Abe Vigoda @ South Street Seaport, NYC - pics

they were WAY better the next day

hey, it's all those special needs children again! hi kids!

LA noise "scenes" sucks a dick

bassists wearing no age shirts

LA's ok

YES LA

aside from outer Brooklyn, New York kinda sucks comparative to LA lately

> aside from outer Brooklyn, New York kinda sucks comparative to LA lately

As evidenced by the crappiness of Telepathe, and Abe Vigoda's lack thereof .

I'm a New Yorker - I'd rather live in LA.

I have to say that these guys just really killed it at the Yard, and I'd like to see some photos of that show (of all the bands).

Telepathe were awful - Vigoda not much better - even up close at the Mercury. Wtf is everyone so excited about?

awww they wear each other's shirts!

LA definitely is less of a drag than new york right now.

New York has really been kinda great amazing last few years, but the problem is that bands get huge here really fast and then stop playing out regularly.

dirty projectors
japanther
ex models
usaisamonster
growing
gang gang dance
animal collective
grizzly bear
high places
vivian girls
yeasayer
psychic ills
meneguar
woods
titus andronicus
oneida
these are powers
free blood
blues control
black dice

all terrific and all from the New York scene

Here are a few photos I took at the yard. I didn't stick around all day because I went up the Damon Albarn thing Lincoln Center.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/danfun/sets/72157606131645308/

When L.A. gets a mass transit system as convenient as NYC's, then we'll talk. Otherwise, you people who would prefer to live there better start saving your pennies to buy a car and gas.

i certainly like most of those listed bands above more than No Age and Abe Vigoda

"New York has really been kinda great amazing last few years, but the problem is that bands get huge here really fast and then stop playing out regularly."

This is true

long gone are the days when we could catch YYYs, TVOTR, Grizzly Bear and others at Todd P shows or Glasslands

I guess once they get big they only play shows in New York when touring

Luckily I think Dirty Projectors still have some Market Hotel spirits left in them

not to mention with all these big corporate funded free-in-the-park stages poping up and competing for the big local bands to play, they're being asked to not play anything else within a month on either side of some big show where they're gettin paid $100k or some shit.

LA
FTW!

no way can LA in the summer compare to NYC in the summer. i live in LA for school and spent a year there last summer and it was NOT the same as a summer in the city. new york music loving kids don't know how good you've got it until its gone. that being said i love The Smell scene. abe vigoda, health, mika miko, captain Ahab, the mae shi, anavan, no age, all really fucking good bands.

Abe V had some pretty stellar fuck ups at the seaport show but they pulled it together for the yard. and come on, they were so adorable when they messed and the seaport show, you couldn't actually hate them for it.

can we put our LA NY feelings aside and just agree that telepathe are horrible

yes. telepathe. i felt embarrassed for them. i felt like they wanted me to feel embarrassed for them. but really just the lead singer girl. the drummer and bassist were fine. the lead singer was Awkwardville, USA.

Abe Vigoda's live set kinda blended aside from a few fuck ups, but they're a pretty young band for starters, and they had a lot of energy. Their new record is really good, so I don't think it's fair to judge them just based on this one show.

LA and New York both deserve a carpet bombing.

can a person live in LA w/o a car?

'can a person live in LA w/o a car?'

no, you can't. unless you have really generous friends with cars. the buses do whatever the hell they want, trains stop at like 10 pm and basically the public transportation is useless. and even if you have a car it sucks because no matter where you go at what time it's dead-lock traffic. nyc drivers would start a massacre if enough of them were stuck driving in LA at once.

No, you can't really live in LA without a car. If you do, you'd in effect living in a much smaller city because of the spreadout-ness.

In LA you pretty much end up limiting yourself to one neighborhood if you're on public transport or bike. Distances and scary roads are just too much to feasibly travel from one are to another. Since the nightlife and the restaurants and the culture are in all different areas, you'd miss out on 90% of it carless - even if you lived in Silverlake or Koreatown which are like the LES/Wburg/Bushwick amalgam.

You might as well live in a smaller town that's cheaper and less fucked up than Los Angeles - because a small section of LA is all you'd get.

lol ny scene. you kids are fucking pussy. giving ny (notably my residents of bklyn) a bad name. come to coney island, marcy, sunset or sheepshead and ya'll would get fucked up. stay in williamsburg and park slope, that shit ain't brooklyn to us.

south brooklyn represent.

^ Agreed.

These kids couldn't walk a mile off in my Air Forces.

LA is not nearly as good as the hype might make you believe.

It's like 4 or 5 decent bands tops! And at the end of the day, you live in Los Angeles. LA sucks!

new york's alright if you like art and jazz

new york's cool, if you're into going out and doing shit

fuck that man, i wanna stay on the internet and complain about "hipsters"

hipsters who live in WILLIAMSBURG!!

New York's alright...if you like saxophones.

saxamaphone...saxamaphone...

Abe Vigoda? That's a band name?

I wonder what kind of band Brian Denehey would be.

FEAR's biggest disappointment.........how wrong they were.

i betcha telepathe would rather the douches who keep complaining about them on this site hate them.....

i dont really care for abe vigoda, but hey their out there doin what they like and all you stupid kids can do is gripe about it.

I think they're by-and-large very well liked actually.

not a lot of shit talk about Abe Vigoda on this here thread, which is amazing given what website we're on

I caught Abe V at Mercury Lounge. They fucking brought it. Unrelenting, joyous, ferocious set. And their drummer? fuck. Good for them. good for l.a., glad something good's coming out of that shit.

I'm pretty amazed at the lack of hating going on here too...and happy! they are just adorable and make nice music

lol@blackhat

Here's what a song called Denehy sounds like. It's banging.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=oqrtoFWglMY

Jesus, how the hell is this band popular!?! They sucked the way too many times I saw them at the Smell (as they stuck themselves on every half way decent show) and they suck now. No Age, please take them back to LA and leave them there.

12:51 is ANGRY!

Abe Vigoda makes me SO MAD!!!!

good for the drummer. his face is ugly as fuck, ya dig?

this band fucking sucks.it makes feel like i can make a song blindfolded

go to bed dad, you're drunk

anyone know how to get rid of a watermark on a cd?

you bklyn idiots. always stupid. the smell scene aint even LA. people who actually live in LA, and are actually into the art scene here, hate abe vigoda. those kids are pussies. idk what you kids think about telepathe, but that is some bullshit right there.

translation:

12:20 is jealous of abe vigoda

translation 12:28 is a dumbass. have you guys ever even heard abe vigoda live? ive probably seen them about 9-11 times, and they blow every time. i think they had 1 good show when they played with no age at the smell for the 2nd annual pancake thing. you guys are ridiculous. just because you guys havent heard the real talent here in LA, doesnt mean it doesnt exist. there is some heavy shit going down right now in the LA art community, this shit aint even part of it. this is all mainstream sell out bullcrap. get your heads out of your asses. 12:20 IS RIGHT. i also live in LA, i can vouch for that dood. he knows whats up.

^^^ couldnt have said it better myself. i mean, dont be so hard on abe. they suck terribly live, but i must say with all the help from the record company and all the effects the recorded shit aint too bad.

im from los angeles as well. these two or three ^^ are dope. abe v. the smell, they will come and go. will you all remember them? im afraid no one will. this is all "bullshit". right now los angeles does have an intense art scene emerging, i encourage everyone to come and see for themselves. exactly how the no wave scene was forming in '76.

WOW. these guys are terrible. still better than any NY band tho. :/

someone's drunk