tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90631272633342431762011-07-07T18:23:42.413-07:00I have become addicted to music and live shows since I came to live to NYC area. After almost two years of coming to concerts to the city I unintentionally saw a mindblowing show by Deerhunter at Bowery Ballroom and decided that I had to start a blog about shows only. Well, it was my friend Paul D. who convinced me actually.Eduardo Osoriohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03428287942713947664noreply@blogger.comBlogger831100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9063127263334243176.post-60864073444453625662009-05-30T10:42:00.000-07:002009-05-30T10:45:47.880-07:00

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She is a good guitar player (a bit of a poser sometiems), she is cute, but ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

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[Pics]This was my eight time seeing Animal Collective, my favorite band of the 00's. It was nice to see them with some new tricks on stage, like the big ball where they reflected psychedelic videos on, and their own desks lightning up randomly all night. It looked simple, and I liked it that way, since their new music is far from that. It was very Animal Collective.Their set list needs an urgent

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[Pics]Note: Kelley Polar was awesome. Junior Boys was not.

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[Pics]I am not a huge Camera Obscura fan, but every time they put out a new record and swing by New York to promote it, I can't help but wanting to be there and see them. They are perfect for having a very cute kind of night. Songs off their new album, My Maudlin Career, sounded great, as all their best songs from their two great previous albums did too.I am typing this almost a month after I saw

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[Pics]Speechless. It's been weeks and still can't write about this show. Grizzly Bear set the bar really high for Best show of 2009, and it's only March. Too bad that their new album, Veckatimest, is not hitting me as hard as Yellow House did. Live, selecting its best songs, the story is different cause those songs are quite the killers. It was a pleasure to hear live songs they hadn't been able

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[Pics](Note: I wasn't gonna write anything about this show, given that I saw Antony recently, but it was so moving I couldn't keep it to myself)Wow. This was even better than Antony's previous show with orchestra at the Apollo Theater. Antony's voice was exceptional, as always, and The Johnsons sounded phenomenal as well. Excellent set list, nice pacing, just perfection all over. Kiss My Name was

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Rave OnI am finishing my dissertation this year. I am exhausted most of the time, because I gotta work hard to finish on time and don't like the idea of not going out and keep having fun, so that being said, I am really surprised I didn't fall sleep two nights ago when I saw M. Ward playing most of his new album Hold Time plus some of his oldies and covers.I am a fan of the new album. It doesn't

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For Today I Am A BoyIt finally came the time for one of my most anticipated shows of this year. Antony & the Johnsons have been another of my favorite bands for the past few years, but during that time living here in the NYC area I hadn't been able to experience live the both fragile and powerful Antony Hegarty's voice. Of course it was amazing.The lights went off and they pretty much stayed like

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An Eluardian InstanceI went to see the best Broadway musical happening last night in the city. Of Montreal was in charge of the music, and Kevin Barnes, his brother David, his wife Nina, ninjas, and buddhas, were in charge of the theatricality. There's not much of 2008 left, so I might as well say it now: Of Montreal @ Roseland Ballroom might have been be the best spectacle I've seen this busy

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SpiegeltentEarly in July I saw saw some of the most intense live shows I've had this year. There were too many good ones in such a short time, that I wasn't able to blog them properly. The Dodos were the act that impressed me the most. I waited for my first chance to see them after that hot Saturday afternoon at P4K Music Festival, where they blew my mind and convinced me they were not an Animal

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AgoraphobiaI don't have much time these days to blog the shows I attend, but I can't ignore one of my favorite bands of the past two years to come to a small venue in the city, play their most accessible songs from their breakthrough album Cryptograms and Fluorescent Grey EP, and show us why their upcoming releases, Microcastle and Weird Era Cont., are to be some of the best albums this year will

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IdiotequeIt was my first time seeing one of my very favorite bands ever. I have almost all of their albums, I've listened to them uncountably many times, got depressed and sometimes cried with some of their lyrics, and yes, been high with them too many times. Almost six months ago when it was announced that Radiohead was going to play the NYC area (finally), I didn't hesitate withdrawing more

