Archive for the ‘Concert Previews’ Category
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…
Art Decade: Concert Preview (Great Scott: 09.13.2010)
Beginning with a string of piano notes pushing off into the sky, Art Decade’s “Infant Joy” swings back and forth, the legs of the bass and drums pumping piano chords dressed up in shiny patent leather Mary Janes and white frilled ankle socks…
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…
Thieving Irons: Show Preview (Middle East Upstairs: 08.26.2010)
Thieving Irons, the musical moniker of Brooklyn’s Nate Martinez, nudges the tired into a daydream, convincing him that that fog in his mind is waves at his feet…
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…
Birds and Batteries: Show Preview
(Middle East Upstairs: 08.22.2010)
Birds and Batteries’ Up To No Good (2009) jolts you awake with an electric current visibly coursing through amps and wires. Pulsing and throbbing, synthesized tones supply power to this dark, foreboding, and stormy world…

