Them Crooked Vultures Tease "Scumbag Blues," Reveal Presale

Them Crooked Vultures sent out the third volume of their Crooked Times yesterday giving fans on their mailing list the scoop on the presale password for their upcoming U.S. tour and a 52-second instrumental preview video of the track "Scumbag Blues." Once again, like the previous studio snippets of "Nobody Loves Me and Neither Do I" and "Elephants," the sneak peek just whets the appetite of fans eager to hear this supergroup in action. The drums especially sound insane, and serve as a reminder that when Dave Grohl isn't fronting the Foo Fighters, he's still one of the best drummers in rock.

The animated "Scumbag Blues" clip also shows us just how crooked these three Vultures are. They carry around small dogs and baseball bats! They flash their trench coats in public and $100 bills come raining out! They walk around with open umbrellas when it isn't raining! It's a fun, almost White Stripes-inspired video, but at this point what we really want is a release date for their debut album and a non-truncated version of one of their songs.

As for tickets to the Vultures' U.S. tour, the presale begins tomorrow, September 3rd at 10am. We're not going to give away the presale password — you should sign up for the mailing list if you haven't already — but it's probably locatable over on the TCV message board. The public on sale date is September 5th. As Rock Daily previously reported, the Vultures will play a trio of concerts in Austin, Texas, in the days leading up to their U.S. tour, marking the band's first American dates since their debut post-Lollapalooza concert in Chicago.

Related Stories:
• Them Crooked Vultures Join Austin City Limits Lineup, Announce U.S. Tour
• Them Crooked Vultures Join Arctic Monkeys for Surprise London Show
• Them Crooked Vultures Are Born

• 
  MUSIC The Top 25 Teen Idol Breakout Moments
• 
  MOVIES & TV 'Game of Thrones': The Show Vs. the Books
• 
  POLITICS Matt Taibbi: Facebook IPO vs. Shareholders
• 
  VIDEOS Exclusive: Garbage Rip Through 'I Think I'm Paranoid'

Song Stories

“Smells Like Teen Spirit”

Nirvana | 1991

"Smells Like Teen Spirit," named after a brand of deodorant marketed to girls, was Kurt Cobain's attempt to "write the ultimate pop song," he said, using the soft-loud dynamic of his favorite band, the Pixies. Cobain "had that dichotomy of punk rage and alienation," the song’s producer, Butch Vig, told Rolling Stone, "but also this vulnerable pop sensibility. In 'Teen Spirit,' a lot of that vulnerability is in the tone of his voice." Sadly, by the time of Nirvana's last U.S. tour, in late '93, Cobain was tortured by the obligation to play "Teen Spirit" every night. "There are many other songs that I have written that are as good, if not better," he claimed.

More Song Stories entries »

Twitter