Saturday, July, 14, 2012 , 1:00 PM
South Street Seaport, New York, NY
FREE!
The Village Voice’s 4 Knots Music Festival returns for it’s second year at the South Street Seaport Pier 17 with headliner Archers Of Loaf.
This Year’s Performers:
Delicate Steve, Archers Of Loaf, The Drums, Crocodiles, Team Spirit, Doldrums, Hospitality, Bleached, Nick Waterhouse and Devin.
Friday, July 6, 2012, 7:00 PM
FREE!
A chance to hear from Patrick Watson’s newest album Adventures In Your Own Backyard. Adventures… was made at home after a grueling five-year run that saw Watson and his band – bassist Mishka Stein, guitarist Simon Angell, and drummer Robbie Kuster – tour the world in support of two critically-acclaimed and successful albums, including the Polaris award-winning Close To Paradise.
Hailing from the small city of Jonkoping, Sweden, Loney Dear’s primary member Emil Svanängen first began recording homemade, overdubbed tapes of delicate, folkish indie pop in the early 2000s. After several years of touring stateside and abroad, Loney Dear released Dear John, its fourth full-length in January 2012. His album—the appropriately titled Hall Music, is an expansive record that finds Svanängen closer to creating the type of orchestral music he has always sought to bring to life on stage (whether he’s actually playing with an orchestra or not).
Friday, June 29, 2012, 7:00 PM
FREE!
London four-piece Veronica Falls mixes sweetness and light with dissonance and darkness, injecting a perfectly addictive harmony with something sadder and stranger. Veronica Falls references Beat Happening, Velvet Underground, and Galaxie 500, while mixing in the sinister sides to love songs from the 50s and 60s to make visceral pop music with an edge and a beat.
With hazy nods to both shoegaze and 60s pop/psych interspersed with their own signature sound, The People’s Temple burst through the thickening fog with anthem-like precision and unshakable irresistibly, as each track revs up and blasts off through the stratosphere, sending waves of chills and reverberation in every direction.
Sunday, July 31, 2011 4:00 PMMaintaining a cult fan base for as long as The Raveonettes have – 10 years and counting – it was only a matter of time before some of the most-loyal of acolytes began branching out to make their own kinds of beautiful noise. The musical DNA of Sune Rose Wagner and Sharin Foo is evident – and credited – by the likes of The Drums, Best Coast, Vivian Girls, Dum Dum Girls, and the British bands The Vaccines and Glasvegas. NME.com went so far to declare the Danish duo as responsible for sparking “America’s pop renaissance.”
Today, the Raveonettes are blazing a newer, darker trail with the latest release Raven In The Grave (Vice Records, 2011). Melody remains key, but the familiar bombastic beats and squalls of guitar-noise take a backseat to ghostly synths and chillingly beautiful riffs that leave one feeling simultaneously unsettled and enchanted. It’s easily the most soulful music the band has created to date.
When Virginians Nicole Yun hooked up with Daniel Cundiff, they immediately knew they had the right musical chemistry, and what resulted was something very, very punk. They call it dream punk. Taut, hooky and often wide-open, their sound is simple but it takes up room. They employ the quietest quiets and the loudest louds-from hazy, clanging reveries to rapid No Wave squalls, calling to mind early indie legends like the Raincoats, Galaxie 500, Beat Happening, and Unrest.
Saturday, July 30, 2011 12 PM – 9 PMThis Saturday brings the beginning of what is sure to be our craziest block party series yet! We’re starting the series huge in NYC with Gang Gang Dance, Zeds Dead, Claude Von Stroke, Bosco Delrey, Po Po, Maluca, BAIO + Special Guest all day long!
RSVP to guarentee entry at www.maddecentblockparty.com
Sunday July 24, 2011 4:00 PMSwirlies formed in 1990 in Boston/Cambridge, and quickly became notorious for their loud, wall-of-noise guitar music, as well as a twisted quiet side, which propelled them to the forefront of the city’s “chimp rock” scene, pitting dreamy, guitar-based pop against noisy, experimental tendencies. Often compared to My Bloody Valentine, the original band featured Damon Tutunjian (guitar/vox), Seana Carmody (guitar/vox), Andy Bernick (bass), and Ben Drucker (drums).
Swirlies released a series of EPs and four albums on the Taang! label before moving on to Bubblecore Records for 2003′s Cats of the Wild Volume 2. A handful of singles have also appeared through Slumberland, Pop Narcotic, Working Holiday and others. Plus, the band has released a number of cassettes, CDs, and downloadable albums on its Sneakyflute Empire label.
This summer, Swirlies are together once again performing a smattering of rare live shows on the east coast, with original band members Damon Tutunjian and Andy Bernick, joined by Rob ‘(The) Doctor Laasoko’ Laakso (Amazing Baby) and drummer Adam Pierce.
Psychedelic Horseshit
Hailing from Columbus, Ohio, Psychedelic Horseshit is rooted in lo-fi punk experimentation, and makes a dense, playful racket that veers between being challenging and genuinely catchy. Formed on a whim in 2005 after meeting at an “all night rave scene,” the band has kept a step ahead of the lo-fi noise pop scene they christened ‘shitgaze’ by drawing on a broad range of influences.
Currently consisting of Matt Whitehurst (vocals / guitars / drum programming / harmonica / keyboards) and Ryan Jewell (drums / percussion / keyboards), the duo released it’s second proper LP titled Lace (FatCat Records, 2011), marking a major shift that includes upgrading their sound and delivering a coherent set of bustling, uptempo, hook-laden, melted outsider pop songs. FatCat proclaims the signing of Psychedelic Horseshit as on par with the label’s landing of Animal Collective and Black Dice, 8-years ago, viewing the band as similarly vital artists.
Friday, July 15, 2011 7:00 PM
South Street Seaport Music Festival
South St New York, NY
The Radio Dept. was formed by Elin Almered and Johan Duncanson in 1995 who were in the school together in their early teenage. The name was taken from a gas station/radio repairer shop in Lund, Sweden which had a large sign with the name “Radioavdelningen, (“The Radio Department” in Swedish) hanging outside their shop.
Since 1995 members have been coming and going and at some points there has never really been a Radio Department at all.
Martin Carlberg and Johan Duncanson started playing together in 1998 and decided to use the name The Radio Dept. Since the band has done lots of gigs and lots recordings. The Radio Dept. recorded 4-tracks in friends’ living rooms or at home, in smelly warehouse, in demo studios with blinking fluorescent lightning and at schools.
In the autumn of 2001 Lisa Carlberg and Per Blomgren (Bass & drums respectively), joined the band and they started rehearsing in the way bands so often do. Soon afterwards they were all joined by Daniel Tjäder, on the keyboards. Their recordings were sent to the music magazine Sonic and got a nice review. They were also on the free CD sampler that comes with the magazine. That’s where Labrador Records discovered and learned to love the band. Now they’re a part of Sweden’s finest indie label.
Dreampop duo Asobi Seksuare sometimes jangly, sometimes ethereal, and sometimes very noisy. Sometimes all at the same time. Celebrating their tenth year together, their lastest album, Fluorescence, shows no signs of fading.
4 Knots Music FestivalMain Stage
The Black Angels
Davila 666
Oberhofer
Titus Andronicus
Mr. Dream
and Eleanor Friedberger
4 Knots Indoor Lounge
Yeasayer
Dan Deacon DJ Set
Finger on the Pulse
Punches
Brahms
