Bleeding Rainbow at Knitting Factory in 2012 (more by Amanda Hatfield)

Philly shoegazers Bleeding Rainbow, who released the impressive Yeah Right earlier this year, and Boston indie rockers Fat Creeps, who are working on their debut album this year, are heading out on a tour together this summer. It kicks off in Baltimore in late June and culminates in NYC on July 5 at Mercury Lounge. Tickets for the NYC show go on sale today (4/19) at noon.

You won't have to wait that long to catch Fat Creeps in NYC though. As mentioned they're playing with Turnip King at Death by Audio on May 11. Zebu, who Fat Creeps did a split with, are on that show too.

All dates for Bleeding Rainbow and Fat Creeps, along with song streams, are listed below...

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by Bill Pearis

Bleeding Rainbow at Fred Perry Artist Lounge, CMJ 2012 (more by Diana Wong)

Bleeding Rainbow's new album, Yeah Right, is out next week. If you liked their single "Wasting Time" you'll probably really dig the new album which is full of hooky, noise-and-harmony filled guitar pop. Pitchfork is streaming the album in full despite giving the album a middling review. (The band and P4k writer Steve Hyden got in a bit of a Twitter spat over it.) Personally, I like it a lot.

The band are going on a short run of dates next month in support of the new album, including two shows in NYC: February 11 at Cake Shop (openers TBA) and February 12 at Glasslands with Habibi, Census and Spires. No advance tickets for Cake Shop but Glasslands tickets are on sale now.

All Bleeding Rainbow tour dates below...

Continue reading "Bleeding Rainbow streaming new LP, playing shows (dates)"

Frightened Rabbit @ T5, Nov. 2010 (more by Lionel Bergeron)

SXSW has just announced another round of bands for the 2013 edition of the annual music festival that will happen March 12 - 17. This brings the total current number of acts to around 1300. Someome of the highlights include Vampire Weekend, Frightened Rabbit, The Thermals, Black Lips, Camera Obscura, Merchandise, Bleached, Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire, Eagles of Death Metal, Parenthetical Girls, Indians, Night Beds, IO Echo, KEN Mode, Prince Paul, Pure Bathing Culture, Sepalcure, UK motorik post-punks TOY, Finnish instrumentalists K-X-P, Toronto's Moon King, UK indie rockers Splashh (not Brooklyn Splash with one "h") and loads more. Head to BV Austin for the whole Round 3 list.

Brooklyn Night Bazaar 2011 (more by Dana (distortion) Yavin)

The Brooklyn Night Bazaar, a place to do your holiday shopping, eat and listen to music all at the same time, returns to its warehouse location (45 North 5th St.) in Williamsburg this winter, and is again hosting shows like they did last year (though BrooklynVegan is not involved this year).

The holiday bazaar is open on Friday and Saturday nights from November 23 to December 22, from 6pm to midnight. A lot of the music lineups are still TBA but confirmed bands so far include The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Black Dice, Kyp Malone of TV on the Radio, Ayshay (aka Fatima Al Qadiri), CFCF, Eternal Summers, MEN, and others. Everything is free to the public (except the food and other stuff people are selling there)

The current lineups and sponsors for each day, and much more info, below...

Continue reading "Brooklyn Night Bazaar returns to Williamsburg, live music too"

by Bill Pearis

The seventh annual M for Montreal festival happens next week (November 14 - 17) in its namesake Canadian city. Previous years, M4M has featured mainly Montreal (and other parts of Canada) artists, being showcased to a group of "international delgates" (talent buyers, journalists, music supervisors, tour agenents and other industry types) in a tightly controlled set of shows, this year's fest expands its scope with nearly 100 performer at 16 venues, giving it more of an actual festival feel than an industry conference that has music showcases the public could by tickets to.

The line-up is much more global this year as well, with musicians from France, Iceland and, for the first time, the United States playing alongside bands from all over Canada. Artists playing the 2012 edition include Death Grips, Of Monsters and Men, Mac DeMarco, Suuns, Mykki Blanco, Sun Airway, A Place To Bury Strangers, Cadence Weapon, Memoryhouse, Yamantaka // Sonic Titan, Bleeding Rainbow and Blue Hawaii. Full list of performers is below and daily schedule is here and advance tickets to shows and panel discussions are available.