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HotA couple of days before seeing Hercules & Love Affair in their come back to their city, after an extensive (and needed) European tour, I met Antony Hegarty for less than a minute at a random park in NYC, close to NYU. I didn't have time to ask, but I wondered during those two days whether he was finally going to show up at a H&LA show or not. Nomi has a powerful voice too, and quite engaging

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VisiterDay 2 was fun, but it was Sunday the day that had me excited the most every time I looked at the list of bands that were going to perform. With a good live show I decide whether a band deserves my time and money or some kind of ignorance, and yesterday, for at least three of them, I became a new full fan.The day started with some guys I have been pretty reluctant to get into, Dirty

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The Usual SuspectsDay 1 was ok, but the real fun for me started on Day 2. My initial idea for this festival was to check out as many bands I hadn't seen live before, but soon I realize that I have seen most of the bands that are playing this festival, so I ended up seeing the usual (good) suspects. I am not complaining at all... some of these bands are some of my favorite bands these days and I

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It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us BackI started listening to music in an intense way only some four years ago and what I have been doing since is to try to keep up with new music. Even only that gets very hard sometimes, especially when you are not in the music business, so you can easily guess I am not fully aware of all influential albums that that old bands have offered along their

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Straaaange things keeep haaapenning...In fact I was blown away twice last night. After seeing Sigur Rós at MoMA, I went to Cakeshop to see Evangelicals headlining a show. The place was half empty, but Josh Jones and his band rocked it hard nonetheless. Man, what a show! what a sound! what a new album! Evangelicals became since last night my favorite new band (for me) this year.Josh took his scarf

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I don't own any Sigur Rós album. I don't even have any of their music on my computer. I wasn't dying to go to this show either. But I ended up going and thank god I did. I was blown away. I have no idea how many songs they played, which ones were new or old (except the very new one that sounds like Animal Collective). I didn't pay attention to those details. I just grabbed some free vodka, a

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I was afraid of you, because you know... I love youJamie Lidell wants to be Jim, but I want to be Jamie Lidell! Last time I saw Jamie, he came out solo wearing a sparkling jacket under a blazer, like hiding his true self, looking very very funky. Almost a week ago now, he came out this time with five people to join him on stage, wearing a similar looking jacket, but no blazer this time. No need

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Four Tet wasn't there and it was greatI have been listening to Four Tet's music for a while now and so I was very excited of finally seeing him live, but I got an email during the week telling me that the guy was sick, or one of his relatives, and that he decided to cancel the show. He cancelled his show but the night was not cancelled. The Field was opening and even though I had already been

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I fly like paper I get high like planesM.I.A. is more than ready to take over the world. She can headline Madison Square Garden any day now and I am sure the show would sell out. Move over Madonna, there is a new queen in town.Madonna is a suitable icon to compare M.I.A. to, merely because of her audience. Lots of gays were out in Brooklyn on Friday night having a great time. I was one of them

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QuietI didn't take pictures at this show because it was not necessary. Quiet Village gave me past Monday the most boring show I have ever been to in my life. In fact, it wasn't a show. The two guys just pressed play on an iTunes in their computer and on dvd player, chatted behind the decks, and once in a while checked whether the volume was right or not. I was lucky of finding a place where to

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We are from Germany, btwApparently this was the concert to be at for the "in the known" German community living in NYC. They did not go to listen to Apparat, they went to be seen (and scene) and to annoy me. From what I heard, when people shut the f*ck up, Apparat put on a good show bringing some of his contributions to Orchestra of Bubbles and his own Walls to life.Apparat's live show this time

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Black Moth Super SubtleI usually do not review the opening bands of the shows I attend, but this time, having the hard work of opening for the very alive band Subtle, it would be stupid to deny how mind blowing Black Moth Super Rainbow were.[Black Moth Super Rainbow][Subtle]These two bands are not characterized for playing pleasant music for everybody. Black Moth Super Rainbow plays something I

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You BelongIf you follow dance music in NYC, then we were sometime in the same place, Studio B, on Saturday night, or you got sick drunk at the GBH anniversary party at Webster Hall and didn't make it to Greenpoint. Hercules & Love Affair played their first official show in support of their self-titled (awesome) debut album and it wasn't bad for a beginning.After a painful waiting until 1:10 am or

