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playing tonight September 2, 2008

City Center, Army Navy & more tonight

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Death by Audio: As you’ll see in the picture after the jump, Brooklyn’s City Center makes music with percussion and lots of cables. Says one-man-band Fred, “It sounds like rattle rattle rattle sparrkkkkk wheeeerrrrrr,” which of course sounds kind of fabulous. He’s playing with old friend Hawnay Troof, who he insists is the one of the “party starters of our generation”, and whose record release is the occasion for the party tonight. Joining them are Vivian Girls, Urxed, and special guest(s). Urxed is mainly Robert Barber, who also plays in High Places, which Fred claims is quite possibly his favorite band after The Grateful Dead and Joy Division(!).

More bands and all mp3 links after the jump.

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playing tonight August 13, 2008

Passion Pit, Sky Larkin, Port O'Brien and more tonight

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Passion Pit: Sleepyhead
Sky Larkin: Molten
Thao: Swimming
You Can Be a Wesley: Elephants in Rabbit Holes
Bodies of Water: Gold, Tan, Peach and Grey
Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson: Who’s Laughing
David Shultz and The Skyline: Already There
Pepi Ginsberg: The Waterline
Port O’Brien: I Woke Up Today
Phonograph: In Your Mind
Glasser: Glad
Evangelicals: Skeleton Man
Peasant: Exposure
Wilco: White Light
Jennifer O’Connor: Here With Me
Choogin’: Father’s Day

Hurray for Passion Pit’s four-week residency kicking off at Pianos tonight. There’s going to be a lot of basic, pleasant pop rock there, except for Murray Flexor whose electronica would seem slightly out of place if it weren’t for Passion Pit’s own gadgetry. UK’s Sky Larkin will play an early set, and joining them are TheToothaches and You Can Be a Wesley. 

Port O’Brien should be fun (video above), playing with Bodies of Water and Peasant at Mercury Lounge, with an early show from The Cover Up // Glasser plays Cake Shop with Chooglin’ and Evangelicals // Thao plays Bowery Ballroom with The Get Down Stay Down, and opening the show there are the mellow Pepi GinsbergMiles Benjamin Anthony Robinson, and David Shultz & The Skyline //  Wilco and Jennifer O’ Connor are playing at McCarren Pool, with a fitting after-party to follow at Union Hall with Phonograph and Salt & Samovar.


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