January 27th, 2010 by Eric Rex

I am totally and utterly in love with Ava Luna’s Services EP.
They bill themselves as Post Punk Pop Electro, but to me it’s best described as some chunky soul.
Every time the chorus kicks in for Clips, the first song on the EP, I lose my shit. It just kicks me right in [...]

January 22nd, 2010 by Eric Rex

Not certain how I ended up on this mailing list but this seems pretty cool and low key.

I am glad to announce that Vaudville Park will be presenting the Beach House ‘Teen Dream’  SubPop Album Release DVD Screening, this Wednesday January 27th at 9PM.  doors  will open at 8:30pm, free to the public.   And yes… [...]

January 11th, 2010 by Eric Rex

New Year brings a  New Chance to see one of my favorite musical finds of last year.
Saturday 1/23 – LIT Lounge ~ EULA, Conversion Party, Les Vinyl, Honey Wagon
Thursday 2/18 – Bar Matchless ~ EULA, Man without Plan, The Art of Shooting, Ancient Sky
Work has slowed down, so I’ll be able to get this show [...]

November 18th, 2009 by Eric Rex

November 25, 2009
Front Room
apliiq presents: “THE STUFFING” w/ Gordon Voidwell, BILLLL$, DAS RACIST + DJs Ballantino (Soul Imperial)& more

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11/25, Front Room, 9 pm, $8
apliiq presents: “THE STUFFING”
Gordon Voidwell and BILLLL$
DAS RACIST
W/ DJs
Ballantino (Soul Imperial)
Hans Beck
Louis VuiTron
***Pictures by Mel D of VillageSlum.com***
www.apliiq.com

November 16th, 2009 by Eric Rex

Eula, one of my favorite discoveries of this year, are playing at Cameo Gallery next Monday at 9 PM.
It’s part of Dinosaur Feathers 3 show residency at Cameo featuring Pow Wow!, Holiday Holiday, and Eula on 11/23 for $7.
Re-read our review of their EP The Language of Threat and then get excited to see them [...]

November 10th, 2009 by Eric Rex

Screaming Females plus So So Glos / Bad Blood Revival
Wednesday, Nov 25, 2009 7:30 PM EST (7:30 PM Doors)
at The Bell House
in Brooklyn, NY

November 9th, 2009 by Eric Rex

Uncle Monsterface, your favorite Saturday Morning Punk band, has released a compilation of covers for free for members of their mailing list and have also released a video of their amazingly straightforward cover of Madonna’s “Like a Prayer” they shot about two years ago.
Most of these have only been performed live, so this is a [...]

October 30th, 2009 by Eric Rex

The location of the Flavorpill Halloween party is out, and it’s all going down at the Masonic Temple in Brooklyn (317 Clermont Ave). Doors open at 9:00pm, and the party will rage til 3:00am.
They’re *very* close to reaching their goal of raising $20,0000 for charity: water. There are a few tickets left, so [...]

October 27th, 2009 by Eric Rex

There is a great danger that this update may never have gotten written in the first place so I need to keep it brief to at least give my impressions of some of the bands which I saw at CMJ so this is going to be a real quick update and later I’ll be providing [...]

October 21st, 2009 by Eric Rex

Mean Red and Famous Friends are trying to actively kill you.
Shanghai is a destination, a metropolis, a noun. But personally, we prefer Shanghai as a verb. Back in the day of saloons and scurvy, ship captains used to drug / kidnap their sailing crew. When there was a shortage of seamen, any able-bodied fellow who [...]