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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.
All bands and mp3 links after the jump.
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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.
More bands and all mp3 links after the jump.
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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.
More bands and all mp3 links after the jump.
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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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