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Monthly Archives: May 2010
Recommended Monday Show: Quiet Hooves and Bubbly Mommy Gun at The Knitting Factory
I’ll admit that I’m sitting in the spare bedroom of my parents’ house trying to quietly type this, and that I don’t have headphones and can’t listen to music too loudly and can’t honestly really remember what these two bands sound like. BUT, I wrote this post about them a few weeks ago, and I [...]
Recommended Saturday Show: Fang Island at Cake Shop
Have I written much about Fang Island since SXSW? No, I suppose I really haven’t. That doesn’t change the fact that they’re one of the most energetic, exciting new acts of 2010. It’s fitting that the opening track on their album begins with fireworks – the music explodes into bursts of fizzing color, burning hard [...]
Recommended Thursday Show: Dan Deacon, Eternal Summers, Big Troubles, and Dustin Wong of Ponytail at Cake Shop!!!!
I shouldn’t have to write anything about this. Dan Deacon. Cake Shop. Tiny, tiny Cake Shop. Eternal Summers and Big Troubles would be a bomping show on their own. My only reservation in recommending this show is fear of my readers getting trampled, or perhaps dying of fun. By hook or by crook, if you [...]
Posted in Show Of The Day
Tagged Big Troubles, Dan Deacon, Dustin Wong, Eternal Summers
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Photos: Braids and Wild Nothing at The Knitting Factory
Tuesday night at The Knitting Factory felt like Friday night. So many of the usual suspects gathered to catch Braids’ early set that at first it seemed like the show was going to turn into some sort of music industry/blogger showcase. But as the crowd started to trickle in (lots of youngsters, clearly there for [...]
Recommended Tuesday Show: Wild Nothing and Braids at The Knitting Factory
I know two things about Braids. They are from Canada and their song “Lemonade” sounds very, very good. It starts off with an atmospheric electronic riff that continues almost throughout the entire song, but the track takes on a much more heartfelt and human tone than its opening might lean towards. There’s something in the [...]
Photos: Happy Birthday and Drink Up Buttercup at Glasslands
I’ve spent some time on this blog disparaging Happy Birthday. It’s true. I was underwhelmed both times I caught them at SXSW and again at Mercury Lounge opening for Dum Dum Girls. Still, I went to Glasslands on Saturday night for the sole purpose of catching them again. Whether or not their live show failed [...]
MP3 Roundup: White Wires, Mutual Benefit, Buffalo Moon, and Eric Copeland
I haven’t been this excited about new music since I’ve been doing this blog. There’s a lot of heavy hitters putting out amazing albums, a refreshing and diverse change of pace after 2009′s Animal Collective/Grizzly Bear/Dirty Projectors monopoly. The National, The Hold Steady, Joanna Newsom, Dum Dum Girls, and Broken Social Scene have obviously all [...]
Posted in Cool Band/Song Alert
Tagged Buffalo Moon, Eric Copeland, Mutual Benefit, White Wires
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Recommended Thursday Show: Veronica Falls at Cake Shop
Maybe it’s just because of the sonic similarities between the band name and the title of my most recent embarrassing television obsession (you have one guess), but Veronica Falls are sounding really good to me. I didn’t know much about the British band before this week, but they’ve played a bunch of shows in NYC [...]
Recommended Wednesday Show: Mountain Man at Mercury Lounge
I’m a little leery of recommending this show. Ideally, Mountain Man should be experienced outside, in a quiet meadow with lots of flowers and air that smells like fresh lavender. Or at the very least, if a city it must be, in a church or on a roof somewhere. In some senses, it’s astounding that [...]
Photos (for Impose): Woods and MV&EE with Joshua Light Show at Abrons Art Center
Last Thursday night I tentatively made my way down the long strip of Grand Street between the B/D station and the Williamsburg Bridge, keeping my eyes peeled for the mysterious Abrons Art Center. Amidst one of the few places in Manhattan that still actually sort of resembles the type of neighborhood in novels like Lust [...]
