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You Hear it First: Silversun Pickups & Magneta Lane @ Mercury Lounge & then Pianos, NYC | pics
Silversun Pickups played two NYC shows in one day last week (Aug 3, 2006). That meant I got to hear them play the spectacular "Kissing Families" song three times. First they played it during their kick-ass (and packed) performance at Mercury Lounge. Good thing it was kick-ass too because MTV's "You Hear It First" got it all on tape.
SILVERSUN PICKUPS @ MERCURY LOUNGE | AUG 3, 2006
Later that night they played a free & drunken afterparty-show at Pianos. I found out about the second show right before I got to Mercury Lounge where they also announced it to everyone. It was at Pianos that I heard the song that made them famous again.
SILVERSUN PICKUPS @ PIANOS | AUG 3, 2006
The third time I heard "Kissing Families" was later in the same Pianos set when Lexi Valentine from Magneta Lane joined them on stage for an even more drunk, duet-version of the same song. Magneta Lane opened for Silversun Pickups at Mercury Lounge earlier in the night. They were the DJs at this Pianos afterparty.
LEXI VALENTINE (ML) & BRIAN AUBURT (SP) @ PIANOS
In between the two Silversun Pickups shows, I managed to catch Professor Murder at Cake Shop. (like 2 doors down from Pianos)
A few days later SP played Union Hall in Brooklyn.
And Silversun Pickups just announced a whole bunch of tour dates.
Previously
Silversun Pickups @ Cedar Street Courtyard, Austin, TX (SXSW) | pics
Silversun Pickups @ Pianos, NYC | pics
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Green line is back!
Posted by yeti | August 11, 2006 3:11 PM
and you stopped by cake shop that night for professor murder. was that before, after, or in-between shows?
good performance by sspu. nice and loud. i was surprised.
Posted by wat | August 11, 2006 3:36 PM
oh yeah! I meant to mention Cake Shop (will update).
It went something like this:
10-11 Magneta Lane @ Merc
11-12 SSPU @ Merc
12-1 Prof Murder @ Cake SHop
1:30 - 2:30 SSPU @ Pianos
Posted by brooklynvegan | August 11, 2006 3:39 PM
Need to put up my sspu pics as well...just too lazy. Both them and Magneta Lane were great. BTW, I made it onto your first pic :p
Posted by Eric | August 11, 2006 4:02 PM
I am constantly astonished that an entire billion dollar industry can revolve around thousands of bands writing the same song over and over again
Posted by hopeless | August 11, 2006 4:08 PM
hopeless is having an existential nightmare.
I hope those mtv folks were nicer than the rolling stone interns.
Posted by AngryCitizen | August 11, 2006 4:28 PM
i think that might be the still photographer that was on stage in the photo above. mtv just had a video cameraman, but the light on his camera was kind of annoying. but, hey, it was a fantastic show, so whatever.
Posted by wat | August 11, 2006 4:50 PM
thats a videographer on stage, his light is just off.
Posted by nick | August 11, 2006 5:09 PM
oh, yeah, i see the light now. my eyes are pretty bad. i guess the still photographer was hiding in the corner at that moment.
Posted by wat | August 11, 2006 5:14 PM
Though not fault of their own, looks like SSP have jumped the shark already. Not a good sign when MTV shows up at your gig. How long before they are on TRL?
Posted by Brina | August 12, 2006 8:31 AM
Brina-
They are booked for TRL next friday. And then after that they are playing for three hours straight on every network television station just to make sure that other people besides you know about this band. After that, they will make money and a living off of music and only then will they have truly jumped the shark because they will no longer have to work at a coffee shop and serve you your latte's. That will surely make their art suffer.
Posted by will | August 12, 2006 2:29 PM
oooowwwwwwuuch. But for serious, "not a good sign when MTV shows up at your gig" pretty much epitomizes the indy-snob attitude. I'm glad SSP are doing well.
Magenta Lane, on the other hand, I just don't get. I saw them before Voxtrot a few months ago, and I didn't think anything of them. Can anyone suggest a track that might turn me on to them?
Posted by P-Southern | August 13, 2006 7:36 PM
That sure is a lot of Silversun Pickups. I caught pictures from their Boston appearance at the start of this tour; hopefully I wasn't as obvious as mtv. (?)
Posted by Gina | August 13, 2006 9:19 PM
Kissing Families is a great track. i can just imagine watching the music video for it interspersed with screaming teenagers. i like what i hear from silversun pickups regardless of their TRL status.
Posted by putty | August 14, 2006 7:27 PM
Does anybody have any live recordings of Silversun Pickups shows? If so, I'd love to trade...
www.spacecommandmusic.com/sspu/livelist.html
Posted by ben | August 17, 2006 6:58 PM