Showing posts with label 2010. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2010. Show all posts
Saturday, January 01, 2011
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
October 2010
24 Oct 2010 14:00 Supercute! South St Seaport NYC, nyny
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Tuesday, October 19th 09:30PM -10:10PM Supercute! Googie's Lounge
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Tuesday, October 19th 09:30PM -10:10PM Supercute! Googie's Lounge
Saturday, August 07, 2010
September 2010
Supercute tour Europe with Kate Nash
12 Sep 2010 20:30 Rockerfeller Oslo, NORWAY
13 Sep 2010 20:30 Tyrol Stockholm,, SWEDEN
14 Sep 2010 20:30 Pumpehuset Copenhagen, GERMANY
16 Sep 2010 21:00 Capitol Hannover, GERMANY
17 Sep 2010 20:00 Hugenottenhalle Neu-Isenburg Neu-Isenburg, GERMANY
18 Sep 2010 20:00 Tonhalle Munich, GERMANY
20 Sep 2010 20:00 E-Werk Cologne, Germany
21 Sep 2010 20:00 Theaterhaus Stuttgart, GERMANY
22 Sep 2010 20:00 Den Atelier Luxembourg City, LUXEMBOURG
24 Sep 2010 21:00 Kaufleuten Zurich, SWITZERLAND
25 Sep 2010 20:00 Tunnel Milan, IT, ITALY
26 Sep 2010 20:00 Ninkasi Kao Lyon, FRANCE
28 Sep 2010 20:00 Bikini Toulouse, FRANCE
29 Sep 2010 20:00 Theatre Barbey Bordeaux, FRANCE
SHOWTIME! September 12th @ COCO 66 w/:
TAYISHA BUSAY (myspace.com/tayishabusay)
BAD BRILLIANCE (myspace.com/badbrilliance)
THE PENDULUM SWINGS (new band from The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players) (pendulumswings.com)
--video flyer by Tessa Greenberg--
9pm - $5 - 66 Greenpoint Ave. BK, NY
12 Sep 2010 20:30 Rockerfeller Oslo, NORWAY
13 Sep 2010 20:30 Tyrol Stockholm,, SWEDEN
14 Sep 2010 20:30 Pumpehuset Copenhagen, GERMANY
16 Sep 2010 21:00 Capitol Hannover, GERMANY
17 Sep 2010 20:00 Hugenottenhalle Neu-Isenburg Neu-Isenburg, GERMANY
18 Sep 2010 20:00 Tonhalle Munich, GERMANY
20 Sep 2010 20:00 E-Werk Cologne, Germany
21 Sep 2010 20:00 Theaterhaus Stuttgart, GERMANY
22 Sep 2010 20:00 Den Atelier Luxembourg City, LUXEMBOURG
24 Sep 2010 21:00 Kaufleuten Zurich, SWITZERLAND
25 Sep 2010 20:00 Tunnel Milan, IT, ITALY
26 Sep 2010 20:00 Ninkasi Kao Lyon, FRANCE
28 Sep 2010 20:00 Bikini Toulouse, FRANCE
29 Sep 2010 20:00 Theatre Barbey Bordeaux, FRANCE
SHOWTIME! September 12th @ COCO 66 w/:
TAYISHA BUSAY (myspace.com/tayishabusay)
BAD BRILLIANCE (myspace.com/badbrilliance)
THE PENDULUM SWINGS (new band from The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players) (pendulumswings.com)
--video flyer by Tessa Greenberg--
9pm - $5 - 66 Greenpoint Ave. BK, NY
August 2010
21 Aug 2010 22:00 Supercute! Brooklyn Lyceum brooklyn, ny ny
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18 Aug 2010 21:30 Supercute! Jeff Garlin's COMBO PLATTER UCB Theater New York, NY NY w/Supercute!, Amy Schumer, and Jessi Klein $5.00
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Saturday, August 14, 10PM Belleville Lounge (330-332 5th Avenue, corner of 5th Avenue and 5th Street).
