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:: TUESDAY ::
pepi ginsberg | lesser gonzalez alvarez
steel phantoms [ex Islands] | cache
february 9 – death by audio – $7
all ages
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:: WEDNESDAY ::
telecult powers w. grasshopper | mark morgan [mem sightings]
tiger hatchery w. weasel walter
february 10 – death by audio – $6
all ages
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DEATH BY AUDIO
49 s 2nd st btw kent & wythe
doors at 8, show at 9
L to Bedford
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JMZ to Marcy
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G to Broadway
[map]
[NOTE~ dba is NOT byob, but there is beer on the cheap for the 21 and overs inside!]
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TUESDAY
:: pepi ginsberg ::
[via her site]
“Much of Red, her gorgeous third album, perfectly evokes the pathos of Dylan’s Blood On The Tracks and Desire. The intensity of her jarring, challenging wail—step off, Joanna Newsom—is met with warm, vintage piano and acoustic guitar arrangements orchestrated by Dr. Dog’s Scott McMicken, who has built his own rep for pumping blood back into sounds from bygone eras with his own outfit. Just like the world-weary singing of Karen Dalton’s, which influenced Dylan in the 1960s, Ginsberg revels in the imperfections of her voice.” -Paper Thin Walls
purchase all of her records via her site ►►► here
download her Daytrotter session ►►► here
download mp3s ►►► here & here
video for “The Waterline”
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:: lesser gonzales alvarez ::
[via myspace / Elissa Brown]
“Alvarez is a musician operating in Baltimore’s Wham City collective — the same as his pal Dan Deacon — in which he has also served in several other bands and artistic enterprises … While folk is probably the most appropriate label to apply here, there’s nothing of the adorned nature that we indie folk fans have come to expect in recent years. In fact, if Alvarez does have an eccentricity, it might be his inoffensive and unassuming demeanor. His songs don’t immediately come across as impassioned pleas or possessed screeds, yet if willing to listen to his words, especially on songs like “Pinecone Eyes” and “Love for Longer,” one will quickly find evidence of a sensitive, meaningful, and slyly fantastical worldview indicative of the high-caliber songwriting at which Alvarez stealthily operates.” -Tiny Mix Tapes
Why is the Bear Billowing out now on Carpark Records ►►► here
download mp3s ►►► here & here
video for “The Letter B”
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:: steel phantoms ::
[via Earfarm]
“The songs are a wonderful blend of spiky pop music that shifts and careens from start to finish in a very focused and mature way, unlocking melodies and progressions you probably didn’t expect but are damn glad got your attention. It’s a mix of the sweet and sour, the brash and the playful, a sinewy rope of rhythmic muscle allowing lighter pop flourishes to ebb and flow throughout; think Wolf Parade meets Leonard Bernstein and the picture starts to make sense. In turn, the two trade vocals from song to song in a way that accentuates these varying components of their music, Munro’s baritone croon recalling Jonathan Richman’s earnest swagger and Harris’s kerosene-edged melodies flagging the sinister vibes running beneath.” -Earfarm
check out an interview ►►► here
download mp3s ►►► here
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:: cache ::
[via myspace]
“Cache (Brooklyn artist and musician Christiana Femano) guides fragile melodies into amorphous landscapes of quiet noise. Ambiguous drips and chattering, their sources just out of sight beyond the veil, are not exactly unfriendly but not exactly welcoming as gently melancholic tones shiver and glisten in the pale of early morning. Femano’s attention to detail is meticulous and her compositions have a rich simplicity, constantly changing without ever breaking their spell” -Impose
download her album for free [authorized] ►►► here
download mp3s ►►► here
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WEDNESDAY
:: telecult powers w. grasshopper ::
[via thepiratehat]
“This band possesses an unusual appreciation for the rough edges of synthetic sounds that is captivating and unique. Often times their instruments are in tune in such a way that they only seem to create textures and hardly any tones at all. At other moments, the sounds can be slightly more melodic while simultaneously feeling metallic and piercing. It’s a strangely comforting but also terrifying sound. In this current revival of rich synthesizer music, Telecult Powers stand out as being a band with an original vision and a raw, personal approach to the instrument.” -Foxy Digitalis record review [8/10]
“With just boxes and wires, Telecult Powers produce some amazing ambiance that’s blowing up big time in the local noise scene. Although they catalog themselves as a surf, acoustic and classic rock band, the Brooklyn-based dronesters are anything but … Telecult Powers is one of the few bands in a very niched scene who is starting to get some attention from people outside Brooklyn’s tiny experimental music scene…” -LVHRD
order their cd-r & cassette ►►► here
live at dba
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[by nate dorr]
“Grasshopper is a duo both using trumpet and electronics and though brass / wind instruments have been establishing some pretty solid footing in the ‘noise’ scene the last few years, these guys approach it less from the lineage of free jazz. Well, that’s probably not fair at all but they apply a lot less skronk to their palate amd in some parts there are even suggestions of melody or at least the phrasing is consistent enough that you know there’s a rhyme to their crime and for me it was a great combination. The timbre of a couple of fucked up inharmonious horns mixed with the ‘warmth’ of their electronics (which it seemed was often sourced from their horns) was a solid match.” -Cassette Gods
purchase Wretched Blood Wraith cassette via Obsolete Units ►►► here
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:: tiger hatchery w. weasel walter ::
[via myspace / joe tunis]
formerly of XBXRX, now on the East coast and the new drummer for Behold… the Arctopus
purchase Weasel Walter’s records [w. some free album downloads] ►►► here
check out a bunch of Tiger Hatchery live videos ►►► here
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