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JP: Advice to CMJ bands: Don't wait until the last night for a showcase. Looks half deserted tonight. |
JP: Little Jackie--old soul vamps, modern Brooklyn sass. |
JP: Kirsten Ketsjer, Danish band, mixed dizzying guitar patterns and blunt stomps, an arty rave-up. |
MR: Vivian Girls are made to play in basements. They're sharing 1 beer -adorable. |
JP: Roisin Murphy, Irish electronica star in US debut, challenged Bjork on odd wardrobe: not a swan but a deer over her shoulders. |
JP: Dirge hour at Cake Shop. Upstairs bitter acoustic ballads of King Darves.Downstairs glacial electric laments by Castanets. OK, bummed. |
JP: Another glockenspiel--this time Frances, rotating songs between whimsical and stately. |
Moby is playing guitar with a band called the Little Death at Public Assembly in Wburg. It's gospel-y, and he's wearing a suit. |
MR: Consensus: bassist. Now, whose headgear is better:King Khan's curly lil bo peep wig or his drummer's pink jeweled turban?Ooh, tough call |
MR: whose curly hair is more entertaining to watch thrash around: Jay Reatard or his bassist's? |
JP: Friendly Fires, a dancey post-punk band, reveled in percussion. Not just drums, handclaps and cowbells but a mic hit upside the head. |
MR: overheard@pianos: "the best thing about the burger is you get the $&@*# salad! It has fennel!" Rocknrollers aren't what they used to be. |
MR Impossible not to run into people u know @ Pianos.Also impossible that they wouldn't be taking a break from listening to Crystal Antlers. |
MR: Man, it's good to be out of the office. |
JP: 21st-century business plan from rapper Shad: "Pirate me. If it's ill it'll spread virally." Then a song about being broke. |
An interviewer asked Chris Pureka to sum up her music as a haiku. I will: Folky sorrowful songs of loneliness and hurt, longing to reunite. |
JP: At Afro-Punk night I saw Ebony Bones, who has Tina Turner moves, a Siouxsie Sioux vocal quiver and a revue--showmanship at CMJ. |
Does Dent May, a ukelele-strummer from Mississippi, really need a smoke machine? |
JP: Sweet-voiced Ane Brun sang her pre-set soundcheck. Maybe everyone should. |
