are the ponys worth seeing?

ponys are alright. JAY REATARD is why you wanna be there though.

Turbo Fruits are playing too, they're pretty good.

Girls Against Boys at the Bowery were great. They played their whole first album plus a lot of their other great songs. Great to see them again.

neko case was spectacular. it was a really good setlist that spanned her last few albums. a lot of funny stage banter also. i wasn't particularly impressed by eric bachmann, the opening act. it was the first opener i've seen that had an encore, though.

went into the Battles show with high expectations and they really didn't do it for me. I guess I don't know the record enough - but they really have this hippy jam sensibility in their prog sound that really doesn't do it for me.

the kids were all moshing and slam dancing like they were at a punk show - instead, it felt more like a phish show - with kids trying to mosh.

sad rea;;y. and i couldn't even make it long enough to get to hear atlas. boorrrrring.

points to Singer though - they were pretty good.

To each his own, but Singer was bar none the worst band I have seen all year. Possibly ever. I really enjoyed Battles, though. One of the best rock / prog / whatever drummers I have seen live.

Girls Vs. Boys was fantastic. Glad to see they can still rock. Love these Don't Look Back shows. Looking forward to Daydream Nation next Saturday. Nice to see a band that isn't too cool to show that they are having a good time playing and don't act as if it is such a burden for them to play us their songs.

Don't remember the name of the opener but they were horrible. Had great between song banter like "boner boner penis vagina". Finally played a song I thought was good and then realized it was a cover of a Breeders song.

litigioushipter, I'm with you.

It takes a lot for me to say this, but Singer was the most pretentious thing I've ever heard. Battles killed it. John Stanier is fucking nuts. And watching Ian Williams(I think it was ian williams) in the back was quite a treat. I was standing off to the side so I got a nice view of all their equipment. Noisettes put Singer to shame. They rocked hard.

i'm not surprised you people hated singer - you're the fucking ex-dave matthews loving bonnaroo kids that are the ones listening to battles - you think that your music taste is all high-brow and indie when you're just listening to jam-bands still - just without the label.

i mean, really, moshing to battles is ridiculously stupid. it's like moshing to a phish concert.

yea, standing there with your arms crossed is a great alternative.

i thought battles was great.. their energy was pretty intense. didn't see much of singer though

jam bands jam....battles plays their songs the way they wrote them

What is ironic here is that Singer is more of a 'jam band' than Battles (if you want to throw around labels, which I think is a silly way to discuss music), except unlike talented 'jam bands' they decide to make pretentious squall that gave me a headache. Of course, I could see someone saying the same thing about Battles.

I bet I like challenging music just as much as you, Anon 7:18. I wish we could swap iPods. I am interested to hear why you liked Singer, actually. I didn't.

Jay Reatard blew away anything you saw this weekend.

Hal Willner's Doc Pomus Project (Teddy Thompson and others) was at Prospect Park Bandshell on Saturday but I missed it.

Lou Reed was a late addition to Doc Pomus show (just notice that).

does anyone know the order for the brazilian girls show? i assume they play last, but i wanted to confirm.

battles was great. personally, i am not at all of a fan of phish, or really any jam bands and i thought battles was awesome. the two assholes that decided to push and jump instead of dance in the middle, i was not a fan of. but the other kids in the "mosh pit" were just dancing around without much awareness of where they were going. i was close to the middle, and with the exception of those two people i had fun.

i enjoyed the noisettes,but singer was sooo sooo horrible. it was almost painful to listen to and it was the shortest set of the night.

Brazilian Girls played last, but only for an hour. More people were there for Cat Empire cuz after they were done a lot walked out. Both bands were good and at the end of each they had the Himalayans come out to jam. The lead singer of BG was passing around a blunt with everyone right on stage...

I'd just like to note for the record that Ponderosa Stomp was great. Almost everybody sounded good and the crowd was really into a lot of it. I didn't know what to expect going in, so I was definately pleasantly surprised. The band opened with Shaft. Roy Head put on a great show. The highlight for me, though, was Bobby Patterson. He came out in a tuxedo shirt and sang his ass off. All I can say is that I wish his set had been longer. The mcee kept saying they'd be coming back next year.

I'd just like to note for the record that Ponderosa Stomp was great. Almost everybody sounded good and the crowd was really into a lot of it. I didn't know what to expect going in, so I was definately pleasantly surprised. The band opened with Shaft. Roy Head put on a great show. The highlight for me, though, was Bobby Patterson. He came out in a tuxedo shirt and sang his ass off. All I can say is that I wish his set had been longer. The mcee kept saying they'd be coming back next year.

The Ponys at Bowery Ballroom were good.