Frances, Double Wonderful & more tonight
Frances: All the While
The Muslims: Nightlife
The Walkmen: Good for You’s Good for Me
Double Wonderful: That’s the Way
The Royal Chains: There’s No Love in Your Punches
Paper Route: Empty House
The Faint: The Geeks Were Right
The Black Hollies: Paisley Pattern Ground
Howlies: Sea Level
Shy Child: Astronaut
Bowery Ballroom: New York’s sextet Frances is my favorite amongst the bands playing tonight. The music is a dynamc blend of opposites stirred in to strike a compelling balance: pop against the unpop, wanderings against the hooky, and so on. With the right kind of energy, their set show should be delightful. They’re opening for The Walkmen and The Muslims, so it’s a pretty good line-up.
More bands after the jump.
Cake Shop: Listen to Double Wonderful’s lo-fi, good-natured tune “That’s the Way”, which is taken from a four-track self-titled EP. My bet is these guys will be fun live, despite the number of screw-ups that can ensue at Cake Shop. They’re playing with R. Stevie Moore and Wonder Wheel.
Mercury Lounge: Stuff your nostalgia for the sixties with The Royal Chains, The Black Hollies and Howlies, in all of whom you can hear various strokes–from strands of surf rock to the garage–of that beloved decade. Also playing is Paper Route, who draws more from the eighties and nineties. This is an early show.
Santos Party House: SFTOE benefit with Simply Fly (Tunde Adebimpe of TV on the Radio), Ryan Sawyer of Tall Firs, Eye Contact, Stars Like Fleas; Lizzi Bougatsos (of Gang Gang Dance), Dragons of Zynth, Kanen Lolang and Brooklyn Jumbies Drummers (full details).
Terminal 5: The Faint, Antipop Consortium, Shy Child // The Delancey: Bloody Social, Alberta Cross.
