FRICTION NYC » ninjasonik http://frictionnyc.com/blog is a NYC music and culture blog. We also put on live music shows. Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:55:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 **FREE** CMJ Afterparty w/ Crystal Antlers, Best Fwends, & Ninjasonik | Tonight! @ Cake Shop http://frictionnyc.com/blog/index.php/2008/10/23/free-cmj-afterparty-w-crystal-antlers-best-fwends-ninjasonik-tonite/ http://frictionnyc.com/blog/index.php/2008/10/23/free-cmj-afterparty-w-crystal-antlers-best-fwends-ninjasonik-tonite/#comments Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:55:50 +0000 Nghia http://frictionnyc.com/blog/?p=2520 FRICTION NYC and FUCK YEAH FEST bring a little bit of the right coast, left coast, and in between to the Cake Shop for this CMJ Afterparty TONIGHT! Austin, Texas’ BEST FWENDS, along with Long Beach, California’s CRYSTAL ANTLERS, and Brooklyn’s very own NINJASONIK get hype for CMJ. Best Fwends gets shit moving at 1AM. No RSVP bullshit — just show up and GET HYPE! Free PBR while it lasts!

I didn’t even write any of this people, I put in something else earlier. Justin changed my shit up, another case of not being able to delegate and being controllingly anal. -Nghia

BEST FWENDS

“BEST FWENDS’ music is a big attention-deficit-disordered smash-up of punk, early Beastie Boys and unrefined 8-bit sounds. It’s a kindred sound to those of British bands like Gay Against You and Applicants: frantic, but rooted in pop and/or rock. It’s trashy, cheap, headachy noise, but noise that a lot of love has clearly been put into.”
[MP3]: “Orange Marker”

CRYSTAL ANTLERS
“Existing at the cross-section of so many styles, CRYSTAL ANTLERS debut EP (Touch & Go) finds the band at a more important nexus of potential and realization. In person, Crystal Antlers look like outcasts from six different bands, and at various points on this record, they sound like it, too: Merging psych, garage, lo-fi, prog, and countless other influences, the group easily maintains consistency despite a complete inability to be pinned to any specific movement or trend.” [Pitchfork, Best New Music]
[MP3]: “A Thousand Eyes”

NINJASONIK
“Looking for a good time? You might want to call NINJASONIK. These Brooklyn art-hop pranksters combine spiky beats with rhymes about grabbing asses and the skinny jeans they wear…Mostly, though, people have been talking about these foul mouthed Ninjas for their debauchery fueled live shows, which has seen plenty of crowd diving and drunken punk rock antics…Whoa! Don’t say we didn’t warn you.” [Brooklyn Radio]
[MP3]: “Tight Pants”

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NINJASONIK

KILLER DREAMER

SS PYRAMID SNAKE

More pictures from Friday night’s festive FRICTION show with Japanther, Ninjasonik, Killer Dreamer, and S.S. Pyramid Snake on Flickr. All images © 2008 Patrick Parault

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Advance tickets available here, Doors @ 7:30pm

GET HYPE!

 
FRICTION OCTOBER 17TH

 

JAPANTHER
“JAPANTHER is one of the hardest fucking bands in Brooklyn right now. They sound like Iron Maiden, Throbbing Gristle, and Lightning Bolt gave birth to a squealing little baby with flaming guitars for arms. Their shows are chaotic and danger-charged lovefests and they are frighteningly dedicated to keeping it underground.” [Vice]
[MP3]: “Challenge”

 

NINJASONIK
“Looking for a good time? You might want to call NINJASONIK. These Brooklyn art-hop pranksters combine spiky beats with rhymes about grabbing asses and the skinny jeans they wear…Mostly, though, people have been talking about these foul mouthed Ninjas for their debauchery fueled live shows, which has seen plenty of crowd diving and drunken punk rock antics…Whoa! Don’t say we didn’t warn you.” [Brooklyn Radio]
[MP3]: “Tight Pants”

 

KILLER DREAMER
“Beer-in-bag, dirty zombie action rock via San Pedro, CA. One song’s about a dinosaur bird plucking a friend off the street, then blood dripping from the sky. These two songs fit nicely, somewhere between the Bananas’ knack for making songs that rock hard and sweet yet remain fuzzy and gritty and the Fleshies’ superhuman ability to trailer hitch old-fashioned rock hooks onto new, not-quite-definable wingnut weirdness. Live, KILLER DREAMER boom the hell out of a living room.” [Razorcake]
[MP3]: “Headache”

 

S.S. PYRAMID SNAKE
“Fucking hell S.S. PYRAMID SNAKE, did you create music just for us!? With woeful synth moans, burned by the heat from molten lava and death march undead b-boy beats that sound like the irregular heartbeat of an android being killed by metal hungry zombies, SSPS kill with a pleasure that only an ancient Nazi reptilian Hell spawn would know how.” [20 Jazz Funk Greats]
[MP3]: “Deceptive Eye”

 
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