Like in years past (2011, 2010, 2009, 2008), I'll be heading up for the M fest, and will be reporting the goings-on.

If you want a taste of Montreal this week in NYC, beyond the snow we're currently experiencing, Montreal rapper Cadence Weapon plays Glasslands on Friday (11/9) with Fat Tony. Tickets are still available. Cadence Weapon tour dates are listed below.

Continue reading "2012 M for Montreal Festival: full line-up (Death Grips, A Place to Bury Strangers, Of Monsters & Men, Mac DeMarco + more)"

photos by Diana Wong

So So Glos / The Luyas / Bleeding Rainbow @ Stratosphere Sound 10/18/2012

Just like in CMJ's past, Fred Perry and recording studio Stratosphere Sound (the studio owned by James Iha, Fountains of Wayne's Adam Schlesinger and Ivy's Andy Chase) teamed to record eight band in eight hours on Thursday of CMJ week (10/18). With Grammy winning producer and engineer (not to mention Edsel bassist) Geoff Sanoff at the helm, The Luyas, Poor Moon, Slug Guts, So So Glos, Foxygen, Blessed Feathers, Ape School, and Bleeding Rainbow did guerilla session of two or three songs that will be made available on an Insound mix tape sometime in the future. Meanwhile check out more pictures of all eight bands below.

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Eternal Summers at Knitting Factory in June (more by Amanda Hatfield)

Roanoke, VA indie pop band Eternal Summers will be heading out later this year as a support act on Nada Surf's tour which comes to NYC on December 14 for a show at Bowery Ballroom. Nada Surf also plays Bowery Ballroom again the next night (12/15) but no opener has been announced for that show. Tickets for both of Nada Surf's Bowery Ballroom shows are on sale now.

Eternal Summers will be in NYC much sooner though, seeing as they're scheduled to play at least three CMJ week shows. First they'll play the Kanine Records/Wild Honey Pie/Etnies/Brooklyn Brewery/BreakThru Radio day party at Cameo Gallery on October 19 with Valleys, Beach Day, Bleeding Rainbow, Zambri, Moon King, Roommates, and DJ sets from Patrick Wimberly (of Chairlift), Thomas Fekete (of Surfer Blood), Allen Blickle (of Baroness), and Xray Eyeballs. The party is free and starts at noon (flier below). Then they'll play the Dirty Laundry & Get Bent party at Pianos on October 20 with Har Mar Superstar, The Sundelles, Fergus & Geronimo, Shark?, Squarehead, Radical Dads, and MØ. Tickets for that show are on sale now and the flier is below.

Eternal Summers will also play our BrooklynVegan day party at Public Assembly on Saturday (10/20) which is totally free. More info on that coming soon. Meanwhile we announced the lineup of our Friday day party at the same venue.

The band released their new album, Correct Behavior, over the summer and already have videos for its tracks, "Millions" and "You Kill." They recently finished up the video shoot for "Good As You," which you'll be seeing in the near future and are also holding a video contest for "I Love You." Entries are due October 31. You can watch those two aforementioned videos below, where you'll also find show flyers and a list of upcoming dates.

Continue reading "Eternal Summers playing CMJ shows (including BV day party on Saturday) before touring w/ Nada Surf (dates)"

It's been about two years since we last heard from Montreal's Valleys who apparently have had a rethink since then. The band (Matilda Perks and Marc St Louis) have dropped the folky elements of their music but kept the ethereal atmophere, adding layers of analog synths to their sound. Valleys new album will be out early next year on Kanine but NYC folk can hear their new sound next week during CMJ. They'll play the Kanine Records day party on Friday at Cameo (10/19, 6 PM) and then Saturday (10/20) afteroon (1:15 PM) at the Pop Montreal day party which is also at Cameo. So if you can tear yourselves away from one of our day parties at Public Assembly those same days (right down N. 6th St.), do stop by and check them out.

The Kanine showcase also has Beach Day, Bleeding Rainbow, Eternal Summers, Zambri, Moon King and Roommates (featuring mems of Surfer Blood and Pop Etc.). The show is free and open to the public and flyer for the show is below.

