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Here's where you tell me which local bands a new arrival in the big city should keep an eye out for. Preference for people I can still see in smaller venues for less than 10 bucks. indie/electronic/hip hop/cabaret/whatever, I don't care. I just wanna see some good shows. (I know the basics -- Liars, Oneida, Moony Suzuki, etc. Looking for others, new ones or lower-profile veterans.) That includes if you're in a band yourself and want to tell me how great you are -- I wanna know.

muy obligado.

― Jesse Fox, Monday, 10 February 2003 15:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Firewater and Skeleton Key.

http://www.easyandquick.com/fire/home.html

http://www.skeletonkey.org/

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 10 February 2003 15:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Some ideas:

Coptic Light

The SB

Double Leopards and/or Shackamaxon

MFM

Japanther

Other Dimensions in Music

The Panthers

Tono-Bungay

― hstencil, Monday, 10 February 2003 16:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Three faves:

Prosaics -- A mix of Mission of Burma, Television and the Misfits. Their singer (used to be in Tel Aviv) needs work, but very good.

Calla -- Now on the radar after five years. My favorite NYC band, and my favorite band period. Live shows are amazing, they pull out great covers (among them -- Springsteen's "State Trooper," Can's "Mother Sky," Beatles' "Long Long Long," Dylan's "I Shall Be Released," Young's "Harvest Moon").

Secret Machines -- Sounds just like early Pink Floyd. Their Ace Fu EP only had one good track, but live they are amazing. Great psyche/space rock. Will be on a major soon.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 10 February 2003 16:12 (twenty-three years ago)

"Prosaics -- A mix of Mission of Burma, Television and the Misfits"

Damn -- that sounds amazing! Must seek that out!

Secret Machines are from NYC originally -- they're Texans.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 10 February 2003 16:24 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.whitehassle.com

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 10 February 2003 16:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Their singer (used to be in Tel Aviv)

You mean the band Tel Aviv that was on Teenbeat? Ugh.

― hstencil, Monday, 10 February 2003 16:27 (twenty-three years ago)

All my friends in New York who are old and cranky and never go out to see anyone anymore rave about Calla, for what it's worth. Can you tell me more about them, Yancey? And how's their new album?

I saw Gogol Bordello when I was in town a couple of years ago, very entertaining. Like an Eastern European version of the Pogues with crazed Iggy-ish singer. And props. I imagine I'd find them tiresome after the first few times, though.

― Arthur (Arthur), Monday, 10 February 2003 16:38 (twenty-three years ago)

I know, I hate Tel Aviv too. And their drummer is also in Rainer Maria, so a double "ugh." But they're really great (except the vocals, again). I saw them open for 90 Day Men (I know you hate them hstencil, so don't hold that against the Prosaics) in July and was really, really impressed. Seemed very professional, and their bassist played just like Clint Conley (even though, at that point, he had never heard Burma. I convinced him to buy some stuff and then he admitted that they do play alike). Afterwards I went up to the bassist (Joshua Zuck3r is his name) and asked if I could buy a CD or something. He said no, because it was actually only their second show, which surprised the shit out of me. I've seen them over and over since, and they are very good. They're recording an EP now that they will self-release, even though they've been getting a lot of offers. After the first show my instinct was that they would become an important band. I can't stick by that anymore, but I really dig them.

Yeah, the Secret Machines are from Austin. Two of them were in Captain Audio (who I've only heard bits and pieces of) and the drummer (who's fab) was in Comet, a great space-rock band.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 10 February 2003 16:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Didn't the Prosaics play with Calla and the Rogers Sisters at the Mercury Lounge a few weeks back? I was planning to go to that, but it sold out early, so I missed it. I'd give 'em the benefit of the doubt, even though Tel Aviv was pretty bad. Is their singer the skinny guy with black hair that was in Tel Aviv? I hardly remember anything about those dudes except that they were from Louisville, hardly anybody there liked 'em, and they sounded A LOT like Slint, apparently.

