The Buke & Gass duo, featuring Arone Dyer and Aron Sanchez, highlights precisely what’s frustrating about small scene independent sound these days from New York to Portland – they always leave us wanting more.
The past decade for New York-based independent labels has either been rough going or a coming out party that no one saw coming. It is not easy to trace how every tiny label arrived at this point, right down to the micro-trends littering Brooklyn’s past decade in music, but there are two labels in particular that might offer the perfect snapshot of Brooklyn 2001 and Brooklyn 2010.
For local musicians to be prolific in this modern-day cash-is-king society – and specifically in the pricey bohemian mecca of New York City – one has to be realistic, and get one of those things regular people call a “day job” to pay the bills. Often when that 9 am to 5pm or 4pm to 1am shift is done, a double-life is born.
Brooklyn’s The National release their fifth LP entitled High Violet on 4AD this week, kicking it off with a series of events planned for the High Violet Annex in Manhattan leading up to a sold out show at BAM on May 15.
Check out our May round up for shows to see and things to hear.
AUSTIN, TX — Kiss Kiss, a New York-based indie/folk/orchestral/whateveryoucallthisnow band, played a show at SXSW. True Story.
According to their MySpace page, the band will appear live in Glenn Beck’s living room later this month in Foxtown, New York.
AUSTIN , TX — New York City-based “Future Rock” band Outernational played their first of many shows today at Cafe Mundi before appearing live with Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello. Click through to read more and watch the video.
