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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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Taken by Trees: Julia
The Gang: Sea So
Bears: Wait and See
Ghosty: Big Surrender
Au: We Are Animals
Pwrfl Power: Alma Song
Conor Oberst & the Mystic Valley Band: Danny Callahan
Pistola: Chugs And Squeals (At The Amusement Park)
Evangelicals: Skeleton Man
Made Out of Babies: Cooker
Red Wire Black Wire: Compass Matter
Portland’s Au is playing two sets at Monkeytown with Mofongo, but seating is very limited and reservation is required // Stockholm’s Taken By Trees creates a luscious world within a sparse landscape, and these tender tunes, given their modesty, should sound pretty good at Union Hall’s tiny basement.
Pwrfl Power is classically-trained Japanese guitarist Kazutaka Nomura, who opts for idiosyncratic lyrics and an elemental framework of popular music these days–he goes so far as to sing, “Your boobs aren’t that gigantic / But that’s okay, I don’t like big girls anyway”. Though he usually does this over a rich fabric of a lone acoustic guitar, he goes electric sometimes. For the Cake Shop show tonight, let’s hope it’s acoustic. He will be joined by Bears, Ghosty, and be warned of estrogen overload, Fruit Machine and Heavy Flow (if this name isn’t clear enough, the logo consists of two tampons with bloody tips).
A house party at Santos’ Party House with: Machine Drum feat. Theophilus London (live PA), Stay High (live PA), Tanlines DJ Set (Eric of the Brothers + Jesse of, Professor Murder) + Bulldozier DJs: Hearts of Darknesses, Stephen of Stars as Eyes.
Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band with Evangelicals at Bowery Ballroom // There’s some confusion about who’s playing at Grasslands tonight; Soren Well, The Gang, Black Swan Green and Linfinity are but My Teenage Stride is not. // Red Wire Black Wire, The Mumbles at McCarren Pool // Made Out Of Babies, PIGS, Pistola at Southpaw // Butch Walker, Jesse Malin at Webster Hall.
