On Friday morning, subsections of the 408-foot tall spire were placed atop Manhattan's 1 World Trade Center (né The Freedom Tower), and, as a result, the Internet is riddled with more NYC architectural porn. But one ornamental iron worker who was harnessed onto the side of a neighboring tower under construction, 4 World Trade Center, took the below snapshot that made redditors shake at their desks. "I don't get vertigo," the 4 WTC worker told Gothamist. "I'm abnormally comfortable with heights. I'm always in a harness though, so that's kind of cheating." [...]
We start with apologies aplenty for the lack of interesting and cogent words to accompany this post of many new, and excellent tunes. We are regularly afflicted by an internal conflict as to whether we use our time to write the original, erudite prose some of the songs we are sent deserve (as many of the much better, and smarter blogs than ours do), but not be able to write about as many as we would like, or use our time to simply gather and present as many of aforesaid excellent songs to you as we can with a proportional [...]
Brooklyn psych/pop band Spires has unleashed their debut single “Sterling”. Started last November as a bedroom project for 22 year old Matt Stevenson, the band quickly became a quartet soon after. Glad everyone got together, as this introduction to the world is massive. Hazy vocals fill up space that delectable and loud riffs help settle into place. We go from an immediately hard-hitting punch into a more atmospheric place, where innovative sounds are put to good use. I get a very Smith Westerns vibe from this, with a bit darker and more dreamy direction [...]
Happy Mardi Gras everyone! Try your best to keep your top on while listening to this week's playlist of artists playing upcoming PopGun shows. And as always, don't forget to get your tickets below, might be a good Valentine's Day gift for your significant other! TUE, 2/12: Bleeding Rainbow , The Neighbors, Census, Spires :: BUY TICKETS :: THU, 2/14: Valentines Day with Splash! , Sofa Club, Alice Cohen, Lingerie, Terekke (DJ Set) :: BUY TICKETS :: [...]
I can't help but sense that had Floridian four-piece Surfer Blood ever drifted a fair ol' way up the East Coast to initially come together beside the murky grog of the East River, that they'd sound rather more edgy for want of a less tacky term. They'd probably sound not dissimilar to Brooklyn quartet Spires in fact, whose Sterling release is just that: an hypnotic twizzler of interwoven psych, pop and ebullient pomp, as though a twist drill it weaves its insistent way down into your eardrums where it pounds away impudently for a smidgen over three giddy minutes. [...]
Spires is a band to watch out for in 2013. Sterling, the Brooklyn Psych-Pop quartet's first official release rocks hard and shows off Matt Stevenson's great songwriting. Obviously taking cues from Tame Impala, Spires crafts a vintage Psychedelic sound, but balances it with strong melodies and ferocious playing. Keep an eye out for more music coming soon!
Words by Brendan I love The Spires . Let's be clear about that right now. So why should you read this review? Why do you care what I have to say about a band for whom I've had more subtle, structured, critical opinions than you've had remote thoughts? Yeah, I could tell you why Forever City Chorus represents The Spires ' mid-20s maturation, but what do you care? You never saw their adolescence! They're infants, as far as you're concerned! Well, here's why, friendos: this could [...]
After launching in fine fashion with Luke Slater wielding his L.B. Dub Corp alias against textured cuts from ASC, the second instalment of Mote-Evolver's Parallel Series presents more forward-thinking sets this time from Shifted and Finish vanguard Samuli Kemppi.
For your Saturday, a movie (including the Movies) and plenty of good shows: ► "Pass the Music," a music documentary filmed between 2008 and ’10 focusing on the Silver Lake/Echo Park indie scene, screens for the first time publicly tonight at the Bootleg Theater. Following the 8 p.m. screening, there will be live music from Manhattan Murder Mystery, Tenlons Fort, Joey Siara (of the Henry Clay People), Radars to the Sky and a set saluting the late, great Silver Lake band the Movies. Check out the trailer right here . ► [...]
New Ivory have smashed their way to the top spot on our 'Track of the year' for 2011. They first caught our eyes way back in early June, here is the original post. They won with 345 votes out of the 1045 cast. A close second place is the best performing international act for the second year running, and third was a close battle between two bands that are very close to each others hearts, Safari and VOWS. Here is a run down [...]
