Articles By: Ariel Landy
Film School: Concert Preview
(TT The Bear’s: 10.02.2010)
Hidden behind a TV screen shiny with reverb, Film School plays a soundtrack to young love. Their gentle melodies ring familiar as a sweeping score to sweaty palms and jittery nerves..
The Depreciation Guild: Concert Preview
(TT The Bear’s: 10.02.2010)
With layered guitar melodies floating above showers of golden coins and washes of twinkling rainbows, The Depreciation Guild pulls from an 8-bit Nintendo soundcard to create the pixelated glow of their pop dreamscape…
Dosh: Concert Preview
(Middle East Downstairs: 09.15.2010)
Martin Dosh collects lost noises and worn-out notes. At heart he is a percussionist, using heavy rhythms to organize his collections into symphonies of digital sounds…
School Of Seven Bells: Concert Preview
(Middle East Downstairs: 09.11.2010)
The music of the School of Seven Bells dwells in lofty places with thin air and no boundaries. Borrowing their name from a mysterious and legendary school for pickpockets that may or may not exist in the Andes Mountains of Colombia…
Marina And The Diamonds: Concert Preview
(Paradise: 09.01.2010)
Marina of Marina and the Diamonds belts out her vocals with a no-nonsense swagger. A tough blood pulsates through her veins, manifested in her rhythmic boasts between choruses. As synth strings bob and weave, trying to dodge Marina’s blows, a crowd of crashing beats cheer her on in unison…
Tennis: Show Preview
(Great Scott: 08.22.2010)
Once the quiet of the curfew hour settles, Tennis bursts through the dense stereo distance of 1930’s wireless. In an effortless mishmash, the incessantly cheery cadence and angelic harmonies draw the world into a wistful reverie…