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GuiltI wanted to blame Elron Alkan for how weak The Long Blondes' second album sounds, by coming to their show on support of Couples and seeing how they would rock the new songs out live. Unfortunately, it seems it wasn't Elron's fault.Couples does indeed have several weak songs, and they sound even weaker next to their older stuff live. Long Blondes started ironically (or not?) with an almost

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GrassAnimal Collective has seven studio albums and one live album. That comprises quite a lot of songs. However, out of thirteen (or fifteen, depending on how you count them) songs they played to a very young crowd in their only (indoors) east coast show of their 2008, only five of them have seen the light on a CD or vinyl. The other eight are some of the songs they are rightfully creating right

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Leopard Of HonorI usually have a couple of beers when I attend a show, but last night, before Dan Bejar stepped onto the stage with his couple of usual beers, I decided I was having Johnny Walker Red Label on the rocks instead. I knew I was going to need it during Destroyer's show to celebrate Dan Bejar's grandiosity.I missed out on Bejar for quite a long time. Bejar has from eight to ten albums

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I like Tapes 'N Tapes debut album The Loon and I haven't listened carefully the new Walk It Off, but according to what I heard last night, I might experience some boring 40 minutes if I do so. Last night I had the first contender for the most disappointing show of the year. If it hadn't been because they played songs from their debut album and a couple of songs of the new one that I like, I would

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A week with Hot ChipThere aren't that many bands I see live every time they come to NYC, me being busy or not. Hot Chip is one of those few bands, and with the way they are killing it these days, it seems they are gonna become much more than that... they might be my more consistently good live band ever.I gotta say right away, that overall, the show at Terminal 5 was better than the one at Music

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Pocketful of MoneyLast time I saw Jens, he played twice the city and got together with fans at a rooftop in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to play some tunes with just his acoustic guitar in a very cold night of Fall 2007. He promised he was coming back for Spring, when the weather was warmer and he didn't need a pair of gloves to play. He kept his promise.Jens Lekman got on stage with four girls and a

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DevotionIf you know Beach House music, then you don't go to see them live expecting them to put on a mind blowing show. You should go expecting them to take your hand and make you travel with their dreamy sound, because that's what they really deliver and do not dissapoint at it.After a painful waiting of almost an hour after the all right opening act Papercuts, once Beach House stepped into the

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Brad WeberI heard yesterday that Brad Weber, the drummer of Caribou's live shows, fell from a ladder and fractured his wrist. I have no idea how Dan Snaith, aka Caribou, is gonna replace him, because to me he is the best drummer I have ever seen live, displacing LCD Soundsystem's Pat Mahoney from his throne, and together with multi-instrumentalist Dan Snaith, the heart of Caribou's show.

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Holy Fuck were BuriedI hate going to shows when I am sick, but you know, I had the tickets, I was taking out friends who were visiting the city, and this was the first time I was going to see Holy Fuck sort of headlining a show. I had to go. I told my friends that by the end of the night to decide what band was better live we could have just tossed a coin. It turned out that wasn't necessary

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My Name is Pablo DiazI'm gonna write this review in Spanish just because I feel like doing it and the guy I am going to talk about is from Spain. It probably would be better for him if a couple of English speaking people get to know about him, but I am tired and I hope you understand some. If you don't understand, I am going to summarize it for you: El Guincho was the best performer last night at

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Don't Go This WayMatthew Dear's debut album Asa Breed is one of the most underrated albums of 2007. Even myself, who bought it and listened to it quite a few times, didn't realize how much I like it. All those perceptions came up last night when I saw Matthew Dear's live show, as Big Hands, where he clearly showed he is one of the most defying genre mixers in electronic music right now. I don't

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I was born ready for thisNot much has changed in Black Lips world since last time I saw them. They put on one of my best live shows last year. Since it was that good, I came back last Monday to see them again and they sent me back home feeling like I was 18 one more time.The next day after the show I read on some blogs people complaining about how Black Lips' music appeals so much to 16 years old

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All Is WellNot too many times I decide to leave my home on a Sunday night, especially after having a cold the whole week, to go to see a show. Sam Amidon's All Is Well made such a good impression on me a couple of weeks ago that I got myself on my car to see him at the very intimate Mercury Lounge.All Is Well sounds indeed like a very intimate album, perfect for the venue, and on it Sam sounds

