S/T Survived … Of Montreal’s Orgiastic Blend of Bowie-isms, Campy Costume Changes and Near Nudity
Posted on December 17, 2008
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Photos/Text by Andrew Parks
“I have the biggest hard-on right now.”
To be clear, the straightest of males said that at the Music Hall of Williamsburg last night, having been gleefully exposed to Of Montreal’s endless evening of pansexual theatrics and pitch-perfect indie pop. Hell, we were all left feeling a little flushed after two and a half twitchy hours, more than 25 Technicolor songs and enough costume changes to rival a Madonna concert. As self-titled said on our Twitter halfway through all the madness, “this Of Montreal gig is the gayest show we’ve ever seen. In a good way and both senses of the word.”
S/T Survived … The Clusterfuck That Is Justice’s VIP Area
Posted on October 31, 2008
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Um, isn’t it a school night?
Text/Photos by Andrew Parks
While it’s easy to accuse Justice of pandering to the lowest common lunkhead denominator (another bro-down set of serrated synth lines, climaxing in “We Are Your Friends” and “D.A.N.C.E.”? really?), such joyless cynicism—something we’ve been guilty of in the past, admittedly—completely misses the point.
S/T Survived … My Bloody Valentine Without Earplugs, While on Ecstasy
Posted on September 23, 2008
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[Photos by Aaron Richter]
By Andrew Parks
Our ears aren’t ringing right now; not even a little bit. In fact, they’re still about as intact as they were before we stepped into the maelstrom that was Tuesday’s My Bloody Valentine concert at Roseland Ballroom.
The reason? Quite simple, really: the self-titled staff wanted to hear MBV as it’s meant to be heard. Unfiltered. Uncompromising. And unabashedly LOUD. So we decided to stand dead center and towards the back, where the band’s wave of distortion would wash over us rather than clobber our very being. This allowed s/t to leave Roseland’s complimentary earplugs out for most of the set, right up until the 20 patience-testing minutes of “You Made Me Realize.”
S/T Survived … The Front Row of a ‘Christmas on Mars’ Screening
Posted on September 14, 2008
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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 Coyne’s long-delayed film debut. (Adam Goldberg is also brilliant as a wry ‘physiciatrist’. Mr. Goldberg, you are now forgiven for The Hebrew Hammer.)
Yes, you read the preceding paragraph correctly: Christmas On Mars has finally sparked a string of limited release engagements, several months after screenings at Sasquatch! and Oklahoma’s deadCENTER Film Festival. While Christmas On Mars was originally promised in time for December 25, 2003, it’s just now receiving a special run at the 99-seat Kraine Theatre in New York’s East Village. And, well, self-titled couldn’t have been happier to catch a Saturday matinee featuring the Lips’ custom-fit “Zeta Bootis Mega Supersonic Super-Sound Surround System”.
