S/T Survived … Two Hours of Watching Animal Collective Stand Still At Their Creepy Guggenheim Performance With Danny Perez
Posted on March 5, 2010
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[Photos by Jen Maler]
By Andrew Parks
“Who are these guys?”
“They’re called Animal Collective.”
“They a rock band or something?”
“Kinda.” Read more
S/T Survived … Smoke Machines, Laser Claws, A Howling Hungarian, and 90 Minutes of Relentless Riffage At Sunn O)))’s Masonic Temple Show
Posted on September 24, 2009
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Words and Photos by Andrew Parks
“Marco!”
“Polo!”
And there you have it. It took Sunn O))) 15 minutes, tops, to lose their stranglehold on a crowd of curious masochists, here at Brooklyn’s Masonic Temple to soak up pea-soupy patches of fog and feedback that feels like a fireball to the face. Or at the very least, a bass-heavy full body massage. Read more
S/T Survived … The Front and Center Position At Pig Destroyer, Where We Dodged Elbows and Dropkicks For Three Hours
Posted on August 2, 2009
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Words and Photos by Andrew Parks
You know what grindcore is? Funny. And we mean that in the nicest way possible. An explanation, via Friday night’s Blackened Music bill at Brooklyn’s Masonic Temple… Read more
S/T Survived … The ‘Red Carpet’ & Raucous Photo Pit At Diesel’s Clusterfuck of a Free Concert, F/ Kanye West, Lykke Li, Passion Pit and More
Posted on July 31, 2009
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Cobra Starship get all hot and bothered, leave us all cold and bored.
Words and Photos by Sean Edgar
So self-titled really isn’t sure what kind of publicity Diesel is trying to attract with their increasingly ape-shit free shows. Starting off last fall as a full international tour—including a carnival-esque stop at the Brooklyn Waterfront—its first iteration sported a very pregnant M.I.A., Hot Chip, Franz Ferdinand and a host of PR-baiting hyperbole, hell-bent on occupying every single indie blogger for a solid five hours. Last night, Webster Hall witnessed the company’s latest concert, the Diesel:U:Music tour with a lineup that included Passion Pit, Cobra Starship and The Roots. The weird thing about these promotional orgies is that a name brand designer is actually trying to build street cred among the unwashed hipster masses. Either Salvation Army’s going to have to step up its game or Mugatu knew what was what. Read more
S/T Survived … Rabid Black Lips Fans Collapsing the Pit Barricade, Driving Unprepared Williamsburg Waterfront Security Insane
Posted on July 26, 2009
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Words and Photos by Aaron Richter
First things first, Black Lips—known and notorious for their outrageous onstage antics (spitting, peeing, penis waggling and the like)—were pretty much on their best behavior. Maybe a bit docile, removed, sleepy, out of it and, well, not very good at all, musically speaking. But the Atlanta group’s Sunday set at the Williamsburg Waterfront for the JellyNYC Pool Parties still might be one of the finest we’ve seen from the group—and it doesn’t even matter that they were rather shit at doing what they were onstage to do: play their songs adequately well and act like idiots.
Rather, it was the crowd that absolutely stole the show. Read more
S/T SURVIVED … An Entire Fiery Furnaces Set, Their ‘In the Round’ Performance At Le Poisson Rouge To Be Exact
Posted on June 12, 2009
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[Photos/Text by Andrew Parks]
You know, we’ve always loved the idea—a brother/sister combo with an incredible amount of creativity and a consistent fuck-all philosophy—of the Fiery Furnaces. The music? In most cases, not so much.
So what was it about last night that made us suddenly care about their songs as opposed to simply their ideas? Read more
S/T SURVIVED… Colt 45 Beer-Shits and the Supreme Mediocrity of the (Not So) Phenomenal Handclap Bland
Posted on May 13, 2009
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In all seriousness…Brooklyn’s Wizardry.
