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Submarine Bells Find Their Element
Submarine Bells just solved your crime, made you a donut and cleaned out your consciousness: I feel strongly enough about this band that even though we have covered them before, that’s rarely a crime, I want to bring them up to your attention again. I’ve seen about six shows and with each one something important [...]
Moonbabies at On The Side @ Seaport, 10.23.09
Ah, the festival curse: never enough time to fit in every must see band. After multiple failed attempts, I finally caught up with Moonbabies for their final CMJ week show. This one happened to fall late on Friday (in actuality, very early Saturday) at On The Side @ Seaport, a new gallery and [...]
The International Set Hits NYC: Choir of Young Believers, Via Tania, Warpaint, Mi-gu and Adam Testa, CMJ Day 3, 10.22.09
The Thursday line-up at Le Poisson Rouge included four great, very different bands.
First on the bill was Choir of Young Believers, a four-piece from Denmark, on their first US tour. Their set was a blend of beautiful folksy, orchestral pop, complete with cello.
Next up was Chicago-based, Australian singer-songwriter Via Tania, whose Moon Sweet Moon was [...]
Tickled To Perform: A Saturday at Market Hotel with Electric Tickle Machine, 9.26.09
Electric Tickle Machine, Zoos of Berlin, North Highlands, Dream Diary and Werewolves all played at the Market Hotel this past Saturday. We made the seven lefts and eight rights along the tourist-friendly streets to ascend the staircase behind a deli.
Ramblas In Hell’s Kitchen: SonarSound NY, 5.12.09, Baryshnikov Arts Center
We’ve made it out to Siberia, the stretch of lower Hell’s Kitchen that seems to greet more visitors than locals, to the Baryshnikov Arts Center, a relatively new performance venue. The desolate streets bunched together by the cloverleaf of the Lincoln tunnel are lined with low tenements made into mushrooms by the roof parapets, [...]
Coachella 2009: Sunday, Day 3, April 19, 2009: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Cure
Sunday was the scorcher of the Coachella stretch, so it seemed a good idea to sleep in and catch some pool hours before braving the 100+ degrees afternoon.
Fittingly, the Balearic pop of UK darlings Friendly Fires made them the hot ticket of the first shift. Their stirring, somewhat deranged punk/dance anthems like “Jump In the [...]
