Video: Tennis @ Glasslands Gallery 8/26/2010

We know the Hotel Utah is a confined space - two-tiered with a cozy lower-stage below a micro version of the opera overhang. In turn, the venue appropriately books mellower performances, such as an open mic night or a variety of folk/Americana/singer-songwrit er performers. Getting out of their expected casting, the Utah has lined up jubilant Denver surf pop band, Tennis for Sunday (9pm, $8). Might as well throw those loveless, impersonal large concert experiences out the door, and expect just enough space to bounce off the person next to you during the group's steadfast surf-rock medleys. [...]

• Tennis - Take Me Somewhere

Denver lo-fi pop duo Tennis have gotten a lot of press recently after the release of their 7” on Underwater Peoples . I succumbed to the pressure from friends to check out their tunes [ link ] and I couldn’t help but to draw comparisons to Beach House , She & Him , and Wild Nothing who put out three of my favorite records of the year, so I naturally got excited when I heard they were playing Glasslands Gallery in southside Williamsburg. [...]

photos by Jessica Amaya , words by Rachel Kowal Tennis @ Glasslands Wednesday night's Underwater Peoples bill at the Cake Shop provided a welcome ray of sunshine to contrast the rainy, overcast days that characterized the first half of the week. The three artists of the evening kept their sets short and their sound swaggeringly upbeat. Though it seemed a bit odd choice to have [...]