Ah, the early 1990s. Kinda hard to be nostalgic for it.

― hstencil, Monday, 10 February 2003 16:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Arthur: I dunno if this'll give you any idea of what Calla are like, but here's my review of the record: http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0305/strickler.php

My favorite of their is actually their first album, which is now out of print. That one has a lot of found sounds along with Morricone-type guitar. Scavengers, the second album, is the most accessible of the bunch. Great songs, very pretty. Televise, the new one, has some great moments and is very poppy. Other Calla-related releases are a fantastic Insound Tour Support disc (which has better versions of several cuts from Televise on it), a surprisingly great remix album and their drummer's solo glitch/microhouse record under the tenEcke name.

Here's a video for Televise's first song, "Strangler:"

http://www.atomicamerican.com/dropframe/Strangler_web.mov

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 10 February 2003 16:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, the Prosaics played with Calla. Their first show in a while. The show was hella packed, something like 70 press credentials were handed out (I was standing next to Joe Levy -- woohoo!). It was the best Calla has ever played (their first full show with a fourth band member, a new guitarist) and the Prosaics were great too. The Prosaics singer, Andy, was the singer in Tel Aviv. Skinny, tall, dark hair, looks like a more attractive Tom Verlaine. The Prosaics have serious sex appeal. The bassist, Joshua, is fucking gorgeous, I must admit.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 10 February 2003 16:46 (twenty-three years ago)

looks like a more attractive Tom Verlaine.

Whoo-hoo!

Uh, well if you're really that into him, maybe I can find someone who has high school-era photos.

Was bummed I missed that show, although it sounds sorta like a nightmare for claustrophobes like myself. I haven't seen the Rogers Sisters yet, and they're friends from way back, so...

― hstencil, Monday, 10 February 2003 16:49 (twenty-three years ago)

I didn't stick around for the Rogers Sisters. I was getting too claustrophobic, had to get out of there.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 10 February 2003 16:51 (twenty-three years ago)

JAPANTHER.

Also, Castro.

― mosurock (mosurock), Monday, 10 February 2003 17:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No Neck Blues Band (Knitting Factory), Sunday, Feb. 23rd.

Suntanama (Joe's Pub), March 4th

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http://go.to/stevek

― steve k (stevek10), Monday, 10 February 2003 17:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Jesus With Me is opening for NNCK at that Knitting Factory show.

They're also playing with Endless Boogie this Sunday. More details to follow.

― hstencil, Monday, 10 February 2003 17:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Good live NY bands:

1) Black Dice. Loud and pretty intersection of kraut/psych and electronics, all played in real time. They hype around them is stupid, but they actually are that good live. My favorite NY band at the moment.

2) Coptic Light. Semi-improvised music within a structure. It's hard to compare them to any one band, though they kind of sound like what would happen if you threw together instrumental Black Flag, spastic jazz drumming, and the less cheesy, more dynamic end of prog. Guitarist out of Bitch Magnet and Don Caballero, drummer out of Storm & Stress and a jillion other bands, and the bassist played guitar in Antioch Arrow. On a good night, they're unstopable. Whew.

3) Ganggang Dance. This band changes every time I see them (in terms of membership and style). The last time, in November, they blew me away. The band is very dark and tribal, with flashes of psychedelia and industrial. Two members were in The Crainium. Sounds nothing like that, though.

4) Plate Tectonics. The band that evolved out of the more dancey/post-punkish (?) Pixeltan, who had a single on Troubleman. When their drummer left, Pixeltan recruited the drummer from Providence, RI's Olneyville Sound System and got way more fucked up. Loud as fuck breaks courtesy of the biggest bass drum you've ever seen, with guitar, FXed vocals, and analog keyboards on top. They have a CD out on Ian from Japanther's Tapesrecords, which is a collaboration with the rapper Sensational. At times it's quite good, but was recorded a year and a half ago--they've evolved quite a bit since then.

― die9o (dhadis), Monday, 10 February 2003 17:19 (twenty-three years ago)

When is Coptic Light playing next, Diego? That sounds excellent.

