Ultimate Painting: There’s a reason bands have been aping The Velvet Underground’s style for 40 years — done right it always sounds great. Ultimate Painting do it very right. Jack Cooper (Mazes) and James Haore (Veronica Falls) embrace their full-sleeve influences (with dashes of early Creation and Flying Nun records) with songs that would’ve held up back in the day too. While their album is great, hearing and seeing that guitar interplay live is a total jolt of electricity. At their Cake Shop show on Thursday, they even dared to cover The Beatles (“If I needed Someone”), making it their own, too. Ultimate Painting
2014-10-25
Trouble In Mind CMJ Showcase, Rough Trade NYC, Brooklyn, NY USA
The Fat Angel Sings 