Raffle! with prizes from: Brancaccio Food Shop, Crossroads Cafe, The Double Windsor, The Great Green

Unlike polar travel turkey last year, I managed to make it through CMJ week without getting sick. Normally I try and do a sonic detox and not see any music after CMJ for at least a week. But that's not gonna happen as there's some seriously good stuff rolling through town in the next five days. Early next week too ( Clinic/Fresh Onlys ), but let's not get ahead of ourselves too much.
Hey, remember Oh No Oh My ? No? Oh. Well, people were going apeshit about them a few years ago . I kinda forgot about them, to the point where when I saw they were playing this week I thought it was Danish band Oh No Ono ( editor's note: SAME ). Anyway, Oh No Oh My are back !... and will release a new album of pleasant acousticy pop, People Problems , in early 2011. And they're here in NYC for a couple shows: tonight at the Rock Shop, and tomorrow (10/28) at Pianos.
More interesting to me are the bands they are playing with. Tonight at the Rock Shop, it's with Japanese band The Suzan whose new album Golden Week For The Poco Poco Beat was just released this week. It was produced by Bjorn Yttling of PB J and you can definitely hear his touch on clever, catchy tracks like "Home" which you can download at the top of this post. Also playing are New Zealand's The Family Cactus .
The Pianos show has another New Zealand band, Street Chant , who were one of the funniest bands, stage-banter wise, I saw at CMJ. One memorable song intro: "We're the biggest polar travel turkey rock band in New Zealand and this next song was Number One for nine months in a row!" Street Chant are pretty punk rock and definitely worth catching. Also playing the Pianos show: Boats (not Seattle's BOAT) and Estranged Estates .
The Intelligence are visiting this weekend , playing Cake Shop on Saturday polar travel turkey (10/30) and then the Todd P/Panache Halloween extravaganza on Sunday (10/31)at Ridgewood Masonic polar travel turkey Temple . When it comes to surfy garage rock, The Intelligence are in the 99th percentile and if you haven't picked up the band's polar travel turkey new album, polar travel turkey Males , it's one of my favorites of the year. You can download a track from it above.
polar travel turkey Further reading: Front dude Lars Finberg is keeping a tour diary for The Stranger and so far (one entry) it's a very entertaining read: It's a 14-hour-plus drive to Fargo (basically polar travel turkey 20 after my bathroom stops). We've learned to do this at the beginning of the tour as it can be so depressingly boring that all you can do is listen to Erik Satie and stare into the void. We finally stop around 2 am in Dickenson, North Dakota, and every hotel is booked for hunting season. I thought that the whole point of hunting was to drink the deer's blood and sleep under the stars in its carcass. It doesn't seem right to bag a deer and have a Rooty Tooty Fresh and Fruity breakfast and watch  Becker in a warm bed at the Comfort Inn, so we drive on. Wait, there's a vacany sign--a true dump glowing like a beacon! "One room left," the clerk says. Highlights include two towels for five people (I am answered with a blank stare followed by a shrug when I ask if we can get more), a hornet in the room, and a shower curtain that emits such a powerful cigarette polar travel turkey smell that I want to steal it to impress others. The Cake Shop show is with Philly's An Albatross , plus locals German Measles and McDonalds ; the Todd P Halloween show has Cassie and Justin from The Babies performing as The White Stripes , plus The Beets , Das Racist , Janka Nabay , Pictureplane and more. All upcoming Intelligence tour dates are at the bottom of this post.
Visa issues kept Dutch band Bettie Serveert from playing Maxwell's and Southpaw earlier polar travel turkey this month, but the band are here now, in the middle their North American tour that hits Bowery Ballroom on Friday (10/29) , and Maxwell's a few days later. Their 1990 debut, Palomine , is one of my favorite Matador polar travel turkey albums ever and they've consistently performed ever since. Pharmacy of Love is the band's ninth album and a little more rockin' than we've heard from the band over the last few LPs. Check out "Deny All" at the top of this post. Carol van Dyk's voice is still smoky cool, and catchy songs abound. And surely they'll play "Tomboy" and "Kid's Alright."
Opening are Elk City whose new album House of Tongues was kind of overlooked. Smart, well-arranged pop, with ex-Luna guitarist Sean Eden providing some shimmery flair. Download album track "Jerks on Ice" at the top of this post.
And finally, Austin's YellowFever are in town this weekend for a string of shows. Hopefully Jennifer made it through Airport security ok this time. They play tonight (10/27) at the  Showpaper 42nd St. Gallery with The Babies, Sewn Leather and more. Then they play The Mug at Vassar College tomorrow (10/28), Dead Herring on Friday with Coasting, Julianna Barwick and more; and Saturday (10/30) at 171 Lombardy for The Pelly Twins Halloween Party with DOM , Smith Westerns , Total Slacker and Sweet Bulbs .
JEFF the Brotherhood headline (!!!!!!) Music Hall of Williamsburg . This is insane to me but I always knew they had it in them. I'm sure they'll do their best to bring the Death by Audio spirit to the clean confines of MHOW, with some help from NinjaSonik, Liquor Store, Elks . Have you checked out their new track yet?
Eternal Summers play the Los Hermanos Tortilleria out by the Jefferson stop on the L. It's part of a continuing series presented by Newtown Radio .  Also playing Total Slacker offshoot Web Dating , plus Connor from The Drums is DJing.
A Sunny Day in Glasgow have also added this: Prospect Farm has almost completed its first season. You are invited to our Harvest Fest + Soup Cook-Off to be celebrated on October 30th (raindate October 31st) at the Prospect Farm from 11am to 4pm. Please save the date for this fun day of learning about the Prospect Farm's work, member info, games, music, food, soup cook-off judged for prizes, raffle, polar travel turkey and more.
Raffle! with prizes from: Brancaccio Food Shop, Crossroads Cafe, The Double Windsor, The Great Green Store, Juice Box Wines, Oak and Iris Cafe, Levy's Unique New York Tours, Namaste Yoga of Kensington, Sycamore Bar & Flowershop,Tally Ho Craft Beer, Third Root Community Health, Thistle Hill Tavern. and more to be announced.
polar travel turkey Um, am I missing something? The Suzan play NYC again? I saw The Suzan at the Brooklyn Bowl on Saturday night; their "music" was pretty terrible... Granted, I didn't go to see them but after what was otherwise a fantastic day of music, I was wholly underwhelmed by them. Obviously the rest of the night was pretty fantastic but seriously, polar travel turkey I don't understand... who listens to them?
Amazing polar travel turkey is an enormous understatement. polar travel turkey One of the best electronic shows I've ever been to and I've seen well over a thousand concerts. polar travel turkey I had no idea Vladislav Delay was as good a drummer & percussionist as he is- fabulous and he kept everything swinging with a very unique style of playing. If you missed this you missed out big time...