DISCOSALT BREAKS DOWN 2008’s CROP OF NYC BANDS TO WATCH
Bands on our radar :
Bear Hands-Straightforward post-punk indie.
Yeasayer-Psych-experimental dance party. If you haven’t heard them, please leave your cave immediately and rejoin society.
A Place to Bury Strangers-Dark Atmospheric noise-pop against a tension-wracked Joy Division-meets-Ministry, Jesus-Mary Chain backdrop.
Blonde Acid Cult-Brooklyn swagger Rock& Roll Party band ala Jet, Stone Roses.
Crystal Stilts-Cheap instruments, Moody Stipped Down Garage Rock. Ian Curtis-y doom with sunshine-y shop Assistants style pop.
Deer Tick-Indie Rock disguised as Alt- Country. Hank Williams/Van Morrison meets Bright Eyes.
Dinowalrus-Noise Rock but with some semblance of a pop song structure.
Gang Gang Dance-Experimental distillations of world music through an urban No-Wave-y filter.
MGMT-Psych Disco, new-wave synth-pop, and early 90s Britpop. Already too big for this list.
Francis & the Lights-Prince-esc falsetto vocals and James Brown Dance moves…from a white guy named Francis. What? Youtube “the top”.
Free Blood-Electro-Punk Trio. Part Timbaland, part Excepter, part Hot Chip.
KaiserCartel-Laid back pop duo. Think early Cowboy Junkies.
La Otracina-Drug Drenched Psych/Space Rock.
O’Death–Southern hoedown-core rock from Brooklyn
White Sun, Cutter, Drunk Driver-Lo-fi noise.
Bottle Up and Go-Two-man raw blues. Think Black Keys.
The Pains of Being Pure at heart–Knowingly naive or emotionally complex indie-pop. I’m not sure. Clear My Bloody Valentine influences.
Takka Takka-Suburban NYC indie rock. Phoenix meets Counting Crows acoustic Rock.
Telepathe-Post-Futuresex pop. Experimental Hippie Chanting, Guitar-like synths and electronic percussion. TV on the Radio… but way more alien.
The Lisps-Indie-pop outta da Bronx. Working on a sci-fi musical based on a Civil War soldier that wants to write science fiction.
Titus Andronicus-Violent Indie Rock. Conor Oberst screaming from the bowels of hell.
Violens-Shin-like Indie Pop if they took an enormous amount of happy drugs with the 60’s West Coast Elektra set.
Vivian Girls-All girl 60’s California-based garage-rock with bangs.
Dirty Projectors-West African Dance band meets Math Rock. An odd mix of Phish, The Police and Deerhoof reworking a concept- a song by song “reimagining” of Black Flag’s Damaged.
