Tag: Pop. 1280
This Week In Live Music: Entertainment for and by Olds, Roswell Space Tunes, and Selbstmord Returns
by nicoledisser |
Hi, it's almost SXSW which means one of two things here in New York City– either slim pickins, or the bands who are playing locally right now are either sleepless wack jobs or simply way too cool for such frivolousness as SXSW. And hey, we agree with them. Why would we ever want to spend time in Austin? Sure, it's warm and beautiful and currently we live in a grey hell wash but, like, Texas smells like Rick Perry, which is to say freaking awful. So if you were thinking about packing up and heading south, don't.
Creep in the Cellar
Suicide, The Vacant Lots, Pharmakon
Saturday March 7, 8:30pm at Webster Hall: $25
There are so many bands in the city that, honestly, don't sound like they're from the city. They sing about not wanting to grow up and I imagine them sitting around a well furnished living room in the suburbs (or more likely, a nice apartment somewhere off the L train). It's so far from the sweaty bus rides, mountains of trash, and utter shit that you have to deal with living in New York City. Both Suicide and Pharmakon grew out of the city's dark side: rotting away in cold lofts and dingy basements. It's cathartic to hear Pharmakon let out a blood-curdling scream like you've wanted to do so many times on a crowded subway. And what's more seedy than New York in 1970s– the setting that inspired Suicide to craft their eerie and fractured electronics. Obviously, Webster Hall isn't quite CBGB's, but you're still gonna get the creeps. [Sarah Lutkenhaus]
Primal Electronics
Thursday March 5, 8pm at Palisades: $7
EULA Album Release w. No Bra, GULL, Martin Bisi, Algis Kizys, Bob Bert, Ian Campbell
Everyone remembers the first time they see Gull. For EULA's Alyse Lamb, it was at the Ran Tea House. For me it was years ago at Death by Audio. He's a multi-instrumentalist who stops people dead when they catch him playing drums, guitar, and singing simultaneously. It's a combination of awe and a beautiful primal energy that's mesmerizing. When I spoke to Gull, Nathaniel Rappole, years ago he told me about spending weeks playing on streets corners up and down the East Coast, the West Coast, and villages in Africa.
For the last decade, Susanne Oberbeck, aka No Bra, has been a gay icon in East London creating a unique brand of industrial pop and folk. Like her androgynous appearance, her music is wonderfully odd. She delivers extremely biting lyrics in a deadpan voice over very danceable upbeat arrangements.
Eula's performance of their new album will tie the bill together nicely with theatrical force. Exhibiting their ability to go from calm to destructive, in a matter of seconds. They have a fluid dynamic and it goes without saying Alyse has a captivating (and sexy) stage presence. Often, they are accompanied with the incredible woodwind talents of Kate Mohanty. She can run the scales and improvise like nobody's business. And of course, their high profile friend Martin Bisi will open the show with help from members of Swans, Sonic Youth, and Pop 1280. Who doesn't want to know what's kicking around in the head of Martin Bisi (who recorded Sonic Youth, Swans, John Zorn, Material, Bill Laswell, Helmet, Unsane, The Dresden Dolls, Cop Shoot Cop, White Zombie, Boredoms, etc, etc)? YAY. [Sarah Lutkenhaus]
Ice Cold Pop
Pop. 1280, Pawns @ Nothing Changes
Wednesday March 4th, 10 pm at Home Sweet Home: $9
Unfortunately headliners HTRK from Ghostly International had to cancel last minute because apparently the vocalist lost her voice performing last night. Wah wah. Well lucky for you the show must go on. Never fear for it appears local post-punks Pawns have jumped on the bill joining Sacred Bones darlings, Pop. 1280. If driving to Roswell to scope out some UFOs and throw empty beer cans at aliens sounds like something you'd be into– this is the band for you. Is that David Yow on the mic? Not quite, but throw in some analog synths and a cyberpunk sensibility and you're dead on dude! Goths love em! You will too!
