Waddupwiddit? Been oot and aboot frozen in carbonite(seriously Wisconsin winters are as fun as reading drunk) for a hot second but I figgered it was high time the Wiz dropped a mix tape. A little bit more then a lot jazzed to be back in the coop! At least until INS tracks me down... hahaha but seriously... shhh! mums the word aye?.. er I mean.. ok? I am not even going to banter about the state of the world atm since I last was here, but basically I wouldn't be surprised to hear invisible C.H.U.D.S have over run [...]
This Ding Dong Lounge place- it's pretty new. At least pretty newly hosting indie bands. The crazy thing is- it's uptown!! Oh my goodness! Rock bands above 42nd street! What's going on? Who attends these shows? According to New York Magazine , graduate students who like the 80s, that's who. That sounds pretty good I guess. I only know a few people who have made it up to this venue, but the reviews I hear are good. Could this be the first domino to fall in a crazy new Harlem hipster scene? Let's hope not, for everyone's [...]
Straight from the horse's suspiciously fuzzy mouth: Saturday, August 14th - $5 - Doors at 7pm Shea Stadium - 20 Meadow St, Brooklyn, 11206 No Demons Here Big Troubles Family Portrait Julian Lynch Andrew Cedermark Warlords Alex Bleeker and the Freaks Air Waves Fluffy Lumbers Ducktails Food will be made available by Last Action Hero (Mobile Deli Unit) YALL SHOULD COME. YOU CAN BUY TIX NOW IF YOU WANT. You can buy said "tix" here [...]
Big Troubles New Jersey Ian Drennan & Alex Craig We are currently awaiting the release of our first LP, titled "Worry," on Olde English Spelling Bee. We've been playing very frequently in the Brooklyn, NYC area with a lot of great bands, such as Real Estate, Ducktails (Whom we are touring with at the end of July), and No Demons Here. We've been spending a lot of [...]
So here is our barely edited look back at # northsidefest with tweets, pics, video, and mp3s... [tweet] Fiiiinally picked up my # northsidefest baaaadge [tweet] grabbing a taco at Loading Dock , then off to Public Assembly for the (rip) @ poptarts showcase [tweet] made it to the @ poptarts showcase :: sampling the Harpoon IPA :: jammy jams being played by Les Vinyl of Staten Island [click] http://www.lesvinyl.com/free-m usic-downloads/ [tweet] Marie Stella [...]
The one man jam band is one man no more. Backed by familiar faces that included Ian and Alex from Big Troubles , Sam from Fluffy Lumbers , and Luka from No Demons Here, Ducktails ' Matt Mondanile tested out richer, more muscular versions of his lo-fi psych pop last week at Monster Island Basement in Brooklyn. We were there to film the entire set, one clip of which you can check out above. It's "Landrunner", from Mondanile's Landscapes LP, out last year on Olde English Spelling Be e. Help yourself to [...]
Well, it's almost time for 2nd Northside Festival , during which The L Magazine takes over the Williamsburg and Greenpoint music venues for a few days. The Northside Festival will feature over 300 bands this year. Some relatively big names are playing ( Liars , The Fiery Furnaces , Fucked Up , Polvo ). But what this is really about is the chance to see lots of bands in small venues. It's an indie music overdose. You can get an idea of what it's like by listening to this radio [...]
So as I mentioned earlier, I cannot say enough good things about Titus Andronicus . So I will take this post to say as much good stuff about them and the rest of the current New Jersey music scene, sorry Bon Jovi fan(s) , as reasonably tolerable. To demonstrate my true admiration for the music of my home state, I created this compilation to serve as an introduction to the great music coming out of New Jersey (mostly Bergen County, the county in which I reside). We have an ongoing series of mixtapes featuring music from Canada called [...]
Our minds have spent a long time marooned in Ridgewood NJ this year for obvious reasons and there is no chance of us upping sticks anytime soon as long as Big Troubles continue to reside there. The new song they've kindly sent over is set for release by us here at Transparent in the new year as part of a split 7" with Fluffy Lumbers so keep your eyes skinned for that and, in the meantime, lose your head to the bleary bombast of its succinct and stung rainy-daze downer-pop below: [...]
Seizure Chicke
The New York Rockmarket
The Tripwire
COCO'S OCD
GIMME TINNITUS
Midday Procrastination
Transparent
Music Singles Chart #109
Family of the Year - "Diversity"
I’ll Just Leave This Here #161
Video: FAWN - "No Wave"
