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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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Cake Shop was a ball last night, and tonight The Mae-Shi and DD/MM/YYYY bring their own party while the sullen Imaad Wasif and his Two Part Beast band douse you with sweet refrains // The ever so active Indelicates are playing again, at Don’s Hill for $5 // Sensitive boys Chris Garneau and Icelandic Olafur Arnalds team up for a night of languid tunes at Joe’s Pub // Mercury Lounge is covering quite a range of volume with Love as Laughter, Cheeseburger, Coin Under Tongue, This Frontier Needs Heroes // Check out Forest Fire at Southpaw, playing with The Kiss Off and Susu // Girls (ex Ariel Pink) and Suckers are playing together again, with WW (secret guest) and Hearts of Darknesses (note the plural) at The Delancy // Deerhoof free show at Prospect Park with Metropolis Ensemble: The Rite: Remixed, thanks to Wordless Music Series // Matmos and Leprechaun Catering play the fabulous (Le) Poisson Rouge. Mewithoutyou, Maps and Atlases play an early show at Maxwell’s. For everything else, check out Oh My Rockness.
Playlist
Forest Fire: Fortune Teller
DD/MM/YY: Super VGF
The Mae-Shi: Run To Your Grave
Love as Laughter: Beautiful Crossed Eyed Young Gunz
The Kiss Off: Mother Murder
Susu: Part Bloodhound
Maps and Atlases: Every Place
Chris Garneau: Blackout
This Frontier Needs Heroes: Marxists and Marigolds
Cheeseburger: Money for the Heart
Coin Under Tongue: Coin Under Tongue
Deerhoof: Giga Dance
Heart of Darknesses: Crazy Legs Man
