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Here comes tonight’s shitlist showlist. There are some good bands, but tonight’s group is overwhelmingly unexciting. It’s left me uninspired enough to not post a list tomorrow, so I won’t. Instead, there will be time devoted to raging after having read this account of Fuck Yea Fest founders getting beat up by Hollywood Bowl’s security staff and being ignored by the LA police while I was watching a footage of an NYPD officer lifting up a woman and smashing her face down on the floor, followed by an image of her badly swollen face on television. I think I heard “pleaded not guilty”. Obama will have to repair the damage. Of every bad news. With his speeches. He headlines at the DNC. Go crazy.
ps. Pictured with “Yes We Can” sign is Adam from The Royal Chains, who’s not playing tonight, but you can see them at Mercury Lounge next on Sept 8th.
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Pianos: The reigning princes of Pianos wave to the cheering crowd, say “It’s been fun”, and leave town to conquer bigger kingdoms; Passion Pit plays the last of the three residency shows tonight. On board is their Swedish friend, drummer and singer-songwriter Kristoffer Rangstam, whose song “Swing That Tambourine”, taken from the album Wrong Side of the Room, lets the drums lead as if it, too, were singing, and the result is refreshing. Rangstam’s label mate The Break and Repair Method will join, as will Staten Island’s Gates of Heaven.
Many more bands playing tonight, and all mp3 links after the jump.
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It’s freaking Tuesday! And how brilliant that the Olympics finished just in time for the Democratic National Convention. Here is the DNC’s full Tuesday schedule; Hillary Clinton headlines.
Music Hall of Williamsburg: Dr. Dog plays a rescheduled, sold-out show with Senator R. Stevie Moore and Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson // Cake Shop: Brooklyn’s Callers will release their full-length album Fortune on September 9, and will play tonight with The Chris Forsyth (of The Peeesseye).
McCarren Pool: L Magazine’s Summer Screen series is showcasing two local bands; The King Left will play an acoustic set, and are joined by Trashed on Fiction before showing Wes Anderson’s Rushmore.
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Pianos: Austin’s The Lovely Sparrows is the brainchild of singer/songwriter Shawn Jones. Over a free-flowing, plucked rhythm of his acoustic guitar, he creates a tender sound fit for accompanying folk fairy tales. His storytelling vision is evident in the way he sparingly deploys little details of various instruments (like flutes, piano, violin, etc) as if each were a character coming in and out of a scene–this disciplined restrain of his adds a lot of texture to the tunes. Pay attention to the lyrics, too. In “Year of the Dog” he sings, “I was waiting out / To save you / You were into that / Romantic shit / And wanted to die young / It was plain to see / To everyone but me / There are no haunted places / Only people we / Still wish that we could see”. The band is playing at Pianos tonight with Satori, Illamanjaromo, and at Union Hall tomorrow.
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Le Royale: There are about eight bands paying there tonight and though I’m not sure who goes on when, I bring your attention once again to The Postelles–just returned from playing Lallapalooza–whose 50’s-60’s-inspired pop rock tunes stand out for sounding so much like the real thing that it’s impossible not to enjoy. All four members have the style down, but it makes hell lot of a difference that singer Daniel Balk sounds like a boy right out of that era. I’m equally into Charlie Klarsfeld’s The Americans, who also draw heavily from that same bygone, fruitful time, but the style here is decidedly R&B, complete with claps, piano and horns. Joining these two is Samuel (amongst many others?), who prefers the more modern affiliation with electronica, and who, it is said, will play with a new live band.
Two gorgeous ladies, more great bands, and all mp3 links after the jump.
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The Annex: Moenie & Kitchi is Gregory and the Hawk. They’re set to go on at 10:15 after Attached Hands and Cassorla // Cake Shop: Dream Bitches are friends Yoko Kikuchi and Ann Zakaluk, whose latest album is this year’s Coke and Spiriters from Recommend if You Like Records. They’re playing with Bugs in the Dark, about whom L Magazine wrote back in December, “Bugs in the Dark are doing their best to fill the void left by Sleater Kinney and the Pixies (unless the Pixies are actually together again, in which case, meh). Suprisingly, they’re doing a bang-up job.” To this day the band wonders the signifance of that meh. What does it mean? Also playing is Dave End, whose track “And By Queen” I quite like, and Sway.
