Soul, hip-hop, punk, rock…New Orleans brass band? From a 9-member ensemble from Brooklyn, NY? Yep, it’s all decidedly mixed up, but that’s the beauty of the renowned Youngblood Brass Band. But also awesome! The proud products (and now proponents) of a top quality public school arts-education programme, the Youngblood Brass Band eschew genre, class, racial and geographical … Continue reading »
Brooklyn duo The Hundred in the Hands (Jason Friedman and Eleanore Everdell) made waves in 2010 with their eponymous debut album of catchy electro dance-pop made interesting with touches of dream pop and post-punk. The real-life pair have since been sequestered away working on their second album, the upcoming Red Night, by all accounts a darker, … Continue reading »
I’ve just spent the afternoon wallowing in an 80s haze after glutting myself on the new Chairlift album, Something. Ah, so good! After their 2008 debut album Does You Inspire You, the Brooklyn-based duo (Caroline Polachek and Patrick Wimberly) with a penchant for fresh fruit & veg (see pic above – actually, I have no … Continue reading »
The first I knew of NYC indie dance-punk band The Rapture (beyond a connection to a weird religious notion of The Resurrection) was back in the good ol’ days of eMusic in 2003, when one of their Editor’s Picks was ‘House of Jealous Lovers’, taken from The Rapture’s second album Echoes. Echoes made numerous Best-Of … Continue reading »
It’s a beautiful warm early summer evening and I’ve been lured inside the cool confines of the Mascotte with the promise of rare and precious things from Brooklyn buzz band Creep and Brighton buzz band Esben and the Witch, so I reluctantly get my head around being inside where it is cold and dark instead … Continue reading »
You know you’re an oldster when you remember today’s latest fashions from the first time they came around. Nonetheless, despite my advanced decrepitude and obvious uncoolness (by virtue of being just, you know, old), I made it out of the nursing home on Monday night to see Twin Shadow‘s short but sweet gig @ Plaza. … Continue reading »
Ah yes, the 80s really are back in fashion. And it’s not just Wayfarers, baggy pants, leggings and oversized T-shirts that are back with a vengeance. The path of 80s new wave music left strewn with dead gladioli, synthesiser parts and cans of hairspray has been increasingly well trodden of late. Dominican-born, Brooklyn-based Twin Shadow … Continue reading »
