Posts filed under “Show Review”

The Octopus Project @ Music Hall of Williamsburg 10/8/10

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all photos courtesy of the amazing Edwina Hay On Friday night (October 8, 2010), The Octopus Project played Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, NY. I wasn’t familiar with their brand of electronic psychedelica, having only really heard Hexadecagon thanks to their PR firm, the always-accommodating Big Hassle Media, who sent along word of their [...]

Mudhoney, Pissed Jeans, White Hills @ Bowery Ballroom 9/4/10

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Full Flickr Set. (lots of good crowd shots. See if you’re there) It must have been 1991. I can’t think of any other time it could be. Bush, the first one, was still president, only nerds had heard of the internet and Nirvana had changed just changed everything. I was in high school at the [...]

Big Freedia @ Coco 66 8/28/10

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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 [...]

BBU, Das Racist, Lionshare, Tayisha Busay, Zebra Baby @ Glasslands 8/20/10

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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

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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

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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 [...]

The Detroit Breakdown @ The Lincoln Center 7/31/10

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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 [...]

Kid Congo Powers & His Pink Monkey Birds @ The Knitting Factory 7/28/10

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Full 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 [...]

Night Birds, Red Dons, Rations, Pregnant @ DBA 7/25/10

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Full 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 [...]