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O'Death @ Spiegel, NYC | pics + Tour Dates + mp3
DOWNLOAD: O'Death - Down to Rest (MP3) (more) (buy)
I finally saw next-big-thing O'Death AND went to the Spiegel Tent all in one shot last night! Jeff Heartonastick has been urging me to see O'Death since late May. That's like four years in blog time, especially when the local band plays often enough to keep you constantly reminded of how you're not seeing them. In fact:
O'DEATH | TOUR DATES
Sep 29 2006 - The New Party Club Brooklyn
Oct 3 2006 - Empty Vessel Project Brooklyn, NY
Oct 6 2006 - goodbye-blue-monday brooklyn
Oct 26 2006 - Cake-Shop New York, NY
Oct 27 2006 - The Lake View House Summit, NY
And I've been trying to go to the Spiegel Tent since it opened all the way back in August. It was great, but unfortunnately it's closing in a few days. The free outdoor bar space that's right on the river and open till 4am with music blaring and tons of cool seats is especially nice.
And yes, O'Death were as great as everyone says - like Man Man, but good - JUST KIDDING (about the Man Man part).
The front-man is bizarro world Alec Ounsworth, and hopefully he'll be just as successful (Alec headlines Summerstage with his band Clap Your Hands Say Yeah tonight actually).
The drummer eats babies for breakfast.
The bassist is more metal than Mastodon, well except that he plays Bluegrass.
This banjo player thinks Sufjan is dumb (JUST KIDDING AGAIN).
"A reviewer on CD Baby dubbed their music 'Appalachian apocalypse' and that’s as accurate a label as any." [heartonastick]
"These boys know how to throw a ho down." [ph not v]
DOWNLOAD: O'Death - adelita (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: O'Death - only daughter (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: O'Death - nathaniel
O'Death opened this Gothamist Movable Hype show on Wednesday night - September 27, 2006. The Big Sleep played after them and the Occasion. The Rogers Sisters closed the show. Stereogum was also there.
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Posted on September 28, 2006 3:39 PM
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sounds good... very Carnivale
Posted by Anonymous | September 28, 2006 4:23 PM
the anti nsync. I can't see the teen girls screaming at that bunch...
Posted by Anonymous | September 28, 2006 4:28 PM
Nice to see this band getting some buzz. I saw them open for Brownbird Rudy Relic at Pete's and they destroyed. I was totally taken with them, it's the sound of a southern plantation inhabited BY THE DEAD.
Posted by Scott | September 28, 2006 4:34 PM
They're the next big thing? Good for them! I heard them on Myspace a long time ago and remember thinking they were good.
Posted by Anonymous | September 28, 2006 4:43 PM
O'Death fans are SCARY weird. Also, white hippie guys singing spirituals while rattling chains is a TAD offensive.
Posted by Salman Rushdie | September 28, 2006 4:46 PM
uggghh this souther crap is just annoying.
Posted by utensil | September 28, 2006 4:52 PM
i'm with utensil on that one.
Posted by Anonymous | September 28, 2006 4:55 PM
Excuse me?!
Posted by J. D. Souther | September 28, 2006 5:03 PM
Next big thing or not , that bass player needs to put a shirt on pronto....
Posted by jt | September 28, 2006 6:52 PM
theres a great description of this band on earfarm
Posted by Anonymous | September 28, 2006 7:18 PM
one of the best live bands I've ever seen. I think only Man Man beats them out.
Posted by Danny | September 28, 2006 9:08 PM
this whole show was good. i think o'death is more fun to see when all their "scary" fans are there in force. when they played maiden brooklyn, it was a mosh pit in a tiny space and EVERYONE walked away drenched in sweat (not just the guys in the band). someone who saw me afterwards thought i was high, but i just had a really great time (maybe a little drunk).
by the way, this may have been the last occasion show ever. ("indefinite hiatus") i think they were aiming for a dramatic last show, hence their rather unusual set (i.e. only 3 songs, a really long jam in the middle, the rest of the band leaving the stage while jordi made keyboard sounds).
Posted by aaronfromqueens | September 28, 2006 9:23 PM
I like that picture.
Posted by Ryan's Smashing Life! | September 28, 2006 10:41 PM
I strolled into Petes one night this Summer and caught these guys doing a set. THey rocked it, the mp3 doesnt do it any justice
Posted by MT | September 29, 2006 12:35 AM
aw shit man, this stuff looks mad different, who wants change anyhow?
lame.
wait... i mean "yawn"
my opinion owns yours.
Posted by Anonymous | September 29, 2006 9:33 AM
Who needs something new, when we can KEEP IT REAL?
Posted by Squeeky | September 29, 2006 11:05 AM
they're as good as BV says they are, they were fantastic and i can't wait to see them again.
Posted by ph not v | September 29, 2006 12:28 PM
since when did "quirky" irritating vocals and "stage energy"=good music?
seriously
it's just plain bad yelp-i-ness
Posted by Anonymous | October 1, 2006 1:06 AM
just added: 10/14 @ midway!!
Posted by matt | October 2, 2006 9:34 AM
see you guys tonight @ the show!!
Posted by matt | October 14, 2006 6:02 PM
Saw the Maiden Brooklyn show and thought it was fantastic.
Posted by david | October 20, 2006 7:09 PM
not too badnot too bad
nice!! i can't express how much I love IT, oh yeah, the nation are pretty good too.
Posted by WOW GOLD | December 3, 2008 12:13 AM