Oh, I started a thread about this and no one replied, so I'll post it here: Anyone want to see the Blood Brothers at the Knit tonight? I have a plus one and my friend backed out. You get the ticket free of charge. You don't even have to talk to me if you don't want to. I just don't want to waste a ticket.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 10 February 2003 17:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Outta curiousity, Yanc3y, who are they playing with? Don't think I'd be able to go, but thought I'd ask.

― hstencil, Monday, 10 February 2003 17:50 (twenty-three years ago)

the sightings
vaz
coptic light

prosiacs are terrible...really!!! the singer is the worst...the drummer is in rainer maria, so they are an emo band pretending to be interpol (and interpol is basically an emo band)...if thats your bag...get a new bag man. I don't hear mission of burma at all.

― ddb, Monday, 10 February 2003 17:56 (twenty-three years ago)

kept forgetting Sightings.

Mark Morgan from Sightings is djing this Sunday at the Endless Boogie/Jesus With Me show, along with Chris Freeman (Fusetron) and Joel St. Germain (Humecetant Interruption). Will post more details when I get 'em.

― hstencil, Monday, 10 February 2003 17:58 (twenty-three years ago)

2nite:

Blood Brothers, True North, Vaux, Brasilia

Wait. So because Bill is in Rainer Maria that means his other band is emo too? How's that?

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 10 February 2003 18:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, see, no idea who those other bands are, can't bother to ask for the ticket.

No idea on this emo rule thing either.

― hstencil, Monday, 10 February 2003 18:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Prosaics started out with promise but now it seems they're just treading water, and have really bad stage presence. One year and their set and sound hasn't changed significantly. It's just not happening.

Dan Melchior's Broke Revue and Oneida are two of our best bands.

― mosurock (mosurock), Monday, 10 February 2003 18:06 (twenty-three years ago)

I have no idea who the other bands tonight are either. I was just planning to head down around 9. Blood Brothers play at 9:15.

The Prosaics have been treading water. But at that Calla show they played one song I had not heard before that was easily the best thing they've ever done.

Broke Revue I saw once and dug. Reminded me a bit of the Blue Rags, who put out a couple of records on Sub Pop a while ago.

Oneida I'm so-so on. EOTO has great moments, as does Anthem On the Moon, but I think they can get better. I interviewed them for Pulse last year and had a great time though. Really nice and funny guys.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 10 February 2003 18:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, I put out EOTO and the new Broke Revue EP so I'm biased.

― mosurock (mosurock), Monday, 10 February 2003 18:14 (twenty-three years ago)

You run Jagjaguwar?

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 10 February 2003 18:20 (twenty-three years ago)

So because Bill is in Rainer Maria that means his other band is emo too? How's that?

because...emo is like lepersy!

― ddb, Monday, 10 February 2003 18:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Electric Turn To Me*

and 2nd-ing of:
Sightings
The Panthers
Coptic Light

*sadly heard but not seen (got a live set in my MD right now). Blake from Dazzling Killmen/Laddio Bolocko on drums.

― gygax!, Monday, 10 February 2003 18:32 (twenty-three years ago)

no, version city. 50% of it at least.

― mosurock (mosurock), Monday, 10 February 2003 18:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Another one to check out: Avey Tare & Panda Bear (aka the Animal Collective). They do have off nights, but when they're on it's like watching a beautiful, secret tribal ritual. They're playing this Sunday at Tonic with Devendra Banhart. So it will probably be a mob scene...

Yanc3y--I'm not sure when Coptic Light are playing again. Maybe next month sometime? They played out a lot for a while, but I think they're taking a break to work on new material. Hstenc!l, do you know?

Also, I 3rd Sightings.

― die9o (dhadis), Monday, 10 February 2003 19:15 (twenty-three years ago)

No idea on upcoming Coptic Light shows. Haven't gotten an email from Poodles HQ in a while. How was their show at OfficeOps?

