Posts Tagged ‘New York’

WEYES BLOOD – ” The Treehouse Session “

Posted: March 16, 2015 in MUSIC
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Welcome to Treehouse Sessions: twice a month, we present exclusive live performances recorded directly to analog at Chicago’s Treehouse Studios.
Today’s episode brings you an exclusive two-song performance from the indie-folk band Weyes Blood, led by singer/songwriter Natalie Mering. They play “Summer” (also called “Summer’s Gone”) from the band’s newest album, “The Innocents”, and a brand new song called “Just Give”. Mering also sits down for an interview and discusses her time as an herbalist’s apprentice in New Mexico, living in Baltimore, and why Queens, NY should be the new Brooklyn.

 

 

The BIG PHONY – ” The Big Phony Mix “

Posted: March 6, 2015 in MUSIC
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Big Phony is a Seoul, Korea based singer/songwriter, originally born and raised in New York City. Off stage Big Phony is simply known to his friends and family as “Bobby.” At an early age Bobby began secretly practicing his older brother Eddy’s guitar in defiance of warnings that he would surely get his ass kicked if he so much as laid a finger on it. Because of Bobby’s dedication to and success in surpassing his brother’s skill level, mom eventually transferred ownership of that guitar over to Bobby.

Bobby’s family relocated to Los Angeles, leaving him in New York City so he could attend the legendary School of Performing Arts and Music and Art, which has produced a long list of talent including Al Pacino, Adrian Brody, and Bela Fleck. Living alone at such an early age, Big Phony devoted his time to writing in his New York City apartment.

With strong religious conviction, Big Phony left for Boston to attend a Christian college to study to be a pastor. He quickly realized that this was not the path for him and returned his focus to his music. After college, he moved to Los Angeles to be closer with his family. It was in Los Angeles where Big Phony began his pursuit to be a singer-songwriter. He quickly built a devout fan base with his songs and performances. In early 2006 he returned to New York to build that same kind of following and began splitting his time between both cities crashing on couches.  In 2011, Big Phony moved to Asia and where he currently resides in Seoul, South Korea. There he continues to write & perform, and furthermore, he is learning more about his “roots”.

Big Phony delivers honest lyrics and natural talent. There’s a fragile but controlled quality in his voice, which he attributes to thin apartment walls and easily disgruntled neighbors. Fans of Elliott Smith, Bright Eyes, and Death Cab For Cutie will instinctively gravitate towards Big Phony’s sound. His latest projects “LONG LIVE THE LIE” (electronic album) & the alternative release “BOBBY” (acoustic album) are available now.

DIET CIG – ” Harvard “

Posted: February 19, 2015 in MUSIC
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Upstate New York duo Diet Cig, Alex Luciano and Noah Bowman signed up to Father/Daughter Records home to the band Pure Bathing Culture to release their debut EP “Over Easy”.

The EP is five-tracks of fun and melodic lo-fi pop punk music and the video for the track ‘Scene Sick’, a song which addresses the self-importance of musicians in a band matches that visually in the opposite way, with Alex dancing along in cute fashion that trivialises all other music further.

VIET CONG – ” Live at The Union Pool ” 28th January 2015

Posted: February 10, 2015 in MUSIC
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Viet Cong, from Canada’s less-celebrated center Calgary, sold out at the Union Pool show long before the not-at-all-catastrophic snowstorm hit New York City this week. Viet Cong had the place well past capacity. Half-composed of former members of the band Women,  Viet Cong continues that band’s art-rock mission, if not expands it. What makes the band’s live show flat-out better than their very-well-regarded debut LP is simply that watching them put this music together gives you a clearer sense of how much is going on. The interplay between guitarists isn’t simply your usual rhythm/lead dichotomy; guitarists Scott Munro and Daniel Christiansen’s instruments are almost in opposition to each other at points, at others answering each other note-for-note. Both guitarists double up on keys as well, but don’t think vocalist/bassist Matt Flegel isn’t producing himself. Granted, some of the members have history together, but this is still an incredibly tight unit for a band with only the “Cassette EP” and now the new album to their credit.

The band’s sound mimics the bleak landscape of their hometown at times; the show, and the album closed with a ten-plus minute dirge named “Death”.  But there’s also humor running through Matt Flegel’s lyrics, when you can make them out, and the Cassette songs, especially, have a more straightforward appeal. Ultimately, though, what comes across most about this band is just how effing good they are. The complexity of their work may suggest that this is music for musicians, but what Viet Cong do so well is make that complex music relatable, even fun, to listen to. This show will set a high bar for the rest of 2015, in the best possible way.

SMALL WONDER – ” Wendy “

Posted: February 8, 2015 in MUSIC
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Small Wonder, is the project of Henry Crawford, who released a wonderful album by the name of “Wendy” early last year. If you missed it, I urge you to go seek out and have a listen and purchase it over at his bandcamp page. You won’t regret it. He Has recently played a solo set as support to the even more wonderful Natalie Prass  Although the arrangements were obviously more sparse, he still managed to bring the songs to life all the same.

