Last April, British indie rock band Comet Gain played an incredible show at Music Hall Of Williamsburg. Above we see them playing outside Los Angeles' El Rey Theater. Fans of '80's comedy/horror cinema will recognize the El Rey from Night Of The Comet. Comet Gain's songs have a tendency to reference obscure films so, besides the obvious [...]
Here we have Klaus Kinski's space head abducting Portland, Oregon rock band The Thermals. This combines most, if not all, of the things I've promised (and will promise) to draw for my dear friend Bridget. Except for one or two nuns. The Thermals played Music Hall of Williamsburg last May. Their set included covers of Nirvana's [...]
Janelle Monae's Metropolis: The Chase Suite tells the story of android Cindi Mayweather, on the run from the Wolfmasters for falling in love with a human. It's one of the most exciting and refreshing records of recent years and not just because of the premise. Monae takes the best from influences like Grace Jones, Lauryn [...]
Last May, Green Day played an epic show at The Bowery Ballroom for 550 fan club members. The first half of the show was devoted to their new record, 21st Century Breakdown, which had come out the previous week. After an intermission, they returned and played older material including "Who Wrote Holden Caulfield?" and "Going [...]
Little,Big are my friends Dana Young (vocals, "little") and Chuck Meyer (bass, "big"). The drawing is an homage to their show at Bruar Falls last month and also to Chuck's birthday party at Barcade where we played "Rampage." Little,Big have a show coming up at Death by Audio on Sunday (3/14). Check it out if [...]
WHO: Floridian fuzz-pop band Surfer Blood. WHERE: The Bowery Ballroom with The Depreciation Guild and The Drums. Notes on The Drawing: Surfer Blood are playing in front of Big Ed's Gas Farm from Twin Peaks. Behind them are various owls who are not what they seem. The drawing is inspired by the track Twin Peaks off [...]
WHO: Floridian fuzz-pop band Surfer Blood. WHERE: The Bowery Ballroom with The Depreciation Guild and The Drums. Notes on The Drawing: Surfer Blood are playing in front of Big Ed's Gas Farm from Twin Peaks. Behind them are various owls who are not what they seem. The drawing is inspired by the track Twin Peaks off [...]
(click image to enlarge) WHO: James Kochalka Superstar WHERE: The True Chip Till Death Awards at Pulsewave at The Tank. WHEN: January 30th, 2010. THE MUSIC: James Kochalka's music mixes the lighthearted joy of the best pop music with a twisted, demented energy and weird, usually humorous lyrics. Recently he released "Digital Elf," 15 songs recorded in Nanoloop on [...]
(click image to enlarge) Marnie Stern plays hypnotically aggressive psychedelic metal punk. Above she is battling a one eyed octopus (or "cycloptopus," if you will). Back in the simpler times of 2008 she payed the Quasi curated evening at The Knitting Factory. Some songs: Don't Stop Believin' Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads! The Weight Of [...]
(click image to enlarge) Come out to The Charleston next Friday for some amazing rock music from Sean!, The Sutton Street Massacre, Russ Fink, and Chris Morell. Above is a flier I drew featuring The Fabulolus Moolah and Wendi Richter in the famous Brawl To Settle It All. For those not familiar with said brawl, check [...]
(click image to enlarge) Above we see Brooklyn quartet Cause Co-Motion having a slumber party. Cause Co-Motion! play sub-garage fuzz pop songs, rarely hitting the two minute mark. Last year Slumberland Records released It's Time: Singles and EPs 2005-2008 compiling 14 singles previously released by Cape Shok, What's Your Rupture?>, and Can't Cope. This year Cause [...]
(click image to enlarge) Mos Def's 2009 record The Ecstatic is one of my favorites of the year. Last January he previewed several tracks at an epic concert at New York's Highline Ballrom. The drawing above is based on a photo of the show taken by Dino Perrucci. The image behind Mos Def is from Walter Hill's [...]
(click image to enlarge) Best Friends Forever are Bri Smith (guitar/keyboards/vocals), Jes Seamans (bass/vocals) and Joe Rand (drums). Bri and Jes are actual best friends, hence the name of the band. They write quirky pop songs with strange harmonies, many of which are about romance, some of which reference past presidents. They have a CD called [...]
(click image to enlarge) Tim Gane and Lætitia Sadier are the founding members of Stereolab. Above we see them, (depicted as a dog and a fox, respectively) performing in Number Two's office from The Prisoner. Stereolab, with many more members than drawn above, played three shows at Irving Plaza in October of 2008. The shows were in [...]
(click image to enlarge) Above we see shoegaze titans My Bloody Valentine who have been shrunken quite small and injected into someone's bloodstream where they continue to play music. Clockwise from top left are Kevin Shields (dog), Debbie Googe (cat), Colm Ó Cíosóig (naked mole rat) and Bilinda Butcher (deer). It should be noted that Colm's [...]
(click image to enlarge) Last September The Knitting Factory hosted a birthday celebration for the Fender Jazzmaster with performances by Tom Verlaine, Nels Cline, J Mascis and Lee Ranaldo & Thurston Moore. Of the Ranaldo/Moore performance the Fender website says: "When their fingers proved unsuitable for achieving the next level of dissonance, the musicians used tuning forks [...]
(click image to enlarge) On June 22nd, 2008 Blondie played at the Nokia Theater in New York as part of their tour celebrating the 30th anniversary of their 1978 masterpiece Parallel Lines. The lineup for the tour featured Debbie Harry (vocals), Chris Stein (guitar), Clem Burke (drums), Paul Carbonara (guitar), Leigh Fox (bass) and Matt Katz Bohen [...]
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James Blake – Live Album
Circo Voador anuncia shows de The Kooks, Foster The People, Friendly Fires, Gogol Bordello e mais
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