― hstencil, Monday, 10 February 2003 19:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I missed the Office OPs show, but heard it was very very good. Has anyone been to that space yet? I've heard it's really good...

― die9o (dhadis), Monday, 10 February 2003 19:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Fraggle Rock House Band (all covers, difft theme every show), Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the Fucking Champs, Modey Lemon (from Pittsburgh and my favorite band ever in the world period), Slut Em Go (prog indie-dub), Darediablo (power-trio with an organ, guitar, and drums), Satanicide (laugh-metal riffage out the ying-yang), Mr Mixelpixel (extremely psychotic computer-pop noise) Many of these are friends of mine so I may be biased!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 10 February 2003 19:36 (twenty-three years ago)

the fucking champs are from san francisco, california.

they will be in new york in early june.

― gygax!, Monday, 10 February 2003 19:50 (twenty-three years ago)

I think I caught Avey Tare on an off night, because when I saw them it was awful. I was very disappointed. Devendra Banhart is way too precious for my taste.

Not sure if they should count, but Michael Gira's Angels of Light are really great live (and the upcoming album is amazing).

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 10 February 2003 19:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Deer Park is a really good brooklyn band with pretty songs and dissonance. They don't play out often enough.
Addicted 2 Fiction is a real good electro act with real drums that should be louder in the mix.
I second anything where Daniel Carter is involved, for the healing powers (Other Dimensions, Test, etc, etc)
Rogers Sisters are kicking out strangely new wave jams that rock.

looking fwd to the Endless Boogie show.
& Double Leopards are playing on Wednesday.

― autovac (autovac), Monday, 10 February 2003 20:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Secret Machines -- Sounds just like early Pink Floyd. Their Ace Fu EP only had one good track, but live they are amazing.

so was that one track 'what used to be french'? 'cause i thought that was a great song but the rest of the release was seriously lacking...

bands i like that play around often:

the walkmen
enon
calla
fiery furnaces
rogers sisters
french kicks
avey tare & panda bear
panthers
black dice
tallboys
the seconds
ex-models

― coelcanth, Monday, 10 February 2003 20:23 (twenty-three years ago)

& Double Leopards are playing on Wednesday.

Yeah, they're playing with Carlos Giffoni/Russ Waterhouse and MFM at Northsix. Unfortunately, I can't make it.

― hstencil, Monday, 10 February 2003 20:25 (twenty-three years ago)

That one track is "It's a Bad Wind That Don't Blow Somebody Some Good," which was second on my singles list for 2002.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 10 February 2003 20:37 (twenty-three years ago)

fiery furnaces

I like this band too.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 10 February 2003 20:39 (twenty-three years ago)

ahhahah thee Fucking Champs play here all the time it seems like though! Modey Lemon are from Pittsburgh, who cares, dude wants to see some shows! big ups to the Rogers Sisters

somehow Burning Brides get all these sweet opening gigs, anybody know why?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 10 February 2003 21:08 (twenty-three years ago)

(somehow Burning Brides get all these sweet opening gigs, anybody know why?

Maybe because of the 'industry buzz' around them? They're pretty bad, though. V2 should've saved their money--I would've ripped off Bleach for them for half the multi-million dollars they gave the Burning Brides...)

― die9o (dhadis), Monday, 10 February 2003 21:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Knifestorm
Japanese Karaoke Afterlife Experiment are from Providence but play in Brooklyn fairly frequently.
Sightings (as far as recorded Sightings goes, the best is the 'Michigan Haters' CD; it's more diverse than the LP on Load and the 7")

― ian johnson, Monday, 10 February 2003 23:08 (twenty-three years ago)

i agree with IJ, that sightings 7" on freedom from is not the best place to start with them (which of course would be LIVE).

