WUSSY - Pizza King (Mashup Video)

WUSSY - Pizza King (Live at KEXP)

Wussy presents a video mashup of their song "Pizza King" (from 2012’s Strawberry) set to scenes from Marcos Valle's 1980s "Estrelar" video.

“Before Wussy vocalist Lisa Walker uprooted to Cincinnati and co-founded one of America’s most critically acclaimed bands, she grew up bored and restless in Muncie. This droning slice of Midwestern ennui name-checks her hometown in addition to Terre Haute, Valparaiso, pay lakes, and the state’s greasiest homegrown pizza chain.” – Indianapolis Monthly

Also be sure to check Wussy’s live version of “Pizza King”, recorded at KEXP in 2014.

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.

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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

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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)

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

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WUSSY - Pizza King (Live on KEXP)

WUSSY - Beautiful (Live on KEXP)

WUSSY - Rainbows and Butterflies (Live on KEXP)

WUSSY - Bug (Live on KEXP)

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WUSSY - Mayflies (Official Video)

In case you missed it the first time around, check out the official video made in 2008 for Wussy’s “Mayflies” - directed by Mike Postalakis.

WUSSY - Live at Shake It Records (Live Video)

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)

Wussy – “To the Lightning” from Attica! (2014)

Video assembled and edited by Lisa Walker.

WUSSY - Nomenclature (Official Video)

Wussy Duo – “Nomenclature” (2011) / Video assembled by Lisa Walker in 2012

Chuck and Lisa (with help from John Curley) covered a Seedy Seeds song for the electronic group’s Verb Noun companion album. This track was later remastered and released on Wussy’s Getting Better Record Store Day EP for Damnably Records in 2018.

WUSSY - Chicken (Mashup Video)

Wussy presents a video mashup of their song “Chicken” (from 2012’s Strawberry) set to scenes from Rebel Without a Cause.

WUSSY - KEXP Session at SXSW 2012 (Live Video)

Wussy performs live on KEXP from Mellow Johnny's Bike Shop during SXSW 2012. Recorded 3/14/2012.

Setlist:
Waiting Room
Pulverized
Grand Champion Steer
Pizza King
Little Miami

Engineer: Kevin Suggs
Cameras: Jim Beckmann, Shelly Corbett, Scott Holpainen & Christopher Meister
Editing: Jim Beckmann

WUSSY - 2009 RV Session (Live Video)

In 2009, the newly re-formed Wussy got together in an RV and recorded a couple of songs from their third self-titled album. Video and Audio by Lightborne. Directed by Scott Fredette. Songs include “Maglite” and “This Will Not End Well”.

Village Voice: Funeral Dress Review by Robert Christgau

Wussy’s debut record Funeral Dress landed on Robert Christgau’s Dean’s List for the 2006 Village Voice Pazz & Jop critic’s poll: https://www.villagevoice.com/2006/01/24/deans-list/

He also reviewed the record in the February 1, 2006 issue of Village Voice, giving it an “A” grade and saying:

“Small, but about perfect, with Walker handling the human detail and Cleaver tossing off metaphors—a sideshow horse, a shunt to drain the fear from his brain. It’s an ideal partnership—vocally and lyrically, Walker grounds the old guy and he lifts her. The band sound is more Velvets than Burritos, yet country still. It’s as if they’ve reduced all of white Ohio to an articulated drone, unlocked a silo or warehouse of hummable tunes, and worked out the harmonies.” - Robert Christgau

Read the full review here.