Have Olds Near? Take Em Here
Philip Glass, The Flaming Lips, Tenzin Choegyal, Patti Smith, Debbie Harry, Devonte Hynes, & more @ Tibetan US House Benefit
Thursday March 5th, 7:30 pm at Carnegie Hall: $35-$200
This annual benefit concert might have the feel of some exhaustive foreign variety show where fat ladies literally sing for like 50 straight hours, and it's definitely happening at Carnegie Hall which means if you so much as sneeze you'll find yourself locked in their gilded dungeon guarded by teething Suzuki violin students armed with daggers and polo clubs. So don't do that, don't sneeze. And definitely don't bring your scumbag friends. Bring like your aunt or something and forget FOMO for the night because this will be a quality star studded affair fit only for music lovers and one that (hopefully) brings great fortune to the Dalai Lama's cultural center.
Listening To Soft Music To Take Soft Drugs To
Modern Rivals, Twin Wave, Walking Tree
Le Poisson Rouge: $10
Remember what summer feels like? Me neither. It's almost as if it never existed, am I right? The only signs that such a thing exists anywhere else in the world right now are Instagram and bands like the ones found on this lineup. Beachy. Ass. Vibes. Take Modern Rivals– these dudes are totally influenced by all things beach: dune buggies, corn dogs, ice cold Cokes, the Beach Boys, power boats, piña coladas, boat shoes, dock boys, swim trunks, and Beach House. It's all there. Just listen closely and believe in the power of the solstice. Twin Wave brings more heat wave jams: smooth sailing psych-pop and sticky teeth vibes. Go if you hate winter.
Teen Dream
Trash Talk, Ratking, Lee Bannon, Show Me The Body
Wednesday March 4th, 9 pm at Webster Hall: $15
Hey Hungry Foodies we've go a killer combo for ya right here we've got here. New School NYC rappers just a hair over high school, West Coast space-goth trap, and… sludge metal? All happening at Webster Hall of all places. This show can't not be rad for the ADD, slice eating club kid in ya.
So Hot Right Now
THEESatisfaction, MoRuf Record Release Party
Friday March 6th, 7 pm at Santos Party: $13 advance/ $15 door
Check out this record release party at Santos Party House for THEESatisfaction's latest Earthee out on Sub Pop. You might remember this hip experimental R&B duo from their collaboration with Shabazz Palaces. Their meandering, soulful songs are anything but structured so be prepared for some surprises. And we've heard these kids know how to throw a party, so come prepared to get down. Speaking of soulful, joining them is MoRuf whose super chill, well crafted hip-hop songs recall A Tribe Called Quest and summer time stoop hangs.
Night of the Barbarians
Couch Slut, No Way, Bardus, Grizzlor
Friday March 6th, 8 pm at the Acheron: $10
The ladies of Couch Slut can seriously rip out some filthy nasty tunes. Though it's annoying they've gotten so much attention for having a cartoon penis ready for a sex act on the cover of their album. Frankly, we've seen much, much worse and their music warrants more attention than the possibility that they are "naughty" women. Last we checked, fellatio was not all that subversive. But you know what is? Unapologetic rage vocals and the fact that we're seeing more and more women in metal and punk and noise and rock and all of it. So let them have their fellatio cartoon, OK? Joining them is Grizzlor, a snotty thrash rock band from New Haven who, frankly, Couch Slut could rip into a million pieces.
Hope These Guys Are Still Marxists
Gang of Four, Public Access TV
Saturday March 7th, 7 pm at Irving Plaza: $25
Yes we know the dudes from Gang of Four are old as fug, but they're still the coolest Marxist post-punk band ever. So what do you they sound like now? Well, you're not allowed to be surprised that their new shtick bears little resemblance to their classic albums from the early '80s, but you are allowed to be hurt. Whoever produced this new album should literally be drawn and quartered. I will personally captain one of the pulling horses. Just PM me. But seriously whatever these dudes are still legends. Just hope and pray your little heart out they play all of Entertainment! So what if it's been almost 40 years?!
