1MM: If There Was Ever Any Doubt That Animal Collective’s Our Grateful Dead, The Following Fan Photos Just Proved Us All Wrong
Posted on March 5, 2010
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[Photos by Jen Maler]
By Andrew Parks
One of the most striking things about last night’s “Transverse Temporal Gyrus” performance had nothing to do with Danny Perez’s depths-of-hell visuals or Animal Collective’s patient, plodding performance piece. It was the fact that tons of college kids showed up to a major art museum with streaks of paint across their face, as if it was time to play Cowboys and Indians or something.
“A consensus of the mind drew us all together, you see,” explained Samson, a student from Columbia University. “We all just showed up here and said, ‘Okay, let’s begin.’” Read more
1MM: Three Drinks Past Drunk and Oscillations Stays Up All Night at Tribeca Grand With Memory Tapes, Tanlines, Minimal Wave and XXXchange
Posted on February 21, 2010
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Shitty photos of our free Oscillations party last night at Tribeca Grand? Oh, we’ve got plenty. New York turned out in force to catch Memory Tapes’ first headlining show as a live band. We couldn’t tell what surprised modest Tapes-guy Dayve Hawk more: that 1,000 people RSVP’d to see him, or that the crowd packed onto the floor and danced itself into a sweaty mess during the set of crisp, propulsive and impressively polished drummer-backed tracks from Seek Magic. Big thanks as well to Minimal Wave’s Veronica Vasicka, the Tanlines dudes (thank you for not making good on your promise to play an all-ska set), XXXchange, GrandLife and the Pop Manifesto. Click through for more pics.
1MM: Check Out Photos and Two Live Clips From Hot Chip’s ‘Secret’ MySpace Show
Posted on February 6, 2010
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[Photos/Video by Abbey Braden]
We’ll have a track-by-track commentary from Hot Chip’s new One Life Stand album next week. For now, here are some shots of their first New York show in forever, along with live videos of “Boy From School” and “One Pure Thought”…
1MM: Follow the Googly Eyes and Glowstick Trails At Melbourne’s Summadayze Festival, With 2 Many DJs, Riton, Sinden, James Murphy and More
Posted on January 18, 2010
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[Photos by Carlito]
We’re always thrilled to publish new photos from our friends over at Hobo Gestapo—backstage-and-beyond sets that actually capture the feeling of being at a festival, like Coachella, Parklife and Melbourne’s annual Summadayze gathering, which featured The Juan Maclean, Fake Blood, Special Disco Version, Sinden, Riton, 2 Many DJs and a bunch of rave-or-die dance dudes (Carl Cox say what?!) this year. Read more
1MM: Sonic Youth and Dinosaur Jr. Battle for Indie-Rock Supremacy, While Cold Cave Thrills (Even If No One Really Cares at All)
Posted on November 22, 2009
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Words and Photos by Aaron Richter
If there ever were a totally bunk opening slot in indie-rock history, prepping a crowd for the guitar onslaught of Dinosaur Jr. and Sonic Youth probably takes it. Even more so when your band performs New Ordery dance music behind three synthesizers—not a guitar in sight—as was the case Saturday night at Terminal 5 for relatively recent Matador signee Cold Cave. Crushed in a corner of the stage, the trio—heads bobbing in A Night at the Roxbury nods—pulsed through its moody tracks, which (a truly wretched track about a “brittle, little life” aside) were quite thrilling to hear pumped through the venue’s monster system and, performed live, took on a noisier, industrial edge.
Dinosaur Jr. plowed out its usual cochlea-obliterating routine, yet we can’t help but feel that Mascis, Barlow and Murph were much better as a reunited band before they started writing new songs. Oh well. Sonic Youth caught the slack and tugged hard. Although much of the set spanned The Eternal (which plays much better live than the Youth’s previous two efforts—Kim even has a new dance-around “Kool Thing” in “Sacred Trickster”), the group dipped into Daydream Nation, Sister and Evol, for a chilling turn through “Shadow of a Doubt.” One can only imagine they’ll be hitting Goo (absent Saturday night) during this week’s Music Hall of Williamsburg shows. Check out pics and Sonic Youth’s setlist after the jump.
