Tonight, the Guild presents an exciting pop-punk show at Golden Tea House featuring the local debut of hometown trio Beach Slang, whom has been freshly signed to Tiny Engines. With an eye on a fall release date, the group that is comprised of JP Flexner (Ex-Friends), Ed McNulty (Crybaby, ex-Nona), and James Snyder (Weston) will head back into the studio later this month to record the follow-up to the Who Would Ever Want Anything So Broken? EP. Snyder’s vocal tone has that worn yet not weary appeal as though with each phrase he offers a piece of himself, while the instrumentation appears to be a tight cohesive unit, balancing a consistently on the go mentality with an overt aggression that should increase in a live setting. Joining in on the festivities will be Long Island garage-punks Crow Bait (Don Giovanni Records), fellow pop-punk locals Awkward Talking, and the duo of Candice Martello and Nick Fanelli, a.k.a. Omar. Golden Tea House, (Please contact one of the acts or venue for more info), 7:30pm, $5 – $7, Donation, All Ages – Michael Colavita
The Deli Magazine SF Presents: The Greening Balms The Other Tones and NVS at DNA Lounge TONIGHT
San Francisco! We’re throwing a party tonight at DNA Lounge. For the final show of our Deli Magazine San Francisco Sponsored Show Series at DNA Lounge, (we’ll be announcing the next venue we’ll be infiltrating soon!) we’re going to be throwing a stellar Friday the 13th show! This line up was curated by the headlining band, The Greening and it’s going to be loud, pulsating and geared to make you lose a bit of your hearing!
San Francisco based rock band, The Greening has invited, The Other Tones, Balms and NVS to join them in the unlucky madness of this show. Make it out and celebrate our final night at DNA Lounge with some killer bands. The event is all ages. Bring your friends, and let’s have a blast!!!
Weekend Warrior, June 13 – 15
Celestial Shore headlines The Deli’s B.E.A.F ‘Everything Stage’ at Silent Barn on 06.15
Featured on the cover of this mag’s summer 2013 issue, Celestial Shore is a band that – at this stage of their career – chooses to clip its own wings for the sake of doing what they want to do, which is experimenting. But in doing so, they produce the kind of music we want NYC bands to make: adventurous, even quirky at times, but without compromising quality on the songwriting side of things. This being said, Celestial Shore’s songwriting is so good that sometimes we are tempted to think they should tame the craziness and let us enjoy those gorgeous melodies without interference… We noticed the trio back in 2011, when they released debut EP "California Eden," where stunning opener ‘Pals’ already displayed the band’s schizophrenic dual identity: angelic pop melodies, often flawlessly sung in three-way harmonies, get interrupted – and also a little bit raped, if you wish – by nerdy explosions of the most radical math rock. They found a perfect ally in Deerhoof: Greg Saunier mixed their album, and took them on tour around the US earlier this year. Now, that’s a match.
EVENTS: See Celestial Shore Live at Silent Barn on Sunday 06.15 with a gazillion of other NYC based bands.
Weekly Feature: Late Cambrian plays The Deli’s B.E.A.F./Northside “Everything Stage” on 06.15.
To all who are feeling down right now, get that frown off your face: It’s time to get happy, Late Cambrian is here! John N. Wlaysewski (guitars, vocals), O (keyboards, vocals) and Nunzio Moudatsos (bass, vocals) are a band that needs no convincing of how great things are. From the crashing rock theatrics of ‘Ryan Gosling,’ to the dance-ready ‘The Year I Cut The Cable’ on their latest record “Peach,” the good times are here right now… and dammit… they’re here to stay. Think of a much more optimistic Strokes, or a less French Phoenix, and you’re close to the sound of this excitable trio. After winning our Best of 2013 Readers’ Poll they’ll be playing our B.E.A.F./Northside ‘Everything Stage’ at The Silent Barn on Sunday June 15.
Links: Read Mike Levine’s Interview with Late Cambrian
Drift Into an Alternative Perspective w/Harsh Vibes at Bourbon & Branch June 13
The week’s complete. Bourbon & Branch offers the opportunity to dislodge from the grind and drift into an alternative perspective via the vessel of Harsh Vibes. Stretching out the jams and engulfing you in layer upon layer of hypnotic noise, each movement interlocking with the next, rocketing farther out than expected and exhibiting a cumulative directional strength without becoming forceful because once the ship gets going, you can’t help sitting back and handing over the controls. Helping the gradual shift to the space-drifter paradigm, shoegazers Dreambook has an affinity for distorted guitars, longingly reaching toward the abyss while the backend determines/implies a sense of urgency. The vocals supply a dream-like yet dreary internalized echo. A little closer to the surface rests the shoegazing pop-punk assemblage of Ghost Gum, as Carolyn Hayes’ vocals cut through the cosmos, and Chicago’s Crown Larks round out the evening. Bourbon & Branch, 705 N. 2nd St., 8pm, $10, 21+ – Michael Colavita
Tonight’s Deli B.E.A.F./Northside show: Rootsy Stage at Spike Hill
Yo suckers, tomorrow’s show is for lovers, come out with your favorite person(s) and get them drunk to these lovely tunes!
Swimsuit Addition @ Emporium Arcade Bar
Swimsuit Addition are releasing their debut full-length album Wretched Pinups next week. The album will also be available on CD + Tape July 11th. The band performed a live set at DZ Records back in April that included their track "Talk Is Cheap".
You can catch Swimsuit Addition on June 18th for a free show @ Emporium Arcade Bar with duck., The Gold Web, and Porno Mags and at The Hideout on July 11th for the offical release show.
Melanie Charles gears up for Rat Habitat Release
Melanie Charles knows the terrain. She has been gaining notoriety in the New York music scene for about four years and is about to step things up with her forthcoming EP Rat Habitat. A Brooklyn-born singer with jazz training and a strong connection to her Haitian heritage, Melanie lends her sultry vocals to riveting lush electro-jazz soundscapes akin to Flying Lotus and his Brainfeeder labelmates. The song and video for her first single, “Gemini” features local indie rappers Phase One and Raydar Ellis and conjures enough of the cat’s meow to keep the rats at bay. – BrokeMc
Blue Moth
The international duo, Blue Moth, is the work of Chicago’s Will MacLean (Ice Cream Mission to Mars) and UK psych-folk guitarist Stephen Kent (The End Springs). They recently released an EP called Blue Moth at the Gates of Heaven. MacLean specializes in analog sounds of the moog and other electronics while Kent brings layers of guitar sounds. Together as Blue Moth they have created an intricate world filled dark corners and wonderfully dense layers of sound.
Polished Grit w/Swearin’ at The Boot & Saddle June 13
When Swearin’ hits the stage at The Boot & Saddle, its members bring a road-tested, garage-punk vibe. Harvesting emotional attitudes while hovering the threshold of a polished performance yet retaining honest, appealing grit, their songs spring forward meshing the interplay of male and female vocals, demonstrating a pace that at times is easy to latch onto, while conversely, at others, pushes the pace ratcheting up the intensity gauge as the clean, snappy percussion takes on adrenalized smashes with bass hitting like a sledgehammer and guitars jaggedly fuzzing out. The steady charge of youthful Massachusetts garage-pop, all-female quartet Potty Mouth reinforce the bill which is also supported by relative newcomer, West Philly trio Urine Culture. The Boot & Saddle, 1131 S. Broad St., 8pm, $12, 21+ – Michael Colavita