*** Debut Show! ***
A night of comedy, music, and other assorted exhibitions of entertainment!
Saturday, August 14, 10PM:
Host Josh Guarino welcomes...
JASON TRACHTENBURG (Wonderful singer-songwriter, patriarch of the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players)
SHENG WANG (Joketeller extraordinaire, loves Shark Week)
JENNI LARK & JON WESTOVER (Music that melts your mother's motherboard)
MICHAEL CHE (Has a very convincing argument on the socio-economic implications of cupcakes)
CAREY DENISE (Dishes out laughter all over the country)
AZHAR KHAN (Will break your funny bone in half)
and more!
FREE!
It all happens on Saturday, August 14, at Belleville Lounge (330-332 5th Avenue, corner of 5th Avenue and 5th Street). Seriously this show is going to be insanely good, so get there early as seating is limited.
Please RSVP on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=117435838305820&ref=mf[/img
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Mon, August 9, 2010 Knitting Factory Brooklyn .357 Lover's Diorama of Friends Corn Mo and his band .357 Lover bring a cast of interesting characters to Knitting Factory tonight (Sweet Soubrette - Sweet Songs on the Uke, Amazing Amy - Contortionist from America's Got Talent, Carla Rhodes - America's Ventriloquist Girlfriend, and Harlen Muir - Accordion songman with Jason Trachtenburg) Doors: 7:00 PM / Show: 8:00 PM
$8.00
. A video flyer is below
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Friday August 7 2010 Supercute! 9 pm sharp at sidewalk cafe (ave a and 6th st)
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18 Aug 2010 21:30 Supercute! Jeff Garlin's COMBO PLATTER UCB Theater New York, NY NY w/Supercute!, Amy Schumer, and Jessi Klein $5.00
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Saturday, August 14, 10PM Belleville Lounge (330-332 5th Avenue, corner of 5th Avenue and 5th Street).
*** Debut Show! ***
A night of comedy, music, and other assorted exhibitions of entertainment!
Saturday, August 14, 10PM:
Host Josh Guarino welcomes...
JASON TRACHTENBURG (Wonderful singer-songwriter, patriarch of the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players)
SHENG WANG (Joketeller extraordinaire, loves Shark Week)
JENNI LARK & JON WESTOVER (Music that melts your mother's motherboard)
MICHAEL CHE (Has a very convincing argument on the socio-economic implications of cupcakes)
CAREY DENISE (Dishes out laughter all over the country)
AZHAR KHAN (Will break your funny bone in half)
and more!
FREE!
It all happens on Saturday, August 14, at Belleville Lounge (330-332 5th Avenue, corner of 5th Avenue and 5th Street). Seriously this show is going to be insanely good, so get there early as seating is limited.
Please RSVP on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=117435838305820&ref=mf[/img
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Mon, August 9, 2010 Knitting Factory Brooklyn .357 Lover's Diorama of Friends Corn Mo and his band .357 Lover bring a cast of interesting characters to Knitting Factory tonight (Sweet Soubrette - Sweet Songs on the Uke, Amazing Amy - Contortionist from America's Got Talent, Carla Rhodes - America's Ventriloquist Girlfriend, and Harlen Muir - Accordion songman with Jason Trachtenburg) Doors: 7:00 PM / Show: 8:00 PM
$8.00
. A video flyer is below
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Friday August 7 2010 Supercute! 9 pm sharp at sidewalk cafe (ave a and 6th st)
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Friday, May 07, 2010
June 2010
209 Show & Giant Cannibal Girl Birthday Party Sunday night, June 27th 2010
at Otto’s Shrunken Head on 14th St. in Manhattan. Performing that night: Angel Yau! The Moon is a Disco Ball! Jason Trachtenburg! Michele Carlo! Plus former Carson Daly show and former Television members and special surprise guests! giantcannibalgirl.com
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at Otto’s Shrunken Head on 14th St. in Manhattan. Performing that night: Angel Yau! The Moon is a Disco Ball! Jason Trachtenburg! Michele Carlo! Plus former Carson Daly show and former Television members and special surprise guests! giantcannibalgirl.com
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Thursday, March 11, 2010
May 2010
SUPERCUTE! shows
11 May 2010 20:00 El Rey Theatre w/ Kate Nash Los Angeles, California
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8 May 2010 20:00 Bottom of the Hill w/ Kate Nash
review here
If you’ve listened to the new Kate Nash album, My Best Friend is You, you wouldn’t have been surprised by what you heard last night at Bottom of the Hill. Unfortunately it seemed most of the audience hadn’t. Kate Nash played mostly new songs and while I was looking forward to dancing around with the crowd to those songs, I guess nobody else was. But I’m getting ahead of myself.