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Scraping PastIf you read what it says at the top of the web page, you can see that Bradford Cox was one of the reasons why I started writing about the shows I go every weekend. Since he made such a good impression on me when I saw his stellar show at Bowery Ballroom with Deerhunter, now a while ago, I will probably check out any band he decides to affiliate his name to, Atlas Sound this time,

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Lost and FoundFortunately for Victoria Bergsman, aka Taken By Trees, the Hiro Ballroom was pretty empty last night. Last time I saw her on a stage was for the Peter Bjorn and John tour that stopped at Mercury Lounge where she sang the couple of lines she has on their very famous Young Folks. She barely made eye contact with the public and seemed like at any moment she was going to run away. It

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Hold OnHot Chip played the nice Highline Ballroom last night in anticipation of their new album Made in the Dark, coming out next week, and it couldn't have worked better. There was a lot of jumping, fisting and singing along for their infamous songs, like Over & Over and Boy From School, and now for their new songs. These guys seriously need to record an album live, cause they do it like no

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DarlingJoanna Newsom took the stage a couple of minutes after she was supposed to and I was already impressed. Dressed elegant in black she walked to her harp and everybody couldn't stop clapping as if the concert was already over. Although I did know Joanna was going to play with a full orchestra, plus her band, I didn't know she was going to play Ys in its entirety from beginning to end, you

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HanukkahExcuse me but I didn't know what Hanukkah meant. It took me to go out with an Israeli guy to remember about the Hanukkah miracle and the candles themselves. I know I read it before in the Bible once, but my memory is getting worst and worst with time. Oh Well. In any case, Yo La Tengo played a stellar show for the fourth day of Hanukkah, one that I'm never gonna forget.Out of all the Yo

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What is simple in the moonlight by the morning never isI have a mixed appreciation of Bright Eyes. I recently started liking Conor Oberst's music a lot (starting with his new release Cassadaga and now prefering I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning) and decided to buy a ticket to go to see him at a big venue like Radio City, even though I don't enjoy places like that anymore. What really got me into

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The 11 finger tourI still remember how impressed I was with Shara Worden and her band My Brightest Diamond back when I saw her for the first time during CMJ 2006. She had recently put out her excellent debut album Bring Me the Workhorse, showed us how amazingly she can control her voice and how good she is at the guitar. Last night she excelled at all those things one more time and even showed

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BirdHere I am again with an incomplete review... I got late to the Whitney Museum to hear the velveteen voice of Marissa Nadler. I missed a good half of her show, but thanks to YouTube now I can not only imagine how beautiful she sounded. Here it is one of those songs that I missed accompanied by Myles Baer in theremin.Marissa Nadler - 55 FallsI only know her recent album, Songs III: Bird on

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Sipping on the Sweet NectarIt's been two weeks since I went to see The Go! Team and fall in love with Jens Lekman. I went to the city to see The Go! Team after having dinner with some friends, but things didn't happen as planned. My friends wanted to go to the Blue Man Show, which I couldn't afford because it was 80 bucks, and meanwhile I decided to check out a guy called Jens Lekman who was

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The Power is OnIan Parton, founder of The Go! Team, should consider himself very lucky. I read he is pretty much responsible of the music, samplings and stuff, but I don't know what he could have done to pull all that off in concert if he hadn't met Ninja ever.Live, The Go! Team are really a team, switching instruments and places on stage, but it is Ninja who steals your attention... she is that

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Professor Murder tries new materialPlaying your CMJ show the last day of the marathon cannot be easy. You know everybody is tired and very little patient so you gotta show your best asap. I decided to head early to Mercury Lounge to make sure I wasn't going to be left out to see Professor Murder, so I got there by 7 pm and stayed until 1 am. Fortunately Professor Murder, my most anticipated show

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Bamboo BangaMy energy is almost gone. It gets tougher and tougher to appreciate bands that don't really give it back to me. I went to the Brooklyn Vegan free shows in the late afternoon at R-Bar to see Islands before going to M.I.A., but I was forced to see Saturday Looks Good to Me first cause they were running late. They were not really good. I mean, they were fine, but not really anything to

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BrooklynCMJ Day 3 main attractions didn't happen in Manhattan last night... everybody was in Brooklyn. If you are having a showcase during this week, and several more labels are doing the same, the same day and at the same times with more buzzed names than your bands you better have something else to attract more eardrums... like free cover, free food and more importantly... open bar.Last night

