VICTOR TIMOFEEV SHOW OPENING NEW GALLERY SPACE
What: The Canal Chapter announces the Launch of the Stanton Chapter
New Gallery Space Opening show/ BBBQ
Featuring Discosalt artist Victor Timofeev.
When: Opening Reception June 8, 4-10pm (May 18-June 23)
Where: 176 Stanton, @ Attorney,
Lower East Side
ENTER THE LUCKY DRAGONS…FREE @ WHIT
Lucky Dragons are performing a free show tonight, Fri. May 23 @ Whitney Museum of American Art, Lower Gallery. Doors open at
6:15pm, show starts at 7pm. No reservations and the space is tight so claim a hair space early. The show is part of a series of free friday night concerts hosted by the Whitney Museum produced by Wordless Music and Whitney Live.
Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Ave. at 75th St.
New York, NY
Lucky Dragson @ SXSW 2008 (thepiratehat)
INDIE ROCK TRIVIA NIGHT
Q:What two members of Superchunk are credited with founding Merge Records?
Q:What did Stephen Malkmus study in college?
Put your Indie Rock smarts to the test tonight
Indie Rock Trivia
Hosted by Zach Galifinakis
Featuring Les Savy Fav
8:00 May 21 @ Highline Ballroom
431 West 16th Street
New York, NY 10011
SHHH…MATES OF STATE SECRET SHOW
Our mamas taught us not to keep secrets here at Discosalt…especially if that secret can help someone else.
We heard Mates of State is playing a secret show Wednesday night at an undisclosed location in New York City to celebrate their new record Re-Arrange Us, out today.
Sound Fix is giving away 25 tickets to the first 25 people to purchase the new album.
The secret location is printed on the ticket.
Sound Fix
110 Bedford Ave
Brooklyn NY 11211
(718) 388-8090
THE PRESETS: APOCALYPSO
The Presets: Apocalypso
Label: Modular
Release Date: May 13, 2008
Shake off your raver pants and get your glowsticks out of the freezer. The Presets continue to indulge in putting a gritty new edge on accessible synth. Thirty seconds after hitting the play button will most likely prompt you to get up out of your seat or preform some fierce ’87 style head-bobs or both. While Kim Moyes & Julian Hamilton studied classical composition they excel in its antithesis. After joining recently successful Modular Records in 2003, home to such acts as The Klaxons and fellow Aussies The Van She, The Presets have issued a slew of EP’s and remixes and 2005’s full-length Beams. But, with Apocalypso its clear that perfection has come with some (brief) work. The early album barrage includes singles “My People” and “This Boy’s in Love” both of which clearly demonstrate The Presets’ knack for layering updated samples on handy rhythms. Some time is spent in an experimentation, and in genre style as on “Aeons”. This release most certainly satisfies from cover to cover. Its clear that The Presets are ahead of the eightball in the recent wave of electro from the land down under. Do yourself a favor and give this one a listen.
-ABC
THE RIGHT STUFF…OMFG NKOTB IN NYC!!!!!!!
After 18 years, the second “New Kids on the Block” coming is upon us…and there will be dancing.
“We’re going to dance, we’re going to sing… we’re going to do it all”-Donnie.
The prolific former teen dream machine will be loving you (forever) and hangin’ tough step by step as they kick off their fall reunion tour with an appearance on the Today show tomorrow am, Friday, May 16th. Fandemonium outside Today show studios has already ensured as security beefs up for the anticipated bedlam. In other news, four horsemen have brought news of locusts, a terrible plague in the west, famine and Death. Tomorrows weather: violent rain showers in the morning. High 300 degrees F. Winds 400 to 500 mph and a 70% chance of blood red sky.
TRASH OR ART?…HUNG JURY
If you were walking along 3rd avenue and 16th street last night, you may have noticed that gramercy residents have either gotten into the habit of elegantly situating their garbage these days or someone is making some crazy awesome street art out of bright orange hangers. You be the Judge. Either way….we want more.
ANNIE HALL @ FILM FORUM
“This guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, ‘Doc, uh, my brother’s crazy; he thinks he’s a chicken.’ And, uh, the doctor says, ‘Well, why don’t you turn him in?’ The guy says, ‘ I would, but I need the eggs.’ Well, I guess that’s pretty much how I feel about relationships; y’know, they’re totally irrational, and crazy, and absurd, and…but, uh, I guess we keep goin’ through it because, uh, most of us…need the eggs.”
ANNIE HALL @ Film Forum
Returning by Popular Demand!
Wednesday, May 21-Tuesday May 27 One Week Only
Showtimes: 1:15, 3:15, 6:00, 8:00, 10:00
Film Forum
www.filmforum.org
209 W. Houston Street
New York, NY 10014
212.727.8110
2 FER BOOK READING IN BROOKLYN WITH SLOANE CROSLEY
Our friend Sloane will be reading from her book of essays, I WAS TOLD THERE’D BE CAKE, at Book Court with Keith Gessen who will be reading from his novel, ALL THE SAD YOUNG LITERARY MEN. Not simultaneously, but none the less entertaining. See you all there!
