March 1st, 2010 by Eric RexPuerto Rico’s Davila 666 and Detroit’s The Dirtbombs teamed up last night to destroy the Knitting Factory by bringing a little slice of last year’s Scion Garage Rock Festival to Brooklyn. Though the weather was furious, the real raging storm was inside with driving powerful pop sensibilities so fierce it inspired an all female [...]
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0 Comment » February 16th, 2010 by Eric RexFull Flickr Set
I feel like there’s a bit of danger in describing VV Brown’s music as Pop R&B, because doing so will immediately conjure to mind the rather horrible direction that popular R&B music has taken over the past twenty years, from the nadir of vapid singing sweaty sex jams over hip hop beats, to [...]
Category : Show Review February 9th, 2010 by Eric RexFull Flickr Set Here
Last night was Hadouken!’s first ever American show, where they played at Mercury Lounge to a crowd of less than 30 people. It was honestly kind of surreal. Hadouken! as a band have fairly large cultural cache’ in the UK, playing festivals, large venues, and enjoy popular music press and [...]
Category : Show Review January 25th, 2010 by Eric RexEula remind me of sharks in that there is the sense that if they as a band stop moving forward, they will die so they destroy the past in anticipation of the next kill. I had seen Eula back in October, so I knew what to expect from the live performance; tight and precise [...]
Category : Show Review January 7th, 2010 by Eric RexLast night at The Knitting Factory was the first stop in the Metal As Art tour, a month long tour taking Hypno5e, Revocation and Binary Code from New York to California back to New York again with shows every single day and a promise of a second run of the tour starting in February. The [...]
Category : Show Review October 22nd, 2009 by Eric RexReal 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 [...]
Category : Show Review October 21st, 2009 by Eric RexFull 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 was [...]
Category : Show Review October 7th, 2009 by Eric RexFull 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 most [...]
Category : Show Review October 5th, 2009 by Eric RexFull Flickr Set
Thank God that’s over. Having finally moved in and gotten entirely settled into the new place, I finally found the time and energy to leave the apartment to go catch Girl in a Coma at The Knitting Factory’s new Brooklyn location this past Friday.
My only real familiarity with Girl in a Coma [...]
Category : Show Review September 2nd, 2009 by Eric RexFull Flickr Set
The first time I saw Screaming Females, I was utterly destroyed. It was at Market Hotel in May for the Double Dagger album release party. I had a friend from out of town and the evening hadn’t been a bust musically, but there was nothing surprising as I was already pretty [...]
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