Earlier in the day Kate Nash played an in-store at Amoeba followed by a CD signing. I was surprised to hear somebody in the audience say they didn’t know she had a new album out and that they were looking forward to hearing some old songs. Hmm…. Well she didn’t play any. What she did do was play some of the key tracks of her new album, and songs like “I Just Love You More” sounded even stronger live then on the album, which just made me excited for that night.
Cut to Bottom of the Hill. Opening the sold out show was Supercute! a band that can only be described by using their own moniker: they were super cute! The band consists of three young girls around 15-years-old, one of which being Rachel Trachtenburg of the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players. They played in matching outfits with “recycled” candy wrapper headbands (for sale at the merch table, made by the girls) and sang cute songs about hula hooping, not fighting for boys, and a candy city along with covers by Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin. For the Hula Hoop Song the girls even brought out hula hoops to use while singing. I took a bit of video just because it was too good to not share.
Following Supercute!, Kate Nash comes on stage dressed all in black with a leather jacket and heavy black eye makeup. I only mention her outfit because it was a big visual cue to what we were about to hear musically. She started the set at her keyboard (featuring a banner in front stating “A Cunt is a Useful Thing”) by playing some of her more dance friendly numbers. Around “Kiss That Grrrl” Kate switched to guitar and the show began to take a different turn, playing some of her more aggressive songs off the new album. She introduced “I’ve Got A Secret” with the preface that “this is a song about homophobia” to which the crowd booed (the correct response, she told us).
For “Foundations” Kate returned to the keyboard and was joined on stage by Supercute! doing backup dancing. After Kate commented “I never want to play that song again without them” I got the feeling she may no longer enjoy playing some of her older songs which would explain the setlist. Returning to the guitar for some more of her riot grrrl inspired tracks from the new album including “Mansion Song” the poem inspired song commenting on the degrading nature of female groupies. Yes this was a show harking back to early 90s feminist Riot Grrrl shows, and I enjoyed it. She concluded the show without an official walk off stage encore but with the punky b-side from her first album “Model Behavior”, a song featuring the lyrics “you don’t have to suck dick to suck seed [succeed]” which having heard it last time she played San Francisco in 2008 should have been an indication to where she was heading to musically. It was a good thing I enjoyed it then and now.
another review
In spite of my scathing opinion of Kate Nash’s sophomore album, I was pulled like fish to a chip to the El Rey Theatre where the 22 year old Brit delivered a redeeming performance that made me remember why I liked her in the first place. Hold your horses for a second though because it’s important for you to know about the opening act before I can recap the highlights of Kate Nash’s portion of the show. She would want it that way, based on her overt attachments to the trio of 15/13 year old girls, called SUPERCUTE!, who emerged dressed in the height of kitsch. For a moment, it was difficult to remind myself that I was not, in fact, at a junior high talent show. But the girls that Kate Nash declared as “the next Supremes” will win you over with their banter and general sweetness. You’d have to be a monster to deride them. And I’m not quite at monster status just yet.
