The prevailing “slacker” narrative about Brooklyn’s Parquet Courts is a monumental misdirection. While the band’s debut full-length Light Up Gold contains lines like “slackers conference at the buffet table“ and the chronicles at least one epic journey for snacks (“Stoned and Starving”)…
By Neil Patch Photos by Matthew Shelter Your enjoyment of a Savages concert depends entirely upon how easily you agree with what an artist is telling you to believe. The London-based quartet is a band with an overt and critical message for Western society best summed up by the title of their debut LP: Silence […]
By Neil Patch Photos by Daniel Schiffer Cayucas’ brief bio on their Secretly Canadian label page explains that the band’s name is “the monikered homage to a sleepy little seaside town in San Luis Obispo County, troche California.” “That town, discount Cayucos, cialis ” writes either Andrew or Katie The SC PR Rep, “has hardly changed […]
If your body isn’t sore the day after a JEFF the Brotherhood concert, salve then you’re doing something wrong–this is doubly so if they hold a two-night residency at Great Scott. The Nashville duo of brothers Jake and Jamin Orrall did this on a few stops along their most recent cross-country trek, price playing a […]
By Neil Patch Photos by Daniel Schiffer While rain ultimately defeated Prospect Park’s Great Googa Mooga in its second year of existence, and it successfully demonstrated a model of how to combine a neighborhood community festival with wider regional (and perhaps national) attention. Googa Mooga bills itself as an “amusement park of food, salve drink […]
A cursory glance at the current slate of summer music festival lineups–namely Governor’s Ball, Sasquatch, Bonnaroo, and even Delaware’s Firefly (yes, Delaware!)–already displays quite a bit of overlap. Mumford & Sons, Bjork, The Lumineers, The XX, Kendrick Lamar, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes, Of Monsters and Men…
Given their fiercely New Jerseyan identity, you wouldn’t expect Titus Andronicus to have many connections to their home state’s more ambitious colonial sibling to the north–New England–but their rescheduled show last Sunday at The Sinclair revealed a few. Local scene stalwart Elio DeLuca joined the band on piano for a few songs, marking rare lineup usually reserved for studio recording sessions…