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Recommended Friday Show: Fucked Up, Double Dagger, and DD/MM/YYYY at NYU

You know when shows are the best?  When there’s that one band that totally thrashes around and breaks boundaries and doesn’t just play but puts on a show.  You know what’s better than the best?  When there’s an entire night of bands that are known for doing just that.  Fucked Up: crazy live show.  Double [...]

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Photos: Diehard and DD/MM/YYYY at Union Hall

DD/MM/YYYY (pronounced “date month year”) was pretty much exactly what I was expecting.  Spastic, exciting, not-quite-noise rock.  It will never really be my thing, but these guys were well-practiced.  I know that sounds like a silly thing to say, that they were tight musicians.  But sometimes, with this new trend to noisily push the bounds [...]

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Recommended Tuesday Show: DD/MM/YYYY at Union Hall

Tuesday’s recommended show is DD/MM/YYYY at Union Hall.  This band played about 1,000,000 times a SXSW, and yet I somehow managed to miss them.  I don’t know all that much about them other than that they play spastic music that supposedly merits dancing- or at least jumping around a bit.  I usually think of Union [...]

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Recommended Saturday Show(s): Your Weekend Wavves Strategy

This weekend is all about Wavves.  He’s pretty much the buzziest thing out there right now (along with POBPAH).  The backlash has already hit after the Pitchfork Best New Music, but I love his album.  The first track alone is such a dark, angled introduction to what I see as a an album that captures [...]

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