The girls from SUPERCUTE! were introduced by Kate Nash herself (still in the process of getting ready as illustrated by her très casual, oversized Nirvana t-shirt). After singing tracks that included “Candy City,” “Pigeons,” “Not to Write About Boys,” and a Pink Floyd cover, SUPERCUTE! exited, but not before a little earnest self-promotion (five-dollar CDs and accessories designed by the band members).
After about thirty more minutes, Nash finally made her entrance, opening the show with the same song that opens the My Best Friend Is You album, “Paris.” During the autobiographical song, Nash, with her precision bangs and heavily applied dark blue eye shadow, sat before a piano that read: “A Cunt is a Useful Thing.” Eh, I guess. If you’re using it to get money. Or piss. Fine, it is useful. Then, instead of saving her current hit single for later, Nash jumped into “Do-Wah-Doo” to keep the audience’s energy at its pinnacle.
Just when you thought Kate wasn’t going to acknowledge the existence of her previous album, Made of Bricks, she happily sang “Mouthwash,” one of the strongest singles Nash has released during her brief career. But the deference to her debut was short-lived as she sauntered to the left side of the stage, picked up a guitar, and sang another new track from My Best Friend Is You, “Kiss That Grrrl.” After, she explained that, while in Toronto she sprained her ankle and, while in Chicago, a person crowd-surfed onstage, but that she didn’t want to remember either of those places as being the wildest city on tour. And so, she encouraged the audience to give in to being as demented as L.A. residents are perceived and to “act on your impulses. Except violent impulses…because violence is bad.” Nash has always valued succintness over profundity.
The audience took her comments to heart as they jumped onstage and danced about while she screamed the lyrics to “Take Me To A Higher Plane.” This would continue throughout the night, and, even when the threat of security loomed, Nash would dismiss the fun-killing twats to the corner. The only exception was at the end, when a woman wearing a trash hair accessory, no doubt furnished from the SUPERCUTE! merchandise offerings, was taken off the stage,
The set list was somewhat dissatisfying as the show continued and especially when Nash opted to include “Mansion Song,” one of the least enjoyable songs on My Best Friend Is You, and “I Just Love You More” in the repertoire when far better selections, like “Pickpocket” and “Early Christmas Present,” could have replaced the riffraff. Nash, however, was able to make the most out of each song during her limited time onstage. “Foundations” was another excuse to bring out SUPERCUTE! and “I’ve Got A Secret” provided the platform for Nash’s strong feelings against homophobia. She stated that being surrounded constantly by other musicians (a direct reference to Ryan Jarman) and living in London sometimes allows her to forget how many dickheads there are in the world.
The show’s pace slowed down after Nash’s second to last song, “Model Behaviour.” To conclude the set before one final encore, Nash sang the semi-hidden track on “I Hate Seagulls,” “My Best Friend Is You.” The lights stayed dim until she returned to the stage in an outfit that matched those of SUPERCUTE!, joining her yet again to perform “Brand New Key.” Nash said the usual pleasantries that all musicians say at the end of a show and then proclaimed, “And if you don’t know this song, go home.” Agreed. Everyone should respect the ephemeral pop brilliance of Melanie. Or at least know the song from Boogie Nights.
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7 May 2010 20:00 Neumos w/ Kate Nash Seattle, Washington
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5 May 2010 20:00 First Avenue w/ Kate Nash Minneapolis, Minnesota
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3 May 2010 20:00 The Lincoln w/ Kate Nash Chicago, Illinois
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1 May 2010 20:00 The Music Hall of Williamsburg w/ Kate Nash Willamsburg, Brooklyn, New York
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11 May 2010 20:00 El Rey Theatre w/ Kate Nash Los Angeles, California
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8 May 2010 20:00 Bottom of the Hill w/ Kate Nash
review here
If you’ve listened to the new Kate Nash album, My Best Friend is You, you wouldn’t have been surprised by what you heard last night at Bottom of the Hill. Unfortunately it seemed most of the audience hadn’t. Kate Nash played mostly new songs and while I was looking forward to dancing around with the crowd to those songs, I guess nobody else was. But I’m getting ahead of myself.
