Swervedriver

Sky Ferreira at Rough Trade in 2013 (more by Chris La Putt) NYC pop singer Sky Ferreira has international festival appearances coming up this summer in Canada, Australia and Japan, but before all that she’ll play a hometown show on July 9 at Music Hall of Williamsburg…

OG ’90s shoegazers Swervedriver have been back in action since 2008 or so. My first-ever post on BV was about them and when they played Music Hall of Williamsburg that year, I wrote: “Swervedriver came out and just killed it…

is an in-depth exploration of a music movement in the late 20th century, a fascinating period when some innovative musicians mixed guitar noise into conventional pop song structures while maintaining a philosophy of letting the music speak for itself…

“…Simply put, from the first note of opening stunner “Last Train to Satansville” (from 1993’s Mezcal Head), Swervedriver dominated. A sonic tour de force dominated by vocalist/guitarist Adam Franklin and tour fill-in drummer Mikey Jones (who did a TREMENDOUS job filling in for Graham Bonnar, who played with them last year but couldn’t play on this tour) and augmented nicely by guitarist Jimmy Hartridge and bassist Steve George, most of this show saw Swervedriver stick to the raw, guttural, heavy punch of its first two Lps (1991’s Raise and the aforementioned Mezcal Head)…

As mentioned, Swervedriver play a headlining show at Bowery Ballroom in NYC tonight (3/31). Tickets are still on sale, and since we last spoke, NYC trio Heaven (whose members have been or are in The Comas, Dean and Britta, Ambulance LTD, The Big Sleep, Adam Franklin’s band, Snowden, and Fan-Tan), was added as opener for this show and others…

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Swervedriver at Bowery Ballroom, 2008 (more by Chris LaPutt) Swervedriver began played a bunch of shows this year including a short North American tour, which took place this past June…

Swervedriver at Bowery Ballroom, 2008 (more by Chris LaPutt) Swervedriver began playing shows again this year when they went on an Australian tour, a European tour, and short North American tour, which took place this past June…

Swervedriver’s Adam Franklin & The Bolts of Melody are spending the tail end of Septmeber and into October on the road. Tonight finds them not only smack in the middle of their East Coast jaunt, but also at Mercury Lounge in NYC (9/30)…

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