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MICROWAVE ONLY: Backstage At Santos Party House With Wavves, Ganglians and Zach Hill
Photos by Turkishomework Each week we send Turkishomework out to capture a sliver of our city’s blurred-vision nightlife. Little did we know that last week’s Wavves show would be a precursor to the B-list beef of the year. No fights here, though; just good vibes in the dimly-lit corners of Santos Party House…
PEEP SHOW: Watch Gonzales and Andrew W.K. Trade Chord Progressions At a Piano Battle In Joe’s Pub
By Andrew Parks While he’s “worshiped in France,” Gonzales–a.k.a. the former “President of the Berlin Underground”–is a pianist/producer/prankster MC who’s best known for his work with other artists. “Ever hear of Feist?” Gonzales asked a packed Joe’s Pub crowd on Friday night. “I made her.” He’s kidding, of course. Well, kinda. It only takes a […]
I WAS THERE: ‘That Moody Guy From Interpol’ Delivers a Decent Guggenheim Set, Makes Us Reach For His Julian Plenti Record
Get the flash player here: http://www.adobe.com/flashplayer Words and Photos by Andrew Parks It all started with animals copulating on an album cover–the front of Interpol’s third full-length, if you must know. Ever since then, it’s as if the band’s divergent ideas and apparent love/hate relationship (see also: The Strokes, who announced rehearsals for a ‘new […]
PEEP SHOW: Gonzales Backs Jamie Lidell on a Piano-Driven Version of “What Is It This Time?” At Joe’s Pub
As much as we despise the table service setup at Joe’s Pub (either you buy a drink minimum for the privilege of sitting down, or you dodge waitresses and drunks while standing all night), self-titled was psyched to see Gonzales play his first New York City gig in nearly nine years last night. We’ll get […]
TEST PRESSING: Hudson Mohawke Leaks Half of Rare Ooops! EP, With Edits of Tweet and Ashanti
When Warp celebrated its 20th birthday earlier this month, they introduced a beatmaker in-the-know Brits have buzzed about for the past year: Hudson Mohawke, the UK’s youngest DMC finalist and a rising underground star based on a string of limited 12-inch singles and bootlegs. The most popular of which was the ultra-rare Ooops! EP, a […]
S/T Survived … Smoke Machines, Laser Claws, A Howling Hungarian, and 90 Minutes of Relentless Riffage At Sunn O)))’s Masonic Temple Show
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 […]
WHEN THE FOG CLEARS: Watch Three Shadowy Clips of Sunn O)))’s Brooklyn Masonic Temple Show
Some people celebrate Shark Week; us, we’re in the midst of a Sunn O))) celebration tied to their Brooklyn Masonic Temple show on Tuesday night. We’ll file a full report from the foggy frontlines in a little bit. For now, we’ve got three dimly-lit videos featuring the black mass breakdowns of Mayhem frontman Attila Csihar. […]
PEEP SHOW: Watch Earth Play a New Song At Brooklyn Masonic Temple
About 15 minutes into Sunn O)))‘s set at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple last night, our art director decided he’d had enough. “Gonna head out,” he wrote in a text message. “I likes Earth best.” Or as Aaron explained a little more clearly this afternoon, “Earth sounded like the honest, painful music of someone who’s had […]