Earlier in the day Kate Nash played an in-store at Amoeba followed by a CD signing. I was surprised to hear somebody in the audience say they didn’t know she had a new album out and that they were looking forward to hearing some old songs. Hmm…. Well she didn’t play any. What she did do was play some of the key tracks of her new album, and songs like “I Just Love You More” sounded even stronger live then on the album, which just made me excited for that night.
Cut to Bottom of the Hill. Opening the sold out show was Supercute! a band that can only be described by using their own moniker: they were super cute! The band consists of three young girls around 15-years-old, one of which being Rachel Trachtenburg of the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players. They played in matching outfits with “recycled” candy wrapper headbands (for sale at the merch table, made by the girls) and sang cute songs about hula hooping, not fighting for boys, and a candy city along with covers by Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin. For the Hula Hoop Song the girls even brought out hula hoops to use while singing. I took a bit of video just because it was too good to not share.
Following Supercute!, Kate Nash comes on stage dressed all in black with a leather jacket and heavy black eye makeup. I only mention her outfit because it was a big visual cue to what we were about to hear musically. She started the set at her keyboard (featuring a banner in front stating “A Cunt is a Useful Thing”) by playing some of her more dance friendly numbers. Around “Kiss That Grrrl” Kate switched to guitar and the show began to take a different turn, playing some of her more aggressive songs off the new album. She introduced “I’ve Got A Secret” with the preface that “this is a song about homophobia” to which the crowd booed (the correct response, she told us).
For “Foundations” Kate returned to the keyboard and was joined on stage by Supercute! doing backup dancing. After Kate commented “I never want to play that song again without them” I got the feeling she may no longer enjoy playing some of her older songs which would explain the setlist. Returning to the guitar for some more of her riot grrrl inspired tracks from the new album including “Mansion Song” the poem inspired song commenting on the degrading nature of female groupies. Yes this was a show harking back to early 90s feminist Riot Grrrl shows, and I enjoyed it. She concluded the show without an official walk off stage encore but with the punky b-side from her first album “Model Behavior”, a song featuring the lyrics “you don’t have to suck dick to suck seed [succeed]” which having heard it last time she played San Francisco in 2008 should have been an indication to where she was heading to musically. It was a good thing I enjoyed it then and now.
another review
In spite of my scathing opinion of Kate Nash’s sophomore album, I was pulled like fish to a chip to the El Rey Theatre where the 22 year old Brit delivered a redeeming performance that made me remember why I liked her in the first place. Hold your horses for a second though because it’s important for you to know about the opening act before I can recap the highlights of Kate Nash’s portion of the show. She would want it that way, based on her overt attachments to the trio of 15/13 year old girls, called SUPERCUTE!, who emerged dressed in the height of kitsch. For a moment, it was difficult to remind myself that I was not, in fact, at a junior high talent show. But the girls that Kate Nash declared as “the next Supremes” will win you over with their banter and general sweetness. You’d have to be a monster to deride them. And I’m not quite at monster status just yet.
The girls from SUPERCUTE! were introduced by Kate Nash herself (still in the process of getting ready as illustrated by her très casual, oversized Nirvana t-shirt). After singing tracks that included “Candy City,” “Pigeons,” “Not to Write About Boys,” and a Pink Floyd cover, SUPERCUTE! exited, but not before a little earnest self-promotion (five-dollar CDs and accessories designed by the band members).
After about thirty more minutes, Nash finally made her entrance, opening the show with the same song that opens the My Best Friend Is You album, “Paris.” During the autobiographical song, Nash, with her precision bangs and heavily applied dark blue eye shadow, sat before a piano that read: “A Cunt is a Useful Thing.” Eh, I guess. If you’re using it to get money. Or piss. Fine, it is useful. Then, instead of saving her current hit single for later, Nash jumped into “Do-Wah-Doo” to keep the audience’s energy at its pinnacle.
