More pictures from Monday night’s FRICTION show on Flickr. All images © 2008 Patrick Parault
Thanks to everyone who made last week’s FRICTION show at Mercury Lounge a jam-packed, sold-out and festive affair. We’re back again this month with another show at Cake Shop on September 22nd with downtown darling, Lissy Trullie, atmospheric rockers Apse, who are making a special trip down to NYC following ATP New York and Jean on Jean. This will be Jean on Jean’s (Molly Schnick from Out Hud new project) debut live show in support of her new self-titled album (Kanine Records), so be sure to get there early!
>>>Tickets are $7 the night of the show, doors @ 7:30pm
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GET HYPE! Bear Hands bring their fiery pitch-perfect pairing of post-punk and indie rock, while Boy Crisis unleash their highly danceable electro-pop “that’s so brutally hip it hurts” to The Mercury Lounge for this strictly local edition of FRICTION. Brooklyn’s euphoric new wavers Blip Blip Bleep ready the dancefloor with shimmering pop hooks and throbbing beats. As with most FRICTION lineups, openers Bottle Up & Go are the curveball here, who play a brand of stripped down, rowdy blues, sorta like Black Keys but with more whiskey and abrasiveness. M68 (Arsed, dirty little stayout) spins between sets.
>>> Advance tix here, doors @ 7:30pm
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This isn’t music for the faint of heart, this is music for, as Nghia so eloquently puts it, “scaring the rodents away from your apartment” (if you’re so lucky enough to have any scurrying about). The City of Lafayette, Indiana, home to Purdue University and birthplace of Axl Rose (no shit!?) has a paranoia echoing through its streets – sending even the robust forms of life dwelling beneath them running for the hills fields. In the vein of The Cramps, The Fall, Suicide, and The Birthday Party, Lafayette’s Television Ghost tests the boundaries of rhythmic noise. Tense, manic vocals, aggressive drums, and the menacing attack of two guitars sends a distressing, eerie chill running down my spine. “The Nihilist” and “Babel” are corrosive numbers sparked with anxiety and saturated with Wire-like riffs that twist, turn, and swirl into the dark and ominous underworld of post-punk. Watch those critters scurry from the second you drop the needle on the band’s self-titled LP, as the lingering sine-wave of “XXXX-XXX” pulls them into a vortex only to be spit out and steamrolled by the violent shifting tempos of “No Doz.” If any brave souls are left, the fiery reverb and spooky vibrations of “Circus” should send them packing. By that point however, your neighbor might have shit his or her pants, opening up a whole other can of worms.
The Television Ghost LP is out now on Ohio imprint die Stasi.
[MP3]: Television Ghost ”Babel”
Televison Ghost LP, die Stasi; 2008
Vermillion Sands may be from Treviso, Italy, but that doesn’t stop the quartet from churning out solid American-styled garage meets country-rock’n'roll. Fronted by the Italian version of Holly Golightly, Vermellion Sands’ single “Mary” is a catchy as hell garage-pop number with a killer hook, swinging bassline, weird electronic manipulations, and a tough fuzzed-out guitar set off by the snarly infectious vocals of lead guitarist Anna. The edgy single has had me hooked by the balls from the opening line of “Oh rainy days well I can’t stand you any more…” Sorta like another “Mary” that I know.
The country-rock‘n’roll b-side “Wake Me When I Die” reveals more of the Golightly and Johnny Cash Americana influence with a twangy guitar and trudging rhythm section. The 7” is out now via Italian imprint RIJAPOV records, with 100 copies pressed on red vinyl and 300 copies on black vinyl.
[MP3]: Vermillion Sands ”Mary”
Mary 7″, Rijapov; 2008
New York City’s The Golden Filter may have just put out one of the sexiest jams of the summer with “Solid Gold” and no one knows a single thing about them. A revved up, glittery disco-bassline and icy synths anchor your feet to the dancefloor while airy female vocals breeze past on rays of golden light – a combination that’s enough to cool you on the most humid of days. The track’s slick production work doesn’t fall far from the DFA tree and I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re an offshoot of an act already signed to that label. Then again, I could be way off and this could be a new jam that Nghia pulled together in drunken haze one night and just hasn’t told us. Either way, grab “Solid Gold” below and check out the equally addicting “Hide Me” on the band’s mysteriously just opened MySpace page.
[MP3]: The Golden Filter ”Solid Gold”
Single; 2008
Anxious synths and a solid beat make up the spacious, simple sound of “Commando of Love,” the new single from French-punks, The Anals. Released on Vacouver, CA imprint Sweet Rot in late June, “Commando” does more with less, employing guitars, synths, drums, and vocals that are all set to attack. Raw and abrasive, growling trance-like drones expand to mesh with agressive drumming and a lyrical delivery that invokes a sense of urgency.
The 7” marks the first (and only?) record from the Metz, France duo who state they’re “here to beat girls and boys with love and passion.” Further information on the band is slim at best, and my French is about as good as that new Hold Steady record, but the label states that half of the band passed away in late 2007 and “The Anals are done.” It’s a fucking great first/last single if that’s the case. Grab the mp3 below and head over to the label’s site to buy the vinyl, which is wrapped in some killer cover art.
[MP3]: The Anals ”Commando Of Love”
Commando Of Love 7″, Sweet Rot; 2008