Back in September we shared a track from SoCal indie pop veterans, The Spires. The track, entitled Waves, quickly became one of our favorite songs of 2011. Yesterday they unveiled a shiny new tune on their BANDCAMP page, from their upcoming LP Forever City Chorus, set to drop December 20th. This is Clock Out The Clocks . <p&a mp;amp;amp;gt;&amp ;amp;lt;a href=" http://thespires.bandcamp.com/ track/clock-out-the-clocks"&am p;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;Clock Out The Clocks by The Spires< /a>& ;amp;amp;amp;lt;/p& ;amp;gt;
Thursday things: ► Jonathan Wilson [see our interview with him Wednesday ] plays the Troubadour behind his 2011 release "Gentle Spirit." ► The Kooks are back for a second night at the Music Box. ► Buzzing NYC quintet Caveman make their first visit to L.A. behind their first release "CoCo Beware." the five-piece plays the Echo, supported by Races, Hands and more. That's Caveman's video for "Easy Water," above. ► And the Spires — who teased with the great song "Waves" back in [...]
There’s not much known about this Midlands band but their music is haunted psych-folk with a woozy, moody, new-agey quality. The plinky, jangly ‘Bending the Rules of Time’, with male and female voices in harmony, sounds both pastoral and vaguely menacing, as if soundtracking Witchfinder General. The other two tracks are hypnotic and repetitive, ‘The Book of the Dead’ being six and a half minutes of folky psychedelia gaining power from the constantly looping cycles. It sits within the folkatronica firmament but it’s an intriguing and skewed take on English folk too.
Aanrader! Black Spires // Dat gaat lekker hard! Black Spires zijn Gentse bulldozers die zonder omkijken over ons aller trommelvliezen walsen. Denk Millionaire en Creature With The Atom Brain . — (de meest onuitspreekbare titel sinds () van Sigur Rós) willen ze geen album noemen, maar eerder a collection of demo’s (sic). Ons kan het niet schelen hoe je het noemt, als je maar luistert. Tes de max .
Plenty of Sunday fun: ► If it's the first Sunday of the month, then it must be time for the Sunday Night Jones at the Satellite . Hosted by Daniel Ahearn and the Jones (and co-presented by Buzz Bands LA), tonight's installment is headlined by Liz Clark , the Denver-born singer-songwriter cultivated her craft in the New York scene before settling in Ireland. Her fourth album "Lonely and the Moose" is due early next year. Above, the video for "Who's Your Angel?" And below: Check out and download "Feet on the Ground" [...]
Song: "Waves" Artist: The Spires Is there a poem about poetry? Is there a novel about fiction? Is there a film about films? Maybe, but really, I have no fucking clue, and you and I and everyone we know can spend our entire lives, and then some, debating these very questions (which may or may not have any meaningful content, themselves). That's beside the point, though. I want to say that The Spires ' tune, "Waves", is a song about sound, but who am I to say? And who are you? And who are [...]
Some albums are suited for the freeing sunshine while others make more sense under the guise of perpetual rain and overcast mind. London duo Savaging Spires' self titled debut fits the latter. Check out "Apostrophe Lake" and "Bending The Rules Of Time" to see if this is your destination. http://criticalheights.com/ http://savagingspires.bandcamp .com/
A mysterious tour-de-weird-cum-tour-de-awes ome. Shrouded in a cloak of mystery, freak/acid folk-rock outfit, Savaging Spires, rumored to be from England, is the stuff of unsettling late night walks home alone and a good ol' dose of mushroom tea. Weird warbling and witching instrumentation make things all the more mysterious and inviting. The band eschews conventional song structures--if that's not already painfully obvious--for trips such as "When The Devil Says She's Dead", "Apostrophe Lake" and "Cemetery Lounge". The six-minute-plus closer,...
Listening to Savaging Spires ’ debut album was an experience akin to picking up a secret radio signal that no one knows about. The music is plenty eerie and atmospheric enough, and when I googled their name to find out more about them, not much came up. Not only does Savaging Spires’ not have a Wikipedia entry, but I also read somewhere that they are intentionally keeping a low profile perhaps to propagate their mysterious image. According to their Facebook page, Savaging Spires is a band “originally from the Midlands - but now scattered around the country.” Midlands is [...]
Evocativa, a folk segundo os ingleses Savaging Spires faz-se de pedaços de nostalgia e uma ligação umbical à força telúrica da floresta, com todo o imaginário a ela inerente. Fábulas, mitos e lendas alinhadas não num esoterismo obscuro mais expectável, mas em canções luminosas e inspiradoras, de certa forma, estranhamente familiares. Com um álbum homónimo estreia na Critical Heights - casa de Wooden Wand - e com destaque na última compilação de novidades da revista Wire, os Savaging Spires permanecem contudo envoltos numa identidade um tanto ao quanto enigmática. Biografia à parte, Apostrophe Lake é um dos mais [...]
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