The Pop Montreal day party line-up also free and open to the public and features Goose Hut, Mozart's Sister, Blue Hawaii, and Solar Year and the flyer for that show is below too.

Continue reading "Valleys sign to Kanine, playing NYC next week for CMJ"

Delicate Steve at 4Knots Festival 2012 (more by Chris La Putt)

Popgun Booking is turning four years old and they're celebrating with an anniversary party at their homebase of Glasslands on Saturday (9/29) featuring performances by 8-bit partiers Anamanaguchi and instrumental wonderkind Delicate Steve and DJ sets by True Womanhood and Friendly Ghost. (They also list Mitt Romney as DJing which is probably a joke, but his schedule is open that day.) The show is FREE but you do need to RSVP.

Delicate Steve, who spent most of the summer touring his new album, will be here for CMJ too. He's playing a just-announced My Social List showcase at the Martin Room in Webster Hall on October 16 with Teen Daze, Dent May, Heavenly Beat, Mac Demarco, Bleeding Rainbow, The Young Evils and Grand Resort. Tickets are on sale now.

Anamanaguchi, meanwhile, will be touring in October and November with Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin being the trek's midpoint. All tour dates, as well as a flyer for the Popgun Anniversary party, are below.

Continue reading "Delicate Steve playing CMJ after free show at Glasslands with Anamanaguchi who are touring this fall (dates)"

A Place to Bury Strangers at MHOW in July (more by Chris La Putt)

Brooklyn shoegazers A Place to Bury Strangers released their newest record, Worship, this past June and have been on the road in support of it. They're over in Europe right now but will kick off another North American run surrounding Fun Fun Fun Fest this fall with Bleeding Rainbow. That tour hits NYC on November 18 at Bowery Ballroom. Tickets for that show are not on sale yet but check ticketmaster for updates.

APTBS recently made a video for Worship track, "Leaving Tomorrow." You can watch that video and check out a list of all upcoming dates below.

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by Bill Pearis

Bleeding Rainbow at Brooklyn Bowl, 8/29/2012 via @brooklynvegan Instagram

Philadelphia's Bleeding Rainbow played Brooklyn Bowl last night with Oberhofer and Heavenly Beat and had a pretty good set, rocking more of a shoegaze-meets-X vibe now that they're a four-piece, playing songs mostly from their terrific new album, Yeah Right, which recently got moved from an October 2012 release to January 2013. You'll have another chance to see them before that as the band just announced they'll play Glasslands on October 10 and tickets for that show are on sale now.

Some of you may want to go just to see openers SISU which is Dum Dum Girls drummer Sandra Vu's band who make gothy postpunk/shoegaze a la Lush or Slowdive (with a slinky dash of Siouxsie perhaps). I caught them at SXSW this year and thought they were pretty good, despite their drummer being MIA. SISU's debut album is due out any minute, but in the meantime you can stream their Demon Tapes, Vol 2 EP below (and download it for free from Bandcamp). No other SISU tour dates at the moment but seems like a long trip from L.A. just for one show and CMJ just a week later.

Also playing are new wave fans Punks on Mars who just released a new single, "People Talk," on his Bandcamp which is also a free download and streamable below. If you like King Tuff or Jay Reatard or the Knack you should check 'em out.

Streams are below.

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by Bill Pearis

Oberhofer

As mentioned before, Oberhofer are playing Brooklyn Bowl on Wednesday (8/29) and since we posted about that Bleeding Rainbow and Heavenly Beat have been added to the show, which makes for a pretty solid line-up. Tickets are still available but if you'd like to go to the show for free, we're giving away a pair of tickets. Details on how to enter are below.

Bleeding Rainbow's new album, Yeah Right, was supposed to come out October 9 but has now been pushed back to January 29. In the months leading up to it, the band will release a series of 7" singles, the first of which, "Pink Ruff," will be out in October, with "Drift Away" released in November and "Waking Dream" in December. You can stream "Pink Ruff" below and watch the video as well. Bleeding Rainbow head out on tour with Eternal Summers right after the Brooklyn Bowl show and will be back in NYC around CMJ. Updated dates are listed below.

The Brooklyn Bowl show will be the second show for Heavenly Beat in live band form. I caught the group's live debut at Public Assembly a few weeks back, and thought they were pretty good for a first show.

