Video: Ariel Pink Brings Stoner Glam to 'Late Night With Jimmy Fallon'

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti made their television debut last night on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Though the group's lo-fi approximation of classic AM pop isn't exactly the most mainstream sound, it's sort of surprising that it took this long to get them on TV given that they are so fascinating to behold in their shabby, shiny, colorful attire. Band leader Ariel Pink is especially transfixing, looking more or less exactly like Kurt Cobain if the grunge icon had lived long enough to go through a thrift store glam phase. His voice is a bit wobbly in this rendition of their single "Round and Round," but it's nevertheless a very memorable performance.

Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – “Round and Round” 1/19 Fallon [The Audio Perv]

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Song Stories

“Too Close”

Next | 1998

Next was formed in Minneapolis when the uncle of Terry "T-Low" and Raphael "Tweety" Brown, who was a gospel choir director, introduced the brothers to Robert Lavelle "R.L." Huggar. Sounds of Blackness singer Ann Nesby groomed the R&B group before handing them over to Naughty by Nature's KayGee, who wrote and produced "Too Close." The idea for the song was sparked "from a conversation we had with several girls at a nightclub," explained T-Low. "It's talking about the club scene, with guys getting out of hand and the female telling him to back up, asking, 'What are you doing?'" 

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