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Posted in music | pictures on June 2, 2008

Ponytail @ Knitting Factory (tap bar), NYC - pics

photos by Ryan Muir

Ponytail tore up the Knitting Factory Tap Bar on Saturday night (May 31, 2008). The show was sparsely attended with minimal crowd movement, but that didn't stop the always-energetic Ponytail from having fun and putting on a great show (as usual...). Back in 2007 Baltimore City paper wrote...

With all due deference to last year's winner, the Death Set--and Dan Deacon--there isn't a live band in town spilling over with more infectious energy than Ponytail. Playing the giddy no-wave/math-rock of Deerhoof or OOIOO with the amped-up abandon of a high-school garage band, Ponytail thrashes with a complexity that feels ebullient rather than tight-assed. But it's singer Molly Siegel, the screeching and cooing Thumbelina who sounds like Ari Up imitating Elmo and Cookie Monster, that makes Ponytail something really special. Best of all, the band's new material, which it's currently road-testing live for a possible 2008 release, finds it exploring even more ornate shapes for its neon-colored prog-punk without sacrificing an ounce of its speed-freak bounce.

Posted on June 2, 2008 2:14 PM

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