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. [...]
Author Archives: Lane Koivu
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, [...]
