Artist: Scary Monster

Some photos from this past Friday night, Leap Day, February 29th with Scary Monster and It's A King Thing at Tritone In Philadelphia. Going with an orange theme as the what to wear color of the night, Scary Monster started it off with a rocking set of indie pop songs from their upcoming CD. New Jersey's It's a King Thing followed with their blend of guitar power pop, sort of sounding like a cross between Weezer and Nada Surf. Brian from It's A King Thing was [...]

• It's A King Thing - My Minivan Just Died
• Scary Monster - True Love Good Morning

One of these bands I enjoy writing about is Leisure , a band Pitchfork dubbed one of five bands to watch back in 2004, but has since been unable to really pull things together. (That Jeff Tweedy might have been on to something with that Late Greats song). Anyway it appears Jed, from Leisure, has reappeard in a "side project" entitled Scary Monsters. You can check out some of the songs over at their (shock!) MySpace account . The songs are all in all pretty good, have a nice Strokes meet [...]