― gygax!, Monday, 10 February 2003 23:14 (twenty-three years ago)

One new-ish band to watch is the Square Johns, who I saw over the summer. I was trying to round up a posse to go see 'em at Siberia a few weeks back, but apparently my friends hate fun. :-(

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 10 February 2003 23:16 (twenty-three years ago)

These are not rock per se, but some NYers who are fun to catch live and play out fairly often:

Ellery Eskelin w/Andrea Parkins and Jim Black
John Zorn (in various incarnations, esp. Masada [the qtet])
Matthew Shipp
Polygraph Lounge (ie., Rob Schwimmer and Mark Stewart)
Myra Melford
Jean-Michel Pilc

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 10 February 2003 23:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Another one I somehow forgot:

David Krakauer's Klezmer Madness

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 10 February 2003 23:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Also: Vinicius Cantuaria

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 10 February 2003 23:22 (twenty-three years ago)

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country teasers, as i've said elsewhere on ilm, are a honky-tonk the fall. they're really great. i saw them at the mercury lounge earlier this year and they weren't that good, but i was hella-drunk and sang along like an asshole and it was loads of fun.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 1 May 2003 20:35 (twenty-three years ago)

what's not to love?

http://www.intheredrecords.com/media/8x10

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 1 May 2003 20:40 (twenty-three years ago)

that was my stepbrothers actual quote, btw, "synth art fags with a william s buroughs shtick" (I dont use the term art fag). are you sure we talking about the same group?

― M.Slaught, Thursday, 1 May 2003 20:40 (twenty-three years ago)

also: delete the "art" from "art fag." there ain't NOTHING arty about them. and the synth-luv was a brief phase(r)

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 1 May 2003 20:41 (twenty-three years ago)

maybe yr brother saw the yummy fur, a teasers offshoot? they're more synth-pop (but they have one AMAZING song called "the canadian flag," which is ugly punk rock)

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 1 May 2003 20:42 (twenty-three years ago)

no, its the group supposed to spew racist misoginist lyrics and his point was, they were intelectuals doing it as an art thing. this monkey town thing looks seems totally arty anyway (not a bad thing imo, i love NNCK).

― M.Slaught, Thursday, 1 May 2003 20:47 (twenty-three years ago)

one country teaser lives in new york -- robert mcneill, the bass player. he himself is an american. and a good man to boot (far right of that photo). i'm gonna try like hell to get the teasers @ pianos when they come back to the states.

anyway, he slipped me an electronic CD that b.r. wallers made under the name "The Company". it is fucked in a slightly V/VM way, with 99 tracks culminating in the epic "I Will Fuck Your Wife In a Mellow Wine Bar". you can only imagine where it went before that.

and if you're in NYC, might I suggest going to see the Ssion, who'll be opening for the YYYs at Irving Plaza on May 8th, and playing w/ the Icarus Line at Pianos late on May 9th.

― mosurock (mosurock), Friday, 2 May 2003 04:50 (twenty-three years ago)

becky (or anybody) whats the sin-e website,I can't find it. does suntanama play in the city, what are they like live?

― M.Slaught, Friday, 2 May 2003 13:43 (twenty-three years ago)

mosurock, anyway that i can get a copy of ben's disc? do you book pianos? if so, good work on getting fm knives to come. woodhouse is a friend of mine...

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 2 May 2003 13:57 (twenty-three years ago)

www.sin-e.org is the website. I don't know if I can make it yet, but I can remember a red spiderweb t-shirt.

― Becky (Rebecca), Friday, 2 May 2003 14:00 (twenty-three years ago)

thanks becky! tho I kinda wish you hadn't...now I know I missed an animal collective thing! where the fuck am I? but yeah, I dunno either about tomorrow but will wear the shirt if I do.

― M.Slaughter, Friday, 2 May 2003 16:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Ha, I missed that too. I heard it was short. They're doing two shows at the end of May, according to their website. Stay tuned.

― Becky (Rebecca), Friday, 2 May 2003 16:41 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah, where can one get the b waller electronic thing? very interested.

― jack cole (jackcole), Friday, 2 May 2003 16:59 (twenty-three years ago)

LONGWAVE are supposed to be real good and are playing this Sunday. Never heard 'em.

