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Live Tonight: The Fatales | Aldenbarton

Tuesday, July 31st

The Fatales
@ The Annex / 9pm
152 Orchard Street
New York, NY
w/ The Ingenues, The Memories, Domino, The Beasts of Eden

Aldenbarton
@ Pianos / 9pm
158 Ludlow Street
New York, NY

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Announcement: StereoactiveNYC Roadshow

StereoactiveNYC.com has, for a while now, been involved with booking both local and out of town bands at NYC and Brooklyn shows. Now, for the first time, we’ve helped set up out of town shows for two NYC bands. They’ll be kicking the mini-tour off in their own backyard at one of their favorite venues in the city: Union Hall in Park Slope, Brooklyn. From there it’s on to Norfolk, Virginia, then Raleigh and Charlotte, North Carolina.

For more info on the shows, click here.

And please enjoy this new video of Gold Streets performing “Funny Cry Happy” at the most recent Hot Rocks Party:

We also posted a new video of Man In Gray last week.

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Live Video – Man In Gray – “Sleeping”

Man In Gray had the CD release party for their new album, I Can’t Sleep Unless I Hear You Breathing, on June 2nd at Union Hall. Watch above as they play one of the songs from the album and bassist Jared breaks a string. The band is up for The Deli Magazine’s “Artist Of The Month,” so you should go vote for them. Also, they’ll be hitting the road soon, including some dates with Gold Streets. And coincidentally, their first NY show since the release will be back at Union Hall on August 15th.

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Live This Week: July 23-29

Monday, July 23rd

Takka Takka
@ Mercury Lounge / 8pm
217 East Houston Street
New York, NY
w/ Nicole Atkins & The Sea (album release), Die Romantik, Scott Liss

Thursday, July 26th

The Vandelles
@ Southpaw / 9pm
125 5th Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
w/ Death Of Fashion

Saturday, July 28th

The Fatales
@ Asterisk / 9pm
258 Johnson Avenue
Brooklyn, NY

The Art Of Shooting + Mistakes
@ Pianos / 10pm
158 Ludlow Street
New York, NY
w/ Bombs (album release)

Tags: mistakes, takka takka, the art of shooting, the fatales, the vandelles

After The Jump Fest… Initial Line-Up Announcement

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Hot Rocks Party Line-Up For July 20th

(clockwise from upper-left: Gold Streets, The Art Of Shooting, Frauke, Americans UK)

This Friday is another Hot Rock Party. In case you’re not yet familiar with it, Hot Rocks is a party that features live bands — all booked by StereoactiveNYC — with DJs playing Fifties and Sixties party music before, between, and after sets. It’s at The Delancey and we’ve got another exciting line-up in store for you this time:

8pm – Frauke

Okay, our first encounter with Frauke was earlier in the year when we started seeing them all over MySpace telling people to “dance. stop dancing.” Honestly, we weren’t sure what to make of them. Then we read this interview/review over at Ear Farm and were amused as frauke. So, we took a listen to their mp3s and ended up loving them. Yes, they’re clever and it’s fun to realize how clever they are. But beyond that, they’re also just damn good. It’s going to be an excellent start to the night.

9pm – Americans UK

According to legend (and the band’s old bio), Americans UK, “rocked their first gig at the stroke of midnight, January 1st, 2002, amongst twitching revelers and screaming girls. It was official: Americans UK were, as the kids say, the bee’s knees. Over the course of the next year, their followers became legion across the Austin, TX, music scene, as the band played everywhere from backyard parties to front yard cookouts.” Eventually, like oh so many Ausinites, they moved to New York where they stormed a new scene with their hard-rocking, energetic live shows. Then, in early 2006, the band went on an indefinite hiatus. Well, the hiatus is now over as the band has reformed and will be playing their first show in a year and a half. It’ll be a night to remember.

10pm – The Art Of Shooting

The Art Of Shooting has been one of our favorite NYC bands for quite a while. After we heard their Tyrant’s Black Eyes EP, how could they not be? They do the whole post-punk thing we hold so near and dear. And they’re female-fronted which, if you examine the list of bands we regularly follow here, we quite obviously have no aversion to — to say the least. They put on a hell of a show and we’re sure they’ll prove it yet again on Friday night.

