Recommended Show: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2010 DON GIOVANNI SHOWCASE w/ SHELLSHAG, SCREAMING FEMALES, and more @ BOWERY BALLROOM 6 Delancey St New York, NY 10002 $15, 7PM This is a big fucking deal. Shellshag are headlining the Bowery Ballroom? This just seems like a pretty show for the New York City duo. Also on the bill are some pretty incredible acts including Forgetters , Screaming Females , JEFF The Brotherhood , The Measure (SA) , Black Wine , and Groucho Marxists . Care Bears [...]
Hot Chip @ Pier 3 in 2008 ( more by Kyle Dean Reinford ) tonight in NYC * Aziz Ansari @ Comix * AA Bondy, Lia Ices @ Union Hall * Average Girl, Cosmonaut @ Matchless * K Holes, Golden Triangle @ Union Pool * Ava Luna, Twin Sister, Data Dog @ The Tank * J Dilla Foundation benefit w/ Questlove @ the Bell House [...]
So, coming up with this list proved to be a bit more difficult than my Northwest version . I'm not quite sure if it was due to quantity or quality, but I had to ignore or eliminate a handful of records that in another year, I might've included. In the end, though, I sunk into a stack of pretty amazing albums, all with more ambient or electronic tendencies than those heavy with guitar and trad-rock ilk. Plenty of guitar, to be sure, but plenty of non -guitar, too. It was a good year for that. [...]
So, I don't know if I've already mentioned this enough already, but I'm going to NEW YORK on Sunday for a week of tomfoolery and Big Apple based fun. We've also chosen this week in particular to head across the sea as it's CMJ Music Marathon and there are some pretty fucking cool bands playing. A fair few that we've featured on this here blog in fact. Hooray for us and coolness! But, my problem is I just can't process this list of bands who are playing. There are too many for my [...]
CMJ released the band schedule for its 2009 Music Marathon & Film Festival yesterday, which is about as good a sign of fall hitting New York as the return of apple cider at Greenmarket. The festival runs from Oct. 20 - Oct. 24 and includes various venues throughout the city, and the list of featured artists would probably take all four days to read through. But skimming the selection reveals a fairly equal distribution of well-known acts like Atlas Sound and Deer Tick , anonymous locals (including krautrock-y Jeff Buckley-channelers Pocketknife), twenty-two bands who [...]
The press release below doesn't actually list all the acts performing at CMJ this year, so you're probably better off checking out cmj.sched.org to get a true idea of what's happening during this year's marathon. Of course, sched.org is a little confusing too and it doesn't list unofficial events and day parties (as far as I know), so you'll have to wait a little bit longer for info to trickle out from the blogs and other unofficial sources. Lastly, even though the press release says the schedule is "final", you can pretty much bet that things will shift [...]
Iron & Wine @ Terminal 5 in November ( more by Kyle Dean Reinford ) tonight in NYC * DANCE * THIS WEEK IN INDIE * Fifth Avenue Street Fair * Stephane Wrembel @ Barbès * Bill Frisell Trio @ Village Vanguard * Leonard Cohen @ Radio City Music Hall * The Vaselines, Woods @ Bowery Ballroom * [...]
Words and Photos by: Nicole L. Browner From Monument to Masses means so much to a lot of people, and this is something easy to forget when a band goes on a prolonged hiatus. I still listen to The Impossible Leap once or twice a week, dwelling in the memories of their shows, which always left me feeling reborn. Last night Bottom of the Hill sold out by the time doors opened, and frequent audience shouts for the headliners during first two bands made it clear that excitement was [...]
After meeting Jonny Latimer of both the Aimless Never Miss and Built for the Sea at the Bottom of the Hill, I'd been looking forward to this show all week. First off, it was at Cafe du Nord , which happens to be one of my favorite venues in the city. It feels like it belongs in the television show True Blood alongside the vampire bar Fangtasia . Antique couches line the rear of the club and a deep scarlet red is seen literally everywhere. The first step, well, she's a doozy no doubt [...]
Our Tonight in Rock preview of Built for the Sea's triple-release concert with Low Red Land and Tartufi alluded to a comment by singer Lia Rose regarding the ideal role of audience members as "friends, not fans," and the full yet intimate crowd at Slim's on 9/18 manifested this duality of formal... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit the MCMB website for full links, free music, great videos and more! ]]
Traditional advice for anxious performers suggests that they imagine audience members in their respective underwear, yet this technique might be comprehensively reversed tonight when the audience begins mentally ogling Built for the Sea singer Lia Rose. Her vibrant yet tremulous vocals are bolstered by echoing instrumentation that crescendos and dips like a Mogwai or Godspeed You! Black Emperor
If you're looking for a taste of what's up and coming on the local music scene, Slim's is your spot this Thursday night: Tartufi , Built For The Sea , and Low Red Land will all be playing, and all releasing new discs - on the same night! All three bands definitely seem to fall pretty firmly into the "atmospheric indie rock" department, but we were pleasantly surprised by the fact that each seems to be pretty firmly defining their own flavor. Low Red Land has some nice fuzzy distortion [...]
Hypnotist, the second track off Built for the Sea's debut self-titled album was released in November of 2006. It invitingly appeals for one to jump into the lush ethereal dream-pop world seemingly created effortlessly by this San Francisco based indie rock five piece. BFTS actually have a new EP (Mise en Scene) that is officially releasing on 18th up in San Francisco at Slim's, but since this is an introduction to the network, lets dip into the earlier material first. You may recognize Long Beach rooted singer Lia Rose (as pictured from her March show in [...]
Our latest Bay Bridged Presents event is without a doubt one of the biggest local shows we've seen occur this year, a triple CD release party for three of the Bay's most promising indie bands. The show is headlined by Tartufi , a duo who have captured widespread acclaim by building and deconstructing layers of guitars and vocals above tight frenetic drumming. Celebrating the release of Thread Productions' Dragon Slayers, Volume III compilation at this show, the band's upcoming CD, Nests of Waves and Wire , finds them further exploring an omnivorous sound palette, [...]
Our latest Bay Bridged Presents event is without a doubt one of the biggest local shows we've seen occur this year, a triple CD release party for three of the Bay's most promising indie bands. The show is headlined by Tartufi , a duo who have captured widespread acclaim by building and deconstructing layers of guitars and vocals above tight frenetic drumming. The band's new release, Nests of Waves and Wire , finds them further exploring an omnivorous sound palette, with songs full of melodic, intense, quiet, loud, complex, and brilliant moments that will please fans [...]
when we spoke with built for the sea recently, band leader lia rose mentioned they had recently finished up work on a new five-song ep, mise en scene . the album will be self-released and available beginning 18 september and we're happy to have the terrific first single (along with the cover art, at right) available here for download. get it while it's hot: built for the sea - the (re)adjust the ep release will [...]
lia rose , the singer & songwriter and founding member of the excellent local independent rock quartet built for the sea , recently, graciously, agreed to answer a few questions for us while she and the band finish up a brand new ep and prep for a tour. you can see lia and the rest of the band live and in living color for yourselves at their next show , 30 august, at bottom of the hill. anyone's guess: what's your favorite song to play live? built for [...]
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