NYC

No Wave’s Golden Palomino reunite! Live at Le Poisson Rouge 05.07

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The "No Wave" movement was a seminal, mostly NYC based avant garde musical phenomenon from the late 70’s and early 80’s devoted to sonic nihilism, i.e. lack of structure, lack of melodies, and interest for noise, atonal textures and repetitive rhythms. From this point of view, it can be seen as an important link in NYC’s traditional interest for noise applied to, following Lou Reed’s experience with the Velvet Underground and Metal Machine Music and preceding Sonic Youth’s noise rock saga. The No Wave movement was rather short lived and had its peak with the release of a Brian Eno curated "No New York" compilation album in 1978. Many of the current avant-garde NYC heroes began their career in one of those no wave bands, including John Zorn, Arto Lindsay, and Bill Laswell amongst others. Brainchild of New York drummer/producer Anton Fier (in the picture), The Golden Palominos are one of the original No Wave bands. After more than two decades they are reuniting to perform live at Le Poisson Rouge in New York City on Friday May 7th. The show will feature the “Syd Straw era” Palominos, which spanned the years 1985-1987, during which time the band recorded the albums Visions of Excess and Blast of Silence. The lineup includes some other NYC stalwarts like Jim Campilongo and Tony Maimone. Don’t miss this show!

Nashville

NaFF Notables: The White Stripes’ Under Great White Northern Lights

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Friday evening kicked off the Deli Magazine’s Nashville Film Festival (NaFF) experience with the screening of The White Stripes’ documentary, Under Great White Northern Lights. The film showed footage of the legendary two-piece rock band that launched the career of the Nashville staple, Jack White. It seemed impossible to admire him any more than we already did – what with his dominating influence and wide-spread popularity – but some people probably were not aware of what a unique approach he and Meg White took to their tour of Canada in 2007, and this documentary surely opened their eyes.

The film primarily featured live concert footage from the countless shows they performed in very obscure "venues" of each province and territory, including locations such as a bowling alley, a bus, a YMCA and the meeting center for an Inuit tribe, intersperesed with interviews from the band. The concert footage was interesting because it was supported by insights from Jack and Meg. They spoke about the details concerning their aesthetic, songwriting, work ethic and anything else a lot else you might not have expected Jack to reveal about the inspiration behind his creative genius.

Although the movie took place in the faraway realm of the White Stripes, interestingly enough, all of the music was mastered at Nashville’s own Georgetown Studios (and we love to see our local celebs keepin’ it real and representin’). Despite the fact there wasn’t much else about Nashville, Under Great White Northern Lights was consistently personal and genuine. It was definitely a worthwhile endeavor to make an entire documentary about the Stripes, rather than a brief, 60-minute DVD of concert footage.

Nashville should consider the legacy of Jack White and his White Stripes one of its most prized possessions. – Erin Manning

Philadelphia

The Quelle Source Headline at North Star Bar April 18

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Since The Quelle Source started recording in their home studio, it has given them an opportunity to experiment with their own sound. On their newest album Enjoy the Ridge, they incorporate rapid drum beats, loud electric guitars, and screeching vocals to create songs with as much adrenaline as a first kiss. However, The Quelle Source still maintain the same type of perceptive lyrics found on their debut self-titled EP with lead singer Kevin Ryan’s vocals sounding like the Decemberist’s Colin Meloy on four hours of sleep and a few adderall pills (which is meant as a compliment). Each song is essentially a tribute to what they learned at St. Joe’s University, and I don’t mean in the classroom. Theirs is a story of late-night parties, youth, sweat, sex, booze, freedom, and rock ‘n roll. What else should your college years be about? Well, maybe more drugs. North Star Bar, 2639 Poplar St., 9pm, $8, 21+ myspace.com/thequellesource – Katie Bennett

 

