Victoria Legrand scares the hell out of me. “Walk in the Park” may be one of the most beautifully crafted pop songs of our generation, yet seeing her croon lyrics like “In a matter of time, it will slip from my mind, in and out of my life, you would slip from my mind” while [...]
Author Archives: Lane Koivu
This Is Happening: LCD Soundsystem
April 12, 2010 – 8:36 am
James Murphy didn’t waste much time in laying out the thesis that has come to define LCD Soundsystem. “Losing My Edge”, the band’s 2002 debut single, tactfully explores the theme LCD have spent the better part of the last decade pondering, namely, the fear of becoming inconsequential. “I’m losing my edge to all the art-school [...]
Glenn Branca @ Le Poisson Rouge Saturday (Preview)
February 27, 2010 – 12:27 pm
Glenn Branca and his new ensemble will perform Ascension: The Sequel tomorrow (Saturday February 27th) at Le Poisson Rouge in Greenwich Village. Branca, the avant-garde king of the late 70’s/early 80’s No Wave movement, has a reputation for indulgence that nearly proceeds the primal, hypnotic and terrifying tsunami of drone that’s since become his signature. [...]
Atlas Sound, Neon Indian at A&L Auditorium 02.04.10
February 10, 2010 – 10:48 am
Bradford Cox of Atlas Sound
Last Thursday’s performance at NYU’s E & L Auditorium was the first for Neon Indian since relocating to Brooklyn from Austin, Texas, and while the band played an exceptionally tight set, their particular brand of psychedelic electro-pop come off as flat, generic, and, tasteless. To the unfamiliar these songs don’t carry [...]
Handsome Furs at Maxwell’s 01.20.10
January 25, 2010 – 1:28 pm
If Dan Boeckner and Alexi Perry have any shame about indulging in just about every cliché from the rock and roll handbook, they sure do a nice job of hiding it. As Handsome Furs, the married duo essentially lives out every angst-ridden teenagers’ dream. That is, to start a band, run away from home with [...]
Antibalas @ The Knitting Factory 12.17.09
December 20, 2009 – 9:45 am
Perhaps the most intriguing aspect of the Antibalas show last Thursday at the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn was catching a post-pubescent Haley Joel Osment in the crowd, wearing a duck-billed fisherman’s hat and dancing awkwardly with a bottle of Coors in his hand, struggling to keep his date from passing out completely. It’s hard to [...]
Review: The Kindness Kind at Spike Hill in Brooklyn
October 30, 2009 – 12:50 pm
The Kindness Kind played a brief, captivating set last Saturday at the pocket-sized Spike Hill in Williamsburg, as part of the week long CMJ Festival going on in venues and galleries throughout New York City.
The band, who has already built themselves a substantial reputation throughout their native Seattle area, drew heavily on material from their [...]
No Age @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
October 16, 2009 – 2:13 pm
No Age have come to represent a certain lo-fi, DIY aesthetic that draws a lot of parallels with the Sonic Youth-led art-punk community of the 1980’s. Like that band, No Age are more punk in spirit than sound – behind that wall of fuzz and feedback are solid power-pop tunes a la The Thermals or, [...]
