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Wednesday, April 2, 2008

All Aboard The Magic School Pus

Last night was the sextuple billed noise(and Dan Deacon)show at the Hotel du Market. Health, Aa, Black Pus, Knyfe Hyts, and Crime Novels were all there. And also Bradford Cox from Deerhunter/Altas Sound, but as a spectator rather than a performer. I missed Knyfe Hyts and Crime Novels b/c I was helping DJ Frenchkiss put together a playlist for her Sweet Ups gig on Saturday. Aa was on when I got there, and thought I had missed Brian Chippendale's set b/c the order wasn't the same as what they had posted on the site. But I asked one of the doormans and he told me that BP was going on next.

I tried to get up close to watch him drum, but that was easier said than done since he was playing on the floor and you had to fight through walls of noise and hipsters to get a glimpse. But eventually I did and got a few decent shots, to the detriment of my (and everybody else's) eardrums. Health and Dan Deacon were on after him and DD played a bunch of new songs. Then he formed the crowd into a giant circle and told them all that they had the plague and had one person run around in circles slapping peoples hands and 'curing' them and getting more people to join in the circle while everybody ran around as fast as they could. I have a short video of the beginnings of this, before it descended into darkness and gleeful chaos.

1-12. Brian Chippendale
13-15. Dan Deacon crowd
16. Showticket

Sunday, March 30, 2008

Revolution Baby

Japanther show at the Harket Motel last night. Didn't get there til like 1045 so I think I missed Bongladesh. The NZ band Bachelorette was on when I got there. I hadnt eaten anything so I went to the Popeyes down the skreet, and missed all but the last Pterodactyl song because of it. Which was unfortunate, b/c The Pharmacy from Seattle were on after them and they were kind of irritating. So I left again and went to get a quart of some fine Messican Carte Blanca beea for $2 fitty. But before I left I talked to Ian from Japanther and made sure that they were playing last, and they were. So I got back from my beer run and this happened:

1-15. Japanther
16-18. Jump Around

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Alice Practice

I went to the HEALTH/Crystal Castles show at Studio B in Greenpoint yesterday. I met up w/ B and got there a few minutes before Health started. I really like their song Heaven, and I'm glad they played it, but they probably would be better suited playing in a smaller club that wasn't like the Hipster Bellbottoms of Brooklyn. Luckily they are playing at the Market Hotel on the 1st w/ Aa and an especial guest.

That was the first show ive been to in awhile thats been in a giant club like that. Crystal Castles was perfect in that setting though. They took awhile to come out but when they did it looked like something straight out of a scene in the L Word, i.e. a club full of people going nuts for the atari-electro jams. We didn't stay for the whole thing, but they were good live. It kind of sounded like the Juan Maclean, which was very nice. And I got a good graffiti shot on the way back to Bedford.

1-6. Crystal Castles
7. Banker St. Graffiti

Sunday, March 23, 2008

Sheets of Easter

So after the Pillow Fight For Tibet (PFFT) i went to Todd P's SXSW Homecoming show at the Market Hotel in Booshwick. Bands were coming in from SF, Baltimore, Ontario, and.. Brooklyn. Citay was the SF band, who have one of the members from The Fucking Champs, and lots of nice layered acoustic and electric guitar sounds.

These Are Powers were next and came to do their patented brand of GhostPunk, which sounded most escellent in the giant triangle loft setting. Old Time Relijun, who I really like now, were after them and im going to see if their albums are as good as their live shows. Oneida closed out the night with maybe one of the best sets ever, and the show went until 3 am. They didn't play Sheets of Easter but they did play lots of other choice krautrocky goodness.

