Live Tonight: El Jezel
Thursday, July 17th
El Jezel
@ Europa / 8pm
98 Mesarole Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
w/ Two Seconds To Midnight, AM Preacher
Umami To Play Final Two Shows This Weekend + Photos
July 16th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Live This Week, live shows, mp3s, parties, photos, releases
Umami is a band that we’ve long been interested in checking out. The whole drums with two basses and no guitar thing was immediately intriguing when we first heard about it and the songs we were first able to hear on their MySpace page were impressive. We were finally able to see them play live recently at the release party for their new album, Fire & Spiders, and their intricate indie-prog sound was well worth the wait. We just wish we’d been able to see them much sooner, as they now only have two shows left before they go their separate ways. They’ll be playing this Friday at Union Hall and Saturday at a Brooklyn loft party (details below). Here’s an mp3 from the new release, and some photos from the release party at the Delancey, with more available on Flickr:
“Bureau Of Weights & Measures”
Friday, July 18th
Umami + Limbs
@ Union Hall / 8pm
702 Union Street
Brooklyn, New York
w/ Buke & Gass, Guitar Zeros
Saturday, July 19th
Umami
@ LOFT PARTY (LAST SHOW!) / 9pm
76 Rutledge Street
Brooklyn, New York
“Loft party at Newsonic HQ in Brooklyn!! we’ll play a short set which will be the (actual) last show. party starts at 9 with these bands: Simple, The Ingenues, Umami, Fan-Tan, Dynasty Electric, Nervous Cabaret, and Asa Ransom. Cheap drinks available or BYOB. directions here: http://www.mysteriousmedia.com/directions.html”
The Song Corporation Releases PIRATES! // Listening Party Tomorrow
July 14th, 2008 | 1 Comment | Posted in StereoactiveNYC Presents, The Song Corporation, mp3s, parties, releases, reviews
Listen to The Song Corporation’s new full-length album, Pirates!, and you’ll hear a band that’s not only good at playing, but enjoys it and doesn’t care if you know it. One of the things we like about them is that they’ve never been afraid of letting their music be fun. Even when the lyrics are busy setting a scene that may be decidedly dire and grim, the music is often a contrast to that — not always, but often. They’re quite capable of letting the music get as dark and moody as the next indie band, but the way they’ve always been able to work in those contrasts or turn a beat or progression around into something lighter without anything ever falling apart or losing substance is not only impressive, but refreshing.
The band always easily strode the line between the noise and pop sides of indie and alternative. Their two EPs often brought to mind Sonic Youth or the Talking Heads. Those influences are definitely still evident, but, for some reason, Pirates! has us realizing the band’s probably been listening to Television for just as long.
The Song Corporation is releasing the album tomorrow and celebrating with a free listening party at The Delancey that we’re sponsoring. Check out the details, including drink specials, below. And if you can’t make it to the party to get a copy of the CD, it’s available at Insound and will be on iTunes soon. Here are a couple of tracks to check out:
“Just Like Us”
“We Found A Map”
“NYC Love Song”
Tuesday, July 15th
The Song Corporation PIRATES! Listening Party
@ The Delancey / 7pm
168 Delancey Street,
New York, NY
- ALBUM PLAYS BETWEEN 8pm & 9pm on the main level
- 2 for 1 drinks from 8pm to 9pm
- $3 PBR all night
- Happy Hour until 8pm - $2 off drinks
- BBQ on the roof!
- DJing by the Music Sluts before and after listening to the album