Video, streams and Bleeding Rainbow tour dates are below.

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Erykah Badu at Rock The Bells 2011 (more by Dana (distortion) Yavin)

today in NYC
* Raheem DeVaughn @ B.B. King's
* Michael Kaeshammer @ Joe's Pub
* Smokey's Secret Family @ Barbes
* Jon DeRosa / Kris Gruen @ Joe's Pub
* Alanis Morissette @ Wellmont Theatre
* Hudson River Park Blues BBQ @ Pier 84
* Friendly People, Mighty Tiny @ Cake Shop
* BoomBox, Sonic Spank @ Bowery Ballroom
* Dramarama, Rich Russo @ Knitting Factory
* Afro Punk Festival @ Commodore Barry Park
* Covenant, The Break Up @ Le Poisson Rouge
* Home Video, Port St. Willow, Howth @ Cameo
* Jay Brannan, Jeff Le Blanc @ Highline Ballroom
* Charlie Parker Jazz Festival @ Marcus Garvey Park
* Dog Bite, Young Unknowns, Amalie Bruun @ Glasslands
* Gayle Young with Reinhard Reitzenstein @ The Stone
* Andrew Deutsch / Peer Bode Carrier Band @ The Stone
* Michael Hearst's Songs for Unusual Creatures @ Barbes
* Quicksand, Italian Horn @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
* Spacehog, Endless Boogie @ Rocks Off Concert Cruises
* Michael Jackson Birthday Celebration @ Dekalb Market
* The Lost Patrol, Ballroom Jacks, No Kill @ Rock Shop
* Krallice, Ancient Wound, Sea Of Bones @ Saint Vitus Bar
* Next Tribe, Crooked Man, Beatbox Guitar @ Mercury Lounge
* The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Magic Castles @ Webster Hall
* Betsy Kingston & The Crowns, The Danvilles @ Mercury Lounge
* Autodrone, Twin Guns, Heroes and Heroines @ Knitting Factory
* Dramarama, "Anything Anything" with Rich Russo @ Knitting Factory
* The Toothaches, Miss Kacie Marie, Sideways in the Soup @ The Gutter
* Escort, Darcy James Argue's Secret Society @ World Financial Center
* Husky Burnette, Carl Gallagher & The Off-Track Bettors @ Union Hall
* Cosmonaut, Quickly Quietly, The Ascetic Junkies, Dispensers @ Pianos
* Just Blaze, Nick Catchdubs, Danny Brown, The Stallions, BAIO @ P.S. 1
* The Vacant Lots, Rosco, The Flavor Crystals, Chatham Rise @ Cake Shop
* The Vandelles, The Brooklyn What, The Everymen, pow wow! @ Littlefield
* House of Ladosha, Triple Six Sounds, Neuport, P.O.L. Style @ 285 Kent
* Ed Askew, Gary Higgins, Zach Cale, Legends of Neglect @ Ding Dong Lounge
* Puffy Areolas, Buck Gooter, Justin Frye & Jason Adam Baker @ Death By Audio
* Grand Resort, Four Visions, The Interest Group, Strange Shapes @ Shea Stadium
* French Horn Rebellion (DJ), Stuff Hipsters Hate (DJ), Golden Pony (DJ) @ Glasslands
* Glenn Branca, Neptune, Christina Carter, White Suns, Action Beat @ Public Assembly

Today is the first day of the Afro-Punk Fest in Commodore Berry Park. Look for performances from Erykah Badu, Ninjasonik, Das Racist, Cerebral Ballzy, The Memorials and many many more today. If you missed it, the schedule is HERE.

'80s college radio faves Dramarama are playing a midnight show at Knitting Factory. It's FREE but you do need to RSVP. The video for Dramarama's classic single "Anything Anything" is below.

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Bleeding Rainbow made a video (shot on 16mm film) for "Pink Ruff" from their new album Yeah Right, due out on Kanine on October 9. You can watch that below.

You can check out the video for Ariel Pink's "Only in My Dreams" as well. It's from his "Best New Music" awarded new album Mature Themes. Watch it below.

What else?

