The Pains of Being Pure at Heart headlined a hometown show at NYC's Webster Hall this past Friday, May 6th. The indie-pop group were joined by Brooklyn's Twin Shadow and NJ's Big Troubles . Our photographer Kenny Shin was there to grab some great photos of the event. You can check those out over in our photo gallery .
I first found out about Big Troubles after my band had played a show with some of the members who at the time were backing their friend's band Fluffy Lumbers. Their debut LP Worry on Olde English Spelling Bee was recorded by the bands joint songwriter's Alex Craig & Ian Drennan from Ridgewood, New Jersey. It's pretty Lo-fi but you can clearly hear every riff and effect and the levels on the vocals aren't annoyingly beating on your eardrums. Worry drips with the essence of MBV's Loveless. It also has that Smashing Pumpkins - 1979 vibe on some of the songs. Something pretty cool that [...]
The good, the not so good and the great: care to guess which is which?
Big Troubles were recently interviewed by WFMU's Beware of the Blog. The Ridgewood group discussed their obsession with outer-space, Nickelodeon nostalgia and their next record
Ducktails , Julian Lynch and Big Troubles will head out on a European tour together starting at the end of May. That's not before Real Estate , Julian Lynch, Big Troubles and Family Portrait play Hoboken's Maxwell's on Saturday, May 21st
big troubles - video rock chevalier avant garde - young john maus - quantum leap merchandise - locked in the dark
It's not too often you get a chance to see fantastic bands above 14th street, or really above Houston for that matter, but this Friday WBAR at Barnard College is putting on their annual WBAR-B-Q . I went last year- it was cold and rainy and so inside their somewhat gloomy gym, but it was still worth the trek to see Blues Control and observe real stressed-out college scenester wannabes in their natural environment. A good show AND a good anthropological experiment. This year, the weather is supposed to be nice and the lineup is even better. What wouldn't I [...]
The Twerps are from Australia, and they have been getting a good deal of buzzzzz on the better blogs for the past month or two, and now they're on an American tour. In terms of current bands, they're like one part Strange Boys and one part Girls and one part 70s NYC punk band. It's all jangly with whiny vocals, but the songs have a laconic casualness to the them. They're the chillest punk songs I've heard in awhile. I like 'em a lot, and I think you will, too. And Big Troubles are always fun to catch, plus each [...]
The enigmatic RxRy (who is not Panda Bear ) sent us these answers to our questions in this next installment of q and also a . q: What is the last song you (really) heard? a: i have been listening to a lot of Tim Hecker and Big Troubles lately. like, those two records on repeat. Listen: Hatred Of Music I (youtube) by Tim Hecker Video Rock (mp3) by Big Troubles [...]
Aanrader! Big Troubles Een lapje shoegaze/noise pop uit New Jersey van de band met waarschijnlijk de grappigste website ooit, 'the #1 site for teens!' . Debuut Worry is van vorig jaar, de groove is tijdloos.
So I just found out about these guys because they're playing a show with The Beets tonight nearby. Although their debut LP Worry came out in September 2010, this video just came out a few weeks ago and it describes their sound well: fuzzy, familiar-but-unique, and captivating. If you want to learn more about this 'noise pop' group from Ridgewood, NJ check out their rad angelfire website and listen to their album in full at the Big Troubles bandcamp .
Les Savy Fav shows are hard to describe. In my time I've heard, "crazy," "insane," "fucking great" and, "you know, that was pretty cool." That last quote from a notorious douche bag. The best way to describe one of their shows is to wonder out lout, " was that a show, or was that a piece of performance art." By this time, Les Savy Fav's live shows are widely known as being more than a concert and more like an experience, a highly recommended experience. [...]
Isn't a Les Savy Fav show always great? I remember in 2006 when they came to Swarthmore. Everyone was so, so excited. I think at that time it was supposedly their last tour, so everyone was whipped into a near frenzy over it. Detachment Kit played a killer set first, and by the time LSF took to the stage everyone had already lost their minds. As I recall, it was quite a lot of people writhing around on the floor unable to get up, as Tim Harrington tried to fit his body entirely under our two-foot tiny stage. It was [...]
Bouncing Souls ( @ ABC No Rio ) Feb 08, Tue - Shore Alt Pres: Brad York, Honey Drum, Chemtrail @ Watermark Feb 09, Wed - The Bouncing Souls, Anti-Flag @ Stone Pony Feb 10, Thu - The Bouncing Souls @ The Stone Pony [...]
Big Troubles have quitely made the new video for their song "Georgia" available for your viewing pleasure. The trippy four minute montage was directed by Alexander Lezzi and can be viewed above. The track is off the Ridgewood group's debut LP Worry , which dropped this past September via Olde English Spelling Bee . The album made our Staff's Best of 2010 list. That means you should pick it up! You can do so here or stream it here first. Sort of surprisingly, MTV Brazil [...]
Can we go back to July/August 2010 for just a few minutes? Remember those warm months and that feeling of when you saw this for the first time? And then you saw THIS ?! And then you waited patiently (kind of) for THIS so you went HERE ? Well, now you can relive all those butterflies, adventures, emotions and memories by clicking all of those links again and also getting after this new video HERE . Big Troubles - Georgia from alexander iezzi [...]
mp3 :: Big Troubles - " Georgia " Bereits Anfang September 2010 erschien das Album Worry der Noise-Popper Big Troubles aus den US of A. Kürzlich erschien ein Video zu dem Song " Georgia ", edited by Alexander Lezzi . Wer Interesse an der LP hat, wird auf Olde English Spelling Bee fündig. Trouble Off! via Big Troubles - Bandcamp
Family Portrait and Big Troubles and hey, even Widowspeak (a band I've never seen before) have been getting a lot of ink on here lately. But this is definitely the best show happening this Friday. I've never seen MINKS. People like them. To me, they sound like Crystal Stils, Girls, and The Drums rolled into one. Except not as good as either Crystal Stilts or Girls. You can decide for yourself here .
MP3s of artists playing the NJ area this week! Smith Westerns - Imagine, Pt. 3 ( Buy ) The Drums - Me And The Moon ( Buy ) Broken Social Scene - Forced To Love ( Buy ) Fitz & The Tantrums - MoneyGrabber ( Buy ) [...]
The NJ Underground
nightdrive
Music @ Blogcritics.org
Riddle Park
The New York Rockmarket
MP3s of artists playing the NJ area this week!
GIMME TINNITUS
Dilly Blog
Gold Sweatshirt
the WILD honey pie
Relentless Noisemaker
IamNoSuperman
Hot Chip - Night & Day
Sleigh Bells - Demons (Official Music Video)
The Rains of Castamere by The National
Ab-Soul "Terrorist Threats" ft. Danny Brown & Jhene Aiko
Sigur Rós - Ég anda
summer camp//always
Friday Remixes
Princeton – Grand Rapids (RAC Remix)
Song Of The Week: Glass Candy "Life After Sundown"
