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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 [...]
Katzenjammer at Mercury Lounge, NYC, 6.16.09
Call them what you will: vaudevillian charmers, musical circus cabaret, torch singing, gypsy folk, punk pop, Balkan/Norwegian, but when Katzenjammer performs, whether it be at a sold out 1500-capacity venue in Oslo, a mega outdoor festival such as Bonnaroo, or tonight, at the intimate Mercury Lounge, they bring an instant party. Their hit “Bar in [...]
Chase Pagan at Mercury Lounge, NYC, 5.21.09
Seeing Arkansas-based Chase Pagan perform for the first time “is akin to reading Nabokov novels in their original post-it note format, you get the gist but it leaves one wanting more.” That’s what a writer said who came to his first Pagan show tonight, and it stuck, since it was pretty amusing and seemed to [...]
The Morning After Girls at Mercury Lounge, NYC, 1.27.09
Blackout. Cue the epic, classical intro. Drop the mood down to meditative with a purring Chopin piece. Follow it up with whirring feedback as ominous as the sound of old fighter planes fast approaching. Aussie’s Morning After Girls finally ascend upon the stage, backlit, fiery and with an air of mystery. The new [...]
Those Darlins @ Mercury Lounge, NYC, 1.16.09
Murfreesboro, Tenessee’s new pride and joy, Those Darlins, returned to NYC for a 2 night, sold-out run at Mercury Lounge. They played on January 15th with Ida Maria, and the following night with the Soft Pak. Three country girls gone bad, and a kick ass drummer, Those Darlins mix dirt-road country tunes with modern throwbacks. [...]
Living Things at Mercury Lounge, NYC 12.17.08
Livings Things are back on the New York scene and we were lucky enough to catch them this week at Mercury Lounge, a good two months before their upcoming release, Habeas Corpus. The band consists of brothers, Lilian (vocals/guitar), Eve (bass), and Bosh Berlin (drums), along with long time friend Cory Becker (guitar). The L.A.-based [...]
