Week in Music: Shine on You Crazy Wolf Bands, Dance Party for Human Furniture, and More

April 17, 2017 By Nicole Disser

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Wolf Eyes, Eartheater, Twig Harper
Saturday April 22, 8 pm at Brooklyn Bazaar: $13

Wow, what a whirlwind couple of years these must have been for Wolf Eyes– and this #blessed bestowance is well deserved for the band, which started out making noise, then moved toward not-noise-at-all noise that really was noise, until they transcended noise altogether. The comeuppance has meant, among other things, a new record label to call their own, a music festival in their honor (Trip Metal Fest will be back this year for a second go-round), a stream of sold-out shows in places that are just slightly above the underground and well beyond the borders of Metro Detroit, and now Undertow, a new album hot on the pup paws of 2015’s I Am A Problem: Mind In Pieces.

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Tags: Ad Hoc, alphaville, Art + Culture, bands, Bushwick, Eartheater, Giantology, Greenpoint, Hot Curl, live music, music, shows, The Park Church Co-Op, TONSTARTSSBANDHT, Twig Harper, Wolf Eyes

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Week in Music: Resistance Raffle & Riot, No Shame in Tear Jerkers, and More

January 23, 2017 By Nicole Disser

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Scully, B Boys, Decorum, NOIA, The Christian Peslak Band, Milk Dick
Friday January 27, 8 pm at Alphaville: $12

The Trump opposition movement continues with more benefit shows extending well beyond Day 1, including this Friday-night gathering in support of Planned Parenthood. Tunes will be provided by Scully, a dream pop/cloud rock trio by way of Oakland (née The Splinters) still drifting on the bleary vibes running through their most recent release, No Sense.

Also newgaze from Decorum, and the music of NOIA (aka Barcelonian musician Gisela Fulla-Silvestre), which, if you can imagine such a lovely thing, is the sonic equivalent of knee-buckling onto a stack of 50 body pillows. And two just-announced acts– Milk Dick (foot-stompin’/milk-and-cookies-style garage punk, a la The Black Lips) and a “special secret band” B Boys (think: Goo-era Sonic Youth) have been tacked on to the lineup too.

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Tags: alphaville, Art + Culture, B Boys, benefit shows, brooklyn bazaar, Bushwick, Cruel Angels, Decorum, east williamsburg, emo, Greenpoint, Leya, live music, Milk Dick, music, NOIA, Planned Parenthood, raffles, Scully, Sunnyvale, TONSTARTSSBANDHT, Tredici Bacci

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Shows: Take a Big Bite of Kraut, Then Cool Off With Icey Cold Wave

July 21, 2015 By Nicole Disser

Gigawatts Fest is happening this weekend, which is great and all — I need my pop fix as much as the next guy. But sometimes I want to be surrounded by sounds that whinge, “I’mmmmmmm differentttttt.” If that’s you, too, get thee to these smaller shows where you’ll find acts that don’t exactly qualify as festival material, if you catch my drift.

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Tags: Art + Culture, black metal, Black Rain, Bushwick, cold cave, Dissociative Visions, Dreamcrusher, genesis p-orridge, Good Willsmith, JelloWood / Meth Biker, John Atkison, live music, metal, music, palisades, Predatory LIght, saint vitus, shows, silent barn, Sortilegia, the wick, TONSTARTSSBANDHT, Woodsman