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Cymbals Eat Guitars, The Drums, These Are Powers, Real Estate & Suckers @ Brooklyn Bowl in NYC - pics

photos by Oren Loloi

Cymbals Eat Guitars
Cymbals Eat Guitars

“It’s hard to believe online indie record store Insound has been around for ten years. Actually it’s just hard to believe 1999 was a decade ago, but the calendar says it’s so. Insound is also based out of NYC, so we’re lucky enough to be invited to their 10 year birthday party at Brooklyn Bowl featuring a hard-to-pass-up line-up of local talent: Cymbals Eat Guitars, These Are Powers, The Drums, Real Estate and at least one band yet-to-be-announced (sort of).” [Bill Pearis @ BrooklynVegan.com]

As the “sort of” part of our preview from yesterday pointed out, Suckers were the fifth (actually third) band on last night’s bill at Brooklyn Bowl (8/27).

Brooklyn Bowl is a great place to hang out, bowl, and especially see a show (and I guess eat).

I missed Real Estate who went on at 7:30, but I got there in time to see an energetic (maybe too energetic) set by The Drums whose music I’ve listened to so much lately I realized at the show I could sing along with almost every song they played.

Suckers, who went on next, have that one good song, and they played it last (I wasn’t too into them).

These Are Powers came on around 11:00, and I was nervous that the bowling crowd would all start fleeing from the venue as the music segued from the danceable, radio hits that the DJ was playing to TAP’s brand of, um, well…

“A trip to These Are Powers‘ Last.fm page will tell you that they’re commonly referred to as noise rock, experimental, art rock, and their own made up genre, ghost punk (among other already poorly-defined terms). I’m not sure about you, but a couple of those don’t exactly measure up to the uncomfortable force these three Brooklyn-Chicago interminglers gravitate around. In reading some of the other press about this alienated trio, I have yet to find anything that accurately describes precisely what they do” [Aural States]

One friend at the show told me she thought These Are Powers, or maybe more specifically Anna Barie, was a mix of Rihanna and M.I.A. It was one of two TAP/MIA comparisons I heard that night… And nobody ran, though a bunch did leave before Cymbals Eat Guitars took the stage, probably because it was approaching midnight on a school night (or because they ran to see Surfer Blood play at Bruar Falls)…

…which is unfortunate because Cymbals Eat Guitars justified their spot as headliner of the night. They were so good. Catch them on tour with Pains of Being Pure At Heart. And then I went home. More pictures from the whole night below….

This picture must have been taken early because it definitely filled up…

Real Estate

Real Estate

Real Estate

Real Estate

Real Estate

Real Estate

Real Estate

Real Estate

Real Estate

Real Estate

Drums

Drums

Drums

Drums

Drums

Drums

Drums

Drums

Drums

Drums

Suckers

Suckers

Suckers

Suckers

Suckers

Suckers

Suckers

Suckers

These Are Powers

These Are Powers

These Are Powers

These Are Powers

These Are Powers

These Are Powers

These Are Powers

These Are Powers

These Are Powers

These Are Powers

Cymbals Eat Guitars

Cymbals Eat Guitars

Cymbals Eat Guitars

Cymbals Eat Guitars

Cymbals Eat Guitars

Cymbals Eat Guitars

Cymbals Eat Guitars

Cymbals Eat Guitars

Cymbals Eat Guitars

Cymbals Eat Guitars

Cymbals Eat Guitars