New England

WTBU fundraiser at Great Scott on 4/18

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QUILT

The bands with the most buzz in the blog bin will rock Great Scott’s socks off this Sunday to help raise funds for WTBU, the “beat of Boston University”. Look for the two Worcester wunderkinder (and Burning Mill Records labelmates) Golden Girls and Dom to serve up fuzzed-out, acid-washed houseparty pop. Count on Quilt, who recently got nominated for “Best Garage/Psych” band by the Boston Phoenix, to bring some folk flavors. Ecstatic Peace’s the Lord Jeff can play it loud or soft and rock either way, while Jamaica Plain’s Turtle Ambulance will Ja-Maic’ you crazy with his island rhythm-influenced, sample-saturated instrumentals. It’s a great bill (and there may even be some surprise additions, so stay tuned) for a great cause. Great Scott – 1222 Commonwealth Avenue, Allston MA 02134 – 18+ – 5 bux – 8pm

Facebook event page 

Golden Girls 

Quilt  

Dom

The Lord Jeff

Turtle Ambulance

–Mike Gutierrez

San Francisco

New Single From Burbank International – “2034 (When Machines Start Eating People)”

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If you remember, way back many moons ago, there was this little folk outfit, Burbank International, that put out this beautiful album City of Burbank that, as well as being worth much attention from your ears, was made The Deli SF’s Album of the Month in November of 08. Well it had seemed, without so much as a peep from them for so long, that San Francisco had succumbed to a tragic loss with the dissolving of H.A. Eugene’s folk project; however, with new evidence to contrary, it seems that in fact Burbank International had just gone into to an extended period of dormancy. This week they just announced a new single "2034 (When Machines Start Eating People)," now for sale on iTunes, as well a video to accompany it. If you haven’t heard them before you should definitely check out City of Burbank, but for now enjoy the video for this somewhat tragic and immensely beautiful song.  A nice and tender way start to your weekend.

 

 

–Ada Lann

Philadelphia

Weekend Warrior, April 16 – 18

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What’s our plan for this weekend? We’ll be starting the partying early Saturday at Beautiful World Syndicate to celebrate National Record Store Day by throwing down many beers and hot dogs/veggie dogs (well, maybe not veggies dogs) and rummaging through a shitload of vinyl while Kurt Vile, Creepoid (members of The G) and Rocktits DJs become the soundtrack to our afternoon. And as day turns to night, we’ll hopefully be able to straggle our inebriated asses to JB’s for fun-lovin’, psych rockers The Armchairs who will be opening the rescheduled album release party for Park the Van troubadour Pepi Ginsberg with D.C.’s Exit Clov led by talented cuties and twin sisters, Em and Suz Hsu. We’d also like to give you heads about The Deli’s Best of Philly Showcase w/Reading Rainbow, Grandchildren and Levee Drivers next Saturday which had to be moved from Pilam to The Ox. Yes, yes – shameless promotion, but how else would you know where the fun is at? Beautiful World Syndicate, 1619 E. Passyunk Ave., 12pm – 9pm, FREE, All Ages; Johnny Brenda’s 1201 N. Frankford Ave., 9pm, $10, 21+
 
Here are what’s the haps elsewhere…
 
Kung Fu Necktie (1250 N. Front St.) FRI The Great Vibration Album Release Party w/Mountjoy and Julia Ranier
 
North Star Bar (2639 Poplar St.) SAT Igor’s Egg, SUN The Quelle Source
 
The Fire (412 W. Girard Ave.) FRI (Early) Post Post, (Late) Dear Althea, SAT Delco Nightingale
 
M Room (12 W. Girard Ave.) SUN Lamgier and Mountjoy
 
The Khyber (56 S. 2nd St.) FRI Rosetta, SAT Successful Failures
 
Tritone (1508 South St.) FRI Humble Tripe, SAT Buddhafest 38 w/Pistolia
 
World Café Live (3025 Walnut St.) FRI Mutlu
 
Danger Danger Gallery (5013 Baltimore Ave.) SAT Hermit Thrushes and Nude Beach, SUN Controlled Storms
 