More bands and lots of mp3’s after the jump. Also, which famous band did I sight this morning?
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Virgin Megastore: You don’t get much love on Tuesdays, so work that butt; see Ra Ra Riots for free at Virgin Megastore, Union Square, but first beat the pack flocking there to get a wristband by purchasing The Rhumb Line, which came out today. The performance is at the store’s cafe at 7PM, and of course space is limited so you must get there early.
The Tank: But never fear, Todd P will show you love; Best Friends Forever, Acht(en), Screaming Females and Puttin’ On The Ritz look promising. (On a side note, I recently found out from all the furrowing and scouring my friend Enid Crow does in the neighborhood that there are secret house shows happening right here in Crown Heights! And not that part of Crown Heights that real estate people like to call Prospect Heights. This secret spot is east of New York Avenue, so it’s 100% CH. New Jersey’s Screaming Females are also playing there on September 26th)
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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.
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Regina Spektor: Consequences of Sound
Loxsly: Stethoscope
Port O’Brien: I Woke Up Today
Bodies of Water: Gold, Tan, Peach and Grey
Zero Spanish: Sweetheart
Loudest Boom Bah Yea: Tap Not, Lest Ye Be Tapped
Brilliant Sweaters: I Dropped Out of High School
+/- {Plus and Minus}: Steal the Blueprints
White Williams: New Violence
Dirty Projectors: No More
Longwave: It’s True
Heroes & Villains: Captain Wicked
Padre Pio: Madeline
Bridges and Powerlines: Uncalibrated Guns
Dirty Excuse: Just Stay
Future Islands: Old Friend
Fiasco: Oh You Horny Monster
Union Hall: The perky gang of Port O’Brien will be dispersing their share of Californian sunshine with Loxsly, who has managed to emerge unscathed from the saturated music scene of Austin, Texas, which I imagine looks like a big ball of fire. It has to. Headliners are Bodies of Water.
McCarren Pool: I haven’t been to a Regina Spektor show that didn’t deliver, though the days when she played without a mediocre band are greatly missed. Just Regina on the piano was gold. Albert Hammond, Jr. is opening // South Street Sea Port: Catch Brooklyn’s Dirty Projectors for free, playing with White Williams.
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Revival Times: Curious Storm
Guitars: My Bad
Joseph Israel: Put Your Guns Away
He Can Jog: Last Car Ride
The Coke Dares: Black Beauties
Blonde Redhead: 23
Autodrone: Through the Backwoods
Pterodactyl: Polio
Cake Shop: Forget Seattle. Revival Times hails from Brooklyn’s own mountainous region, “directly above the United North East’s largest oil spill,” where the band “forges its motorik American sound from within the walls of a decrepit casket factory”. Listen to “Curious Storm”, which they just “finished” mixing (which means they didn’t) last night. They’re playing with Medicine Man, Secretary, Azalia Snail, and go on second.
Monkeytown: I’m liking Guitars‘ ”minimal country”. Their EP Faster is up for free download, and are joined tonight by He Can Jog & his friends, who include Sebastian Krueger of Inlets. Though admission is free at this show, a minimum of $10 needs to be spent on either food or drinks, but you needn’t worry as the menu is pretty good. Read more about the venue.
Southpaw: While preparing this post, I listened to John Brown’s Body’s ”Give Yourself Over” many many times on their myspace. Their show’s gotta be fun (will try to post mp3 shortly); playing with Joseph Isreal who follows more literally in the spirit of Bob Marley.
Pianos: Somewhat of a glam night with Autodrone, Cruel Black Dove, Saints and Lovers and Chris Batton and the Woods // Death by Audio: Metal night with Cacaw, Heaven People // Blonde Redhead at Pier 54 (Hudson River Park) for free // Silent Barn: Pterodactyl, The Coke Dares, Artifact Shore, Chrome Wings, Dinowalrus // Mercury Lounge: New York’s Obama-loving trio The London Souls with Wolf and the Wayside, Second Dan.
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