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Dan Deacon is a tough act to followI don't even know how to start. I'd been staring at the computer screen trying to find a way to start describing how incredible last night's spectacle and music was for so long that it is appropriate to start just saying so. The planets aligned up last night to have the most stellar line up of any possible CMJ show this week, in my opinion... there was

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Thanks to Brooklyn Vegan for organizing such a surprisingly awesome kick-off night for one more CMJ to remember.The week couldn't have started better... Bon Iver's set was mesmerizing and I will regret (for a couple of months at least) not having cash with me to buy their debut album For Emma, Forever Ago (but we can stream it meanwhile). He sings very high and has quite a voice to make it sound

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I'll take care of you if you take care of meThat's how Of Montreal said good bye last night at their biggest show in the city (and my third to date). It's sad for me cause this might have been the last time I could get to see them at a decent venue, but great for them because their so deserved success has finally arrived.Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? is still one of my top 5 albums this

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Do you guys have any request?Let's highlight the obvious thing one must see at a Patrick Wolf show: Dude is certainly a multi instrumentalist...He is also quite odd and adorable. As you can see he came out to the stage looking like a Mozart lost in time, with a loose blue shirt, gnome short boots and a crucifix hanging from his neck. Not a surprise if you have seen him before or seen news about

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How's your day? How you doing? How's your mood? How's that song?Strawberry Jam is such an outstanding album to me and Animal Collective is such a defining sound that having the chance of seeing them for a second time with a high probability of putting their shit together and give us a show to remember, was not to be missed.Everything (except the opener) was right even before Animal started

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I want to walk around with youI really like the new direction Animal Collective is taking for their music: more electronic and somehow passively aggressive. With an introduction to the show as a long set of techno music with some spectacular lights, playing #1 as their first song, and then playing a couple of new songs even newer than their Strawberry Jams, including the ridiculously good Bearhug

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This time I am gonna keep it to myself... This time I am gonna keep it all to myselfIn short words: Bjork's show at MSG was pure Voltage. In not-so-short words:Bjork started the fire (literally) with Earth Intruders. The brass section came on stage first, marching, and Bjork followed wearing a golden dress like the queen of a tribu. That's what she is... The Queen.I finally got to hear Hunter

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Brothers gonna work it outI had a bet against myself. I bet that the Chemical Brothers' show was going to be better than the past Daft Punk's show at Coney Island, and I won! Of course.After seeing my first Chemical show almost two years ago I promised I was always going to see them live as long as they were coming to the town I was living in (or around). Their show setup hasn't changed much but

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AhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhI was prepared to have the kind of show where you stare at the band and barely move your head to their tunes. Damn Black Lips didn't let me do it... they played a set that made me jump and dance around and sweat the gin and tonics I had been having all night.Black Lips music is all about having fun. The garage rock influences, the screaming, the funny lyrics and contagious

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Young BloodI went to this show, in the middle of my school week, only to check if Clap Your Hands Say Yeah still deserved my money and attention. It was important to me because I really like their first album and just like OK their new one, Some Loud Thunder. I wanted to see if those new songs had the charming the old ones had on me the first time I heard them live.Cause that's how it worked for

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I was the soundI hope Friday's show was a proof for everybody that Deerhunter's strongest is their music and why so they are one of the best new bands around (around my head at least!).Bradford was serious (you never know with him) when he said he wanted to check if his fans were looking after them because of their music or just because of their very publicized eccentricities. He did not wear any

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This is lovely, but very oddThose were some of the first words Tracyanne told us tonight before starting with their lovely Come Back Margaret off of their even more lovely and latest album Let's Get Out of This Country. She was in a really good mood tonight, being funny and pretty talky between songs... did she have a couple of those infamous frozen margaritas at the seaport? We did!So, why the

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This machine kills fascistsLast year, without much emotion (except two great songs), I heard the new and third album of a Punk/Rock band called The Thermals, now I am a new fan. The music they make doesn't fall in my favorite genres of music, so it wasn't hard not to pay much attention to them, but a couple of months later I regreted it. I saw them play the Bowery Ballroom and as I left

