Archive for August, 2010
School of Seven Bells – ‘Disconnect From Desire’
Disconnect From Desire, the second album from The School of Seven Bells is a difficult beast to get a handle on. It is at once a joyous celebration of life and creation and also a bit cool and distant. It is more accessible than their first album, 2008’s Alpinisms while showing a bit more maturity [...]
Big Freedia @ Coco 66 8/28/10
In every city where there is a sizable population of young people, there will be music unknown to the world at large. This music will be unique, influenced by what came before in that city and in the world at large with personal flourishes added into the whirls of sound to try and make real [...]
Pregnant – ‘Pregnant’
Pregnant’s self-titled LP on brand new Brooklyn label, Burn Books, is an incredibly strong, if at times, flawed debut. The flaws do not outweigh the whole but they do unfortunately prevent the songs from reaching the heights of which the band is plainly capable. Pregnant was formed in 2007 and consists of guitarist/lead vocalist Kevin [...]
BBU, Das Racist, Lionshare, Tayisha Busay, Zebra Baby @ Glasslands 8/20/10
Full Flickr Set As I write this, there’s a disgusting amount of humidity creeping up. It rained earlier and it’s making an already sticky summer more unbearable. Clothes stick to your back, water doesn’t sate thirst and you just want to fight to get indoors to some kind of controllable temperature right away. You want [...]
Ty Segall, The Babies, Moonhearts, Zulus @ DBA 8/13/10
Full Flickr Set Here My experience with Ty Segall began, pleasantly enough, by accident. I had recently heard of Bark Bark Bark and bought that album from Retard Disco. As the label had a ton of music with which I wasn’t familiar, I went ahead and picked up some additional acts by random. It was [...]
Pregnant Record Release Party 8/7/10
Full FlickR Set Saturday night’s Pregnant record release party is the best show I’ve been to since I moved to New York in 2008. Period. Its intimacy, energy and vibe reminded me of the best house shows of my youth while the technical excellence of the bands remind even the most jaded of attendees can [...]
Women – ‘No Reasons’
Got No Brains by Women No Reasons, the first album from Philadelphia band Women, sounds like it was vomited up onto the sidewalk from some Lower East Side gutter circa 1978. It oozes the filth and grime of that era while eschewing the a lot of the casual racism, misogyny and homophobia of that era’s [...]
The Detroit Breakdown @ The Lincoln Center 7/31/10
FULL FLICKR SET In the litany of bands I never thought I’d see perform, The Gories were probably at the top of the list. All music lovers have those bands, the ones we missed out on because we were too young, or in the wrong part of the country or we discovered them after the [...]