Bleeding Rainbow playing Philly's 4th of July Buckfest before Mercury Lounge; Radiator Hospital released an LP (listen)
by Andrew Sacher
Bleeding Rainbow at Knitting Factory in 2012 (more by Amanda Hatfield)
Philly shoegazers Bleeding Rainbow (who we can expect a new album from soon) are wrapping up their tour with Fat Creeps this week, and as discussed, that tour brings them to NYC for a show at Mercury Lounge on Friday (7/5), a good post-4th of July option for those sticking around NYC. Tickets for the Mercury Lounge show are still available. Updated dates are listed below.
Meanwhile, if you’re looking for a good option on the Fourth, Bleeding Rainbow will play a hometown festival in Philly, the two-venue-wide Buckfest. Bleeding Rainbow play the Golden Tea House with Screaming Females, Swearin’, Radiator Hospital and more. That show starts at 6 PM, and admission is only $5-7.
Radiator Hospital at 285 Kent in April (more by Amanda Hatfield)
Radiator Hospital is the project of Sam Cook-Parrott, who you may recognize as the bassist in Waxahatchee’s live band and backup vocalist on “Peace and Quiet” from her album, Cerulean Salt. His new album, Something Wild is out now via Salinas and features contributions from many of his friends, including Swearin’ members Allison Crutchfield, Kyle Gilbride, and Jeff Bolt. If you’re into Swearin’ and Waxahatchee, you’ll likely enjoy Radiator Hospital; he’s got a similar knack for raw, honest pop punk and the ability to ease into unpolished bedroom folk.
The whole album is great, but the real standout is the fourth track, “Our Song,” a scrappy emo anthem with quotable lyric after quotable lyric and just the right amount of sap. He lets out vulnerable lines like “You won’t get off that easy, no don’t say you love me when you know you don’t” and “I just hope that he loves you like I never could do, and you like what you found,” just to name a couple. But by the end of the song the music cuts and he asserts, “When you call your mom back tell her that I’m the one leaving.” And the band comes back in sounding just a bit more triumphant than before.
Radiator Hospital has a few other upcoming hometown Philly shows, including Sunday (7/7) at Hausu and one with Joyce Manor in August (tickets) right before Joyce Manor play CT with Ceremony and House of Vans with Kid Dynamite, Red Hare, and Swearin’ (free with RSVP).
Stream Radiator Hospital’s new album below, and download it (name your price) at bandcamp.
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Radiator Hospital – Something Wild
Bleeding Rainbow — 2013 Tour Dates
07/2/13 Boston, MA Great Scott*
07/3/13 New Haven, CT BAR 254 Crown St.*
07/4/13 Philadelphia, PA Buckfest^
07/5/13 New York, NY Mercury Lounge*
* – w/ Fat Creeps
^ – w/ Screaming Females, Swearin’, Radiator Hospital & more