Wussy - "North Sea Girls" from Attica! (2014)
Video by Rich Tarbell, with thanks to Polly, Kristen, Catherine & Jessie.
Winner of 2015 Cincinnati Entertainment Award for Best Video
WUSSY - North Sea Girls (Official Video)
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Attica!
WUSSY - Beautiful (Live Session + Mashup Video)
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Wussy performed live at Seattle’s KEXP studios on June 20, 2014. Here is their live version of “Beautiful” from the 2014 album Attica!.
“When I saw Wussy play ‘Beautiful’ at last year’s Nelsonville Music Festival, they stretched out the ending until the seams frayed; the mantra-like chorus, drone-fuzz guitars and strummed bass erupted like a lost Yo La Tengo outtake.” – Pitchfork
This is a very rough recording of Wussy initially arranging "Beautiful" in the practice space, captured on an iPad April 2013. Mashup video made with local WXIX commercials from the early 70's - which can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmX_S...
Wussy on CBS This Morning
Wussy made their national US television debut on CBS This Morning, featured on the show’s November 29 Saturday Sessions. The band filmed an interview segment at the 60 Minutes Studio with CBS’s Anthony Mason, supplemented with additional footage shot on tour and in their hometown of Cincinnati. They performed the songs “Teenage Wasteland”, “Beatiful” and “Pizza King”. The performances are not currently available online; however the interview with Anthony Mason is featured here.
Cincinnati CityBeat reported on the coverage:
“Veteran Cincinnati band Wussy saw a huge boost of its national profile (and sales) over the weekend when the band was featured on CBS This Morning on Nov 29. The band’s network TV debut included an entertaining and funny interview segment, spliced with live footage (including shots filmed at this year’s MidPoint Music Festival, where the band opened for The Afghan Whigs in Washington Park). The featurette also showed band members Chuck Cleaver, Mark Messerly and Lisa Walker at their day jobs in Cincinnati and Shake It Records (the Northside record shop whose label branch releases Wussy’s albums) also makes an appearance.
The band’s appearance also included a performance of “Teenage Wasteland” from Wussy’s latest album, Attica! A bonus performance of another song from the album, “Beautiful,” was also filmed.
The appearance had an immediate impact on Wussy’s sales. CBS’s Anthony Mason (who conducted the interview) tweeted that Attica! entered the iTunes album chart at No. 89 after the airing. Amazon sold out of its stock of Attica! CDs.
WUSSY - Gene I Dream (Official Video)
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Wussy is happy to announce the premiere of our video for “Gene, I Dream” from the album Attica!. John Erhardt compiled some tour footage for a segment on Wussy that aired on CBS This Morning. The network used a portion of it, but this is the original 4 minute reel created by John. On a whim, we played it against “Gene, I Dream” and found that it matched up perfectly!
WUSSY - Bug (Official Video)
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Wussy released their video for “Bug” (from Attica!, 2014) on Nov 14. It was directed by John Erhardt, Chris Joecken and Red Echo Post, and shot at the Hoffner Masonic Lodge in the historic Northside neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio.
WUSSY - Bug (Live at KEXP)
Recorded June 20, 2014.
Host: Cheryl Waters
Audio Engineer: Kevin Suggs
Cameras: Jim Beckmann, Shelly Corbett & Scott Holpainen
Editor: Jim Beckmann
WUSSY - Teenage Wasteland (Live Video)
WUSSY - Teenage Wasteland (Live at the Practice Space)
Cincinnati Magazine Video Premiere
Video by Michael Wilson
Audio by Henry Wilson
Recorded Feb 13, 2014 in the band’s practice space
Renowned Ohio photographer Michael Wilson shot a series of photos featuring Wussy for the May 2014 issue of Cincinnati Magazine. He also, along with his son Henry Wilson, recorded a video of the band performing “Teenage Wasteland” from their album Attica!. The video was premiered by Cincinnati Magazine in June 2014.
WUSSY - Teenage Wasteland (Live at KEXP)
"Teenage Wasteland" live in the KEXP studio.
Recorded June 20, 2014.
Host: Cheryl Waters
Audio Engineer: Kevin Suggs
Cameras: Jim Beckmann, Shelly Corbett & Scott Holpainen
Editor: Jim Beckmann
More About “Teenage Wasteland”
Download from KEXP: Song of the Day.
SPIN’s Best Songs of 2014 (#55 Teenage Wasteland): “Title references aside, no band besides the Who is supposed to write songs that build this well.. If you’re not weeping by the time you get to the chorus — and it’s every bit as heart-burstingly exultant as you’d hope it would be, by the way — you need some more guitar-rock earnestness in your life, friend.” – SPIN
“Walker pays homage to the Who in first track ‘Teenage Wasteland’, a pop song that rivals its namesake. She references ‘Baba O’Riley’ and the band’s legendarily explosive Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour performance (‘When the kick of the drum went off like artillery fire’), but it’s less about classic-rock head nods and double entendres and more about capturing what it’s like to be a kid and finding a band you connect with on the deepest level imaginable.” – Pitchfork
WUSSY - KEXP Session 2014 (Live Video)
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WUSSY - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)
WUSSY - Teenage Wasteland (Live on KEXP)
Wussy performed live at Seattle’s KEXP studios on June 20, 2014, receiving the first ever Midday Show encore!
From KEXP: “We’re glad to see more and more listeners and critics take notice of the the Cincinnati band’s dynamic 90s-steeped pop-rock sound. And they’re as much fun to talk to as hear them perform, so it was no surprise that Cheryl would ask them to keep playing after their fourth song for the first ever encore on the Midday Show!”
Songs:
Teenage Wasteland
Bug
Rainbows & Butterflies
Beautiful
Pizza King
Host: Cheryl Waters
Audio Engineer: Kevin Suggs
Cameras: Jim Beckmann, Shelly Corbett & Scott Holpainen
Editor: Jim Beckmann
WUSSY - Pizza King (Live on KEXP)
WUSSY - Beautiful (Live on KEXP)
WUSSY - Rainbows and Butterflies (Live on KEXP)
WUSSY - Bug (Live on KEXP)
WUSSY - Live at Shake It Records (Live Video)
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Wussy performed a live in-store show at Shake It Records on March 22, 2014. Photographer Terry Eaton recorded this video of the event. Songs performed include Gene I Dream, North Sea Girls, Halloween, Acetylene, Mayflies, Conversation Lags, and Maglite.
WUSSY - To the Lightning (Official Video)
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Wussy – “To the Lightning” from Attica! (2014)
Video assembled and edited by Lisa Walker.