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"(Le) Poisson Rouge is wall to wall dancing before ESG takes the stage. The music geeks are hugging the walls or waiting in the next room drinking Guinness and listening to Fugazi. At about 12:30, Renee Scroggins comes on stage followed by her sisters Valerie and Marie, her daughter Nicole and her niece Chistelle. The music geeks and hipsters clear out of the bar next door and invade the dance floor. We look on stage and immediately feel better about ourselves. ESG is dressed a lot like us: baseball hats, sweatshirts and jeans. The first song is "You're No Good," the first song off ESG's masterpiece A South Bronx Story. The first thing I notice is they create a huge sound by playing very simple music. They are more punk than most punk bands." [NY Press]

It was a long night at (Le) Poisson Rouge on Saturday (1/24). The early show at the venue was the double bill of Au and Stars Like Fleas. Lori was there for all three and said ESG was killer. More pictures from the whole evening below...

Continue reading "ESG, Au & Stars Like Fleas @ LPR, NYC - pics"

posted at 2:01 PM on January 28, 2009 in music | pictures | Comments (12)

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Hopefully you've already got your dancin' shoes on - and no intention of taking them off. Saturday alone has a ton of danceable events going on, plus a there a few things happening after Saturday to ease you into next week....

Continue reading "the week in Dance w/ Showtrotta (m83, Modeselektor, Housemeister, ESG, Tortured Soul, Save the Cannibals...)"

posted at 12:43 PM on January 24, 2009 in dance | music | To Do | Comments (7)

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ESG--four Scroggins sisters plus various percussionists--formed in the South Bronx in the late '70s, and went from covering the Stones and Rufus to recording for Tony Wilson's Factory Records label. The band's uniquely minimalist funk/post-punk sound soon caught on in clubs and dance palaces like the Paradise Garage. Decades later, songs such as "Moody" and "UFO" still resonate, partly because they've been sampled hundreds of times. Alas, ESG, which reformed in the '90s, has announced its Estrojam show will be its last [they lied].