[LISTEN] Mission of Burma on Bullesye with Jesse Thorn

Last month, Mission of Burma were featured in a live taping of Bullseye with Jesse Thorn at OBERON in Cambridge, MA. Listen to the featured segment below (full episode available here).

From NPR's Bullseye with Jesse Thorn: Though the post-punk band Mission of Burma’s initial iteration was short-lived and resulted in only one full-length album, an EP and a few singles, their music influenced generations of musicians outside their home of Boston. Their appeal was still strong when they reformed in 2002 with band members Roger Miller, Peter Prescott and Clint Conley, adding new member Bob Weston. Since then the band has continued to perform live and has released 4 albums including their most recent entitled Unsound. The band performed a live set for us, and sat down with Jesse to talk about reforming the band after almost two decades apart, why they don’t make an effort to be rock stars and the subtle difference between being "legendarily loud" and being "hard to take". Photo courtesy Fire Records

Pitchfork Premiere of White Lung's "Chinese Watermelon" - in collaboration with Pink Mountaintops and Converse

White Lung have released a new track in collaboration with Stephen McBean (Pink Mountaintops) and Converse. Watch the video and stream the track over on Pitchfork. "Chinese Watermelons" will be included on the forthcoming Converse compilation CONS EP VOL III.