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by Bill Pearis

DOWNLOAD: Eternal Summers - You Kill (MP3)

Bleeding Rainbow at Northside Fest 2012 (more by Amanda Hatfield)

Philadelphia's Bleeding Rainbow have signed with Kanine Records who will relelase their new album, Yeah Right, on October 9. (Their appearance on the Kanine Records Northside showcase makes a little more sense now.) You can check out a video teaser for the album at the bottom of this post along with the album's cover art and tracklist.

Eternal Summers, Northside Fest 2012

The band will hit the road late summer with their old pals and now labelmates Eternal Summers. While that tour doesn't hit NYC and Bleeding Rainbow don't have any NYC dates of their own, Eternal Summers will be here a few times in the next month. They play Mercury Lounge on July 26 with Ex Cops (who just played the Seaport) and tickets for that show are still available. If you pre-order the vinyl to the band's teriffic new album, Correct Behavior, through Insound you can see Eternal Summers play the day before the Merc show (7/25) at an "intimate location" with free Brooklyn Lager and singed posters from the band. You can download the album's new single, a real corker titled "You Kill," at the top of this post. The whole album is streaming below.

Eternal Summers are also playing the free afternoon Sound Bites series (which I curate) at The Fulton Stall Market on Sunday, August 12. All Eternal Summers dates are listed below.

Continue reading "Bleeding Rainbow sign to Kanine Records, touring with Eternal Summers (who have three upcoming NYC shows)"

photos by Amanda Hatfield; words by Bill Pearis

Eternal Summers

Roanoke, VA's Eternal Summers have a come a long way in the last two years. Now a three-piece, the band combine a tense energy, musicianship, and increasingly-skillfull pop smarts into an effortless package. It's new wave in the best sense and you could almost imagine them in between Athletico Spizz 80 and The Go-Gos in Urgh! a Music War. The band's new album, Correct Behavior, is packed with potential singles and we got most of them -- "Millions," "Wonder," and "You Kill" -- last night at Knitting Factory as part of the Kanine Records/Terrorbird showcase at the Northside Festival. Maybe it's because I had been listening to the new album a lot and knew almost every song they played, but Eternal Summers were the best I've seen them...yet.

Eternal Summers will be back in NYC on July 26 for a show at Mercury Lounge (tickets are still available) and will be back again August 12 to play the free afternoon Sound Bites Series (which I curate) at Fulton Stall Market down by South Street Seaport. All Eternal Summers tour dates are listed below.

Before them on the Knit bill were their old freinds Bleeding Rainbow (the two bands shared an early split 7"). In turing from a duo to a four-piece, have become a pretty powerful force themselves, though the harmonies have a little ways to go in matching the instrumantal skills and songwriting which are already there. The vocals got better as the set went on, though, and when Rob and Sarah nailed them, they recalled X by way of early-'90s Sonic Youth.

The rest of the evening was good too: percussive-heavy Zambri slinky and danceable (more than a little Siouxsie in their music); Hollywood, FL's Beach Day make appealing bubblegum garage despite wishing they'd thought harder about coming up with a band name; and Air Waves' aimiable jangle.

Headliner Class Actress packed the room, but I chose sleep. More photos from the night are below.

Continue reading "Eternal Summers played Knitting Factory w Bleeding Rainbow, Zambri, Beach Day, Air Waves & Class Actress (pics, review)"

by Bill Pearis

Eternal Summers

So as you may have heard, I think we posted about it once, the Northside Festival kicks off today, Thursday (6/14), all over Williamsburg and Greenpoint which means slightly more music and definitely more Heineken in the neighborhood than normal. You can still buy festival badges that will get you into get you into all shows, theoretically, but depends on the venue and capacity. Many shows have advance tickets, like tonight's GZA's shows (early and late, both sold out) at MHoW or the Cold Cave at Europa (almost sold out I hear) to name two, or you can try your luck buying at the door.  Basically, if you are relying on buying at the door or using your badge, get there early. Small places like Cameo reach badge capacity early.

Tonight there's the BBG/BV Presents showcase at St. Vitus with Dragged into Sunlight, The Year is One, and Make. Also tonight, though not part of Northside, is the BBG presented show at Acheron with Secretarian Violence, The Love Below, Poison Planet, and Pharaoh which means BBG will be one tired dude tomorrow (and Evillive will be late posting).