Dunno if Alison Mossheart from the Kills will show– she's on a few of the tracks. But that might be #cute gesture. Joining the Gang are the garage-pop monster children of Public Access TV. They legit have a photographer following them around right now with strict orders to only take photos of them from angles that make them look like the Ramones or something. So please report back and let me know if they actually look like Ramones IRL, otherwise send that photographer along to me.
Alison Mossheart, Bardus, Bushwick, Couch Slut, Debbie Harry, Devonte Hynes, East Williamsburg, EULA, Gang of Four, Grizzlor, Gull, Home Sweet Home, Irving Plaza, Le Poisson Rouge, Lower East SIde, Martin Bisi, Marxist punk, Modern Rivals, MoRuf, No Way, Nothing Changes, Patti Smith, pharmakon, Philip Glass, Pop. 1280, Public Access Tv, Ratking, Santos Party House, Show Me The Body, Suicide, The Acheron, the Flaming Lips, TheeSatisfaction, Tibetan US House, Trash Talk, Twin Wave, Walking Tree, Webster Hall, Williamsburg
This Week In Live Music: Hardcore Man Hams, Mr. Bada$$ Returns, and Album Releases Galore!
Welcome to another list. Has anyone told you yet your life will just be an endless series of lists, really? Long ones, short ones, completed ones, unfinished ones. Well, we promise you this list is less depressing than all those other lists. This list will not make you feel inadequate, in fact it will make you feel pretty cool.
Sick Sounds
Cult of Youth, Astral Knife
Wednesday January 14th, 10 pm – 4 am at Home Sweet Home (Lower East Side), tickets $7
Brooklyn-based industrial and post-punk revivalists Cult of Youth released an excellent new album last fall, Final Days, and now they're embarking on a cross-country tour, which means this is probably your last chance to see them for a few months yet. Don't sleep on it, this is essential bad weather music. Joining them at Nothing Changes–Home Sweet Home's weekly foray into industrial, punk, goth, and generally spooky vibes– is Astral Knife, a New York City-based experimental noise outfit that trades in deathly soundscapes and distant wails worthy of an exorcism.
Stay Cold
Pop. 1280 7″ Release Party with Bootblacks, Anasazi
Thursday January 15, 8 pm at Saint Vitus (Greenpoint), tickets $10
Boy are we lucky– even more Sacred Bones bands are playing this week. Catch Anasazi (brutal death punk from NYC) and Bootblacks (post-punk darkness also from the city) alongside Pop. 1280 to celebrate the latter's new 7 inch at Saint Vitus. Pop. 1280 are taking off on a tour themselves, though these bbs are headed to European shores. According to the band, they won't be playing another show in the US for at least four months, but get excited for their return because the band is slated to release a full-length album sometime this year.
Brassy Brawds and Dreamy Bros
What Cheer? Brigade, Unstoppable Death Machines, Big Figment
Friday January 16th, 8 pm at Aviv (Greenpoint), tickets $10
An 18-person brass band (What Cheer? Brigade) will cram inside Brooklyn's newest DIY venue on Friday, which could be either absolutely insufferable or totally insane (in a good way)– either way it's going to be a freaking spectacle and you really shouldn't miss it if you can tolerate old world nostalgia. Also on the bill is Unstoppable Death Machines, offering up a totally different sonic experience with their hyped-up bro-garage rock. We forgive them though– the Tucci brothers could swat us in the eye with their lovely long manes and we'd still be OK with watching them perform. Big Figment, a brass-based jazz fusion punk band of sorts (sorry, I don't know what the hell that means either, just listen to them to clear up that mess) are also set to play. We highly recommend grabbing those $5 cups of champagne and sloshing back a few of those before hand.
Long Live the '90s
Friday January 16th, 8 pm at the Bell House (Gowanus), tickets $22
No matter that this Scottish band was formed almost 30 years ago, their songs remain classic odes to love, drugs, and death and continue to be reinterpreted, covered, and imitated decades later. After a years-long hiatus, and nothing more than a retrospective released on Sub-Pop, the band surprised everyone with a new album back in 2010, Sex With An X. The Vaselines are touring once again and will make a stop at the Bell House to promote their new album, V For Vaselines, which the band says was inspired the Ramones, shows that the Vaselines are nothing if not consistent. And that's something we can totally be happy about.