― Scaredy Cat, Friday, 2 May 2003 17:05 (twenty-three years ago)

animal collective may 20 @ north six and may 25 at Tonic.

― m.slaughter, Monday, 5 May 2003 14:07 (twenty-three years ago)

i like country teasers but the male nurse were much better before being curtailed by circumstance

― gareth (gareth), Monday, 5 May 2003 14:15 (twenty-three years ago)

i've been looking for male nurse output everywhere for ages & can't find shit. gareth, can you hook a brotha up?

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 5 May 2003 14:18 (twenty-three years ago)

yes, i have slight problem at moment though. i have no pc at the moment. i'll see if i can do something from the work pc, i have to connect up mp3 player, and then i can upload them somewhere.

i also have 2 peel sessions on tape which have never been released, i'm going to convert these to mp3 also, but that is probably another 5 or 6 weeks away

― gareth (gareth), Monday, 5 May 2003 14:27 (twenty-three years ago)

thank you gareth! just email me whenever you get a chance to get all this done. no rush, of course. i'll send you something in return for yr kindness...

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 5 May 2003 14:29 (twenty-three years ago)

also might be worth checking out tonic on friday, yuka honda's laptop project "pink freud". is she making the joke I think she's making?

― M.Slaughter, Monday, 5 May 2003 16:10 (twenty-three years ago)

you know, she's making a joke about the r for l stereotype, I bet. but is she worth seeing, with her laptop?

― M.Slaughter, Tuesday, 6 May 2003 13:31 (twenty-three years ago)

then on saturday is oneida, has anyone seen the headliner, I AM SPOONBENDER, what is that like?

― s-laughter, Friday, 9 May 2003 14:41 (twenty-three years ago)

go see oneida! make them rich! or at least buy them drinks.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 9 May 2003 14:57 (twenty-three years ago)

I have never seem I Am Spoonbender, but I have seen the movie they're screening at the show, "Metallica Drummer", which is right on hilarious found video.

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Friday, 9 May 2003 15:05 (twenty-three years ago)

is that the video of a guy wildly air-drumming to metallica?

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 9 May 2003 15:08 (twenty-three years ago)

I would like to see Oneida but have yet to actually do so.

― hstencil, Friday, 9 May 2003 15:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Lauren, it sure is. A shirtless, Bart-Simpson-shorts-wearing Canadian air drummer. With absolute accuracy, down to the double kick-pedal, the gong and the finger cymbals. I love it.

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Friday, 9 May 2003 15:11 (twenty-three years ago)

I AM SPOONBENDER, what is that like?

dude, go to:

Aquarius Records
Work for us, and we'll (or in some cases, let you) pimp your band/label to limits never before imagined.

You'll learn more than you ever need to know.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 9 May 2003 15:21 (twenty-three years ago)

If you don't go see Oneida & I Am Spoonbender on Saturday (woe betide you!), since it's so dang pricey, Japanther (rightfully-praised upthread) is at Free 103 in the WB.

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Friday, 9 May 2003 16:01 (twenty-three years ago)

what's free 103, and what's the WB?

― s-laughter, Friday, 9 May 2003 17:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Free 103 is a performance space (and sometimes a p1rate rad10 station) in Williamsburg. The WB is just shorthand for Williamsburg. You know, since both the neighborhood and the network are full of overacting, attractive white people.

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Friday, 9 May 2003 17:12 (twenty-three years ago)

The UPN must be the new name for East New York, then.

― hstencil, Friday, 9 May 2003 17:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Aw, but what about the cool factor? UPN being the finest broadcast network, I mean.

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Friday, 9 May 2003 17:26 (twenty-three years ago)

You don't think East New York is cooler than Williamsburg?

― hstencil, Friday, 9 May 2003 17:28 (twenty-three years ago)

I do, I do, but aren't Sheepshead Bay, Jamaica, and the Navy Yard all cooler than East New York? (Damn, let me check that handbook again...)

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Friday, 9 May 2003 17:34 (twenty-three years ago)

fuck man, I don't know, I'm from Kentucky.

