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Kaleo - No Good (Live at United Record Pressing) + 2016 Rolling Stone video/article + official video
Watch Kaleo Talk ‘Vinyl’ Spot, Icelandic Fans, American Blues
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/watch-kaleo-talk-vinyl-spot-icelandic-fans-american-blues-77346/
Mick Jagger and Martin Scorsese, co-creators of HBO’s Vinyl, were so impressed by Kaleo‘s “No Good” that they requested to use the blues-rock hit on their show – even though they hadn’t heard the final version. “We hadn’t even finished the song,” singer-guitarist JJ Julius Son tells Rolling Stone. “I guess they just heard some demo from the label.” Scrambling to make the deadline, the Icelandic group were forced to cancel a couple shows. “We pretty much had a few days to finish up, cut some vocals and mix,” he adds. “It was all done in a short time.”
That whirlwind creative process is representative of the band’s rise to fame – from forming in Iceland to crashing the American charts with singles like “Way Down We Go.” The Vinyl spot was a huge break, but Julius Son admits he doesn’t even watch TV. “I was excited for [making the soundtrack for FIFA 16], the video game, for example,” he says. “I’ve played that since I was eight. That was exciting, I remember. It’s all really good. We’re seeing a huge response. It’s all happening. It’s all good things.”
“It was a dream to definitely come to America and perform and record,” he continues. “That’s what we wanted to do. We didn’t quite expect it to happen so fast since it’s only [been] two years since we were recording for the first time in Iceland.”
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That whirlwind creative process is representative of the band’s rise to fame – from forming in Iceland to crashing the American charts with singles like “Way Down We Go.” The Vinyl spot was a huge break, but Julius Son admits he doesn’t even watch TV. “I was excited for [making the soundtrack for FIFA 16], the video game, for example,” he says. “I’ve played that since I was eight. That was exciting, I remember. It’s all really good. We’re seeing a huge response. It’s all happening. It’s all good things.”
“It was a dream to definitely come to America and perform and record,” he continues. “That’s what we wanted to do. We didn’t quite expect it to happen so fast since it’s only [been] two years since we were recording for the first time in Iceland.”
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