FAN DEATH: REUNITED
Disco may have died in 1979, but it has been reborn in the Vancouver girl disco duo Fan Death. Not quite nu rave, indie dance, or guitar rock disguised by funk undercarriage, these women are straight up downcast, sad symphonic disco with some synth pop sensibility. They started out as the protégés of glam-trash DJ […]
ACRYLICS, LISSY TRULLIE, BEAR HANDS, HOLY GHOST!: LIVE AT GLASSLANDS
L Lissy Trullie: Lissy Trullie has become the rocker du jour for fashionistas and hipsters throughout New York. She oozes hipness. With her 60’s mod warhol haircut, dangerously high mini skirt, and sexy pouty stage persona, there is no question, Lissy is interesting to look at. But its not all style over substance. Her set […]
Acrylics, Lissy Trullie, Bear Hands, Holy Ghost @ Glasslands, NY
March 26, 2010 – Acrylics, Lissy Trullie, Bear Hands, Holy Ghost @ Glasslands, NY The good folks at PopGun took control of Glasslands Gallery on Friday, March 26th, for their monthly throwdown. This months party featured an amazing line up: deck set from the disco daddies of DFA’s Holy Ghost! and live sets from Pocketknife, […]
WU-TANG VS. THE BEATLES: ENTER THE MAGICAL MYSTERY CHAMBERS
[rating:3] Wu-Tang vs. The Beatles: Enter The Magical Mystery Chambers This new mash up of the Beatles & Wu-Tang Clan isn’t really strictly a blend of Magical Mystery Tour with Enter the 36 Chambers, nor is it necessarily a combination of actual Beatles material. Most of the loops and samples sound like they’re taken from […]
DISCOSALT TOP 10 ALBUMS OF 2009
With the year winding down, team discosalt has squared in with our “top 10” best albums of 2009. If you are missing any of these albums in your quiver, you may be ill prepared to face the new year. Take a peek, take a note and let us know who we left off. ABC/DJ SLEEPY […]
Best Albums of 2009
With the year winding down, team discosalt has squared in with our “top 10” best albums of 2009. If you are missing any of these albums in your quiver, you may be ill prepared to face the new year. Take a peek, take a note and let us know who we left off. ABC/DJ SLEEPY […]
HALLOWEEN HAPPENINGS IN NYC
What: Halloween Movie Marathon If you want a cheap scare that doesnt involve water birth or getting drunk in Canarsie, check out some freaky flicks at the Brooklyn Lyceum where they will be screening classic horror movies like Dracula, Night of the Living Dead and the Rocky Horror Picture show on two 25-foot projection screens. […]
UPCOMING ALBUM RELEASES: SEPTEMBER 2009
September 1: The Black Crowes: Before the Frost… The Black Crowes: …Until the Freeze Datarock: Red September 8: Vivian Girls: Everything Goes Wrong Yo La Tengo: Popular Songs Pete Yorn and Scarlett Johansson: Break Up September 14: Muse: The Resistance September 20: Pearl Jam: Backspacer September 22: The Pains of being Pure at Heart: Higher […]
JAPANDROIDS: POST NOTHING
[rating:4] Japandroids: Post Nothing Label: Unfamiliar Release Date: August 4, 2009 Every once in a while, a band comes along that makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Vancouver duo, Japandroids is that band. Only, you’re warm because you’ve pissed your skinny jeans (or leggings) in excitement and fuzzy because, well, the super fuzz […]
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 […]
BELLMER DOLLS: LIVE AT CSV THEATER
With the bad comes the good, I guess. A few weeks ago I went to that church-y place on Delancy and Suffolk. Remember that place? Yeah, I went on that date there that one time. So this time, again I find myself slightly tipsy and far from home late at night. Going to see this […]
SONIC YOUTH: LIVE AT MCCARREN POOL
11 days and counting. This Saturday, August 30, 2008, Sonic Youth are playing the LAST McCarren Pool Show with Wolf Eyes, Times New Viking and Vivian Girls. Doors open at 4pm. $35.00 tickets still on sale through ticketmaster.com, the Nokia Theatre box office (44th & B’way), and Earwax Records. Discosalt spotted some hipster pipedream petitions floating around the slip and slide to keep the venue a […]
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 […]