Posts filed under “Show Review”
Streetlab, Bottle Up and Go @ Santos Party House 4/14/10
Last night I covered a Greenshoelace.com and Scion party, as it ran long and will most likely be cut, I wanted to preserve the two bands I wrote a lot about here for this entry. update: The full review is now published. BOTTLE UP AND GO The opening act, Bottle Up and Go is a [...]
The Bombettes, Deep Sleep, No Friends, Night Birds @ Bruar Falls 4/8/10
After two great singles and the promise of an upcoming album, Thursday’s The Bombettes show at Bruar Falls was probably one of my most highly anticipated shows for the Spring. The Bombettes are a five-piece all-girl pop-punk band out of Sweden with a sound that tempts me to use the word “feisty” when describing it [...]
The Bronx, Violent Soho, Mariachi El Bronx @ Music Hall of Williamsburg 4/2/2010
Last night Music Hall of Williamsburg played host to Los Angeles’s amazing punk band The Bronx in two formats. Headlining as The Bronx they played over an hour of the amazingly frenetic rock-n-roll for which they’re known, but also making their Brooklyn debut as Mariachi el Bronx, the self described “all white guys playing mariachi [...]
Asteroids Galaxy Tour @ Bowery Ballroom
Asteroids Galaxy Tour expressed as mathematical equation would be Dutch Pop + Stax Records – Blackness + psychedelic freak out = Asteroids Galaxy Tour. AGT as you hear it on the tracks is made up of multi-instrumentalist Lars Iversen working with vocalist Mette Lindberg to create fairly uniquer pop music. Their sound is pop with [...]
The Dirtbombs, Davila 666 @ The Knitting Factory 2/25/10
Puerto 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 mosh [...]
VV Brown, Gordon Voidwell @ Brooklyn Bowl 2/15/10
Full 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, [...]
Hadouken!, Last Year’s Model @ Mercury Lounge 2/8/10
Full 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 mainstream [...]
Eula @ Lit Lounge 1/23/10
Eula 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 instrumentation [...]
Metal As Art @ The Knitting Factory 1/6/10
Last 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 [...]
Hot Lava, Boogie Boarder @ Glasslands 10/21/09
Real 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 split [...]