11pm – Gold Streets

With such a big sound, we were surprised when we found out Gold Streets is made up of only three people… wait, we said that already. Okay, so we interviewed them last summer when they played at the Beg Yr Pardon party we sponsored and we reviewed their new full-length album — Looks Like Fireflies — when it came out in May. We’ve also posted videos of their live shows. What else can we say about Gold Streets? Well, we like them more every time we see or hear them, so we’re pretty sure Friday will be like totally our favorite Gold Streets show ever. And, whether you’ve seen them before or not, it will be your favorite, too.

To hear mp3s by the bands you can follow the above links. We’ve also made it easy for you by adding a track by each band to our own MySpace profile.

Drink Specials

• 7:30pm to 8:30pm – 2 for 1 well drinks
• Midnight to 1am – FREE Pabst Blue Ribbon beer

The dance party kicks into high gear right after the bands and usually lasts until around 3am or later. And, since it’s Summer, you can probably expect to hear a good deal of dancey, dancey surf rock mixed in with the usual garage rock, R&B, psychedelic, and freakbeat goodies.

Feel free to RSVP on Going.com if you’re into that sort of thing:

Tags: americans uk, frauke, gold streets, hot rocks party, the art of shooting

New CD From A Place To Bury Strangers

(APTBS’s Oliver Ackermann at Union Pool)

It’s just been announced that A Place To Bury Strangers will be releasing a ten song CD from Killer Pimp featuring newly mastered versions of a lot of songs by the band that have been floating around on the internet and CD-R EPs. The EPs and MP3s already sound great, so we can hardly imagine how impressive the tracks will be after mastering. The release is set for August 17th and pre-orders from Brainwashed will ship for free. Here’s the track-list:

1. Missing You
2. Don’t Think Lover
3. To Fix the Gash In Your Head
4. The Falling Sun
5. Another Step Away
6. Breathe
7. I Know I’ll See You
8. She Dies
9. My Weakness
10. Ocean

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Live This Week: July 16-22

Plenty of shows this week. In fact, we have suggestions for six out of the next seven days. A couple of shows we’d particularly like to like to point out… Thursday night sees the return of some of our favorite musicians in the city as The Song Corporation’s Kristie Redfield and Emma La Reina’s Marta De Leon and Peter Janovsky join forces in a new group that, while it has no official name yet, has us pretty damn excited. And then, on Friday night, we’ve got our very own Hot Rocks Party featuring another exciting return — a reformed Americans UK, back together after more than a year of non-existence, joins other SANYC favorites Gold Streets and The Art Of Shooting, as well as a new interest of ours: Frauke.

Tuesday, July 17th

The Secret Life Of Sofia
@ The Annex / 8pm
152 Orchard Street
New York, NY
w/ Domino, Secret History

Wednesday, July 18th

A Place To Bury Strangers
@ Club Midway / 11pm
25 Avenue B
New York, NY
w/ Mad Juana

Thursday, July 19th

Kristie Marta Nick & Peter
(feat. members of The Song Corporation and Emma La Reina)
@ Goodbye Blue Monday / 8pm
1087 Broadway
Brooklyn, NY

Sexy Champions
@ Crash Mansion / 9pm
(A.M. NEW YORK PRESENTS)
199 Bowery
New York, NY
w/ Royal Pink, Valeze, The Affair

Friday, July 20th

Frauke + Americans UK + The Art Of Shooting + Gold Streets
@ The Delancey / 7:30pm
(HOT ROCKS PARTY)
168 Delancey Street
Brooklyn, NY
2 for 1 well drinks until 8:30pm
Free Pabst Blue Ribbon from 12am-1am
DJs playing 50s and 60s party music through the night

Mistakes
@ Glasslands / 9pm
(LOLITA PARTY)
289 Kent Avenue
Brooklyn, NY

Saturday, July 21st

Via Audio
@ Rockwood Music Hall / 8:30pm
196 Allen Street
New York, NY
w/ Pineapple Island Tribesmen, The Mugs

The Muggabears
@ Galapagos / 10pm
70 North 6th Street
Brooklyn, NY
w/ Cadence Weapon

Sunday, July 22nd

Aldenbarton
@ Broome Street Fair/Block Party / 1pm
Broome Street b/w Allen & Orchard
New York, NY

Tags: a place to bury strangers, aldenbarton, americans uk, emma la reina, frauke, gold streets, hot rocks party, mistakes, the art of shooting, the muggabears, the secret life of sofia, the song corporation, via audio