Words and Photos by Aaron Richter
Irony aside, Colt 45 is nasty business. It neither goes down smooth, nor stays down without incident. Yet who are we to turn down free booze? Even if its stomach-bubbling grossness conjures memories of college-dorm Edward Fortyhands competitions (tip: wear sweatpants). Tuesday evening at Park Slope’s Southpaw, Colt 45 debuted its new 7 oz. quick shooters (think piss in an Orangina bottle) with performances by Wizardry, Golden Triangle and the Phenomenal Handclap Band. What’s the point, you might be asking yourself, of such small malt liquor doses? Keep in mind, that’s six (!) bottles to equal the retardedness of just one 40. Small might be fun and cute and all that jazz, but isn’t the point to get righteously fucked? Which is exactly what self-titled felt required to do, despite our better judgement.
As far as the bands, Brooklyn’s Wizardry is a costumed metal act that performs with a trapeze artist. self-titled’s better half called the group a “metal version of Scissor Sisters,” which is more accurate than anything we could come up with ourselves. We found ourselves annoyed but thoroughly entertained. Golden Triangle slings swift and noisy shake-’em-on-down garage rock peppered with B-52s vocals (the evening’s finest treat), and the Phenomenal Handclap Band waters down everything you love about dance music into a lifeless, overly calculated, expectation-tarnishing disappointment. Or maybe it was just the bottled swill that had us fleeing for the bathroom, dampening the headliner’s set. Who knows? Check out photos after the jump.
S/T Survived … Helping Kate Moss’ Boy Toy Clock a Kills Fan—A Fan He Then Tossed Back At Us
Posted on May 5, 2009
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[Photos by Aaron Richter]
By Andrew Parks
As much as the entire self-titled staff enjoyed The Kills‘ headlining Music Hall of Williamsburg set last night—ever-present backing track, and all—half of us left at the start of the encore. The idea being a quick escape, before the band’s down & dirty night anthems (”Sour Cherry,” “Getting Down,” “Hook and Line”) drove us to endless rounds of chilled whiskey.
What we didn’t expect was the following slightly disturbing text message from s/t’s associate editor… Read more
S/T Survived … The Cranked Marshall Stacks and Surgeon General Warnings At Mogwai’s Second Music Hall of Williamsburg Show
Posted on April 29, 2009
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Dominic Aitchison of Mogwai bows down before the one he serves.
[Photos/Text by Andrew Parks; slideshow available here]
“Can you turn it up? I’m not deaf yet!”
Funny you should say that, sir, because our ears aren’t ringing yet, either. In fact, we’re able to actually formulate concrete thoughts in the midst of Mogwai’s second night at the Music Hall of Williamsburg. For the moment, at least, as the godfathers of mostly-instrumental madness explore another exercise in peaks and valleys, raw power and restraint. Read more
S/T SURVIVED … Two Throbbing Gristle Sets at Brooklyn’s Rather Cultish Masonic Temple
Posted on April 17, 2009
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[Photos/Text by Andrew Parks; slideshow available here]
“Is this one of those things,” wrote Cameron Cook in self-titled’s Twitter feed, “where everyone faints and pukes and stuff because it’s like, too intense?”
God, we hope not. Disjointed waves of dark-ambient deviance are fine and all, but fainting before the end of Throbbing Gristle’s first set at Brooklyn’s Masonic Temple—their first NYC-area show since forming in 1975? That’s just wrong; albeit totally understandable, as the band’s live soundtrack to Derek Jarman’s hour-long In the Shadow of the Sun film pushed our limits harder than My Bloody Valentine’s slabs of shoegaze did last year. Both visually (Jarman’s abstract Super-8 shots looked like his interpretation of the term “apocalypse now”) and sonically (picture a sparring session between the gnarled noise of Wolf Eyes and the subterranean techno of Basic Channel), especially a point near the end that made our head cold feel like the exploding dome scene in Scanners. Read more
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