If it wasn't for the telltale black balloons hanging outside a Columbia Heights alleyway, you might not have been able to find Paper Sun - a two-story warehouse/art space where local bands practice and sometimes even play intimate shows. The cloistered garage provides a great off-the-beaten path venue away from crowded bars like Wonderland Ballroom, and great acoustics. Last Saturday the folks that have their run of the space were gracious enough to allow All Our Noise to host several bands from around the East Coast. We called the event AON Presents: Volume and enlisted the [...]
20 April, 2010 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm Who: Ava Luna, Air Waves, Total Slacker, Your Nature Where: Union Pool Show Info: 21+, 8:00pm, FREE Listen: "Clips" by Ava Luna
Monday: Darlings, The Sneaks, Cybelle Blood, + Night Reports @ Bruar Falls 8pm FREE [ info ] While Monday may just be the most depressing day of the week, it can be made better when you know there's a kick ass free show lined up to end your day. Tonight three bands I've never heard of and Darlings open the doors to Bruar Falls for a free show. Now I know there's always a bit of trepidation when you don't know the bands, but since there's no cover or [...]
Two of The L Magazine's Top 8 NYC Bands You Need To Hear played Cake Shop this past Tuesday night - or, technically, three of them did; alas, I arrived too late to catch Ball of Flame Shoot Fire ... at any rate, it was a refreshing bout of home cooking for me. Having spent all of March on the road traveling, seeing all manner of bands around the country (most popular genre, seemingly, at the moment out there: über delay heavy post-rock), it was nice to be back in the familiar surroundings [...]
by roko flip We're hard at work on some exciting new QC projects including some incredible vodcasts featuring the likes of Javelin , Wildbirds and Peacedrums, Ava Luna and many more. But we're also in the midst of planning the next Quiet Color spectacular. Before we announce the new show in the coming weeks, we thought we'd take a quick look back at the last QC jam: The Sloppy Circus at The House Of Yes . Get excited for the next jump off going down in May.
Ava Luna - Past The Barbary This is absolutely definitely with complete certainty one of my favourite songs of the new year. It manages to be sad and soulful without trying to hard, it manages to be funky without being contrived, and it uses so many old tricks in a way that makes them seem new and fresh. If you're not playing air violin when those strings break their way in at the end, you're not listening. And if you can't hear the embraces, the feet-stamping, the hearts flying from rooftop to rooftop singing aloud, [...]
Ava Luna - Cement Lunch I hope you remember Ava Luna . Their synth punk gospel doo wop is not a sound you could easily forget. And if you did forget, you clearly weren't paying enough attention in the first place. Anyway, after shaking things up a little bit on the blogs and stuff, they're back with another sweetly handmade CD-R, the Services EP . I have good news on all fronts about this one [...]
Ava Luna - Black Diamond I We employ several workers here at the Torture Garden. Mostly they do heavy labour, the kind of stuff I can't do myself: changing the titles of the latest post, handing letters to one another, suddenly child-sized in scale. They're the ones who painted the banner from my design, and hoisted it up with ropes and ladders, fitting it to the top there. They sort out the electricity and the heating (it gets cold here sometimes, especially lately), and they deliver the t-shirts and hoodies. They even look after me [...]
photos by andre salyer and marc evan Here's one last look back at the party that was. Amidst the fire breathers and acrobats: Javelin, The Shivers, Ava Luna, Dinowalrus, and Shark? rocked Quiet Color's Sloppy Circus last Saturday for what turned out to be an epoch Brooklyn evening. Check out a photo diary of the night by two esteemed QC photographers, after the jump. [...]
by shannon moore If you were there, I'm sure you have your own dimly lit, grainy circus story to tell. If you braved the Industrial labyrinths of warehouses on this particular sub-zero Saturday night and followed the soft glow and faint pound of music to the doorstep of the House of Yes , then I'm sure you're still talking about it right now, as the weekend ends. There were hundreds of us there. Three hundred and forty last I checked the head count with my pals [...]
by raleigh st. claire As QC's Sloppy Circus approaches, we're highlighting each band on the bill to help you get further acquainted. Following up with our Ava Luna profile , today we look at the three piece Brooklyn band Shark?. Fronted by QC staffer Kevin Diamond, they are more than just "our friend's band." They've constructed catchy garage rock melodies that span a wide range of demographics. Despite the distorted guitars and vocals, the rhythms speak to the pop side of our brains and the [...]
Monday: Bottle Up & Go + No Place @ The Studio at Webster Hall 8pm FREE [ info ] There really is no better way to kick off a week than to have the opportunity to catch a free show! Tonight's free performance come courtesy of Bottle Up & Go and up-and-comers No Place. We are only vaguely familiar with No Place, but Bottle Up & Go played last year's After the Jump Fest and were a pretty solid act from what I remember. All though I was pretty wrecked at that point so [...]
Before I begin my review I will say right up front that I don't get it. I don't get the attraction of organized chaos in music. I understand the urge to make completely unique music but I kind of like music that makes me dance, or soothes me, or makes me think deeply, or even music that has no redeeming qualities other than it makes me happy (I'm looking at you Coldplay). But I never "got" Charlie Parker's kind of jazz, I never "got" the Blood Brothers or Mars Volta (although I quite like them). It [...]
by ernsk We've been dreaming about this party for a while now. Never considering that it might actually go down in real life. So we're thankful for the unexpected which will abound at the House Of Yes next Saturday night, January 30th. Javelin is headlining Quiet Color's Sloppy Circus ; a night of fire performers, aerial acrobats, pole dancers, and video artists. You'll be walking into a whimsical atmosphere, release therapy for your earthly routine. Transport yourself to a bohemian circus, dip a [...]
by john ziegler Much digital space has been filled trying to describe Ava Luna's sound. Critics and commentators have called it electro-doo-whop, electro-pop soul, post-punk dance-a-tronic pop-a-whop, and other combinations of the words electro, pop, soul, and doo and whop. When the band lists its own influences (James Brown, Stax, Fugazi) it's easy to see where they are coming from, from which precipice they are shouting. Yet no band in recent memory has so enjoyably and ponderously pooled their [...]
Less Artists More Condos promoter Ariel Panero brings word: tonight's Ava Luna show with Suckers and Marnie Stern, heralded here just hours ago as the epic return of Damon Dash's Under 100 wond... Continue reading "Cancel That: Under 100 Is Officially Not Back, Tonight's Ava Luna Show Has Been Called Off" >
They told us we'd gotten it shut down. They told us that it was called DD172, and that it had become a "hippie art collective right smack in the middle of one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in M... Continue reading "Damon Dash's Under 100 Is Officially Back! Ava Luna Record Release Show There Tonight" >
[mp3] The Octagon: "Suicide Kings" Besides Dawn Landes at Mercury , and Stark performing with Tim Emmerick at Pianos (9:00) - we feel obliged by our dedication to good taste to tell you about two more amazing shows happening on Friday. The first being the triumphant return of The Octagon to Brooklyn after dominating the country behind their new (and killer) record Warm Love and Cool Dreams Forever . This analog garage trio is hitting Bruar Falls to celebrate the release of the [...]
Because there's just too much out there demanding your attention and social calendars, we're determined to do our part in helping you sift through the clutter. Which is why we present you with Your Weekend Plans…. , a new feature here on EF in which we put advance focus on an upcoming show by chatting it up with one of the bands involved. For our debut installment, we've corralled Brooklyn (now) septet Ava Luna , whose blend of girl-group doo wop, thick soul and frizzled electro-punk has everyone scratching their heads in puzzlement as they [...]
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