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1MM: Nachtmystium @ Nokia Theatre, 9.18.08
Photos by Andrew Parks We get it now. And by it, we mean the appeal of defiantly progressive black-metal acts like Nachtmystium. While their records sound like a hazy descent into Blake Judd’s own personal hell (self-titled likes to listen to Instinct: Decay when we’re closing an issue and in kill everyone mode), the Chicago […]
7 Things I Had Forgotten …
… and Remembered While Watching Bloc Party at Roseland Ballroom [Photos by Andrew Parks] By Aaron Richter 1. That Silent Alarm is as fantastic today as it was when it first blew my mind in 2005. (Tonight the band nailed classics such as “Price of Gas” and “Banquet,” although “Like Eating Glass” felt clunky and […]
1MM: Witchcraft @ Bowery Ballroom, 9.17.08
Photos by Andrew Parks As you might imagine by their name alone, Witchcraft is a bunch of Black Sabbath-worshiping Swedes. Judging by the truly old-school biker punk/metal types at Bowery Ballroom on Wednesday, the word’s apparently gotten out, too, giving 30-to-40-year-olds a reason to believe in slightly-psychedelic sludge once again. Photos after the jump …
PLEASANT SURPRISE OF THE WEEK: TK Webb & the Visions @ Bowery Ballroom, 9.17.08
Photos by Andrew Parks A guitarist that looks like a top hat-less Slash and shreds like a rail-jumping “Crazy Train” is the last thing we expected to see when stumbling into the middle of TK Webb‘s Visions-backed set at Bowery Ballroom on Wednesday. But there he was, standing in front of an Orange amp that […]
SUBTERRANEAN’S CHOICE: Stereolab, “Neon Beanbag”
Wondering when MTV’s gonna play music videos again? They certainly do on Subterranean, today’s answer to 120 Minutes. Presenting the show’s clip of the week, an s/t exclusive : MTV Music Videos MTV Shows Celebrity News Gosh, how long has it been since Stereolab made their last video? It’s kind of amazing because the video […]
S/T Survived … The Front Row of a ‘Christmas on Mars’ Screening
Wayne Coyne as ‘The Martian’ [Photos courtesy of Warner Bros. Records/Cinema Purgatorio] By Andrew Parks To answer your immediate assumptions, yes the acting’s atrocious and the dialogue is pure B-movie drivel. With a couple exceptions, of course–namely the uncomfortably numb delivery of Steven Drozd, the Flaming Lips multi-instrumentalist who also happens to star in Wayne […]
THE S/T SCOOP: Matthew Dear Discusses Get Physical Mix, Minitek and the ‘Music For Airports’-ish Album That’s Up Next
[Photos by Will Calcutt] By Andrew Parks Matthew Dear is what most people would call a true professional. Aside from being able to balance three distinct aliases like a purposeful schizophrenic (the dank, psychedelic peak-hour anthems of Audion, the manic minimal techno of False, and the avant-pop approach of namesake albums like 2007’s justifiably-acclaimed Asa […]
Oasis Cancel ‘Intimate’ New York City Show
Thanks to this 47-year-old Canadian ‘fan’, Oasis won’t be making all of our “Champagne Supernova” dreams come true tomorrow night at Terminal 5. As he recently wrote on the band’s Web site, Noel Gallagher still feels like “I’ve had a sparring session with Ricky Hatton … can’t say much more than that the ‘perpetrator’ [is] […]