Category: Microwave Only

MICROWAVE ONLY (UPDATED): So This Is What Passes As Hardcore Punk These Days, Isn’t It?

Photos by Turkishomework

Each week we send Turkishomework out to capture a sliver of our city’s blurred-vision nightlife. She had a hell of a time at Terminal 5 on Saturday night, too. And by that, we mean Crystal Castles’ repeated refusal to let accredited photographers near the stage whenever, and wherever, they play. (Here’s another example: a temper tantrum that happened right in the front of Icelandic fans who didn’t know any better. In this case, Crystal Castles played an abbreviated set that ended in Alice Glass throwing a drum kit at the crowd—a move that would have gotten her in hot water, had it happened in North America. And in the case of last night, Turkishomework literally climbed a pole to snap the following shots.)

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MICROWAVE ONLY: To Play Dodgeball Or To Not Play Dodgeball? That Is the Question.

Photos by Turkishomework

Each week we send Turkishomework out to capture a sliver of our city’s blurred-vision nightlife. Or a bit of sunshine, as you’re about to see in this Cut Copy-led Pool Party set…

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MICROWAVE ONLY: Two Nights In Brooklyn, With Blessure Grave, Beach Fossils, Frankie Rose & the Outs, Wild Nothing and More

Photos by Turkishomework

Just when we thought we’d never hear from her again—she has this way of disappearing without a trace, you see—Turkishomework filed two sets of photos from the past couple weeks. One is from our latest installment of OSCILLATIONS, featuring Blessure Grave, Led Er Est, Passions, and DJ Veronica Vasicka of Minimal Wave Records; and the other is from a low-key Brooklyn bill with Beach Fossils, Frankie Rose and the Outs and Wild Nothing. Feel the pain of everyone…

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MICROWAVE ONLY: Wondering What Death By Audio Has To Do With a Bunch of Jim Henson Rejects and John Lithgow’s Son

Photos by Turkishomework

Each week we send Turkishomework out to capture a sliver of our city’s blurred-vision nightlife. Sometimes that means seeing a simple show, and sometimes that means catching John Lithgow’s son (bassist Nate Lithgow of local buzz band ArpLine) and a pack of mask-toting crazy kids (the Nuclear Power Pants collective) in Brooklyn. 

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MICROWAVE ONLY: Busting TVs and Eardrums With Oneida, Sightings and The Library Is On Fire

Photos by Turkishomework

Each week we send Turkishomework out to capture a sliver of our city’s blurred-vision nightlife. This past Friday, she caught a show we would have loved to see at South By Southwest: Oneida, Sightings and Brooklyn’s latest bid at recreating the power-pop bliss of Guided By Voices, The Library Is On Fire.

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MICROWAVE ONLY: Things Are About To Get Dark, Aren’t They?

Photos by Turkishomework

Each week we send Turkishomework out to capture a sliver of our city’s blurred-vision nightlife. She nearly lost herself last Friday, though, as two hometown coldwave heroes—Xeno & Oaklander and Led Er Est—served up heat-seeking synth lines and moonlit melodies at Cameo Gallery in Brooklyn. We’ll have an exclusive Needle Exchange mix from their Wierd Records label boss later this month…

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MICROWAVE ONLY: Here’s What Survived Surfer Blood’s Market Hotel Show With Grooms, Turbo Fruits, Beach Fossils and the Morning Benders

Photos by Turkishomework

Each week we send Turkishomework out to capture a sliver of our city’s blurred-vision nightlife. And boy was it blurry on Saturday night, as Surfer Blood topped a beyond-packed Market Hotel bill that also featured Turbo Fruits, Beach Fossils, Grooms and the Morning Benders. Or as Turkishomework wrote on her Twitter at one point, “Should I take pics of this mob of 15 year olds or a band I can’t even see decisions decisions.”

Indeed.

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MICROWAVE ONLY: Do the Tootsie Roll With Uffie, SebastiAn, Busy P, Justice & the Whole Ed Banger Crew, Plus Bonus Shots of Harlem…In Brooklyn!

Photos by Turkishomework

Each week we send Turkishomework out to capture a sliver of our city’s blurred-vision nightlife. A serious case of cabin fever led her to two shows this past Friday: Harlem’s support slot set for Frankie & the Outs at the Monster Island Basement in Brooklyn, and Ed Banger’s 7th Anniversary after-party at Webster Hall, featuring Feadz, Uffie, Busy P, SebastiAn, SO-ME and the guy from Justice who seems to actually know what he’s doing behind the decks.

Man, we get exhausted just looking at all these photos. Way to pull a late one, TH!

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MICROWAVE ONLY: What It’s Like At Shea Stadium, The Williamsburg Version, With Sisters, Golden Girls, Total Slacker & Weekends

Photos by Turkishomework

Each week we send Turkishomework out to capture a sliver of our city’s blurred-vision nightlife. Now that she’s back from an extended holiday break, here are some we-wish-we-were-there shots from a Shea Stadium show featuring four bands we’d barely heard of before today: Total Slacker, Golden Girls, Weekends and the Death By Audio-related duo Sisters.

Kids, this is what happens when you slam 40s…

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MICROWAVE ONLY: Putting the Chill Back In ‘Chillwave’ With Neon Indian, Toro Y Moi, MNDR and Electric Tickle Machine

Photos by Turkishomework

Each week we send Turkishomework out to capture a sliver of our city’s blurred-vision nightlife. This time around, we had her trail Neon Indian and Toro Y Moi before their Mercury Lounge show with Electric Tickle Machine and MNDR, both of which have absolutely nothing to do with ‘chillwave’, ‘glo-fi’ or any other self-perpetuating P-Fork scene. This is a good thing.

We’ll have an extensive interview with Toro Y Moi—one of 2010’s more promising new artists—soon.

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