Keyword results: Brooklyn
Phenomenal Handclap Band interview
Heralded as the ‘perfect mix of of everything from the past 40 years of popular music' the Phenomenal Handclap Band collective started when Daniel Collás and Sean Marquand, two New York underground club DJs with an almost encyclopaedic knowledge of esoteric music ranging from Brazilian soul to vintage psych-rock got restless with playing other people's music and decided to produce their own.
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, 'Higher Than the Stars' EP
Let's just set the record straight. No matter what might have been said about the Pains sounding like the Vivian Girls... it was all lies. They don't. At all. Teaches all of you bloggers out there to not smoke that Mexican brick weed and then listen to records. You never know what's in that shit.
Vivian Girls interview
The Vivian Girls are characters in a work of outsider art by the completely cray-cray artist and civil war expert, Henry Darger. The chicks have dicks and start a war against the Glandelinians. Besides that, it has very little to do with the Brooklyn buzz group that shares the name of the seven sisters.
Bitte Orca, Dirty Projectors
True artistes endeavour to create something new; something that pushes boundaries, tests limits, yet remains truthful and real.
Right. So where in this quest does one overstep the mark into pretense, affectation, or melodrama?
Since 2002, Dirty Projectors have been a highly influential part of the new, weird Brooklyn scene; straddling the theatrical, quasi-classical Grizzly Bear, the eastern soft rock of Yeasayer, the world music synth pop of Animal Collective, and the oddly-shaped sonic slabs TV On The Radio arrange.
Here We Go Magic
Judging from its recent prodigious output, the borough of Brooklyn must not have much room for working-class immigrants and black hip-hop heads with its huge influx of folk-strumming, falsetto-loving, glitch-savvy, new age Gen Y beardos.
Here We Go Magic is Brooklyn denizen Luke Temple's new band.
School of Seven Bells interview
Probing questions fell on tired ears as I interviewed Claudia from School of Seven Bells. The band was on a rock 'n' roll tour bus to Vienna, it was 1am and I was half-cut on gin and tonic, so naturally my mind raced with excitement, images of orgies and unkempt groupie hair from Almost Famous.
Fulton Lights interview
Figuring out the actual ‘stage time' of the band you're going to see has become a game of Russian roulette. Too early? You waste money. Too late? You miss your band. But sometimes Russian roulette leads to happy accidents, like seeing the fantastically talented and aesthetically daring Fulton Lights, or Andrew Spencer Goldman.
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