― hstencil, Friday, 9 May 2003 17:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Gravezend ownz u all

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 9 May 2003 17:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Now that's cool. Alas, I'm from Connecticut.

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Friday, 9 May 2003 17:38 (twenty-three years ago)

I meant Kentucky.

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Friday, 9 May 2003 17:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Not Gravesend.

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Friday, 9 May 2003 17:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Slaughter you may be my Saturday night doppelganger. I'll be at Oneida. Sorry I missed your tshirt at NNCK.

And I was all set and ready to defend Connecticut but then I realized that my town only makes it into the national news for incredibly horrible domestic abuse or when kids alight themselves on fire due to Jackass imitations.

― Becky (Rebecca), Friday, 9 May 2003 20:24 (twenty-three years ago)

becky did you go? twas swell! friday we found monkey town and saw videos on four screens. its in a loft where you lie back on futons with this incredible sound system. the sound track we heard was matt maneri and somebody from NNCK.

tonic friday is nels cline and damo suzuki!!

― s-laughter, Wednesday, 14 May 2003 14:53 (twenty-three years ago)

hey, here's some bands to go see in NYC:

tonight:

Pianos proudly presents this
Eventful evening of electronics both smart and sleazy
An evening of insane electronics and mad DJs starring
COBRA KILLER (DJ set -- Berlin, Germany -- Kontakt/Digital Hardcore)
Hard ass beats and skidmarks from NEON.KOBRA
Erratic blips and bass from Record Camp DJs SHE.RA and CUT FASTER
Special live appearances by TIMEBLIND and PROXY

9pm, $5
158 Ludlow St.

tomorrow 5/15 @ Pianos:

Baby (feat. Craig Wedren of Shudder To Think)
Stiffed (from Philadelphia)
8pm, $7

friday 5/16:

SHOCKER presents

Dan Melchior's Broke Revue
A Frames (Seattle)
FM Knives (Sacramento)
This Moment In Black History (Cleveland)

plus a lot of DJs
at Pianos, 9pm, $8

and Saturday 5/17

The Hold Steady (ex-Lifter Puller)
A Frames
This Moment In Black History

at Mighty Robot, 401 Wythe (S. Williamsburg), 10pm, $7

― mosurock (mosurock), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 15:31 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm gonna be at Friday's show for FM Knives. I'd love to see Craig play tomorrow too...

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 15:41 (twenty-three years ago)

you should come

― mosurock (mosurock), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 18:01 (twenty-three years ago)

three weeks pass...

okay who went to see PAULINE OLIVEROS at tonic and how did I miss it??? does she play in new york often, live here maybe?

― mike s, Friday, 6 June 2003 17:19 (twenty-two years ago)

BE SURE TO CHECK OUT subarachnoid space TONIGHT AT NORTHSIX LAST NY SHOW OF TOUR DOWNSTAIRS BE THERE!!

― subspacefan, Saturday, 7 June 2003 16:20 (twenty-two years ago)

OKAY I HEAR YOU!

um, so theres an acid mothers temple thing at tonic on friday the 13th of june.

can anyone say location of club called "remote" listed on drag city website as location of suntanama release party tomorrow night, thursday june 12. i think i hate suntanama based on that hokey sounding (to my ears) self titled album. anyone seem em live, or have listening strategies for the not-yet-convinced?

― s-laughter, Wednesday, 11 June 2003 17:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Remote is on the Bowery, it is the club with a bunch of TV screens facing the street. Can't really comment on Suntanama but I think hokey is kinda what they're going for.
Has anyone else here seen the Occasion? They're the best new band I've heard this year and have been playing more frequently recently.

― ano ano (ano ano), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 18:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd like that first Suntanama album better if the vocals weren't mixed so high (I don't mind them, they're just too loud). The rest of the playing is fucking awesome. Fuck new wave revivalism, hippie revivalism rules!

― hstencil, Wednesday, 11 June 2003 19:10 (twenty-two years ago)

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