AVA LUNA – ” Billz “

Posted: January 29, 2015 in MUSIC
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The seeds of Ava Luna’s latest album “Infinite-house” came about when the band was holed up in the unincorporated town of Benton, Miss. they happened upon an abandoned residence in the middle of the woods, which served a potent image throughout their writing process. It’s an appropriately spooky beginning for the Brooklyn quintet, whose handful of releases since their 2009 inception have tended toward the spectral and metaphysical—misremembered echoes of a delicate swirl of R&B,plus the ritualistic ecstasy of krautrock. But despite the album’s unsettling origins and the band’s otherworldly history, the lyrical interests of “Billz”, their first single from the record, are overwhelmingly practical.

“Who’s gonna pay my bills?” singer/guitarist Carlos Hernandez repeatedly cries amid a clatter of guitars and cymbals. The familiar question comes at the center of what’s otherwise a relatively straightforward love song, a surprisingly cynical meditation on the most utilitarian of concerns. The band’s instrumental attack, built around a couple of contorted guitar leads and buoyant keyboard lines, remains idiosyncratic, but it strips back a fair amount of the sonic clutter to foreground Hernandez’ vocal and the practicality of his message.

SUNFLOWER BEAN – ” Show Me Your Seven Secrets ” EP

Posted: January 27, 2015 in MUSIC
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Sunflower Bean Debut EP now available on CD titled “Show Me Your Seven Secrets” New York is still home to bands as varied as Sunflower Bean, whose music suggests what might have happened if psychedelia had emerged after punk and the Police rather than before. In their first year, Sunflower Bean has made waves coast to coast. Julia Cumming (vox/bass), Nick Kivlen (vox/guitar), and Jacob Faber (drums), draw from a wealth of rugged lo-fi sounds, adapting the heroic charisma of VU psychedelia and Black Sabbath’s dark rock to fit their own generation’s drowsy ethos.

Track Listing:
1. Somebody Call A Doctor
2. 2013
3. Tame Impala
4. Rock & Roll Heathen
5. Ok Mr. Man
6. Bread

AMEN DUNES – ” Song To The Siren ” This Mortal Coil Cover

Posted: January 12, 2015 in MUSIC
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From the forthcoming new EP “Cowboy Worship” out January 20th, 2015 on Sacred Bones Records.

New York-based Amen Dunes’ has announced news of a companion EP to follow the release of his critically acclaimed album ‘Love’, which came out earlier this year via Sacred Bones. Entitled ‘Cowboy Worship’, the forthcoming record is an attempt to give life to some of the music that played a crucial part to the creation of ‘Love’. It’s set for release on Jan 19th and new track ‘Song To The Siren’, taken from the EP,

LUKE ELLIOT – ” Provisions ” EP

Posted: January 12, 2015 in MUSIC
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EP, Provisions, was released last summer, and earned him many new admirers, including legendary producer John Agnello (War On Drugs, Kurt Vile, Dinosaur Jr., Sonic Youth) who signed on to produce Elliot’s debut full-length. That album, which is currently under construction, is expected to be released sometime this fall. Luke Elliot’s music has been steadily gaining more and more attention since his debut EP, “Death of a Widow,” was released by Yerbird Records in 2010. The EP gained him a dedicated fan base that followed him through a circuit of venues across the Northeast. The music, comprised of an eclectic mix of genres and ideas, gained him critical acclaim as an artist to pay attention to. Beginning in New York’s Lower East Side, Elliot and his band quickly made their way from the dive bar scene to some of New York’s more popular venues, from the Mercury Lounge to Webster Hall. Gaining a reputation as an ever-evolving live act, they began gaining popularity in Philadelphia, headlining venues such as the North Star, and the World Cafe Live.

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An outstanding follow-up to a superb debut, ‘Provisions’ offers further proof that Luke Elliot is destined to be a force to be reckoned with, and soon. Elliot possesses obvious ability when it comes to varying tone and temperament, as he proves so adeptly… Incidentally, the aforementioned “To Feel Your Love” is not the Dylan song of the same name, even though Elliot shows he can emulate the Master’s art of imagery ever so succinctly… Elliot’s melodies are often probing and austere, but they never remain at arms length… an astute blend of suggestion and seduction. (No Depression)

HAUNTED HEARTS – ” Up Is Up But So Is Down “

Posted: January 10, 2015 in MUSIC
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On a silvery stage, DeeDee Penny and her husband Brandon Welchez, of Dum Dum Girls and Crocodiles and now Haunted Hearts, share a glam yoga/dance party with Alexis Blair Penney, Colin Self and Bailey Stiles – members of NYC-based drag collective Chez Deep. The trio shantay to the swirling psych-out of “Up Is Up (But So Is Down)”, as a reliably-kohled Penny pouts and Welchez preens in a fur coat straight out of Jonathan Rhys Meyers’ Velvet Goldmine wardrobe. Their debut album, “Initiation”, came out May on their own label Zoo Music.

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