Time for a little bit of aural time travel. Let's look back, reflect, and contemplate... what were we listening to one year ago? Listen to the August 2010 Mix and find out. Downloadables: Golden Town (mp3) by Super Wild Horses Fried Egg (mp3) by Grass Widow I've Gotta Get (mp3) by Woven Bones Glitter (mp3) by No Age [...]
Toward the end of Ra Ra Riot's 75-minute set at Celebrate Brooklyn, an exhuberant Wes Miles hopped off the stage and went from stage right to stage left, touching the hands of thrilled fans, before vaulting over a handrail and doing a lap back to where he started. Although the turnout wasn't as staggering as [...]
It's strike day tomorrow. In celebration I was going to find something strike-related for today's SOTD, but then I remembered that virtually no-one is bothering to make music with even the vaguest of political sentiments, despite the fact that the government is presiding over the wholesale dismantling of the creative industries. Ah well, eh? So instead here is a furious track from Brooklyn duo Buke And Gass . They make an extraordinary amount of noise for two people, apparently thanks to a veritable orgy of footpedals. Through those pedals they play instruments of [...]
Last Friday night, Celebrate Brooklyn began a summer of music and art at Brooklyn's Prospect Park Bandshell with a show from the magical and mysterious Andrew Bird . For the most part, the evening was a huge success. The music was great, the accommodations were great, the sound was even great. That is, if you made it into the amphitheater. If you plan on seeing any music at Prospect Park this summer, I highly suggest you read the following list of suggestions. They will [...]
For anyone who's seen a Ra Ra Riot show, it's almost fact that the six-piece puts a lot of themselves into their stage show. In fact, it's a sight to behold their violinist Rebecca Zeller and cellist Alexandra Lawn rocking out the hardest. So, after some well-deserved rest, the group is bringing back la pasión when they start their latest North American leg. In further support of their fall 2010 release The Orchard , the New York-based indie band will team up with Guster for a two-week run along the East coast in August. Along the way, [...]
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Last night indie favs paid tribute to Nirvana, Minor Threat, The Replacements, and Fugazi! Watch the videos.
In this day and age it's rare that an artist does something truly unique. But that's what you get with Brooklyn duo Buke & Gass, who play The Horseshoe in Toronto tonight opening for tUnE-yArDs. Aron Sanchez and Arone Dyer are the members of the group, currently on Brassland, the label founded by Aaron and Bryce Dessner of The National. What sets the band apart is their instruments. The pair
All of it - philosophically, linguistically, socially, psychologically, phonetically, emotionally- "yes" is a kick-ass word. With it comes acceptance, affirmation, agreement, and allowance. tUnE-yArDs opened their set with lead singer Merril Garbus calling for the the crowd to answer "Do you want to live?", and with nary a cynic to be found, the crowd emphatically replied "YES." On screen, it's hard to convey how genuine this commencement Q&A was. On screen, it's hard to convey how genuine tUnE-yArDs were. Scoffing at Garbus' theatrical demeanor may fit some folks. Just her garb - bright tulle shoulder ornaments and a [...]
Here We Go Magic are set to deliver The January EP on May 10 via Secretly Canadian. Produced by Jen Turner and recorded live to analog tape in a band-built living room studio, the new material was created around the same time as their last full-length, Pigeons . Download a track from the six-song EP, "Hands in the Sky." The band are also touring for two months starting in May, and will be assisted by a rotating cast of bands throughout the dates, including Aroara, Caveman, Citizenship, Porcelain Raft, NT, Bizi Gara, [...]
It's time again to look back, reflect, and contemplate... what were we listening to one year ago? Listen to the April 2010 Mix and find out. Downloadables: Tell 'Em (mp3) by Sleigh Bells Line Out (mp3) by Proton Proton Medulla Oblongata (mp3) by Buke And Gass Jail La La (mp3) by Dum Dum Girls (Baby) [...]
Norah Jones at Prospect Park (06/09/10) Photo : Jon Klemm ( more ) CONCERT TO BENEFIT JAPAN EARTHQUAKE RELIEF April 8 | 6:30 + 9:30 pm TICKETS: $35-50 BUY TICKETS TO 6:30 PM CONCERT BUY TICKETS TO 9:30 PM CONCERT 6:30 PM : THURSTON MOORE MATTHEW SHIPP GYAN RILEY MASADA STRING TRIO NED ROTHENBERG ALHAMBRA TRIO WITH ROB [...]
