Bonde Do Role at Bowery Ballroom
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
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Midnight Juggernauts, Shy Child at Bowery Ballroom
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
Times New Viking, Super Furry Animals at Bowery Ballroom
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
STRAIGHT FROM COLUMBUS OHIO!
I had the chance to see Times New Viking for the first time last night at the Bowery. The ultra lo fi recordings made me wonder what kind of a live show the group would put on. Suprisingly, the minute and a half songs were just clear enough for the casual listener.
The energy of the band as they ran through their set (”Okay… song number four… okay, song number five…”) was right on, and resembled something of a house party than a legitimate concert. Perhaps that’s why she was excited when we spoke to lead singer outside that they were playing a show at Don Pedro’s this saturday. True to form.
New York kids, shall I see you this weekend?
Times New Viking - “Skull Versus Wizard”
MGMT, Yeasayer at Bowery Ballroom
Thursday, February 14th, 2008
from the Brooklyn Vegan post
Never before has psychedelica sounded so amazing. Mixing beauty with brute Yeasayer drove through their performance, mixing harmonies with heavy beats and drums. I was warned that I would be blown away by their performance, and I was.
It helped to have a good friend their with me.
MGMT was equally astounding. Listening to “Weekend Wars”, and falling in love with the Bowie/Bolan vocals of Andrew VanWyngarden, I was eager to see his performance on stage. The set was mostly songs from their debut Oracular Spectacular, and ended with the band departing and leaving Andrew Vanwyngarden and Ben Goldwasser onstage to karaoke to “Kids”. Simply brilliant, but I assume was a familiar situation for those two:
(From their bio): Andrew and Ben began staging a series of “these obnoxious, noisy live electronic shows — we never planned on having it be a recorded project — where we would write these weird techno loops and arrangements that we could play with live. Most of it was running live off the computer and we had a turntable plugged into some guitar pedals, a radio, and a tape player. It was all electronically generated at that point. We would write a new song for each show and our shows would be 15 minutes long.
Xiu Xiu at the Bowery Ballroom
Monday, April 9th, 2007
A few days before I left Utah, Joe Castor told me I should listen to Xiu Xiu. He told me their lyrics are some of the best around, and that the music was like nothing I have ever heard. I was only able to listen to some tracks in Joe’s car before leaving. This past Sunday I was album to see them perform at the Bowery Ballroom.
I arrived with no expectations of the band, and left completely blown away. The band, Jamie Stewart and Caralee McElroy were accompanied by their drummer for this performance.
