hooves on the turf

The Loom: Song for the Winter Sun
Gunfight: All You Need
Emanuel and the Fear: Dear Friend
Merrady: California
Hexa: Masked
The Vanguard: Rio
U.S. Girls: Prove It All Right
Flaming Fire: Natural Light Catastrophe
Leo My Ego: Hipster Girl
Beluga: Disco Show
Buckets of Bile: Birthday
Ric Leichtung: O Lightning
Les Sans Culottes: La Semaine A Deux Jeudis
Soulwax: You Can’t Always Get What You Need (The Rolling Stones remix)
French Kicks: Also Ran
Headlights: Cherry Tulips
Does It Offend You, Yeah?: We Are Rockstars

There’s a lot of new music that leaps at the opportunity of stylization as we all toss and turn around what “originality” may mean to us after having to bear the back-breaking weight of grand inheritance. Personally I enjoy the Dan Deacons and the Ninjasoniks, and all of that madness from Baltimore, but within the framework of older traditions, it’s always interesting to hear how newer bands are finding their voices. Emanuel And The Fear, The Loom, and Merrady are showcasing some of this at Rehab. Emanuel and his 10-piece band have kind of a celebratory vibe; with the EP At Last Light, The Loom has found itself with all its warmth and sincerity, though our hard-at-work NYC Taper insists the live shows are even better–download his recording of a previous The Loom show; and Ms. Merrady Phipps has a gorgeous voice, though for now we have only hints of what she will do with it eventually. They are all playing with The Vanguard tonight.

Many more cool bands are playing, continue after the jump.

With that hoodlum of a voice singer Drew Mintz’s got, Gunfight should come close to setting Cake Shop aflame, don’t you think? They’ll be joined by the more laid-back Leo My Ego, who incidentally sings about a hipster girl, hurling me towards further confusion on the identification of this godawful accessorizing populace, since their hipster girl sounds more like a yuppie to me. People are walking around with varying definitions, sometimes poles apart, I’m telling you, or has the boundaries really blurred that much? Anyhow, Beluga and The N.E.C. will be joining in on the fun as well.

While I recommend listening to Hexa, I’m a fan of their website. It’s totally nonsense-free, and to to hell with myspace: bands of the world, watch and learn. They’re playing with Holy Hail, at Grasslands // For interpretations that dare to be strange, head to Silent Barn: U.S. Girls (I like), Pink Reason, Ric Leichtung, and Buckets of Bile are playing // And who doesn’t love French rock and roll? Les Sans Culottes and Flaming Fire at Rocks Off Concert Cruises.

Model-turned singer Lissy Trullie with TV Baby and Frankpollis at Santos Party House // Martin Rev (of Sucide) at Pianos // French Kicks, Headlights, Tiny Masters of Today, The Union Hall Secret Science Club at Brooklyn Bridge Park (free!), followed with an after party with Busdriver at Union Hall // The Section Quartet playing the music of Radiohead at Joe’s Pub // Bloc Party, Does It Offend You, Yeah? at Webster Hall // Soulwax, JDH, Dave P, Alex English at Irving Plaza // People Under the Stairs, Iller than Theirs, Junk Science at Southpaw.