Archive for October, 2009
Details on Tomorrow’s Flavorpill Halloween Party
The location of the Flavorpill Halloween party is out, and it’s all going down at the Masonic Temple in Brooklyn (317 Clermont Ave). Doors open at 9:00pm, and the party will rage til 3:00am. They’re *very* close to reaching their goal of raising $20,0000 for charity: water. There are a few tickets left, so get [...]
CMJ Roundup!
There is a great danger that this update may never have gotten written in the first place so I need to keep it brief to at least give my impressions of some of the bands which I saw at CMJ so this is going to be a real quick update and later I’ll be providing [...]
Hot Lava, Boogie Boarder @ Glasslands 10/21/09
Real quick capsule review of last night’s Glasslands party. Waiting for friends to come in from DC kind of killed a chunk of our ability to go out. Thanks to traffic they didn’t get here when they had easily predicted so we didn’t get to leave the house until later than anticipated. We then split [...]
Breaking News: Late Night CMJ Madness from Mean Red and Good Peoples
Mean Red and Famous Friends are trying to actively kill you. Shanghai is a destination, a metropolis, a noun. But personally, we prefer Shanghai as a verb. Back in the day of saloons and scurvy, ship captains used to drug / kidnap their sailing crew. When there was a shortage of seamen, any able-bodied fellow [...]
Die! Die! Die! @ The Redbull Space 10/20/09
Full Flickr Set The first night of CMJ for me was both grand and horrible. Grand because New Zealand band Die! Die! Die! played an amazing, if unfortunately short, set and horrible because the venue and the method of entry into the venue was pretty much an amalgam of horrible Manhattan Night Life Stereotypes. It [...]
It’s the most wonderful time of the year
CMJ starts today, the yearly tradition which draws a ton of music to an already saturated New York music market. As poverty is in constant danger of rearing its head, I had already planned to hit predominately free shows and have built my schedule around that. Here’s what I’ve got going on Tuesday: New Zealand [...]
Just found my Halloween Plans
Water charity is having a benefit where for $20 you get live performances by The Very Best, Stretch Armstrong, Bajah+The Dry Eye Crew, Subswara, Small Change, Kyle Hall, VDRK, Bradly D and “Special Guests” in a secret Brooklyn Location. oh, and it’s open bar all night. Leah Taylor of Flavorpill has the word We’ve missed [...]
Eula – Language of Threat
Housewolf Nothing Knew There is a moment about twenty seconds into “Housewolf”, the first song on Language of Threat by Eula, where music that has been hypnotically chugging along with a repeated steady four notes unexpectedly changes dropping the melody out but intensifying the groove for a few measures before the returns to its previous [...]
The Twilight Sad, Brakes, We Were Promised Jetpacks 10/06/07 @ Bowery Ballroom
Full Flickr Set I’m not really a huge fan of Shoegaze. In most instances the layering of elements to explore the sounds and melodies created from harmonies and dissonances don’t really do it for me. It’s usually exotic and curious, but it’s the sort of modal experimentation that I’ll listen to once or twice as [...]
New Janelle Monae Track Released
Kia Soul Collective has the goods. We’re pretty sure Janelle Monáe is from the future or from a super cool planet that the rest of us are not up on yet. You know – some spot just over in the next galaxy where the music rules and where everyone rocks their own version of the [...]