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Monthly Archives: May 2009
Recommended Monday Show: Death Vessel at The Bell House
I love Death Vessel. I saw them at CMJ last fall, and instantly fell in love with the bizarre, androgynous quality of his voice. Combine that with his excellent folk-writing sensibility, and you have one very entertaining live show. For a band name with such a depressingly vivid image (a vessel filled with death?), their [...]
Hot New Band: Handglops
You may not have seen it, but there was a recent track review on Pitchfork for this nearly unheard-of band called Handglops. It might not have been anything out of the ordinary for most people, but it was a fine day for Swarthmore. One of our own actually managed to make it out of the [...]
Recommended Friday Show: Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez at Death By Audio
There are ten bands playing at Death By Audio tonight, and I only know one of them. Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez is a freak folkster from Baltimore. I only know him because I like to play his tracks on my New Weird America radio show once in awhile. He’s just a guy with a guitar, but [...]
Photos: Sean Bones at Mercury Lounge
When someone told me that the bass player in Sam Champion started a reggae band, I was instantly intrigued. I listened to a few tracks and was sufficiently curious to drag myself out to Mercury Lounge on this gross, rainy Thursday. The music is a kind of cool combination of reggae and rock. Admittedly, I [...]
Recommended Thursday Show: Grizzly Bear and Here We Go Magic at Public Assembly
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjecYugTbIQ&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00] Veckatimest, blah, blah, blah, 9.0, blah, blah, album we’ve all been waiting for, blah, blah, blah, blah. So yes, Grizzly Bear’s new album Veckatimest is finally, officially out, and yes, everyone is talking about it. Yes, Pitchfork gave it a 9.0 and it feels like Animal Collective all over again. I’ve listened to [...]
Exciting New Song (and Album): Nightingale / December Song
Spencer Krug is pretty much King, as far as I’m concerned. Luckily for everyone with ears, there’s a new Sunset Rubdown album due out on June 23rd called Dragonslayer. I’ve heard a lot of these songs played live, and they were all very moving and exciting. I haven’t heard the whole album yet, but this [...]
Recommended Wednesday Show: Real Estate at The Annex
I hope everyone had a great Memorial Day weekend. I know I did, except for the break from blogging. I didn’t have too much time to myself to use the computer at my parent’s house, but I’m back in the BK now. There were a lot of good shows over the weekend I’m sorry to [...]
Photos: Video Hippos, Air Waves, Screaming Females, Double Dagger, and The So-So Glos at Market Hotel
The show at Market Hotel last night was easily, by far, the most fun night of music I’ve had so far this year. In the words that I used to attempt to lure my friends out to Bushwick, the line-up was sick nasty awesome. The bands were all uniformly great. But more than that, the [...]
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Tagged Air Waves, Double Dagger, Screaming Females, So So Glos, Video Hippos
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Photos: Elvis Perkins in Dearland and The Woes at The Bell House
This show is quite a bit after the fact now, but I still wanted to put up these photos. Since I’m so behind on this, I’ll keep the review short. What it basically boils down to is that it was a very fun night of good, not great, music filled with instruments of all sorts: [...]
(Highly) Recommended Thursday Show: White Rabbits, Cymbals Eat Guitars, The Antlers at Bowery Ballroom
This show is a no-brainer. I LOVE all three of these bands. If I weren’t going to be in Philadelphia for the evening, I’d be right up at the front, camera in hand, watching three of the best bands this city has to offer. I’ve covered The Antlers quite a lot on this blog. You [...]