1MM: Fucked Up Perform ‘The Chemistry of Common Life’ In Full, Bring Andrew W.K., Titus Andronicus and Vivian Girls Along For the Ride
Posted on November 6, 2009
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Words and Photos by Andrew Parks
As bat shit insane as most Fucked Up shows are, last night’s Brooklyn Masonic Temple gig was special on several levels. For one thing, The Chemistry of Common Life was vetted and validated from intro to out, proving that its progressive approach to hardcore is just as vicious and vital as the out-of-print 7-inches tucked away under your bed. That includes such ambient interludes as “Golden Seal” and “Looking For God,” bittersweet pills that provided much-needed breathers in between such blunt trauma tracks as “Magic Word” and the album’s towering title track.
So thank you, Fucked Up, for reminding us of why we attended nothing but hardcore shows in our teens. But more importantly, thanks for showing us there’s ways to grow old with this genre, ways to stay forever young and restless without looking or sounding like a complete cliché. (Hell, even Titus Andronicus frontman Patrick Stickles got caught up in the action, crowd-riding his way to the front several times, as seen in the above shots.) Read more
1MM: Yeasayer Unveil ‘Odd Blood’ At Guggenheim Gig Alongside Tanlines and a 3-D Light Show
Posted on November 3, 2009
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Photos by Jen Maler
If you follow our Twitter feed on a regular basis, then you probably noticed last week’s initial impressions of Yeasayer’s long-awaited second LP, Odd Blood, easily an early candidate for 2010’s Best New Music bin. Not to mention the most surprising avant-pop album we’ve heard in a while. Don’t believe us, though; believe the “It Came From Brooklyn” crowd at the Guggenheim on Friday night, who were treated to live versions—aided in part by a light show and complimentary 3-D glasses—of such ace new songs as “Madder Red,” “O.N.E.” and Yesayer’s freshly-pressed “Ambling Alp” single.
May the hyperbole begin. Read more
1MM: A Place to Bury Strangers Claim “Head” Casualties at Bowery Ballroom
Posted on November 1, 2009
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Words and Photos by Aaron Richter
When the three members of A Place to Bury Strangers go to work, it’s like watching a surgery: The appearance of gruesome brutality is a deft guise for choreography and precision. Bright wires snaked the stage this past Thursday at Bowery Ballroom—a major show for APTBS promoting their latest release, Exploding Head (Mute)—primed to thrust life through the band’s stringed appendages, the red wires connecting everything, the distortion-pumping veins to this amplified circulatory system. Read more
1MM: One Final Collection of CMJ Candids, Featuring White Denim, Lightspeed Champion, Midnight Juggernauts, The xx and The Temper Trap
Posted on October 31, 2009
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Photos by Jen Maler
For our complete coverage of CMJ, click here. Otherwise, here’s one last look… Read more
1MM: Mastodon Lose Us At Hello, But Hey, At Least Their Visuals Are Bad Ass
Posted on October 30, 2009
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Words and Photos by Andrew Parks
Let’s get one thing straight before we discuss whether or not Mastodon’s set was any good last night: Crack the Skye is a sick headphone record, a completely logical leap for a band that’s always treated their LPs like imaginary Peter Jackson productions. And while its bold but not bloated approach might work wonders in an arena context—where you can sit back and stare at all the guitar solos and Guy Maddin-esque visuals—it came off bloodless and boring at Hammerstein Ballroom on Thursday night. Especially when compared with such cutting Mastodon tracks as “Blood and Thunder,” “The Wolf is Loose” and “March of the Fire Ants”—songs Mastodon have begun to abandon completely.
To quote Skye’s opening track, “Now I’m lost in oblivion.” Love the video clips, though… Read more
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