Notes 7. John K. Samson - Provincial 8. In Pleasant Company - A Mixtape for Jason Noble 9. Father John Misty - Fear Fun 10. Metric - Synthetica Honorable Mentions: (Ben Folds Five - The Sound of the Life of the Mind), (Andrew Bird - Break It Yourself), (Toadies - Play.Rock.Music), (A.C. Newman - Shut Down The Streets), (Menomena - Moms) Please use the submission form below to express your own unsolicited opinions on how irresponsibly inaccurate this list is to you.

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Jason's Unsolicited Top 10 Films of 2012:

Jason's Unsolicited Top 10 Films of 2012: 1, Django Unchained 2. The Master 3. Sound of Noise 4. Seven Psychopaths 5. Moonrise Kingdom 6. The Cabin in the Woods 7. Anna Karenina 8. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 9. Killer Joe 10. Alps Honorable Mentions: Argo, Killing Them Softly, Looper, The Dark Knight Rises, The Man with the Iron Fists. Please use the submission form below to express your own unsolicited opinions on how irresponsibly inaccurate this list is to you.

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Choose My Music Interview

It's Tuesday. Your favorite day to read scathing interviews posted on a Monday in the UK with a band that you sometimes listen to on a Wednesday in the US:

Occasionally when I get to hear a new band I am hit with a double win. The first is obviously when you really love what you hear. The second is at some point in the listening journey you remember someone mentioned them on your website before.

It was actually Great Deceivers, our State Of Music band for Florida who first mentioned The Pauses on this website, and because I am a forgetful person I never got round to checking them out.

Lucky for me I happened to stumble upon them through my own steam about a month or so ago. I instantly fell in love with their "The Beginning of Things" track from their split 12" release (which coincidentally happened to feature Great Deceivers on the flip side).

So for your reading and listening pleasure I managed to round them up and get them on the site. Happy days for everyone!

CMM: Hello The Pauses, welcome to Choose My Music. As always we like to start with you all introducing yourself. Who's in the band, who does what and where in the world would we find you?

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AbsolutePunk.net thinks you're a stupid jerk (their words, not mine) for not owning this yet.

  The Pauses/Great Deceivers: The Pauses/Great Deceivers Record Label: New Granada Release Date: Sept. 11, 2012 There's a great little record label in Tampa, FL that few people are paying attention to. Its name is New Granada Records. For the last couple years, the label has churned out a slew of first-rate releases and its latest, a split LP from Orlando bands The Pauses and Great Deceivers is no exception. The first side of the LP features two songs from the quirky indie trio The Pauses. The first "The Beginning of Things," is arguably the band's strongest song to date and features the trio's flair for crafting nuances and progressions unlike few of their contemporaries. While the song borders on electro-pop and even dives into urban hip-hop it still posses the trio's near-pristine sense of rhythm and melody. Its second effort, the subdued and cerebral "Formerly," allows vocalist Tierney Tough to take center stage. In just two songs, The Pauses have indeed woven together their two best songs to date and hint at the promise of greatness that dotted their J. Robbins-produced debut. On the contrary, Great Deceivers dive into Dinosaur Jr. territory on the bombastic "Phantom Strength," which features a distinct 90s guitar sound and a sense of brawn and braggadocio that had been sorely missing from their prior efforts. That sense of confidence and swagger is revisited again in the pulsing "Foresight in 50/50." Much like The Pauses, Great Deceivers have indeed stepped beyond themselves and showcased their best work. No longer relegated to the cinematic and swirly patterns of their earlier work, their side of the LP features an expansive and elongated sound that actually suits them quite well. Whether this landscape is revisited in future efforts remains to be seen, but for now this is the start of something truly exciting. New Granada, you've done it again!

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When The Pauses new 12″ arrived at our eardrums, we were naturally more than pleased.  We even caught a few shots of the band celebrating its release, but the good men at Grand National Championships have taken that enthusiasm too another level.

Tonight Alastair St. Hill & co. aired the Orlando, Fla.-based outfits GNC Session, and now video from the live session is available for your eyes to feast on.  The 15-minute clip, which kicks off with the band barelling through an ass-shaking rendition of   “”The Beginnings of Things.”  Rec Centers Melissa Grady joins in for “Formerly,” and the session closes with “Hands Up” and “Don’t Wake Me Up.”

Grab a beverage, and have a looksie below, then head to Grand National Championships’ Bandcamp page to download the audio for this bad boy to your pretty little hard drives. Listen to aformentioned split here.

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Okay, maybe “around Seattle” is a misnomer, as it was really “around Capitol Hill”. Anyway! On Monday {9/17}, I met up with Tierney, Jason, (tour drummer) Cash, and Sammy near The Comet Tavern before their show, and naturally, they were all hungry.

My first thought was Bimbo’s—but a claim was made that they were all “kind of burrito’d out…” and so, I suggested The Honey Hole: king of the deliciously huge sandwiches. Even though I lamented the loss of The Spicoli from the menu (say it ain’t so, Honey Hole!), I found a sammich I loved, and so did everyone else. And there was much rejoicing.

After dinner, I rounded up the coffee drinkers and took them over to Stumptown (don’t get mad at me, people, I KNOW Stumptown is a Portland roaster, but it’s my favorite place on the hill to grab coffee!) for some yummy lattes. They all agreed I hadn’t oversold it (thankfully), and that it was really, really, really good. And there was much rejoicing—and laughing over the giant duck decoy they use as a restroom key holder.

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New Jason Kupfer Jam for the new Deeb Studios Joint.

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Day 4 - The Super Mini-Tour of…oh whatever…

Tour Canceled. Refused are playing!

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Day 2 - The Super Mini-Tour of Complaint and Affection…

When Tierney and I had gone on our first tour of considerable length with Vostok in ‘06-ish, we’d precariously rigged up an old timey tv to play XBOX (Gen1, kids) games while on the road (well, primarily Madden, cause we were a manly bunch). If we’d had the foresight to do something similar this time around, there’s a good chance we’d have seen a whole lot of this screen today…

For those with crummier childhoods than our own (and who were all about their friends and selves living), this was the death screen for Friday the 13th on Nintendo. So instead of running around 8-bit Crystal Lake all day, we decided we’d just go ahead and play another show on this tour. This time we ended up in Athens at the Caledonia Lounge…

…where everyone knows you have to first go sideways to go down. Upon arrival, we were given the keys to the green room; a considerably swanky airstream out back with a TV, Fridge, WIFI, and the essential VHS collection (Fletch/From Dusk Till Dawn/Jurassic Park etc.). It was almost enough to make us forget that we still had to set up and make a show happen.

Next tour will be all airstream green rooms without all the music playing nonsense. Five Eight were apparently intent on keeping us out of the airstream as well, distracting/dazing us with their perpetual musical wizardry. It was only after they’d finished that we’d realized their cunning. If ever there were a band worth missing out on quality airstream time, though, it’s Five Eight. And not too be all super into ourselves or anything, but I’m pretty sure the crowd was really digging on all my computer difficulties as well. We don’t do that for just everyone, Athens.

Tomorrow, we run this tour into the ground (literally) at the downstairs section of Star Bar in Atlanta. We’re told that only the lame-O-s hang around upstairs. Looking forward to making fun of those dopes with the cool kids who really get sub-terrestrial cohabitation.

-jason