NYC Taper has a quality bootleg of the Tristen performance from last weeks CMJ performance at Cake Shop. There are plenty of tracks taken from Charlatans at the Garden Gate in the thirty minute set along with a handful of new songs. Oh, and they also include the in between song banter in which subjects such as Jazz Music and Day Drinking are discussed. Go download it.
The Southern Shame
Careful with That Ax, Irene
iTunes – CDBaby
In attempting to describe the sound of The Southern Shame I found myself fairly stumped. And then I ran across their description of themselves:
Acoustic violence mixed with rock & roll, self-deprecating humor, a six pack of beer, marital problems and country music.
That sums it up pretty well. There’s a good hybrid mixing of country, rockabilly, rock and a bit of drunken languid swagger to it. “Drinking Music” if you will.
Grimeys – 6pm
FREE
Blind Pilot
Cory Chisel
Exit/In – 9pm
Satan’s Youth Ministers
The Alcohol Stuntband
The End – 9pm
Chromeo
Breakbot
How I Became the Bomb doing Hall & Oates
Cannery Ballroom – 9pm
$25
I Believe in Hotpants
The Teenage Pregnancy Party
Available Digitally
I know very little about I Believe in Hotpants but after having listened to The Teenage Pregnancy Party EP I am glad they reached out for some coverage. The band is comprised of two brothers (twins) and a drummer they discovered through “an extremely desperate Craigslist ad” making pop-rock the way it should be made. Big guitars, emphatic sing-along choruses and an energy that’s always moving things forward. Fans of Superchunk, Dinosaur Jr., Sugar or any number of mid-to-late 90’s indie rock should find this right in their wheelhouse. I certainly did.
Exit/In – 9pm
$20
The Kingston Springs
Ravello
Lonely H
Vitek
Buffalo Clover
Vinyl Thief
Afterlife Parade
Sol Cat
Mercy Lounge – 9pm
FREE
Fitz and the Tantrums
Walk the Moon
Cannery Ballroom – 9pm
$20 adv
Oh Dang Lo Mein
Joel Dahl
Sean Michel
Sarah Carter
The Basement – 8pm
$5
Matt Moody
“Name Your Heart”
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Matt Moody is a man of many bands. You can often find him making music with Hands Down Eugene, A Country Gentleman and, lately, with By Lightning. But he’s also decided to start releasing tunes under his proper name – Matt Moody. The first release from this new undertaking is the single “Name Your Heart” – available here. It’s 3 minutes and 19 seconds of big guitars and a welcome introduction to what may be coming down the pipe.