Tin Angel (20 S. 2nd St.) SAT Dave Quicks and Chris Kasper
 
The Trocadero (1003 Arch St.) SUN The Escape
 
Murph’s Bar (202 E. Girard Ave.) FRI Clean Equations, Dani Mari, Berry Jones
 
Mixx (1002 Arch St.) SAT Swift Technique
 
JR’s Bar (2327 S. Croskey St.) FRI The KMX Band and The Fetals
 
Ava House (myspace.com/avahouse215 or email Tony at deadindustrybooking@gmail.com) FRI Philadelphia Parking Authority
 
The Carriage House (myspace.com/onlyonecarriagehouse or email OnlyOneCarriageHouse@gmail.com) FRI The Great Vibration After-Party w/’tine – ‘tine and El Fuego

 

 

NYC

Surprise Me Mr. Davis is a band and plays Union Hall on 04.16

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Surprise Me Mr. Davis is a is an electric-folk band consisting of virginia based folksinger Nathan Moore, the members of NYC/Providence/Montreal avant-rock band The Slip and pianist Marco Benevento. They formed in 2003 in Boston while Moore was visiting The Slip at their apartment and the blizzard of 2003 hit. They were snowed in at the Barr brothers Mission Hill home for five days with a brand new stereo microphone and computer. This storm was the catalyst for a home recording session that cemented the collaboration. Since then, the four musicians have been keeping up with the tradition of meeting before blizzards, hurricanes or other natural disasters that force them in the company of each other and their instruments, as confirmed by the fact that some news channels are reporting that the Icelandic vulcanic ash cloud will hit Brooklyn exactly during the band’s performance at Union Pool on 04.16.

Chicago

Purien Arbours

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Just hours after the band had finished mastering and arranging the final tracks for their debut album, Purien Arbours, I was listening and tapping along to this alt-country gem. I say alt-country, but I don’t want to simplify this album too much. Leaf Bird’s sound has many dimensions, including an Americana core, but reaches into folk, psych-pop, and even more avant-garde elements. Their sound is gentle and goes down smooth. A perfect example of this sound is the track “Deeply Dearly”. It’s a mixture of passionate vocals, layer instrumentals, a wide variety of instruments, and plenty of sun-drenched sounds.

Leaf Bird will be performing three times around town the remainder of the month. You can catch Tyler Beach of Leaf Bird tonight (April 16th) at Elastic Arts for the Homeroom Open Mic, and then on April 18th at Uncommon Ground. Finally, Leaf Bird will be performing at a benefit for Rumble Arts on April 24th at The Music Lounge. The band has also been accepted to play at LOLA (London Ontario Live Arts) Festival 2010 in September.

Philadelphia

Post Post Playin’ Early for the Kiddies at The Fire April 16

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Audacious pop from Bryn Mawr and Haverford, Post Post’s debut EP, Meta Meta, marked the start of something great. Fronted by Michelle Zauner, ex-Little Girl, Big Spoon, this Philly four-piece has a knack for crafting rhythms that soar and captivate. Relatively new and well on their way, Post Post’s members juggle the life of undergrad with part-time jobs and rocking out. Despite their more than full plates, their songs are far from shabby. Best described as “pop music with substance” by frontwoman Zauner, the band’s sound oscillates between chilled out indie pop with a side of blippy post-punk and a pinch of riot grrl. Adding fostered focus to a laid back sort of yearning, tracks like “Drafts”  showcase 20-something feelings with dignity and grace. Beneath the hums of synth and the sound surfy riffs, Post Post’s dancey chilled-out anthems are emotional déjà vu that easily warrant praise. Cerebral yet subtle pop mixed with pure fun, their sound is heartfelt and catchy as hell. The Fire, 412 Girard Ave., 6pm, $7, All Ages myspace.com/postpostmusic (Photo by Justin Roman) – Dianca Potts