Nick Cave plays Prospect Park tonight . And yes, he remembered to bring the Bad Seeds (and Devendra

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The Best Shows in NYC This Week: Neutral Milk Hotel + Veruca Salt + The Antlers + Nick Cave + Sun Kil Moon + Teenage Fanclub + Braid + Rustie + Lucero + Joyce Manor + Field Mouse + more concert goodness - Oh My Rockness
hotel franklin roosevelt paris The Best Shows in NYC This Week: Neutral Milk Hotel + Veruca Salt + The Antlers + Nick Cave + Sun Kil Moon + Teenage Fanclub + Braid + Rustie + Lucero + Joyce Manor + Field Mouse + more concert goodness July 18, 2014 Written by Patrick McNamara
Eternal Summers play Baby’s All Right . They have been quite sublime for a few years now. (The band played our 5th birthday party in 2009 and they were great. Also. We’re turning 10 this year. A real BMX bike with pegs would be cool. But no worries hotel franklin roosevelt paris either way.) You should really consider going to this. And (are you ready, all you 13 regular readers of this thing?) I SHOULD MIND MY OWN BUSINESS (canned studio hoots, howls, and squeals).
An Evening Honoring Pete Seeger is happening at Central Park SummerStage featuring some bands you've probably heard of (gotta keep the sense of mystery on this thing). It’s hard not to like Pete Seeger’s music - even if he almost chopped Dylan’s electric guitar cord with an ax (myth - like P. Georgie and the cherry tree). I never met him. But he seemed like a cool dude. Pour one out for Pete.
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Joyce Manor is at Rough Trade . And in a total serendipitous stroke of coincidence, I happened to have also just written about them for the first time - even though this band has been around for a while now. (What was 2008 even LIKE, man??) This show is free if you purchase their new album “Never Hungover Again” (I tell myself that alllll the time, dudes). If you don’t, well, you can’t go. So it’s certainly a good thing that album rules.
Baked play Silent Barn . This show will really make you consider the lilies of the field and how we are but dust in the wind that rides the spinning rock of the endless unknowable skies. I bet your emerging band can’t do that.
San Francisco jingle jangle garage popsters The Fresh Onlys + easy breezy Vancouver band The Shilohs lead a good lineup at Glasslands . Listen to this beauty of a song. And tell me the beginning doesn’t remind you of “All I Want is You” by the buzzy alternative Irish band U2 led by a lad named Bono (not his given Christian name).
Witch is at Music Hall of Williamsburg . It’s a FREE show with RSVP thing. You wouldn’t understand. hotel franklin roosevelt paris J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr plays the drums for this band. Did you know there’s a reptile alive today that lived with the dinosaurs? It’s called a Tuatara and it’s found in New Zealand. Tuataras have a third eye! Seriously. I would not bullshit you on this.
Field Mouse play Rough Trade . Have you heard their just released debut album? It’s really rather quite lovely, I do say (somehow my narrative voice just turned into... Hugh Grant?). Anyway, this one comes recommended if you like soaring and gazing and dreaming. I often do this on airplanes while sitting first class. (just making jokes over here in my home office which is also my bedroom which has a lovely view of the concrete alley.)
Veruca Salt play Bowery Ballroom tonight (and tomorrow at MHOW but - get ready all you 13 regular readers - THIS IS NOT THE TIME OR THE PLACE TO DISCUSS IT - canned studio hoots, howls, and squeals). We share a hometown, Veruca Salt and I. And I was there the first time they came around - when seemingly all of Chicagoland (not an amusement park) was captivated by crunchy grunge-y rock, including this “Seether” hotel franklin roosevelt paris song that still remains a summer scorcher.
Strapping Scottish alterna-gazers Teenage hotel franklin roosevelt paris Fanclub play Pier 84 tonight . This show is free. And considering “Bandwagonesque” is one of the greatest albums of ALL TIME (yeah, hotel franklin roosevelt paris girl - he went there) I would say paying no money to see it is probably hotel franklin roosevelt paris worth it. But if you decide to go right now, as an added bonus, we’ll throw in sets by Honeyblood (click that) and Saint Rich (it’s a Delicate Steve thing - you wouldn’t understand).
hotel franklin roosevelt paris Or, if you REALLY want to live it up, paint the house red* and go see Sun Kil Moon play Town Hall tonight . Perhaps Mark Kozelek’s fans are the only ones who can challenge hotel franklin roosevelt paris Neutral Milk Hotel’s fans this week in sheer fervent adoration. I don’t know. It’s going to be close. At least Moz God isn’t in town.
