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Monday, August 6, 2007
Friday, August 3, 2007
NY Times previews this week...
via today's New York Times:
DIAMANDA GALÁS (Monday) Though she is invariably dressed in black, with her face in witchy streaks of makeup, Ms. Galás needs only her voice to terrify and seduce. She slides from a low, sensual growl to painful yet musically precise shrieks, and has a vast repertory; for this show, “Imitation of Life,” she interprets love songs by Earl Grant, Juliette Greco and Jacques Brel. At 8 p.m., Highline Ballroom
SLAVIC SOUL PARTY (Thursday) This nine-piece Brooklyn band is dedicated to the Balkan brass style, and its members have traveled through Macedonia and Serbia, picking up tunes. But Slavic Soul Party’s raucous concerts are anything but scholarly, mixing the Balkan sound with funk and jazz. With Mucca Pazza and the Main Squeeze Orchestra. At 8 p.m., Highline Ballroom,
ANDREW W. K. (Tomorrow) Somewhere between noise-punk bubblegum and motivational oratory gone awry, Andrew W. K.’s absurdly high-energy party metal (“Party Til You Puke”) comes across as either self-aware performance art or simply the most lunkheaded anthems to debauchery ever recorded. Celebrating the long-delayed American release of his latest album, “Close Calls With Brick Walls” (Load), he plays solo tomorrow at the Highline Ballroom
DIAMANDA GALÁS (Monday) Though she is invariably dressed in black, with her face in witchy streaks of makeup, Ms. Galás needs only her voice to terrify and seduce. She slides from a low, sensual growl to painful yet musically precise shrieks, and has a vast repertory; for this show, “Imitation of Life,” she interprets love songs by Earl Grant, Juliette Greco and Jacques Brel. At 8 p.m., Highline Ballroom
SLAVIC SOUL PARTY (Thursday) This nine-piece Brooklyn band is dedicated to the Balkan brass style, and its members have traveled through Macedonia and Serbia, picking up tunes. But Slavic Soul Party’s raucous concerts are anything but scholarly, mixing the Balkan sound with funk and jazz. With Mucca Pazza and the Main Squeeze Orchestra. At 8 p.m., Highline Ballroom,
ANDREW W. K. (Tomorrow) Somewhere between noise-punk bubblegum and motivational oratory gone awry, Andrew W. K.’s absurdly high-energy party metal (“Party Til You Puke”) comes across as either self-aware performance art or simply the most lunkheaded anthems to debauchery ever recorded. Celebrating the long-delayed American release of his latest album, “Close Calls With Brick Walls” (Load), he plays solo tomorrow at the Highline Ballroom
Thursday, August 2, 2007
Black Dice / New Album / Pitchfork
Info on their new album on pitchforkmedia.com:
We took a chance on an email chat with Black Dice's Eric Copeland (not to be confused with this guy), and the odds worked out in our favor. Not only did we learn a bunch of details about the forthcoming Black Dice LP, but we also got the scoop on Copeland's first solo offering, Hermaphrodite, out August 14 on Paw Tracks.
First, Black Dice. The new LP, which follows up 2005's Broken Ear Record, arrives October 23, bearing the tasteful title Load Blown. It's technically a collection of 12"s with bonus cuts, and this one, as previously mentioned, comes courtesy of Paw Tracks rather than Black Dice's longtime home DFA. So why the switch?
"Our contract ended with DFA," explained Copeland, "and by that time a lot had changed for both them and us where the match wasn't quite as right as five years ago. So we parted amicably. Paw Tracks asked us and it has been a really easy experience, zero bullshit."
(continue at pitchforkmedia.com)
Black Dice perform Nov 23 @ Highline Ballroom
Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Slavic Soul Party / win FREE tix!
We finally broke out the calculator and there will be 60 musicians gracing the stage on this show. Thats a lot of brass band.
The Village Voice is running a contest for some pairs of tickets to this show so enter here.
Also...so you have an idea of what we're dealing with here....there's a clip of Mucca Pazza on Conan O'Brien.
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