1-6. These Are Powers
7-15. Oneida

Other Music

!!!, abe vigoda, aesop rock, aids wolf, air, animal collective, antibalas, the arcade fire, architecture in helsinki, arctic monkeys, at the drive-in, bad brains, band of horses, bat for lashes, battles, be your own pet, beastie boys, the beatles, beck, beirut, belle & sebastian, beulah, big a little a, black dice, bikini kill, black mountain, blink 182, bloc party, blonde redhead, the blood brothers, the blow, blur, boards of canada, bonde de rolê, the books, boredoms, boris, braid, brand new, brazilian girls, the breeders, the brian jonestown massacre, broken social scene, british sea power, built to spill, cake, califone, calla, can, caribou, cat power, celebration, charlottefield, the chemical brothers, chicks on speed, chin up 2x, chromeo, cinemechanica, clap your hands say yeah, the clash, the clientele, clipd beaks, clor, coldplay, constantines, cornelius, css, the cure, daft punk, dan deacon, dance disaster movement, dandy warhols, de la soul, the dears, death cab, dfa 1979, deerhoof, deerhunter, deftones, deltron 3030, denali, destroyer, detachment kit, the dirty projectors, do make say think, the doors, doves, dragons of zynth, dungen, echo & the bunnymen, elbow, elefant, elliot smith, erase errata, escort, everclear, ex-models, explosions in the sky, the faint, the field, the fiery furnaces, figurines, the fitness, the flaming lips, flight of the conchords, fly pan am, fm bats, foo fighters, four tet, franz ferdinand, the french kicks, fuck buttons, fugazi, fujiya & miyagi, the futureheads, gang of four, gang gang dance, the get up kids, girl talk, glassjaw, the go! team, good shoes, gorillaz grizzly bear, group x, head automatica, HEALTH, the helio sequence, hella, holy fuck, hot chip, hum, i love you but i've chosen darkness, iggy pop & the stooges, incubus, interpol, iron & wine, islands, jaguar love, jamiroquai, jane's addiction, japanther, jens lekman, jimi hendrix, joanna newsom, the joggers, jonny greenwood, joy division, the juan maclean, junior boys, jurassic 5, justice, kid 606, kill me tomorrow, king khan & the shrines, king of convenience, kings of leon, kinski, klaxons, the knife, ladytron, lake of dracula, lali puna, land of talk, lcd soundsystem, le shok, le tigre, led zeppelin, les savy fav, liars, the libertines, lightning bolt, local h, the locust, love of diagrams, mia, madvillain, magik markers, man man, manitoba, marnie stern, the mars volta, maserati, matt & kim, mclusky, measles mumps rubella, melt banana, menomena, metric, minus the bear, mirah, mission of burma, modest mouse, modeskeletor, mogwai, moving units, muscles, ms. john soda, muse, my bloody valentine, mylo, nada surf, neon blonde, nervous cop, neutral milk hotel, new young pony club, nine inch nails, nirvana, no ag, nomo, the notwist, nouvelle vague, numbers, the octopus project, of montreal, okkervil river, oneida, ooioo, out hud, oxford collapse, panda bear, part chip, parts & labor, pattern is movement, pavement, phantom planet, pinback, pit er pat, the pixies, a place to bury strangers, the plastic constellations, plot to blow up the eiffel tower, porno for pyros, portishead, the postal service, pre, pretty girls make graves, professor murder, pterodactyl, pylon, q and not u, queens of the stone age, radiohead, the rakes, the rapture, ratatat, read yellow, red hot chili peppers, the redneck manifesto, the rentals, rilo kiley, royal, ruins, saul williams, sage francis, saves the day, the sea and cake, sebastian, secret machines, the shins, the sex pistols, shocking pinks, shooting spires, sightings, silver jews, silversun pickups, simian mobile disco, smashing pumpkins, sleater-kinney, soft circle, sondre lerche, sonic youth, sons & daughters, soundgarden, sparta, spank rock, the spinto band, spoon, st. vincent, stephen malkamus, stereolab, the stills, stone temple pilots, the strokes, sufjan stevens, supergrass, sunset rubdown, supergrass, susu, supersystem, tapes 'n tapes, ted leo & the pharmacists, the teenagers, tera melos, the thermals, these are powers, these arems are snakes, thunderbirds are now!, times new viking, tokyo police club, turing machine, tussle, tv on the radio, the unicorns, the velvet underground, vhs or beta, videohippos, the violent femmes, the walkmen, we versus the shark, the white stripes, weezer, wilco, wilderness, wolf parade, wzt hearts, yacht, xbxrx, yeasayer, yeah yeah yeahs, yo la tengo.

Other Film

american hardcore, 28 weeks later, akira, a clockwork orange, amelie, basquiat, batman begins, the bourne ultimatum, city of god, children of men, the darjeeling limited, dig!, the dreamers, donnie darko, eternal sunshine, fargo, fear & loathing, fight club, goodbye lenin, harry potter, howl’s moving castle, igby goes down, i heart huckabees, just friends, kung fu hustle, lost in translation, margot at the wedding, monty python & the holy grail, napoleon dynamite, pan’s labyrinth, pirates of the caribbean, pulp fiction, ronin, rushmore, secretary, sex & lucia, sin city, shaun of the dead, slc! punk, spiderman, stranger than fiction, the big lebowski, the life aquatic, the royal tenenbaums, trainspotting, y tu mama tambien.

Other Television

arrested development, coupling, curb your enthusiasm, entourage, futurama, family guy, flight of the conchords, frisky dingo, harvey birdman, heroes, home movies, huff, it's always sunny in philadelphia, john from cincinnati, metalocalypse, project runway, sealab 2021, the simpsons, stroker & hoop, the office, the L word, the venture brothers, top chef, dexter, weeds, californication, wildboyz, aqua teen, south park, the daily show, the colbert report, rob & big, buffy, scrubs, that 70s show, everyday italian.