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Titus Andronicus & Real Estate @ the Whitney, NYC - pics

photos by Leia Jospe

Titus Andronicus

“I am standing behind a kid during the last song of Titus Andronicus‘ fascinating set at the Whitney Museum of American Art. The concert is part of the pop conceptual artist Dan Graham’s retrospective, and the kid is on tip toes on the edge of the performance area (there is no stage) and he is doing a restrained pogo and leaning towards the band and it’s as if he is straining every sinew in his body not to explode into a wild dance. But the kid can’t dance because Whitney security have threatened to stop the concert if dancing continues which leaves lead singer Patrick Stickles in the unenviable position of trying to stop the audience from doing what he is trying to get the audience to do.

A little earlier opening band, fellow New Jersey natives, and longterm friends Real Estate performed a superb set. What connects the two bands is Real Estate and Titus both use repetitive chord progressions to build a wall of sound. What makes them different is where they take the sounds…” [rnlar]

Titus and Real Estate played the museum on Friday (7/10). Japanther and Ninjasonik played there for kids on Saturday, and The Feelies played there at the beginning of the month. This Friday’s show is Abe Vigoda and Grooms as Dan Graham month continues. More pictures from Friday below…

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