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I Kinda of Hate-Like We Are Scientists
We Are Scientists January 12, 2006 Bowery Ballroom These guys. One (or two) good songs, dance beats, lead singer Keith Murray sounds like the dude from Midnight Oil, bassist has a mustache (funny!). Major label money. Live in Brooklyn. So many reasons to hate We Are Scientists, so I’m
Christmas singers at Bedford and N. 7th
I should put ‘digital camera’ on my Amazon Wish List Christmas Singers Bedford Ave and North 7 Dec. 23 After finishing a tough day of last minute errands before I go to Chicago tomorrow (to visit and to go to Pitchfork’s 10.0 New Year’s Show), I came
Deerhunter, Neptune and The Fugue at Kingsland Tavern
Deerhunter, Neptune, The Fugue Kingsland Tavern December 17 2005 Biggest bummer next to an AIDS Wolf is AIDS Wolf not even showing. The band was held up at the border and didn’t make their Friday night show (though�???isn’t there an underground railroad for Montreal bands yet?). Itâ€
Les Savy Fav @ CMJ Music Marathon
I wasn’t an employee of CMJ this past September when the Music Marathon was happening, nor did I have a badge, but I was still able to see a good number of shows through various forms of luck, trickery, guestlisting and revealing clothing. The best show combo was seeing
Grizzly Bear Live At Scenic
Grizzly Bear Tonic, December 9, 2005 Dynamics are a little overrated, sometimes you want a band with a slow hand (and, er, an easy touch). Grizzly Bear (a GREENPOINT band, not a WILLIAMSBURG band) are best when they shimmer, moving like eyes in REM sleep. When they get loud that’
The Dirty Projectors and Fucking Champs this weekend
I love this picture of the fucking champs, because it’s the cover to a record with a song called, “Thor Is Like Immortal.” Hey, and thanks to whoever got to this post by MSN searching “dirty fucking.” This weekend two favorites, the Dirty Projectors and the Fucking Champs play
Kevin Blechdom "Eat My Heart Out" review
My review of Kevin Blechdom’s “Eat My Heart Out” is up on PopMatters. For the little album picture next to my review, PopMatters used the ‘safe’ album cover, not the one that Kevin Blechdom used (her record label made her change it if she wanted North American distribution), it’
Interview with Nick Diamonds of Islands (ex Unicorns)
Below the jump’s an interview I did with Nick Diamonds last week. I had a lot of extra quotes so I thought I’d share them. So to recap, I interviewed Alden for my college paper in 2004 when they came to Tucson. Since then I interviewed the entire
Islands (Ex-Unicorns) at Knitting Factory Dec 6
Islands Knitting Factory main stage Dec 6 2005 Yes I did take this shitty photo, and some others I took are up at CMJ’s Relay anti-blog. Short: Islands played their first show in New York City last night, on the second to last day of their first headlining tour.
"The Purple Bottle"
Animal Collective Feels (So I want to talk about some shit most people have heard but I still want to talk about.) Why are songs either about falling in or falling out of love? There are barely any songs that say, “Things are okay if a little boring.ï¿
