July 29th, 2010 by Eric RexFull Flickr Set Here
Last night was another in a hopefully long line of Vice / Scion AV Club Garage parties at The Knitting Factory in Brooklyn, featuring the garage barrage of Hunx and His Punx opening for the legendary Kid Congo Powers who was backed by The Pink Monkey Birds. This wasn’t any ordinary [...]
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0 Comment » July 27th, 2010 by Eric RexFull Flickr Set
This probably won’t win me any friends, but I’m kind of glad that the Pool Parties for this past Sunday got canceled/moved. I was excited to see The Death Set, Lightning Bolt and No Age, but I’m not really a Cap’n Jazz fan; so when this show was moved to Brooklyn Bowl [...]
Category : Show Review July 22nd, 2010 by Eric RexMickey out of Chicago wants to be dangerous rock n roll, but it comes across more like T-Birds rather than the Sharks or Jets. There’s a little too much Poison and not enough Dwarves for my tastes, but if you separate expectation of genre from what you’re actually hearing, there’s actually a good collection [...]
Category : album Review July 20th, 2010 by Eric RexFull FlickR Set Here
Last night, Bruar Falls threw a birthday party for The Men’s bassist Chris and hosted a series of bands for the occasion. My love of The Men’s Immaculada should be well known by now, but their habit of putting all of their music online for free has given me a deeper [...]
Category : Show Review July 19th, 2010 by Eric RexWarm weather, party music, and hordes of excited fans were the theme of the day at The Williamsburg Waterfront for the second of JellyNYC’s Pool Parties for 2010.
I wasn’t even going to attend yesterday. The day before was spent at Sirenfest and the heat and crowds and loud music had started to get to [...]
Category : Show Review July 18th, 2010 by Eric RexFull Flickr Set
Last year’s Siren Music Festival was the reason I started writing about music. So blame or thank that at your leisure.
In DC, where I’m from, free music festivals are limited to things like the Fourth of July, where you’ll get family friendly entertainment singing all the hits from thirty years [...]
Category : Show Review July 16th, 2010 by Eric RexRank / Xerox came highly recommended to me by Eric of La Corde. I ordered his band’s 7” and asked if there was anyone else I should check out in his neck of the woods. He rattled of a handful of bands I didn’t know, so I went and dropped some money. [...]
Category : album Review July 14th, 2010 by Eric RexIt’s no secret that I love EULA. I love the energy of the music, I love how it twists and flails like an out of control Tilt-a-Whirl of noise and and energy, I love how the words make no sense, except for when they make perfect sense in a futurist percussive way, I love [...]
Category : interview July 12th, 2010 by Eric RexThis is frustratingly problematic for me. I was hoping that Matt and Kim would be squared off against Ted Leo, but NO. I must now choose between the bubbly effervescent personality and inescapable twee pop of Matt and Kim vs the impromptu electronic madness of Holy Fuck!
I will probably go with a bit [...]
Category : Uncategorized July 12th, 2010 by Eric RexFull Set Here
After all the worry and stress and hard work on behalf of JellyNYC, the increasingly misnamed Pool Parties returned to the Williamsburg Waterfront yesterday (Sunday, July 11th). While the weather was not one hundred percent cooperative, alternating light sprinkles and heavy humidity, the day was still pretty good, showing an evolution in [...]
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