I also recommend the Kanine Records show tonight at Knit, as Virginia's Eternal Summers have made one of my favorite albums of 2012 so far, Correct Behavior, which isn't out till next month but I know for a fact will be sold at the merch table tonight. (Check out their new video for "Wonder" below.) They're great live too. Also on the bill: Class Actress, Bleeding Rainbow (now a rocking quartet), Zambri, the controversially-named (but pretty good) Beach Day, and Air Waves. Something else to consider that I just discovered: Knitting Factory's has a no-fee ATM.

Also tonight: the Chaos in Tejas/FFF showcase at Warsaw with Ceremony, Citizens Arrest, Royal Headache, and Magrudergrind. I caught Australia's Royal Headache's super-packed, sweaty show at Cake Shop last night and all I can say is wow. They are the real deal and singer Shogun belted it out, hit every note and is, I'm pretty sure, the best singing I've ever heard at Cake Shop and probably ever will? I mean usually the vocals are so low there but his were booming out. If you have a badge and a free spot in your night, try to make it there -- Royal Headache are on at 9PM.

There's also the Other Music Recording Co. showcase at Union Pool who just revealed that the "???" headliner tonight is Widowspeak who will play alongside OMRC artists as Ex Cops and Nude Beach both of which are favorites here at the BVHQ plus The Everymen who I've been meaning to check out. (This might be my first stop of the night.) Flyer for the show is below.

I also want to see Daughn Gibson at Cameo (again go early if you want in to this one); Kool Keith at Brooklyn Bowl would be, uh, cool... there's a lot to do tonight and you can see the full Northside Schedule here.

Other Music and Kanine Records flyers and Eternal Summers video are below.

Continue reading "The 2012 Northside Festival has begun: Eternal Summers, Nude Beach, Royal Headache, Widowspeak & more Thursday picks"

by Bill Pearis

While one could argue whether or not we need any more bands names with the word "beach" in them, Hollywood, FL trio Beach Day do avoid reverbed-out production and most of the other sonic signifiers associated with the term these days, in favor of '60s R&B/girl group pop. You can stream a couple songs over at their Bandcamp.

Beach Day will make their NYC debut next week. They'll play during the Northside Festival at the Kanine Records showcase at Knitting Factory on June 14 that also features Eternal Summers, Bleeding Rainbow, Zambri, plus guests Class Actress and Air Waves. Tickets are available now, or you can get in with your Northside badge (limited number of badges get in). Beach day also play Pianos the day before (June 13) with Ski Lodge, Cool Serbia and The Hudson Branch, and advance tickets are available now.

The flyer for the Kanine Northside show is below.

Continue reading "Beach Day sign to Kanine Records, playing NYC next week"

photos by Andrew St. Clair, videos by (((unartig)))

Widowspeak @ Death By Audio - March 24, 2012

Brooklyn DIY venue Death By Audio is celebrating five years, and Saturday night's special bill included Eternal Summers, Bleeding Rainbow, Shark?, and a headlining set by Widowspeak (who just played one of our parties in Austin). Pictures from the whole night, and video of three of the bands, below...

Continue reading "Widowspeak, Bleeding Rainbow, Eternal Summers & Shark? played Death By Audio (pics, video)"

b Bill Pearis

DBA crowd for JEFF the Brotherhood in Feb (more by Andrew St. Clair)

South Williamsburg DIY space Death by Audio will be five years old on March 31 and are throwing a birthday party for themselves featuring Neckbeard Telecaster, Grooms, Les Savvy Fav's Tim Harrington doing something solo, and Free Paint (Deerhoof's Greg Saunier and Flying's Sara Magenheimer). And maybe some special guests? Who can say?

While the 31st is the official anniversary party, all of March has been loaded with semi-official ones. Saturday (3/24) is a stacked bill, with Widowspeak, Eternal Summers, Bleeding Rainbow and Shark?. I actually saw the first three last week in Austin at various SXSW shows (like our Hotel Vegan day party on Friday 3/16) and all were in fine form.

There's also Sweden's Echodeck on Sunday (3/25),  reunited '80s Aussie band Feedtime on March 29, and  Little Lungs (one-off reunion gig) with Nouns (Marissa Paternoster of Screaming Females, who did part of the DBA stage mural, btw) on March 30.

