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NATASHA: Hey, Hey, Hey
A year ago, Natasha was working at the Subway in Atlantic City. This year? She’s just plain workin’ it!
We Know It’s Only Rock N’ Roll But We Like It
SEXY BOY: Air‘s Jean-Benoit Dunckel, The Fillmore, Last Night BY SIMONE SECCI FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT Air are one of those bands that have this precious ability to relax you like nothing else does. Personally I find this amazing and besides any consideration about the nature of the music, which draws heavily and equally from seventies prog, sixties extravaganza and eighties pop. But even though — doesn’t this mix sound perfect? And it does, it really does! The live show is just great, the duo of Jean-Benoit and Nicolas have this amazing back up band that recreate live every single sound from […]
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN
DAISY DUKES OF HAZARD: Amy Winehouse, Electric Factory, Last Night [FLICKR] BY JONATHAN VALANIA FOR THE INQUIRER Elizabeth II might have been at the Kentucky Derby, but the real queen of England was at the Electric Factory Saturday night. Her name is Amy Winehouse, and she is nothing short of a nouveau soul sensation. Her breakthrough album, Back To Black, with its clever post-modern amalgam of ’60s soul, Motown and Spectorian girl groups, is currently blowing up in all formats. While royalty watchers wondered aloud which hat Elizabeth would deign to wear to the Churchill Downs, the sold out crowd […]
All Of This Happened While You Were Sleeping
GROUND CONROL TO MAJOR TOM: Arcade Fire, Tower Theater, Last Night EVA SAYS: The Arcade Fire is currently Canada’s most exciting export, which in another time would have been damning them with faint praise. These days it’s praise of the highest order, especially if you are an indie-rock band. After only two albums, the seven-member collective has positioned itself as a trans-national sensation with their solemn lyrics, bombastic instrumentation and passionate melodies. And still, nobody seems more surprised than the band members themselves. This is true especially of the band-leading songwriting couple Win Butler and Regine Chassagne, who still appear […]
Gilmore Girl Namedrops First Unitarian, Millions To Regard Church As Ground Zero Of Indie Rock
DAN GROSS REPORTS: R5 Productions’ Sean Agnew was at First Unitarian Church Tuesday, when Andrew W.K. was doing a spoken-word event, when the text messages began pouring into his cell phone. The church, where he books indie rock, punk and hip-hop shows, had just been name-dropped on “Gilmore Girls.” Agnew said he thought it was all a big mistake until he downloaded the episode yesterday and saw for himself. Agnew was surprised, and points out that Tokyo Police Club [pictured], a real band with whom a “Gilmore Girls” character was to tour, actually played the First Unitarian several weeks ago. […]
We Know It’s Only Rock N’ Roll But We Like It
HOW SOON IS WOW? Johnny Marr w/ Modest Mouse, Electric Factory, Last Night BY JONATHAN VALANIA FOR THE INQUIRER: I’ve never really been able to quite put my finger on what it is exactly that bothers me about Modest Mouse: Was it that they always sounded to my ears like The Sons Of The Pixies? Or, was it that they came up around the time I stopped believing in rock bands — which was, not coincidentally, when the Pixies’ broke up (not to worry, this was a temporary thing, for me and the Pixies). Either way, in the interim, Modest […]
EARLY WORD: With The Lights Out It’s Less Dangerous
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BE HERE NOW…
FIRST THING U LEARN IS THAT U ALWAYS GOT TO WAIT: Modest Mouseketeers, Electric Factory, Last Night SIMONE SECCI FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT: Never saw Modest Mouse live before and I regret that ’cause probably if I’d done that right after their masterpiece, The Lonesome Crowded West, that would have probably gotten stuck in my head as one of the best live acts of the last decade. Having the legendary Johnny Marr from The Smiths (!!!!) on the guitar and a tag team percussive duo of the two Jeremiah Green and former Black Heart Procession drummer, Joe Plummer, like saying probably the […]
What Kind Of Man Reads Phawker? A Loverman!
FUCKIN’ A RIGHT: Andrew WK, First Unitarian, Last Night EVA SAYS: For those of you who know Andrew W.K. as the blood drenched, body thrashing, party maniac responsible for hits such as I Get Wet, We Want Fun and Party Hard –– get ready for a whole new Andrew: Andrew the compassionate humanitarian and spiritual guru. He feels your pain, and he will try to tell you what it all means, too. As if to demonstrate his more refined side, this Andrew opened up his Q&A session with a beautiful classical piano piece first. Then he broke out the idiosyncratic […]
EARLY WORD: Weimar Republicans
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