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Since Tuesday morning when I first downloaded this (for free, right here!), I have been regretting my decision to do so. You see I had an invite to this show, I could have been there in the front row singing along to every word but instead I was wherever else I was doing something that doesn't even compare to seeing Wakey! Wakey! in person. And from the sound of things, it was a pretty good time
Who: Bon Iver
Location: Northwestern, WI
RIYL: M. Ward, J. Tillman,
Thoughts: I first got caught up in the wave of Bon Iver hype last year around CMJ time. His tunes from For Emma, Forever Ago were just making the rounds and the hype was quickly building. On the first night of the marathon he was the first band I saw and he absolutely rocked me gently at Bowery that evening. His performance isn't
Who: The Apples in Stereo
Location: Denver, CO
RIYL: The Velvet Underground, The Beach Boys, Belle & Sebastian
Thoughts: Yeah, I know The Apples in Stereo have been around for ages but I've never really written about the band and that's what I promised when I first started writing all these Pitchfork profiles. So here I present to you The Apples in Stereo, a band that appears on the Colbert
The Good: A Night in the Box - "Fiddle Foot Jones"; I'm not normally the first person to get all crazed about a band that's a little bit of a bluegrass throwback mixed with the old indie rock here and there, but this is a damn fine and catchy tune. A little fiddle, a little banjo, and some scream-a-long lyrics and I was pretty much hooked from the get go. See if you don't find yourself just as
Last year I booked a band to perform at my CMJ day show called Animandible. The band was just a rocking two piece and played to all of five people that day, but on stage they performed like they were at a sold out Madison Square Garden. From that day on they had a fan they could count on in me, so when time came to book the After the Jump Fest this summer I immediately thought to bring them back
Who: Extra Golden
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
RIYL:any of those bands described as "Afro-something or other"
Thoughts: Extra Golden is a band that is Kenyan benga music and half American rock. With half of their members residing in Chiago and the other half in Nairobi, it's rare that a band could exist with a massive ocean between, but somehow they make it all work together. It's an amazing sound,
Who: Icy Demons
Location: Chicago, IL
RIYL: Can, Pit Er Pat, Lightning Bolt
Thoughts: It's tough to pigeonhole the guys in Icy Demons as any one thing, considering that it's an insane collection of everything but the kitchen sink, but I'm sure more then enough people have tried to compare them to Man Man thanks to the fact that Pow Pow, Man Man's drummer, is in the band. But that's just crazy
Bisher nix Neues. Ich warte gerade, dass Erik aus dem Urlaub kommt, er war ja schon in Kontakt mit DFL, dass man das mal “auffrischt”.