Just Go, K?
U.S. Girls, Slim Twig, Bottoms, Eaters
Saturday January 17th, 8 pm at Palisades (Bushwick), tickets $8 in advance $10 at the door
Meghan Remy aka U.S. Girls writes some seriously catchy songs in the vein of Dirty Beaches, if Dirty Beaches had a clearer vocal presence. And though it's been at least a year since I've blasted one of her songs in my room, it appears U.S. Girls is touring again despite the fact that her last full-length release, GEM, was from all the way back in 2012. Could this mean a new album is on the way? Who knows. All we know is that you should totally go check her out. Ms. Remy's musical confidante, Slim Twig (another Toronto one-man band) will make an appearance to. Two acts are opening for the Canadian pair, Bottoms ("a gender-problematizing goth band") and Eaters (freaking seriously amazing stuff– one part pop, one part out-there synthscapes).
Hardcore Rant
Haymaker, The Rival Mob, Sex Prisoner, Brain Slug
Saturday January 17th, 8 pm at the Acheron (East Williamsburg), $15
YARGHHHH– a night to show how supremely manly you are. JK it's a night of hardcore at the Acheron! Well, the two aren't mutually exclusive by any means, but like, can I just take this opportunity to say I'm sick of going to hardcore shows and being socked by neanderthals for no reason? As much as I despise macho garbage, I do love the music (even if it is from Boston) and will continue going to shows despite all the hateful piss spewed on women at these things. So I guess here's to hoping it doesn't happen to anyone at this one.
Quit Whining
Scherzo, Taiiga, Caladan, Haunted America, Love Spread
Sunday January 18th, 3 pm at Palisades, tickets $5 at the door
Actually interesting indie rock music led by a frontman with the voice of a fallen angel, Jordyn Blakely, is your breakfast this Sunday at Palisades. If that's not enough to cure your hangover, consider that a gaggle of experimental noise musicians there. That's not a funny joke, you say? Well, why don't we try not being hungover on Saturday. Impossible, you say? Well this show is honestly the best thing for you then. Peel yourself off your cat-covered linoleum, pop some aspirin, and order a stiff drink immediately upon arrival at Palisades. Dr.'s orders.
Don't Puke, But…
Vomitface, Laundry Day
Monday January 19th, 8 pm at Cakeshop (Lower East Side), tickets $7
Vomitface brings me back to the absolute worst period of my existence– before I discovered punk, I spent a lot of time listening to bands like this. Now, I'm not going to say which bands because that would be embarrassing for me, but I will say they sounded a lot like Vomitface. Regardless, you should probably put in some quality time at Cakeshop, because it might be closing soon, and hey the opening bands are going to be pretty great, including Laundry Day.
Boy Wonder
Joey Bada$$
Monday January 19th, 6:30 pm at Rough Trade (Williamsburg), free entry with purchase of album
Joey Bada$$ returns to the U.S. after what was reportedly a fraught tour across Australia. But no matter– the 19-year-old Bed-Stuy-based indie rapper is co-founder of the Brooklyn collective Pro Era and was nominated in 2013 for Rookie of the Year at the BET Hip Hop Awards. He has almost half a million followers on Twitter and was profiled by Pitchfork back in 2012. Bada$$ was recently name dropped in a New York Magazine compendium of 100 reasons to love New York City. In short, things seem to be going pretty well for Mr. Bada$$, what's more he's dropping his debut album next week and performing a show at Rough Trade to celebrate.
Anasazi, Aviv, Bootblacks, Bottoms, Bushwick, cult of youth, East Williamsburg, Eaters, Haunted America, Haymaker, Home Sweet Home, Joey Bada$$, Joey Badass, Love Spread, Lower East SIde, Nothing Changes, Palisades, Pop. 1280, Scherzo, Sex Prisoner, Slim Twig, Taiiga, The Acheron, The Vaselines, U.S. Girls, What Cheer? Brigade, Williamsburg