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Human After AllIf you have a strong headache and you have a Daft Punk show to attend, don't ever doubt about it: Go! It might not seem initially as a great idea, but believe me, it would become the best live act in the electronic music business you would have ever seen.A couple of curtains were hiding the pyramide where Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo later stood stand and did

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The question is... you wanna sing tonight?I have two CD wallets I brought with me from Colombia three years ago. One was very empty with the CDs of all those bands (4 only!) I had seen back there, and the other one full of CDs I was sure I was never going to see. The Police is now part of that first wallet, a wallet that is not empty at all anymore.I really like their last album before breaking

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Hey Joni, put it all behind youHey Joni, now I've put it all behind me tooForget the futureThese times are such a messTune out the past, and just say yes!I hope my friend Felix one day finds this post. He tried to get me into Sonic Youth's music a while ago without success, but after Saturday night, I am officially a new fan.I was standing in the back of McCarren Pool with a couple of friends.

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Thank you for buying our records, thank you for coming to our showJack White turned out to be quite a simple and adorable man. I thought Mr. White, besides being a great guitarist and musician, was a pretentious guy thinking he was top of the pops in current music these days, but last week after seeing him to headline the Madison Square Garden only the great guitarist and musician part remained

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The World is such a Wonderful PlaceThat's what Band of Horses tell us in one of his new great songs. I want to believe in them and it's not being hard at all. After seeing them twice within the past month I am excited and looking forward very much to Cease to Begin, their new album coming out this October.Ben was way happier than he was at the Hiro Ballroom show, with his ever growing new beard,

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Turn the Lights OutAfter M.I.A.'s set at Coney Island I still had some energy to waste. I went to see The Ponys, because I read that Bradford Cox, of Deerhunter, was recommending them as a live show. He actually said "You won't leave dissapointed", and I didn't, but didn't like them more than I did already.The Ponys are three guys and one girl all from Chicago, and they seem to have a lot of

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Missing In ActionI didn't know what M.I.A. stood for. I found out today and it totally made sense. M.I.A. sings/raps over very original crazy beats that sometimes make you feel you are about to join the army or something.It was only a couple of months ago that I heard Arular, her debut album, for the first time. I liked it but didn't convince me right away to play it one more time after finishing

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☺Last night everything seemed to be out of place. By the time I got to Studio B, the venue was having problems with lights and sound on the main floor and I guess that was the cause for The Field to take the stage at 1:25 am on a Wednesday evening. I guess nobody there had to wake up early the next morning.The first thing I did was to buy a Brooklyn lager, my new favorite beer. When I got it (6

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DisasterI like Pitchfork. They are my portal to new music and a couple of months ago I heard a song on their website called Disaster by an unknown rock band to my ears. The not unknown band anymore was The Besnard Lakes and live they were nothing close to a disaster.The room was unusually almost empty. It has a capacity of approximately 200 people, but I must have counted only 30 there that night

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I didn't know these guys and I will say nothing about them cause I still don't know their music. Next time, if I see them again. But here are some pics of how crazy their front man is, cause that was to remember...All right, maybe he doesn't look that crazy. Believe me, this guy is nuts...Too bad the kind of music they do was not my cup of tea. We'll see later. [photos of the show]

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Cómo van, ya se cansaron?NooooooooooooooooooooPues nosotros si muchachos. Ya estamos viejitos!I wasn't planning to see Cafe Tacuba this day. I was sort of feeling they were part of my high school era, thinking it wasn't cool to listen to them anymore and I was WRONG. Cafe Tacuba left the stage and I could only wonder one thing about them right after the show... are they the best latin american

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WeirdMenomena released their sophomore work, a fine record with an awesome album art, at the beginning of this year and everybody, including me, thought they sometimes sounded like TV on the Radio. I don't think so anymore. Menomena sounded very original at the South Stree Seaport, but unfortunately kind of boring.The shows at the seaport are the best in the city during the summer. Well, they are

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Just say “Yes”Last night I had one of the best concerts of my life. I went to NYC to become myself into one more Spoon fan, but I unintentionally turned into a believer of Deerhunter.Pitchfork has been crazy about Deerhunter this year giving the Best New Music category to their new album Cryptograms and their new EP Fluorescent Grey and covering in their news section pretty much everytime they go

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