Posted: November 14th, 2008 | Author: justin | Filed under: FRICTION, events, music, nyc | Tags: friction nyc, picture picture, telepathe, the mercury lounge, violens, zaza | 1 Comment »
GET HYPE one last time in 2008! Prior to the mad-rush of the holiday season, FRICTION is back at The Mercury Lounge for one final show in 2008, closing out three full years of shows. This lineup features Violens, Telepathe, Picture Picture, and Zaza, four local acts you’ll be hearing plenty more from in 2009.
Advanced tickets are available on The Mercury Lounge website. Doors open at 7:30pm, flyer, mp3′s, and more below.
“VIOLENS clearly draws from the mid-’80s U.K. indie scene (Aztec Camera, the Pale Fountains, Prefab Sprout) but doesn’t sound derivative of anyone; the group’s evocation of that era’s internationalist style and wit comes wrapped in a cool emotionalism that also characterizes Violens’ onstage vibe. The only issue with their shows is that we can’t get them to play a song more than once.” [Time Out NY]
[MP3]: “Violent Sensation Descends”
“TELEPATHE forge largely improvised guitar gusts, woodsy chirps, wraithlike Bjorkian harmonies, and powerfully jabbed drums into minimalist baroque.” [Village Voice]
[MP3]: “Devil’s Trident”
“PICTURE PICTURE are nestled pretty nicely in the Brooklyn nu-psych scene that’s birthed MGMT, Yeasayer, and Chairlift. ‘Liftoff’ begins with an off-tempo blues sample that’s then doused in squirming moogs, autotuned falsettos and enough jagged editing to make your skull shake. It’s heady, for sure, but it’s also strangely enjoyable, never once seeming complacent or cliché, unless to be ironically so.” [RCRD LBL]
[MP3]: “Jealous Change Of Mind”
“New York-based two-piece, ZAZA, let their echo-laden vocals wash over waves of gothy, post-punk-influenced guitars and muscular percussion for a sound that is, at once, sensual and suspenseful. Erotic thrillers would be well matched with these eerie, enticing songs, which can make crime scenes and sex scenes alike seem more mysterious.” [Rumblefish]
[MP3]: “Sooner Or Later”
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Posted: October 7th, 2008 | Author: justin | Filed under: FRICTION, events, nyc | Tags: friction nyc, japanther, killer dreamer, ninjasonik, ss pyramid snake, the mercury lounge | No Comments »
Japanther, Ninjasonik, Killer Dreamer, and S.S. Pyramid Snake bring the fucking party to The Mercury Lounge on Friday, October 17th for this installment of FRICTION. Brookyn’s very own lo-fi heroes, Japanther celebrate their RECORD RELEASE and North American tour kick-off with San Pedro’s Killer Dreamer! DJ Porkchop of SSPS and Excepter fame spins all night. Free rides for the first 50 guests on our BombPop-horned unicorn, Maverick!
Advance tickets available here, Doors @ 7:30pm
GET HYPE!
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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”
“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”
“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”
“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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