While their were shows at what they called the Sugar Factory earlier (I remember seeing Dirty on Purpose and Vaz there during CMJ 2005), March 31 was the first show under the name Death by Audio (part of the space which Oliver Ackerman had been using since 2002 for his effects pedals company). I've seen so many memorable shows there (JEFF the Brotherhood, Thee Oh Sees, Ty Segall, METZ to name just a few) over the last five years. Here's to many more.

Full schedule at Entertainment4Every1's site.

photos by Tim Griffin

Widowspeak @ Hotel Vegan

Widowspeak are back from a trip that brought them to Mexico for Festival NRML and to Austin for SXSW where they played they played Hotel Vegan. Bill Pearis wrote:

Widowspeak were the first of three bands who played our party Friday that are on Captured Tracks. (DIVE and Craft Spells would be the others.) Molly Hamilton gets compared to Hope Sandoval a lot, and they both do have that sultry breathy vocal quality but Mazzy Starr never got up enough speed for song like Widowspeak's "Fir Coat."

Bleeding Rainbow didn't play any of our SXSW parties, but Bill did catch them in Austin the same day he saw Widowspeak, and wrote:

Bleeding Rainbow were on their last couple songs when I got to the Iron Bear. A year ago, the Philadelphia band were a duo (still with the name Reading Rainbow) but added a member last fall and then changed their name. Now... they're a four-piece and sounded fierce!

Bleeding Rainbow have on other show on their upcoming calendar, on March 30th at Johnny Brenda's in Philadelphia supporting Cloud Nothings. Cloud Nothings play two NYC shows next week with A Classic Education, at Mercury Lounge and Glasslands (both are sold out).

NYCTaper was on hand for Widowspeak's last NYC show earlier this month, and has the audio from the show to prove it.

Check out some Widowspeak video/interviews from during SXSW/Festival NRML, more pictures from Hotle Vegan, and updated Cloud Nothings dates below....

Continue reading "Widowspeak played BV-SXSW (more pics), playing Death By Audio w/ Bleeding Rainbow & more (Saturday)"

photos by Dana (distortion) Yavin

Bleached @ Knitting Factory

We missed the first opener Habibi, but Bleeding Rainbow (formerly Reading Rainbow), Jack White's friends The Black Belles, and their tour-mates Bleached (ex Mika Miko) at Knitting Factory in Brooklyn on Saturday night (2/11). Here are some pictures.

Now in Chicago, The Black Belles will peform at an Anti-Valentine's event before their show with Bleached at Empty Bottle. The two bands then part ways and Bleached hits the road with Veronica Falls who also played NYC over the weekend.

More pictures from Knitting Factory below...

Continue reading "Bleached, the Black Belles & Bleeding Rainbow played Knitting Factory (pics)"

By Bill Pearis

At the end of 2011 Philadelphia's Reading Rainbow (who had recently expanded from duo to trio) changed their to Bleeding Rainbow, something I only realized when I saw them open for Cloud Nothings at the Studio at Webster Hall this last Thursday. (And I only caught the last song.) If you're wondering why they did this, they have an answer (via their Tumblr):

READING RAINBOW = BLEEDING RAINBOW
REASONS WE CHANGED OUR NAME FROM READING RAINBOW TO BLEEDING RAINBOW:

- We like the name Bleeding Rainbow better.

- It is trippy as shit.

- We didn't want to get a cease and desist letter from PBS.

- We were sick of being named after a children's t.v. show.

- We were sick of people fixating on it and making dumb jokes/comments about it. (even though it was our own damn fault.)

- Carrie Brownstein didn't like the name Reading Rainbow.

Bleeding Rainbow are gearing up to hit the road with Crocodiles, a tour that doesn't appear to be stopping in NYC. (Or Philadelphia for that matter.) They will however be playing Knitting Factory on Saturday, February 11, opening for Nashville's The Black Belles and Bleached. All upcoming Bleeding Rainbow tour dates are at the bottom of this post.

Continue reading "Reading Rainbow changed their name to Bleeding Rainbow, touring with Crocodiles after NYC show (dates)"