Former founding member of Awesome Color and Brooklyn scene interloper moves back to Detroit to find himself amidst these no-jobs jive times, and discovers that city streets are often dark and lonesome everywhere. But with a dusty drum machine, pals with a practice space, and sounds of Sonic Youth’s Sister CD in your back pocket, the show can and will go on
Posts Tagged ‘Brooklyn’
CHIMES – ” Total Sunlower “
Posted: January 2, 2015 in MUSICTags: Brooklyn, Chimes, New Jersey, Psychedelica
New Jersey/Brooklyn based Chimes is a psych/slack rock foursome that revel in nothingness. While exploring dream worlds and the cinematic, they wade through pools of post-punk, psychedelia, and shoegaze, allowing rip currents of sonic expression to take them under.
“Total Sunflower” is one of my favourite songs this month. It’s an electric track charged with a heavy post-punk feel on the guitars and vocals; a pummeling yet gauzy ride through wild guitar bends, pedal scuzz, and nihilistic poetics. This is a band to keep your ear on in 2015.
SCREAMING FEMALES – ” Empty Head “
Posted: January 2, 2015 in MUSICTags: Brooklyn, Empty Head, Rose Mountain, Screaming Females
New Jersey punkers Screaming Females were preparing to share their latest studio album “Rose Mountain” with the world. The announcement came with a new song and the band hasn’t stopped there. On Tuesday, the trio shared a new tune, as well as the announcement that their “Rose Mountain” release show will happen in conjunction with their label’s showcase early next year. No strangers to the annual Don Giovanni Records Showcase, Screamales will headline a show at Brooklyn’s own Knitting Factory along with Priests, Tenement, and Vacation to celebrate the birth of their latest record.
In the eyes of diehard Screamales fans, the album may either come as a treat or look like a sad departure, as the band has been focusing more on melody than raw power. Drummer Jarrett Dougherty gave a little insight into both Rose Mountain and the new song “Empty Head”:
Our focus for this record was to create the most melodic and concise music of our ten year history.. Figuring out what was at the core of “Empty Head” wasn’t just important to this particular song, it was really part of the fundamental challenge of “Rose Mountain” as a whole.
Dougherty’s admission comes as no surprise after the tamer sound of “Wishing Well” met ears in October. Still, none of this is bad news. The band appears to be tighter than ever, riding the waves of their killer live album from last year. They just wrapped up a powerful just-for-fun tour and we can guarantee that they’re still a live band to be ranked with the best of them.
PARKAY QUARTS – ” Pretty Machines “
Posted: December 31, 2014 in MUSICTags: Brooklyn, Parkay Quarts
Confusing – Parquet Courts have taken a backseat for a few weeks as Parkay Quarts introduce themselves. Similar name, slightly different project. Andrew Savage and Austin Brown are sidelining by releasing their first full-length album ‘Content Nausea’. Joined by Justin Frye and Shannon Sigley (from PC Worship, and the Parquet/PC supergroup PCPC), For a song – and an album – concerned with being overwhelmed by noise, stories, distractions and inane chat, it’s appropriate that Parkay took the opportunity to launch themselves on ‘Le Grand Journal’, a French talkshow. The irony’s not lost on anyone. Complete with customary, awkward handclapping from an on-stage audience, Taken from the new album Parkay Quarts’ ‘Content Nausea’
ALEX DEZEN – ” None Of These Things / Hellp / Kung Fu Kiss Grip “
Posted: December 28, 2014 in MUSICTags: Alex Dezen, Brooklyn, The Damwells
Alex Dezen, of the beloved Brooklyn band The Damnwells, has a romantic voice.
By “romantic” the kind of voice that can carry one off to war, or the high plains, or to sea.
But this is an exceptionally strong and expressive voice. One listen to these chapel sessions will introduce you, perhaps, to a voice that does the same for you. it was a genuine delight to have his voice fill and echo in that chapel space.
He gave us two of his newer solo songs, an old (gorgeous) gospel-tinged Damnwells tune, and a cover from one of my favorite soul artists of all time. If you want to hear more, Alex has put out a series of four intimate EPs this past year, and all are worth delving deeply into. The fifth Damnwells LP is due in April 2015 on Rock Ridge Music.
this track comes from, 2006′s “Air Stereo”. This is a sleeper record you might have missed, but it is never too late. As fully-fleshed out as this song sounds even with just Alex’s voice and a guitar in a chapel, the album version has shimmering, resonant Memphis horns and backing vocals.
EX- COPS – ” White Noise “
Posted: December 23, 2014 in MUSICTags: Brooklyn, Daggers, Ex-Cops, New York
Ex-Cops and the Official music video for ‘White Noise’ by Ex Cops. From the new album “Daggers”, available now from Downtown Records:B orrowing from the wispy sounds of vintage Sarah Records and Flying Nun artists, Brooklyn, New York’s Ex Cops is the project of Brian Harding (ex-Hymns) and and Amalie Bruun (ex-Minks).
Formed in 2011 the duo self-released a short-run, homespun CD-EP of hazy, lo-fi recordings featuring Harding’s opaque bedroom-pop songwriting juxtaposed with the duo’s sun-kissed harmonies. Their John Siket-produced (Yo La Tengo, Sonic Youth) debut, True Hallucinations, due out January 22 via Other Music Recording Co.
The JULIE RUIN – ” Just My kind “
Posted: December 20, 2014 in MUSICTags: Brooklyn, New York City, The Julie Ruin
Official Music Video for “Just My Kind” by The Julie Ruin off the album Run Fast.
The Julie Ruin is an American band formed in 2010 in New York City. The band rehearses in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and records at Oscilloscope. Band members include Carmine Covelli, Sara Landeau, Kathleen Hanna, Kathi Wilcox, and Kenny Mellman.
In 2012, The Julie Ruin released the song “Girls Like Us,” featuring queer core artist Vaginal Davis, The band’s first album, “Run Fast“, was released on September 2013 by Dischord Records.
I am not sure what I expected from The Antlers, but stately horns and a pretty piano lines weren’t amongst my expectations. Still, I’ve come to love the heart and melancholy on this record like all other releases from this fine band . Peter Silberman sings like a man who’s found his voice; it’s comforting and cool and best of all he seems comfortable singing out of falsetto style, which makes him able to be expressive in so many more diverse ways. The horns often take the center here, casting a yearning warmth on this philosophical record. The words are clear, the thoughts are complex. It seems to be about letting go or at least looking at what is familiar in different ways. I’m not sure, but I’m going to listen again and again. Sometimes I just drift away in the atmospherics of “Familiars”, other times I get a glimpse of someone searching. this is just a beautiful record .
LULUC – ” Small Window “
Posted: December 13, 2014 in MUSICTags: Australia, Brooklyn, Luluc, Passer By, The National
Listening to this record by Australia’s Luluc more than most other albums this year. These songs feel like they’ve always been around the simple beauty in Zoë Randall’s voice and the underlying tension and support offered by guitarist Steve Hassett create a perfect vehicle for storytelling. “Passer By” was co-produced with The National‘s Aaron Dessner in Brooklyn (where the duo lived for half this year), its a quiet album filled with gentle surprises and a beautiful aura of calm.
Nate Harar was born in Washington but now based in Brooklyn and Los Angeles. His debut song as Dalton is in the style of New York indie rock like Grizzly Bear or Wild Nothing, With patient rhythm and background buzzing guitars and Harar searching lyrics.
The Fat Angel Sings 