Picture the low-fi reverbed vocals of The Raveonettes . Add some quick, down n' dirty guitar licks a la Ramones . Now send it surfing with Dick Dale and his surf rock sound. What do you end up with? The Vandelles . Retro sounds packaged up in a spiffy five track self-titled EP. Get it now to listen to while watching Apocalypse Now and screaming "Charlie don't surf!" The Vandelles - Swell To Heaven [...]
About a year ago I wrote about seeing The Vandelles at Beg Yr Pardon #9 and said that they: "take things upward and outward along the lines of Man or Astroman? mixed with Happy Mondays". At the time I was sold on the band's live performance, but truthfully a bit skeptical because it's "not cool" to enjoy it when a band projects images behind them as they play. Right? Oh please. Each time I talk about a band doing just that (inevitably) the person I'm talking to communicates some representation of a [...]
Photos by Devon Banks , and myself. I'm not sure why it's taken me a dozen days to recount the oddball line-up at the last version of the Beg Yr Pardon concert series, this time doubling as a birthday shin-dig for BYP co-founder D. It might be the information overload of the night's events, or general personal ennui. Enough two cents have already been thrown in to buy us all a bagel, so I'm under greater pressure to try and force my hazy [...]
Beck "Strange Apparition" - It's hard for me to tell whether Beck is intentionally exploring the middle ground of his stylistic range after playing up his extremes on Midnite Vultures (his masterwork) and Sea Change (his nadir), or if he's simply settled into writing "Beck songs" without any masterplan. He could be playing it safe, or he might just lack the feeling to fully commit to a joyous,
Hey, how's it going out there? Boy, tell me about it. Already need a release valve to hold you over until you can begin destroying yourself in earnest again this weekend? Might I suggest a rock concert? Terrific. Tomorrow night down at the ol' watering hole known as the Delancey, sees the latest installment of our new old friends Beg Yr Pardon's concert series. Number nine...number nine...number nine...number nine, to be precise...to be precise...to be precise...Sorry. The line-up is a mixed nuts type display, headlined by the [...]
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