Dude Plays Saxophone, Douglas Lucas, Brian Beyke and Our Velocity will be at the Brick House tomorrow night (10/24). The show starts at 7pm so get there on time. It will only set you back $5 bucks. Before you go, you have to check out the music video below by Dude Plays Saxophone. Amazing!
Dude Plays Saxophone- “Nothing Works” (video)
Monday, September 21st
Skull Alley
The States w/ Music Video and Your My Density
1017 E Broadway
Louisville, KY
myspace.com/skull_alley
$7 / All Ages
NYC’s The States will be releasing We Are The Erasers September 22nd on Genious Collective Records. We Are The Erasers is the follow up to Path Of Least Resistance released independently by The States in late 2007 concurrently sending them on a tornadic tour of the US in 2008.
The States’s razor-edged rock has the uncanny ability to evoke Radiohead-like dreamscapes, Zeppelin-inspired bombast, and an Orwellian political sensibility…often in the same song. Their forthcoming new album, produced by Chris Grainger (Wilco, Switchfoot), is both intimate and grandiose, at home equally in an echoing arena and in your own headphones.
The band’s inventive songwriting has earned accolades from the John Lennon Songwriting Contest (Grand Prize Winners) and the International Songwriting Contest (Winners), and it has been featured on MTV’s “The Hills” and “The Real World,” and ESPN’s “Baseball Tonight.” Q104.3’s Jonathan Clarke recently included The States in his list of the Top 10 New York bands.
Behind the music is an unconventional lineup: a Harvard-educated singer/guitarist (Chris Snyder), a punk/acid-jazz/prog-influenced drummer (Joe Stroll), and a sonic experimentalist bassist armed with an arsenal of fuzz pedals (Pete Connors).
thestatesonline.com
myspace.com/thestatesonline
Sep 07 Kipona Festival Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Sep 08 Crash Mansion New York, New York
Sep 17-18 PLAY:stl Music Festival St. Louis, Missouri
Sep 18 PLAY:stl Music Festival St. Louis, Missouri
Sep 21 Skull Alley Louisville, Kentucky
Sep 23 The Factory Rochester, Michigan
Sep 24 MPMF – Midpoint Music Festival Cincinnati, Ohio
Sep 25 Howard’s Club H Bowling Green, OH
Sep 26 Green Lantern Bar Lexington, Kentucky
Sep 27 Abby Pub Chicago, Illinois
Sep 29 Brownie’s 23 East Ardmore, Pennsylvania
Oct 03 Dewey Beach Music Conference Dewey Beach, Delaware
Oct 16 TT The Bears Boston EP Release Cambridge, Massachusetts
Oct 17 The Rack N’ Roll Cafe Stamford, Connecticut
Oct 18 The Vibe Lounge Rockville Centre, NY
Nov 05 Puck Doylestown, Pennsylvania
My brother over at We Listen for You submitted a music video for The Fiery Furnaces’ “The End is Near” to a contest run by WNYC Radio. It is damn good and the acting is incredible. [It may or may not star one or more Backseat Sandbar writers.] The winner gets a bunch of cool stuff, including an appearance with the band on WNYC’s Soundcheck. Check it out and show some love with a vote!
Here is how to vote:
1. GO HERE (WNYC’s youtube page)
2. Watch the Video
3. Join Group
4. VOTE…click on “I Love It” below the video
It’s that easy.
Lucky Pineapple is filming a new video for “A Moment in an Empty Street” with Andrew Vititoe of Vititoe Videos and they need 30 extras for the video! If you’re a fan of the band and you want to help them make their music video and get your 15 seconds of local fame, then be the first of 30 people to show up to the Cat House (747 South Preston Street, off Broadway) with a bright solid-colored shirt by 8pm on August 22nd (until who knows when). You are encouraged to eat before you come and to RSVP to Facebook HERE. By RSVPing you are agreeing to:
DISCLAIMER: Lucky Pineapple reserves the right to turn you away if:
For the people who show up and are capable of following instructions, it should be an awesome time.
I can’t go to the TV on the Radio concert tonight, so I had to settle for youtube music videos. This piece of [art] is not only entertaining, but an interesting glimpse of mild genius. It blends political satire with an electronic concern for the everyman….think Pride & Prejudice meets Slaughterhouse Five. Just look at this one verse:
Black out the satellite and be my road star
You wanted anything else so show ya my heart
Let’s leave this city behind us
We can get out of here
(Let’s go)
She is clearly referring to her GPS. It has lost its signal and they can’t get to Santa Barbara from Beverly Hills without it. But then she decides to go anyway, despite the huge setback. She will simply follow her heart home; a place where it may have been all along. Below this layer, she could be referring to commercialism and the need for more of it. If you look closely (perhaps on a second view), you can see that she is wearing a bikini at 2:15. Without more accessories, how can she fully express what she feels? Perhaps only during a black-out.
Here is her first music video. Notice the clear departure from her youth and embrace of maturity.
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Animal Collective- My Girls
Merriweather Post Pavillion just released this month and they already have a music video for one of my favorite tracks on the album. Also, condolences to my brother and the other west coasters who had tix to AC’s LA show last night that was canceled.
Enjoy.
You can read our review of the album here.
