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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – ‘Beat the Devil’s Tattoo’
Imagine if a harmonica-toting Dean Moriarty had a fetish for David Lynch and dug dirty-blues fuzz rock and you’ve got the sixth album by California trio Black Rebel Motorcycle Club in a nutshell.
Whitney Biennial 2010: Is It Worth Your Time?
The mission of the 2010 Whitney Biennial reads like no other in the past: “To underscore the idea of time as an element of the Biennial and to demonstrate the influence of the past on 2010, familiar and less well-known artists from previous exhibitions are brought together in Collecting Biennials…” Where I come from people call that a retrospective, however, at the Whitney, the curators Francesco Bonami and Gary Carrion-Murayari had a larger framework in mind, the one of time itself, what it means in art (”Even Mona Lisa is falling apart”) and more importantly, how do we get it inside a white cube gallery. Let’s see how that worked…
Ceremony, Screen Vinyl Image, Outpost and 999999999 at Knitting Factory, 03.04.10
Fans of punk, Goth and shoegaze who were not in Brooklyn on Thursday missed out on one sweet treat with the impressive bill of Ceremony, Screen Vinyl Image, Outpost and 999999999 at the Knitting Factory.
Efterklang at Le Poisson Rouge, 03.03.10
Denmark’s Efterklang returned to New York for a sold-out performance at Le Poisson Rouge on Wednesday night, and luckily for fans, the band decided to go forward with the tour in spite of some last minute challenges.
Efterklang CD Release Party with Efterkids Performance, 02.23.10
The record release party for Efterklang’s Magic Chairs was undoubtedly the most unique and inspiring I’ve seen in recent memory. Held at the Clark Studio Theater at Lincoln Center, the event featured Efterkids, six musically gifted students ranging from grades 6-8…
The Big Pink: Decidedly Urban
The Big Pink’s first unofficial show in NYC, a VIP night at Mercury Lounge last June, was almost their last on American soil. Though main members Robbie Furze and Milo Cordell had just spent time in the city producing A Brief History of Love at Electric Lady Studios…
Adam Green: On the Fringe
Is Adam Green’s life a veritable oyster of the rocker life? Just take spy into his baby, the eye candy and Dada poem of a “blogge” known as The Lake Room, and it seems as if his whim-filled days are lived to the fullest alongside not-so-under-the-radar friends like The Shining Twins and Har Mar Superstar, usually while touring and rescuing random, cute strangers.
Get ‘Em While They’re Hot (Chip)
Sitting down with three-fifths of Hot Chip recently was like having Christmas come early. The electro-pop masterminds have been coming on strong in the U.S. for quite some time now, and with their fourth album just released…
Nostalgic Spirit in the Moment with You Say Party! We Say Die!
XXXX, the third album from Canadian quintet You Say Party! We Say Die!, hit U.S. shelves on February 9, and the band is about to kick off a major tour of the US, Europe and Asia, with a few shows at SXSW as well as two in New York.
Bear in Heaven: In Heaven, Everything Is Fine
My late introduction to Brooklyn-based band Bear in Heaven was just this past December, when they supported Mew at Webster Hall (and I can see why they were handpicked to do so). Not sure how I’d missed them before, but as singer and founding member Jon Philpot said, in this town there is so much happening…
