Archive for May, 2010
Tecla Album Release Party @ Ella 5/28/10
Vintage Circus by TECLA Tecla in just a few months has grown as a performer. From somewhat awkward vocalist with keyboard and Mac book to a woman in control of her craft and audience, able to make us dance and laugh and sing and forget the heat of a tiny cramped basement Friday night felt [...]
Black Wine – ‘Black Wine’
Black Wine’s self titled debut is a combination of punk pop and late eighties early nineties alternative bands, there is the three chord sugarpop frenzy of bands like The Decendents and Agent Orange and the earnestness sound and structure of bands like Nirvana, Dinosaur Jr, and other assorted 120 Minutes alums. Like an episode of [...]
Los Peeps! Party Punk! Political Punk!
After catching Los Peeps at the House of Yes last month, I really intrigued by what sounded like political music put into a party punk wrapper. I wasn’t able to find much information on the band online, so I contacted them and asked them for an interview because I wanted to know more about them; [...]
Daylight Robbery – ‘Through The Confusion’
Mystery by Daylight Robbery When using the term adult punk, it makes me think of post-hardcore or post-punk acts, where bands like Fugazi tempered the elements of Minor Threat and Rites of Spring to generate a kind of controlled energy and lyrics less about how things “should be” and rather how things “are.” Though that’s [...]
The Golden Filter @ The Mercury Lounge 5/14/10
This past Friday, The Mercury Lounge turned into the Mercury Disco as two bands known for driving dance provided blessed out sounds for the button down crowd that had assembled that night. New York’s The Golden Filter was in to help celebrate the late April release of their first album Voluspa giving us a taste [...]
The Netherlands @ The Charleston – 5/13/10
God DAMN I love The Netherlands. Timo Ellis (Joan As Police Woman, Cibo Matto) singing and JAPA on drums with a rotating bass element make dark scary sexy fun surreal funny psychedelic thrash at doom metal speeds that suddenly explode with guitar lines that give punk bands a run for their money. Using more effects [...]
Slices – Cruising
Slices’ first full length Cruising(Iron Lung Records) is an absolutely amazing piece of work. The twenty minutes of music is a great combination of hardcore, noise, and art tying rage at life and the joy in the act of creation together to create a band that has gone backwards, working from noise rock roots to [...]
LAST YEAR’S MODEL – Human 2.0 Release Party
Recently Last Year’s Model evolved past us puny mortals and decided to have a party showing off their shiny new carapaces for a night of friends, family and what they called Human 2.0. I saw Last Year’s Model for the first time a few months ago, when they opened for Hadouken and they really impressed [...]