[photos by Johnny Fried Chicken Boy] Buke and Gass (that's pronounced byeewk and gayse, in case you were wondering) are the exciting new Brooklyn duo of Arone Dyer, on vocals and the buke (a self-modified six-string ukelele) and Aron Sanchez on the gass (a guitar-bass hybrid), all of it blown through homemade amps. The band uses this unorthodox instrumentation to make similarly unorthodox and unexpected rock music, with rapidly shifting tempos and lyrics that range from the lovelorn to the whimsical. The effect, in the live setting, is magical, as you wonder, first, how the hell [...]
Hier soir y avait Karaocake, Buke & Gass et Owen Pallett au café de la danse. C'était chouette Vous prendrez bien du (Karao)cake avec votre (Kara)thé ? Concert aussi merveilleux que beaucoup trop court (sérieux à peine une demi heure alors que Buke & Gass jouera presque 45 minutes, c'est inacceptab'), un son impécab', des [...]
Baltimore - I'm going to start a new series. Switching gear is something that engineers do as often as teenagers employ the word "like". And until I find an easy way to visit DC more often, these Be-more monthly will have to suffice. First up, a documentary named after Juan "Doc" Restrepo, who died in Afghanistan on July 22nd 2007, beside a quaint village hut in Korangal Valley. That, is a fairly emotional description, and a good note on which to start a documentary. Yet the film, build [...]
Baltimore - I'm going to start a new series. Switching gear is something that engineers do as often as teenagers employ the word "like". And until I find an easy way to visit DC more often, these Be-more monthly will have to suffice. First up, a documentary named after Juan "Doc" Restrepo, who died in Afghanistan on July 22nd 2007, beside a quaint village hut in Korangal Valley. That, is a fairly emotional description, and a good note on which to start a documentary. Yet the film, build [...]
Deerhoof's new album, Deerhoof vs. Evil , is good not great. It sounds a lot like Deerhoof, obviously, but doesn't exactly have that wow factor that made me fall in love with Friend Opportunity back in college. Man, could I have played that on my junior year radio show more? Anyways, they've got a pretty good new album, and they're always fantastic to see. And, shockingly, there's still tickets left to this show, so try to make it out to Europa this Tuesday if you can. MP3: "Must Fight Current" - [...]
Café Video is a nice little café in Ghent and whilst I was still living there, I spent many good times there. With friends or alone, I almost always had a blast. And they have a pretty awesome selection of bands plaing throughout the year (all for free!). My favourite shows from the past year there were She Keeps Bees , Veronica Falls and Wild Nothing . Unfortunately I can't visit as much as I used to as all the shows start late and I wouldn't be able to get home again. But still, [...]
ECSTATIC MUSIC FESTIVAL KICKS OFF JAN. 17, 2011 – JANUARY SHOWS FEATURE DAN DEACON, NICO MUHLY, BUKE & GASS, SO PERCUSSION, ALARM WILL SOUND, VALGIER SIGURDSSON, VICTOIRE & MANY MORE! OWEN PALLETT, NADIA SIROTA, CLOGS, BEN FROST, tUnE-yArDs, THOMAS BARTLETT & MORE STILL TO COME IN FEBRUARY & MARCH As previously announced, the 2011 Ecstatic Music Festival, presented by New York City's Merkin Concert Hall in association with New Amsterdam Records, is a showcase of imaginative collaborations between more than 150 genre-pushing composers, songwriters and performers who represent a new generation of artists combining diverse influences [...]
And now, here are our Favorite Albums of 2010. Sorry Kanye , Sorry Arcade Fire , Sorry Sufjan , y'all are getting enough attention elsewhere. These are the albums that we really loved this year. Listen to the tracks below, (and if you have not already) fall in love and go buy some albums. Listen. Everything in Between by No Age Listen: Fever Dreaming (mp3) [ purchase ] [...]
GIMME TINNITUS
Trust Me on This
The Line Of Best Fit
the WILD honey pie
Consequence Of Sound
The Morning After Pills
Cover Me![Ted Leo - Filler [Minor Threat] (Bowery Ballroom, 5.22.2011)](http://cdn.elbo.ws/youtube/8QglS4p-72c_130.jpg)
Snob's Music
Uncensored Interview Blog
Bumpershine.com
nyctaper
WeWant2Wigoler
The Panic Manual
The New York Rockmarket
Neon Enlightenment
MVRemix Rock
Fanfarlo :: Shiny Things (Yeasayer Remix)
Gross Magic: Teen Jamz
No Title
Chiddy Bang - "By Your Side" [Video]
Video: The Kills perform “The Last Goodbye” on Letterman