Wednesday, May 21st
7:00 PM
163 Court Street
Brooklyn, NY
http://www.bookcourt.org/?p=161
MR. BROWNSTONE FIREWORKS AT BOWERY BALLROOM
If you dont shut your mouth, you’re gonna feel the mutha efin’ guitar!
July 4th, Mr. Brownstone (G n’ R cover band) playing @ Bowery Ballroom.
Show should start around 7, they go on stage around 9.
I SEE “YOU GO GIRL”
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Do you know why you’re afraid when you’re alone? I do…
There’s a scene at the end of the Sixth Sense where Bruce Willis finally realizes he’s a ghost and there are ghosts walking all around him like regular people who only see what they want to…I had a similar revelation when I realized that the “You Go Girl” street art on Avenue A was not an isolated graffiti but that “YGG” is among us everyday…you just have to want to see it. It’s all over and it’s not just in NYC. “YGG” has been spotted in California, New Orleans, Portland and Austin and the legend is growing. There’s even a flickr group dedicated to it…still waiting for the facebook invite. Sources close to Discosalt have told us there is just one prolific guy responsible, running around the country spreading his nationa message of girl power like some feminist Johnny Appleseed. You Go Girl!
WILCO IN BK. TIX ON SALE TODAY
Wilco@ McCarren Pool in Brooklyn AUG-13. Tix are on sale today @ noon. Get it.
PAM GLEW SOLO SHOW
What: I feel In Love with a Video Nasty: Pam Glew Solo Show
Where: Fairtrade Gallery
When: Friday May 2nd- May 25th Fri, Sat, Sun 11 am-6pm
THE KOOKS: KONK
The Kooks: Konk
Label: Astralwerks
Release Date: April 15, 2008
Luke Pritchard wrote The Kooks’ hit song “Naïve” when he was only 16 years old, which after release in 2006 catapulted the debut album, Inside In/Inside Out into the UK Top 20 charts and introduced the band to the US. Three years later, the British pop band has released Konk, the band’s sophomore studio album produced by Tony Hoffer. Konk is a continuation of inside in/inside out. While it doesn’t propel the Kooks into any new musical territory, it still serves up some of the same catchy pop anthems that made their first album a success and confirms these blokes as more than one hit wonders. Initially, the title Konk, suggests the bands affinity for another British pop rock band, the Kinks, but it is actually the name of the London studio where they recorded. At its core, this is a pop album and that was the bands intent. These are songs written for girls about heartbreak and
love loss….and in such a way that you can double clap along to most of them. The first track, “See the Sun” is instantly catchy and is a good kick off for the album, but the singles, “Always where I need to be” and “Shine” are a bit of a disappointment and suffer when they pander to a mainstream audience. “Sway” stands out as one of the more memorable tracks for me with its heavier chorus that actually creates a swaying feeling. While lyrically, a lot of the songs are a bit bubblegum, Pritchard’s honest heartbroken voice saves the album and makes the band still seem interesting. And did I mention you can double clap to most songs?
JAV
SANTOGOLD: SANTOGOLD
Santogold: Santogold
Label: Downtown
Release Date: April 29, 2008
Santogold may just be the most exciting Philly export since Hall & Oates, her self-titled debut a testament. If after first listen you find yourself comparing much of Santogold’s (aka Santi White) debut to electronic peer M.I.A. then you’d be on the right track. The production work has been distributed to notables including the aforementioned M.I.A. and her Kala co-producer Diplo, explaining the great range in style from track to track. If not for the exceptional production, the vocals alone would transport you to a 1983 Cyndi Lauper show. She comes strong right of the bat with L.E.S. Artistes crooning, “Creep up and suddenly I found myself an innovator” over super-catchy indie pop beats. Before it’s all over she dabbles with dub on “Shove It”, nods to Eurythmics on “My Superman”, and revives mid-90’s alternative on “I’m A Lady”. At the end of the showing, she might as well clear her throat and state, “beat that” because this one is gonna be hard to top. If its implied that Santogold has something to prove, then she’s done it, and kicked us in the seat of our pants.
-ABC
FLEET FOXES: SUN GIANT
Fleet Foxes: Sun Giant
Label: Sub Pop
Release Date: April 8, 2008
This EP is both a warm up for the upcoming Fleet Foxes LP and a declaration of who they are, which is a musically more interesting version of the My Morning Jacket formula. All the atmospheric dude vocals are present, even the same vocal affectations, but musically this EP, song for song, is not mired in the Jim James songwriting formula, i.e., long assed stoned jams that don’t really work as stoner jams (i.e., not headphone friendly). Country rock, alt-country heavy (not light), the Fleet Foxes execute a totally listenable & extremely interesting counterpoint to a band that most seem to think wrote the book on modern CSN&Y rock. I love the balls, too. The Fleet Foxes are essentially 3M to the My Morning Jacket/Band of Horses school. They take what they do and do it better.
John Whitaker
MP3 – Small Black : Free At Dawn
Small Black announced they will release their new album, Limits of Desire on May 14, 2013 via Jagjaguwar. They have shared the first single ” Free At Dawn” , along with the album art and tracklisting.
