Besides Dawn Landes at Mercury, and Stark performing with Tim Emmerick at Pianos (9:00) - we feel obliged by our dedication to good taste to tell you about two more amazing shows happening on Friday.
The first being the triumphant return of The Octagon to Brooklyn after dominating the country behind their new (and killer) record Warm Love and Cool Dreams Forever. This analog garage trio is hitting Bruar Falls to celebrate release of the aforementioned album on Serious Business Records. Order the vinyl HERE. Anyone who's ever heard a note of Pavement or Dinosaur Jr. would do well to be in the audience Friday, as The Octagon feature prominently in the future linage of these seminal, rock-guitar driven, indie legends.
The second band on tap are the quickly rising Ava Luna, who will be part of an amazing bill Friday which includes Marni Stern and The Suckers. Location: Under 100 (172 Duane St). It's not often that we refernce Spoon when talking about bands, let alone new bands. Yet there is something about the songs on Ava Luna's new EP Services (1/22 release) that recall the clatter and skeletal soulfulness of early Spoon records. With veiled dance rhythms and a male/female vocal attack, Ava Luna toss about wisps of pop melody, yet keep the songs expertly grounded in the echoing booms of a resonant and adept rhythm section.
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Thursday, January 21, 2010
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
New Two Tongues: "Wowee Zowee"
Counting the undisputedly awesome cover artwork above, there are a handful of reasons to be excited about the self-titled Two Tongues album that hits stores Feburary 3 via Vagrant. Chief among them being that the project is a dream collaboration between two of pop-punk's most visible figureheads, Chris Conley of Saves The Day and Max Bemis of Say Anything. The group posted a track from the album, "Wowee Zowee", this morning on MySpace, and it certainly delivers on the unique pairing's promise. While the song unfortunately doesn't take heed to its title and have anything to do with Pavement, it still slays. The bass line that drives the song is vintage Through Being Cool-era Saves The Day, and the shout-and-response chorus between the vocalists is killer. These two tongues have us salivating... ha!
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