(photo courtesy of packratticus)
It's summer in the city, finally -- and NYC is bursting at the seams with shows we're intent on catching over the next few weeks. We finally broke down and Craigslisted tickets to The National's sold out stint at the Bowery; we'll be at the Friday show. Also on the bill, the tomb-gloomy song stylings of ubersupergroup (producer Peter Katis, full-time dad and studio/label namesake Tarquin Katis, and label and multi-band project impresario Adam Pierce) The Philistines Jr. (Austinites in the house can catch Mr. Pierce in his Mice Parade guise a few days later at Emo's on Sunday June 3rd. Such a jetsetter!)
Also, next week packs the one-two punch of the Bellmer Dolls' free show at the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center (107 Suffolk Street) Monday the 4th; Piker Ryan, Dimi Dero Inc., and Preacher and the Knife are also scheduled to appear. And in what seems to be an unprescedented feat, we'll be at the "secret" Interpol show at Bowery (it's not even on the calendar at press time) on the 5th. According to our sources, it sold out in a few hours with roughly zero promotion. Welcome home, buckaroos!
[Also not to be missed: Lavender Diamond (June 3), The Clientele (June 8) and The Long Blondes (June 9), also at Bowery.]
Relatedly, all this unbridled man-howling (the ladies and more mellow choices mentioned above notwithstanding, of course), hot rhythm sections, and pwanging guitars have given us Television on the brain. That lead us to reread Lester Bangs' "free jazz punk rock" to get ready for our hot hot hot summer of nouveau blues. Get on board!
Television -- Marquee Moon.
Our secret fave Magazine's also popping up all over; the quintessentially bitter "Song From Under The Floorboards" has appeared over a handful of blogs lately, much to our delight; afternoons just aren't complete these days without a listen.
Labels: Bellmer Dolls, hot in the city all right, Interpol, lavender diamond, lester bangs, magazine, nouveau blues, television, the clientele, the long blondes, the philistines jr.
posted by cindy hotpoint at 2:28:00 PM
6 Comments:
September / October 2005 all over again. Where's Josh Homme when you need him? Or Trail of Dead?
Or Wayne, Aurelio and Pete! We need them too. And the cover of "Needle In the Camel's Eye."
That sure was some craziness. Not that I miss it at all, but ... good times, good times.
If by "no promotion" you mean: "posted on Brooklynvegan."
Haha. You know we don't read BV and prefer to pretend that the world only delivers secret info to us!
Seriously, though -- all the tickets pretty much got snapped up within what, 15 minutes of his post?
The conversation in that thread is hysterical, though.
The Sluts also posted it, but they thanked BV for the tip. Google is neat.
That Magazine video made my day - thanks!
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