Now that Brooklyn’s Market Hotel is back, we can finally have a clear picture of which local artists in the NYC DIY circuit have the necessary following (or whatever you want to call it) to play a venue that’s considerably larger than any other "DIY" venue. We used quotes when referring to DIY because it must be noted that the term has lost most of its original meaning, since most of these places, from Aviv to Palisades, and also Market Hotel, are perfectly legal venues: we guess DIY, today, is all about attitude, all ages shows, DIY decor, and – most imprtantly – about the style of the bands booked, veering from punky to psych to experimental or wildly creative, but never over produced. Maybe they should just rename this the "no frills" Brooklyn scene.
Anyway, not that many bands – besides DIIV (too big for us to cover) – are playing Market Hotel in the next few weeks, but we dig the few ones that are. We blogged quite a lot about Show Me The Body and their insane blend of Post Hardcore, Noise Rock and… Hip Hop maybe? Stuff that won’t climb the charts, but that might very well be remembered as what was relevant and new in Brooklyn in the mid ’10s – they are playing the Bushwick venue tomorrow February 5th.
We’ve always been big fans of Lodro, a noir, tense as f**k trio that will be opening for DIIV’s second show on March 3rd.
A band we never covered before, Uniform (pictured), will perform on Saturday February 13th as an opener to SF electro post punkers The Soft Moon. The Brooklyn duo’s music also blends electronic sounds (drum machine and droney bass synth) with punky and industrial elements. Definitely a band to see while wearing earplugs and your good old mosh pit shoes on – oh, right you wear those all the time… you are good to go then!