Alex Nathanson documents a night of the many strands of punk at Europa: savage, gypsy, folk, klezmer, Ohioan, just don’t call it pop. Or maybe do call it pop. It was one of State Lottery’s first gigs, while Defiance, Ohio and Guignol had met up for a few previous nights while Defiance traveled on a substantial tour, both with enough …
By Nate Dorr
Best Friends Forever, it turns out, are basically just too animated to be captured in still photography. They’re just not made for the format: too energetic, too exhilarating for the static image. The results aren’t just uninspiring compared to their actual presence on stage, but seem actively incorrect, each moment meaningless and unfamiliar once out of …
By Armin Rosen
Eight down, one to go as far as the usual McCarren Pool routine is concerned—the one that involves hungover rides on the L-train, street tacos and that hour-and-a-half long lead-up to the day’s first act, always a reminder that McCarren is one of those places where the real action …
From The Depths brings anarcho-punk to a former Thai restaurant
By Jacob McKean
The word “epic” can serve a few different purposes in the music vocabulary. It can be used as a superlative, as in, “Dude, that show was epic.” It can describe music that sounds heroic or grand in scale or character, as …
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Thu Aug 28, 2008
Here’s a Philly band that’d feel comfortable on a label like Paw Tracks, with their texturally-enhanced, folky meanderings and their uber-cheery vocal melodies. It’s got that freak out calypso vibe of a song from Sung Tungs and the scratchy home hiss of Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti.
While “essentially” the solo project of 28 year old Scott Daly, …
Thu Aug 28, 2008
I usually don’t shout, but I woke up to these guys on the front page of Myspace. Maybe they’ll hear me over their crappy music if I do.
Dear United Nations,
You are exactly the type of band that would hate on the retro fetishisms of hipsters wearing track suits, neon spandex and anachronistic facial hair. It’s definitely not 1984 anymore, …
Wed Aug 27, 2008
Each week Heidi Klum informs me that the saying in fashion is “one week your in, the next week your out.” Hip hop needs to heed her words; the leaked songs for T.I.’s new record Paper Trail taste like rabbit droppings leading to a shithouse.
“Swagger Like Us”, on paper, should be in consideration for …
Tue Aug 26, 2008
Murdertronics, not to be confused with Murdertron, a member of the collective but not quite its namesake, have a track in “Bmore Get Loose Bay Bay Gurl” that cuts up Lil Jon with an underriding Bmore beat and “was produced entirely by Dypso/Durtface on …
Tue Aug 26, 2008
Sans Temps Morts is Nate Dorr’s weekly New York City events guide listing. This week with Parts & Labor, Little Women, Pterodactyl, Extra Life, Xiu Xiu, Scary Mansion, Aa, Evangelista, Oneida, Prurient, the Beets, Ninjasonik, Sonic Youth, Vivian Girls, Ezekial Healy.
No special announcements this week, but many, many shows. Actually, one special announcement. Apparently My Bloody Valentine has …
Mon Aug 25, 2008
Talbot Tagora are a Seattle band that mold obfuscated vocals and deeply unsettled melodic counterparts into very noisy, very moody tracks that are as much punk as they are odes to something very alternative and even Britpoppy (refer to their Elastica cover!).
A quick trip to their Myspace page yields a laundry list of past “fake” gigs …
Fri Aug 22, 2008
Air Waves have been a Brooklyn band for a minute. They’re one of those groups that remain solid because of their lack of allegiance to any particular trends. They were nice enough to send along some mp3s from their EP, so sample some of their down-home folk rock here.
Air Waves, “Kingdom”
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Thu Aug 21, 2008
Foregoing mystery, the new Secret Machines are totally forthcoming.
Following Ben Curtis’ departure last year to focus on his new project, The School of Seven Bells, NYC stalwarts The Secret Machines have carried their rock shinobi out beyond the bounds of the secretive, making public and open knowledge last Thursday a new non-album track from the recording …
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In the year of our Lord, 2002, Impose founder Derek Evers interviewed his long-time punk idol, Ben Weasel. We shake the dust off those words now.
Idol (noun): One that is adored
Funny, why would so many people come to adore a man who has gone out of his way to be an asshole to so many? Maybe …
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