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2010/11/30 Holiday Hoopla with Paper Garden Records Hello lovely readers - just wanted to give you a heads up that I'm djing at the holiday party of my friends at Paper Garden Records. Good times and great music (promise)! Come on by and have a drinky or two. RSVP HERE! Vampire Weekend - Holiday Tweet posted by n. @ 11/30/2010 | | # 2010/11/22 Darwin Deez Dance Party There isn't much better than a live show where everyone has a REALLY REALLY great time, and that was definitely the case last week at Mercury Lounge where lo-fi indie pop hero Darwin Deez took the stage with his band for a homecoming close-out to their National tour. It has been an interesting ride this year for Darwin Deez, as the well-deserved buzzy buzz coming off his single releases and subsequent self-titled debut album in the UK has finally drifted its way back across the pond - Mercury Lounge marked his first sold out NYC show ever. Whether he's aware of being seemingly on the precipice of "blowing up" was hard to gather and of no consequence really anyways, as the band delivered a crazy boisterous set last Wednesday, highlighted by numerous between set dance breaks performed buy Darwin and the entire band in full choreography. I mean whoa: You get the idea. That's basically the way I *think* that I dance when I drink a lot of Four Loko, while in actuality... yeah. But seriously, I haven't felt that kind of energy in a room in a while, it was almost like if everyone at Mercury Lounge went out after the show and partied together, we would have been at the most fun party of all time. Positive vibes are infectious, and Darwin Deez has them in spades. Darwin Deez - Bad Day Tweet posted by n. @ 11/22/2010 | | # 2010/11/12 VILLAGERS! I had the priviledge of being crammed in the back corner of Mercury Lounge last week to catch the one of the few US shows from Villagers. From the heart and mind of Dublin songwriter Conor J.O'Brien, these well-crafted indie rock songs definitely become extra magical with a full layered band behind them - but even the songs that O'Brien sang on entirely on his own were powerful and haunting in their own way, including one of my favorites, "Twenty Seven Strangers." Not to mention that NPR totally wants to have his music babies, and I personally can't get the eeriely perfect chorus to album title track "Becoming A Jackal" out of my head. O'brien and his talented band are currently on an extensive UK tour, but hopefully will grace us with more in 2011 (maybe a SXSW stop or two?). Villagers - Becoming A Jackal Villagers - Twenty Seven Strangers Tweet posted by n. @ 11/12/2010 | | # 2010/11/08 The Duke Spirit rock at Santos + NEW TRACK First of all, how last week's Duke Spirit show at Santos Party House* only cost five dollars a ticket is beyond me, but either way this London 5-piece put on a show that anyone in the packed crowd won't soon forget. Singer Liela Moss is one of the more captivating frontwomen on the rock scene today (seriously - does Garbage need an opener for their reunion tour? Because Liela + Shirley Manson would be a crazy bill), and backed by a group of very easy on the eyes lanky dudes, tore through an hour long set of tracks including some new tunes from their upcoming EP Kusama, set for a December release. The Duke Spirit - Procession Photo by the lovely Mahsa Hojjat *now drug free and with higher security than JFK Tweet posted by n. @ 11/08/2010 | | # 2010/11/05 CMJ CRUSH: KIDS OF 88 Ok this one is technically cheating because I didn't ACTUALLY see this band during CMJ due to scheduling, taco time, putting my showcase together, and so on. My disappoint in that epic failure caused me to beg their publicist to at least send me the funky new-wavey New Zealand duo's debut album Sugarpills and I have not been able to stop listening to it since she kindly obliged. Seriously, "Ribbon of Light" is on my top 10 list for the year for sure - not that new wave pop is a brand new thing, but somehow they make it seem fresh and to me that's the most important thing. Come back soon, Kids of 88! Kids of 88 - Ribbons of Light Tweet posted by n. @ 11/05/2010 | | # 2010/11/01 CMJ CRUSH: PEPPER RABBIT One band that I swooned over during CMJ was definitely Pepper Rabbit - Disclaimer: I'm pretty sure any band that makes beautiful music and has the word Rabbit in their name is going to elicit some major musical crushing from me. That said, this LA Duo just released a gorgeous album entitled Beauregard on Kanine and are currently touring around Canadia with other I Rock I Roll faves The Rural Alberta Advantage (what a match up!). These lovely folk-pop songs will delight you upon first listen and then somehow haunt you for days later - definitely one of my absolute new bands to watch that people will be talking about a lot next year. Pepper Rabbit - Babette! Tweet posted by n. @ 11/01/2010 | | #

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