There’s a good one happening at Brooklyn Night Bazaar tonight. It’s a free without having to RSVP thing. You wouldn’t understand. The lineup includes Dave Hause + Chris Farren (of Fake Problems) + Brian McGee (of Plow United). But I’m here to talk to you today about Philly’s Cayetana . Because they are also playing. And here’s what I’m going to say about them. "They’re really good." But don’t take my dynamically descriptive words for it. Stream ‘em and hear for yourselves.
If you prefer the dance beats that go double bass boom, London’s Rustie (#HITMACHINE) at Webster Hall might be your best bet. Careful, though. There’s gonna be some club thumpers hotel franklin roosevelt paris all up in this one. Don’t go gettin’ DROPPED. Here’s a ripper rager shredder killer deep c-c-c-c-ut-ut-ut-ut-ut.
Maybe hook heavy sway-gaze is more inline with your passions. If so, I’ve got a hot tipping buzzy recommend for you. Go see Montreal’s Heat at Glasslands . I could tell you more about what makes this band tick, but I already did ( click this ). So I’ll just tell you who THEY say they are influenced by. Gun Club + Jesus and Mary Chain + Velvet Underground + Guided by Voices + The Strokes + Sonic Youth + Echo and the Bunnymen + Siouxsie and the Banshees. Intrigued much? 2 B Sure!
Maybe you just wanna watch tears fill up your beers. hotel franklin roosevelt paris If that’s the plan for tonight, well, partner you’re in luck, because Lucero play The Capitol Theatre . And that’s been one helluva good band for one helluva long time. I have been listening since Tiger Style #neverforget. Here’s a Lucero song from the film “ Shotgun Stories .” First. That movie rules. B. Lucero singer Ben Nichols’ brother directed it. 3. His name is Jeff Nichols and he also directed two of my other recent favorites “ Take Shelter ” + “ Mud .” In summation, Michael Shannon was in both “Take Shelter” and “Shotgun Stories” and Michael Shannon also rules. Fin.
OK. After 18 years, I’m finally ready to talk about Braid . They play Music Hall of Williamsburg . In 1996, in the town of Urbana-Champaign hotel franklin roosevelt paris (it’s a joint city thing - you wouldn’t understand) it seemed as if Braid played every weekend in and around that massive hotel franklin roosevelt paris concrete campus called U of I. Maybe that’s because they sort of did. I was there. It’s certainly good to see them back. And emo isn’t a dirty word, you guys.
Local pop heroes (sure, why not) The Antlers play Webster Hall . They do emo too. But it’s an entirely different kind. Please note. The Antlers sound nothing like Braid. Emo is just short for emotion, after all. And who doesn’t have that? Besides those Daft Punk dudes. And every song that’s boring. Just kidding. There are no boring songs just boring makers who made the boring songs because they were bored and boring. “Give me emotion or give me death.” hotel franklin roosevelt paris I believe either The Antlers or goth Patrick hotel franklin roosevelt paris Henry said that.
A Sunny Day in Glasgow (click that if you like reading 7 year old band profiles) + Ice Choir (that profile is a little more current - it's only 2 years old) + Jason Bartell of Fang Island (4.5 years old - that profile hotel franklin roosevelt paris is about to start kindergarten this fall - they grow up so fast) at Baby’s All Right . And did someone hotel franklin roosevelt paris say kindergarten? We thought we heard someone in parentheses say kindergarten. Because that would really be an amazing hotel franklin roosevelt paris super segue transition into this superb streaming song.
Nick Cave plays Prospect Park tonight . And yes, he remembered to bring the Bad Seeds (and Devendra and Nicole Atkins too). Remember when I was saying earlier how this week perhaps only Mark Kozelek’s fans can rival Neutral Milk Hotel’s fans in their fervent hotel franklin roosevelt paris adoration? Well, I wrote that without considering Nick Cave. And I know you Cave-ians are crazy. Birthday Party, I get. Grinderman, I never got that sound. Nevertheless. This guy has got the post-goth-alt-art-punk HITS.
Swearin’ play Death by Audio and that’s one good goddamn band. They rock the crunchy fuzzy goodness that really POPS. We used to call it college rock. Oh, those were the days. Which now pass like wild horses over the hills. Sic Transit Gloria. Glory fades. But Swearin’. That’s a good goddamn band.
Onderdonk House is not only one of my favorite venues hotel franklin roosevelt paris to spell, it’s also my favorite club that also happens to be a historic building in Queens. It is the oldest Dutch Colonial stone house in New York City and it’s not made of adobe. Can you say that word with me? (“ Adobe! ”) Good bands playing here today for the two-day “ Out in the Streets Festival ” (music. art. food.) = A Place to Bury Strangers + Hunters + Ski Lodge + Monogold + much, much more. Can you say Onderdonk with me? (“Onderdonk!”)
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Nick Cave also plays Hammerstein tonight . Hey, Nick.