Lemonade @ the Annex in December (more by Kyle Dean Reinford)

02-13-2009 03:00 at COOL RUNNINGS @ The Shank w/ TANLINES & J-HI
98 Bayard @ Lorimer, Brooklyn, New York

Lemonade presents: COOL RUNNINGS, an AFTER-HOURS PARTY (so this is technically on the 14th). Doors at 3AM 2AM. Live performances by Lemonade and Tanlines plus DJs J-HI and Lemonade DJs.

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Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for the Wrens / Titus Andronicus / Bell show at Bowery Ballroom.

Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for the Camera Obscura show at Mercury Lounge.

Tickets are on Am Ex presale (@ noon) for the Bronx show at Bowery Ballroom, and tickets are on sale (@ noon) for the show at Maxwell's.

Icy Demons are playing Mercury Lounge on February 25th. Tickets are on sale.

Tickets are on Am Ex presale (@ noon) for the Lucero / Titus Andronicus show at Music Hall of Williamsburg.

photos by Lori Baily

Tuesday we hopped over to the Knitting Factory to hear [Icy Demons] play some "old" songs (from way back in 2006) and a few excellent new ones, all of which were just the kind of sneakily epic that you'd hope for from a band with six members and just as many ways to kill the term "genre". Watching them was like that time our car broke down and we ended up at a surfer cocktail party where the phone didn't work, people looked at us weird and we thought we saw a body in the pool but it was just an empty keg. Fun times, weird times, but definitely interesting. If you're in, uh, Indiana or Cairo in the next couple days you can catch their catchy 'n' disturbing summer party tunes live before their tour ends. If not, every member is involved in about a billion other projects (including but not limited to Man Man, Chandelier, Herculaneum, and the defunct Need New Body) , so you should be able to catch at least one of them doing something exciting sometime soon. [FADER]

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Extra Golden @ the 2008 Pitchfork Festival (more by Joseph Juechao Xu)

"I'm sending a special thanks," sings Extra Golden's Opiyo Bilongo on the band's song "Obama," which you could consider an audio thank-you note to the senator from Illinois. For Extra Golden, the support, and the gratitude, are of a distinctly personal bent.

Bilongo, Onyango Wuod Omari, and Onyango Jagwasi, the Ken-yan members of the group, probably would never have gotten to tour the United States without Barack Obama's help.

In 2006, the band ... was scheduled to play a world-music festival in Chicago. But the Kenyans had run into some difficulty with the Department of Homeland Security and were in danger of missing their first chance to play for an American audience.

"A woman named Jenna Pilat from Obama's office - she went into the office at midnight so that she would be there when the embassy in Nairobi opened," remembers guitarist Alex Minoff. "She got on the phone with them, and we were on the phone with our guys, and we were all in touch with each other. And about five hours later those guys walked out of the embassy with their visas, and went home, got their bags, and went to the airport."
[The Boston Globe]

DOWNLOAD: Icy Demons - Miami Ice (MP3)

Icy Demons @ 2008 Pitchfork Festival (more by Joseph Juechao Xu)

Icy Demons is an experimental music project started by Bablicon's Griffin Rodriguez (credited as Blue Hawaii) and Man Man / Need New Body's Christopher Powell (Pow Pow). A project of various Chicago musicians, they have released three albums, Fight Back! on the Elephant 6-associated label Cloud Recordings. Tears of a Clone on the Eastern Developments Music, and in 2007 Miami Ice on Easel (Japan release only). [Wiki]

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photos by Joseph Juechao Xu

Boris

dancing in the mud

and much more....

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