
It's time to look back and reflect again, what were we listening to one year ago? Listen to the January 2009 Mix ... Good Ol' Fashion Nightmare (mp3) by Matt & Kim Baraat (mp3) by Rude Mechanical Orchestra Knotty Pine (mp3) by Dirty Projectors + David Byrne The Mountain (mp3) by Heartless Bastards Housewolf (mp3) by Eula [...]
by john ziegler Last night Santos Party House hosted the annual Bronk! kick off, the yearly conglomeration of local and not so local brass and marching bands such as Seattle's Yellow Hat Ensemble , rad Italians The Pink Puffers, Environmental Encroachment out of Chicago, radical marching godfathers Hungry March Band, The Rude Mechanical Orchestra, and the brasstactical Veveritse. Santos downstairs space was brimful of strange weirdos plugging into the neo-Slavic and warped high school band vibe that is [...]

[Photos by Derek Evers and Rebecca Winters ] Last week Matt And Kim celebrated the release of their sophomore LP (and Fader Label debut) Grand with their hometown of Brooklyn. As if the venerable duo needed another reason to make their fans happy, they brought Spank Rock , Ninja Sonik and the Rude Mechanical Orchestra to the celebration before turning the camera back on the crowd, assuring them that they were as important to the party as anyone. [...]

Catching up on a busy week of shows last week... first up, our faithful photographer Zach Stern was at Music Hall of Williamsburg for Matt & Kim , NinjaSonik , Spank Rock , and the Rude Mechanical Orchestra . Here's what BreakThru Radio Blog had to say about Matt & Kim's performance: On a purely musical level, the show was nothing to write home about. The set had no arc. They played their show-stopper "Yea Yeah" somewhere in the first [...]

The Rude Mechanical Orchestra killed it last night at the Matt & Kim show, upstaging even secret special guest Spank Rock who was trying out some new material. You may remember RMO from this post . They are "radical" -- as in they support feminist, queer, labor, environmental, social and economic justice, peace, and other progressive causes. Speaking of which, RMO have a gig coming up at The St. Pat's for All Parade (43rd St and Skillman Ave, Sunnyside, Queens) on Sun Mar 01 @ 2 PM. Listen to them play one [...]

Now that it's cold as a mother-hmm-hmm-hmm out there relive this summer with Matt And Kim . Streamable: Matt & Kim Live @ McCarren Park (baeblemusic vid) "Yea Yeah (Live with the Rude Mechanical Orchestra )" Previously Posted BONUS: "Yea Yeah" (box.net mp3) Myspace page is here . IHEARTCOMIX page is here . Moshi Moshi is here . Some old GT Matt & Kim posts are here and here and here and here [...]