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A video of My Teenage Stride performing their recent single (from their monthly eMusic single series), “Creep Academy” at Cake Shop during the recent NYC Popfest:
video by Sound Bites via Merry Swankster
Pop Tarts Suck Toasted has video of the Muggabears performing at SXSW last week.
Okay, so Gold Streets has played something like 100 shows we’ve booked in the last six months. What’s up with that, huh? Well, it’s because they’re good. That simple. We’ve been saying so for a while now. Here’s one of our favorite videos of them:
“Hello Image”
Gold Streets will be playing at the StereoactiveNYC/Hot Rocks Party Official CMJ Showcase on Saturday, October 20th at The Delancey in NYC. The event is co-sponsored by DigitalFreedom.org.
You may have noticed A Place To Bury Strangers has been getting a lot of attention lately. Pitchfork gave their new album a glowing review and has been featuring the band pretty regularly since. So, of course, the blogging community at large started to really take notice. Really, it was about time. We’ve been following the band for a few years now and are excited to have them playing at our first ever official CMJ Music Marathon showcase on Saturday at The Delancey. Here’s what we wrote about them when they played a show we set up last summer:
A Place To Bury Strangers has often been called “the loudest band in New York.” This may very well be true. But we feel it’s important to stress that for every decibel they pack into their sound, there’s an equal element of substance. Sure, they’re loud. And they’re obviously proud of this accomplishment — for good reason. Unlike so much “loud” rock and roll that’s out there, APTBS is not loud simply for loudness’ sake. The sonically overdriven sound they’ve accomplished is no clumsy accident, but a carefully cultivated and well-maintained entity all its own, fostered on by an unbridled passion that’s clearly evident in every live show they play and each recording they make. They clearly have a passion for making music — not just the playing of it, but also the adventure of coming up with new ways of playing it, new ways of making sounds. Listen closely to their music and you’ll realize it’s not just the wall of noise it’s likely often mistaken for by those unwilling to take the time, but layers upon layers of intricately placed and tediously balanced sounds positioned for maximum impact. Peel away those layers and it begins to become clear that this is a trio daringly wearing its passion — its emotions — on its collective sleeve. A Place To Bury Strangers does not so much play songs as they allow them to pour out. They are songs about longing, heartbreak, confusion. They are songs played extremely well and at a passionately loud volume.
Back in April we shot the band at Union Pool and posted a couple of videos here on the site. The video above is a newly available one from that same show. The song is called “The Falling Sun” and is available on their just released self-titled album. Below are the other two videos from before:
“Gimme Acid”
“Dead Beat”
A Place To Bury Strangers will be playing at the StereoactiveNYC/Hot Rocks Party Official CMJ Showcase on Saturday, October 20th at The Delancey in NYC. The event is co-sponsored by DigitalFreedom.org.
The Secret Life Of Sofia is a band we’ve been following since its inception. They started out strong and have only gotten better over the short two to three years of their existence. Anyone who happened to see them, say, a year or two ago, then again in just the last few months may have noticed a slight shift in direction. Through use of acoustic guitars, strings, keys, and added percussion, the band has managed to add quite a lot of texture to what was already quite a layered sound. Relatively soon, you’ll be able to hear evidence of this on the band’s first full-length album, which they’ve been working on diligently for quite some time now. In the meantime, you can hear four preview tracks — unfinished and unmastered mixes — from the album at the band’s MySpace page. Along with a new and slightly more up tempo version of “Diamond Face” (previously featured on the band’s self-titled EP), are three new ones: “Crowley,” “Outside,” and “Seven Summits.”
The Secret Life Of Sofia will be playing at the StereoactiveNYC/Hot Rocks Party Official CMJ Showcase on Saturday, October 20th at The Delancey in NYC. The event is co-sponsored by DigitalFreedom.org.
Here are a couple of videos we shot of the band back in May:
Few bands could pull off a song apparently about cartoon characters dropping anvils on each other in such rocking fashion. Yet another reason Mancino is so impressive. The dexterity they exhibit in making the light and absurd somewhat dark and brooding and the dark and brooding somewhat light and absurd is a truly rare thing. And it’s in full effect in “The Anvil And Me.”
Also, check out Soft Communication today for a post featuring “Lavendar Lake” by Mancino.
Mancino Week continues with video of “Monster Trucks” as performed at Pianos.
There’s something about this song that we feel particularly showcases the band’s strengths — with its dynamic build, dramatic swells, and a perfect low-key, yet quietly intense, resolution.
Two more videos today of Mancino at Pianos:
“Circus Scabs”
“Hetchie Hutchie Footchie”
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