http://www.myspace.com/effibri est I've had the debut album from Effi Briest for about four months now and been meaning to do a piece on it for a while, I was prompted to do it now by iTunes random - it's good like that sometimes. I have listened to the album straight through twice today and I think it could end up being one of those underrated gems of 2010. Effi Briest are an all female sextet from New York. If you want an older cross reference then you need look no further than Siouxsie, [...]
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Errrrrrr....stop the presses, and stop your salivations, because before you get too excited, Peaches , you got a lot 'o 'splainin' to do! In the long-running series of Suicide tribute EPs, a new set is coming forthwith on August 30, and in addition to Effi Briest and Alan Vega himself contributing a rare B-side, the queen of all things clashed up in electronic [...]
I never understood why epilepsy was triggered by strobe lights until last night. Indian Jewelry shut off the lights at Mercury Lounge and turned on two very high-powered strobes. It was dark, it was moody, and it was difficult to look at them directly, though when you did it was pretty cool. I think that's a pretty apt way to describe their music, as well. I'm not sure I enjoyed the schtick with the lights, the music was cool enough to stand on its own, but it made sense, I guess. Kind of like Crystal Castles but with better music. [...]
Monday: Love As Laughter @ Bruar Falls 8pm $8 [ info ] In a world of passing fads and buzz bands isn't it nice to know there are still life long indie rockers such as Love As Laughter making music? It warms our hearts every time we see their name mentioned somewhere and this week they stop by NYC for a quick show at Bruar Falls. Chance are it won't be that quick and it will totally be worth skipping the 24 series finale for. [...]
Effi Briest is an all-female sextet from the Brooklyn area. They take the lame garage rock that's been floating around the independent music scene and make it sound great. Layers upon layers of psychedelic goodness are all over this record, with hints of drone and punk thrown in just for fun. The repetition throughout each [...]
What's that rising suddenly from the cymbals and haze? That deep bass line against the kick sounds post-punkish, almost funky in its dance-bounce, channeling ESG's low end underneath glittery double-delay guitar and vocals that recall The Slits' sharp angles, all suddenly descending into murky atmospherics, conjuring something like Public Images Limited's dark brew with a fog that's entirely of their own making. "Cousins" is another song off the long-awaited Effi Briest de...
Recommended Show: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 2010 ABE VIGODA @ MERCURY LOUNGE 217 E Houston St New York, NY 10002 $10, 7:30PM Usually when Abe Vigoda play in New York City it's at a DIY venue, but not this time. Tonight, the Los Angeles band play at the well-established Mercury Lounge. Effi Briest , Cloud Nothings , and MINKS also join the bill for this evening. Check out the full list of tonight's events in the City after the jump. [...]
We've posted a few times about the free monthly mixes provided by Insound - and all for the cost of your e-mail address. The March mix is out - as good and as eclectic as ever - featuring (amongst others) The Shout Out Louds , Pavement , Brit traditionalist folkies The Unthanks , Ted Leo & The Pharmacists , Blank Dogs and a brilliant track from Chinese indie band Carsick Cars . Click here [...]
—juan velasquez Abe Vigoda, whose frontman Michael Vidal talked to L.A. Record about being one of 2009's Most Beautiful People, will tour with Vampire Weekend this spring. Info and dates below: In addition to the Vampire Weekend dates, the boys will also be playing a handful of shows with Nottingham punks Lovvers, Vivian Girls, Effi Briest and [...]
Monday 8/24 * Mew, Violens @ Music Hall of Williamsburg ( MP3: "Violent Sensation Descends" by Violens) * Helado Negro, The Silent League, Tavo Carbone @ Cake Shop Tuesday 8/25 * Nine Inch Nails, The Horrors @ Terminal 5 ( MP3: "Sea Within a Sea" by The Horrors) * My Teenage Stride, Surfer Blood, Bright Lights, I'm Turning Into @ Silent Barn [...]
It was less a month ago today we went bowling with Telepathe to celebrate the release of Dance Mother . And waaaayyyy back in another life our editor was giving Effi Briest cover props . So when we caught wind of their extremely limited split, cover 7-inch, we wanted to pass it on. Covering each other's songs for a limited edition 7-inch on Skinny Wolves , it's quite interesting to hear the juxtaposition of styles. Telepathe could've gone [...]
Your 20JFG dudes will be roaming around where the good stuff goes down at this week's Great Escape Festival in Brighton, we would elaborate on the bands we are planning to see and whatnot, but hey, we are too busy with the preparations of our Shamanic prayers for a weekend ...
The amazing 7" cover Do you know the Irish label Skinny Wolves ? Neither did I until I stumbled upon its latest release and fell in love. The release I'm talking about is a split 7" from these two great bands from Brooklyn Telepathe and Effi Briest . It's due out on the 8th of May - and it totally justifies the label's tagline "Art Rocking Music to Dance to....". Like any other good split, these bands are covering and remixing each other. Telepathe is remixing [...]
Is there even any doubt that Brooklyn circa 2009 fosters one of the most vibrant music scenes on this here planet? Not really; at this point, Brooklyn as music epicenter is a given, and it really has been long since next-door spoiled brother Manhattan's ever-skyrocketing rents have forced 99% of musicians across the East River and elsewhere. It's like that cool time-lapse photography used to capture vegetation growing, except the flowers and weeds are bands, artists, and ideas exploding from a single concrete slab. And while those of us who live here may [...]
In September 2007, a US company gave Vincent Moon a plane ticket to New York, to film bands in the Lower East Side for a website. But Moon filmed more than needed : in the van that carried the bands around the neighbourhood, he asked for a song every time, to every band. We kinda put those videos on a back shelf for some time. Then, we decided to dust them out of our hard drives, for the new year. Ten videos, all downloadable, with the mp3s too, everything gathered in a little compilation . [...]
[photo by Jason Frank Rothenberg] After spending 2007 exploring various collaborations and personal projects, New York's we-were-psych-before-it-was-co ol-to-be-psych Psychic Ills united in early 2008 to record the follow up to their acclaimed debut Dins . Entitled Mirror Eye , the new full-length will be released on January 20, once again on Social Registry . Psychic Ills - "Fingernail Tea" From the press release: The result is an altogether heady affair and, as [...]
Thanks to everyone who made it out to last night's festive affair. Big thanks to Dark Meat, Ex Models, and The Naked Heroes for being a part of FRICTION. If you live in or around Philly, be sure to catch Dark Meat's two final shows of their tour tonight at Space 1026 and Johnny Brenda's. They're a live act not to miss. Pics will be uploaded to Flickr later today. FRICTION returns to Music Hall of Williamsburg on Sunday, June 8th with These New Puritans , School of Seven [...]
Brooklyn's Effi Briest has written this clever song with lyrics constructed from palindromes. Whereas, regular readers of Pinglewood will know we often have trouble stringing coherent sentences together. There's no clever wordplay involved, we're just lazy and a bit shit. AwesomemosewA!
Around 2003, I fell in love with The Vanishing 's Songs For Psychotic Children LP. Imagine Clara Bow coming back from the dead and recording an experimental death rock album with a little help from the Melvins and you're just beginning to get the idea. Anyway, when I heard that Jessie Evans of The Vanishing/Subtonix had joined forces with Bettina Koster of Berlin's Malaria! , I could barely contain myself. Together, they form Autonervous . A release sexier than anything Madonna ever put her name on, their [...]
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