Just when you thought Kate wasn’t going to acknowledge the existence of her previous album, Made of Bricks, she happily sang “Mouthwash,” one of the strongest singles Nash has released during her brief career. But the deference to her debut was short-lived as she sauntered to the left side of the stage, picked up a guitar, and sang another new track from My Best Friend Is You, “Kiss That Grrrl.” After, she explained that, while in Toronto she sprained her ankle and, while in Chicago, a person crowd-surfed onstage, but that she didn’t want to remember either of those places as being the wildest city on tour. And so, she encouraged the audience to give in to being as demented as L.A. residents are perceived and to “act on your impulses. Except violent impulses…because violence is bad.” Nash has always valued succintness over profundity.
The audience took her comments to heart as they jumped onstage and danced about while she screamed the lyrics to “Take Me To A Higher Plane.” This would continue throughout the night, and, even when the threat of security loomed, Nash would dismiss the fun-killing twats to the corner. The only exception was at the end, when a woman wearing a trash hair accessory, no doubt furnished from the SUPERCUTE! merchandise offerings, was taken off the stage,
The set list was somewhat dissatisfying as the show continued and especially when Nash opted to include “Mansion Song,” one of the least enjoyable songs on My Best Friend Is You, and “I Just Love You More” in the repertoire when far better selections, like “Pickpocket” and “Early Christmas Present,” could have replaced the riffraff. Nash, however, was able to make the most out of each song during her limited time onstage. “Foundations” was another excuse to bring out SUPERCUTE! and “I’ve Got A Secret” provided the platform for Nash’s strong feelings against homophobia. She stated that being surrounded constantly by other musicians (a direct reference to Ryan Jarman) and living in London sometimes allows her to forget how many dickheads there are in the world.
The show’s pace slowed down after Nash’s second to last song, “Model Behaviour.” To conclude the set before one final encore, Nash sang the semi-hidden track on “I Hate Seagulls,” “My Best Friend Is You.” The lights stayed dim until she returned to the stage in an outfit that matched those of SUPERCUTE!, joining her yet again to perform “Brand New Key.” Nash said the usual pleasantries that all musicians say at the end of a show and then proclaimed, “And if you don’t know this song, go home.” Agreed. Everyone should respect the ephemeral pop brilliance of Melanie. Or at least know the song from Boogie Nights.
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7 May 2010 20:00 Neumos w/ Kate Nash Seattle, Washington
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5 May 2010 20:00 First Avenue w/ Kate Nash Minneapolis, Minnesota
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3 May 2010 20:00 The Lincoln w/ Kate Nash Chicago, Illinois
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1 May 2010 20:00 The Music Hall of Williamsburg w/ Kate Nash Willamsburg, Brooklyn, New York
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April 2010
SUPERCUTE! shows
29 Apr 2010 20:00 Bowery Ballroom w/ Kate Nash NYC, New York
review here
Kate Nash, who I hardly recognize in these pictures, played a show at Bowery Ballroom last night (4/29). It was her first of two NYC shows on her current tour in support of a new album. The next one is Saturday night at Music Hall of Williamsburg (it's sold out). Having recently injured her leg or ankle, Kate was walking on crutches, couldn't stand much and had to rest her knee on a stool for balance.
"Playing with a punk band, The Receeders, in her off time has served Nash well, imbuing her latest material with a compelling, believable and, dare I say, informed anger and sass, as evidenced by hyper takes on "Take Me to a Higher Plane," and "I've Got a Secret," and the fearless, stream-of-consciousness mania that encompasses the best parts of "Don't You Want to Share the Guilt?" and "Mansion Song." These are no PMS tantrums; no, these are the panicked thoughts of a successful young girl finding her inner riot grrl and licking her red-stained lips in bemused satisfaction. While Q Magazine warned readers to "look away now," I wholeheartedly disagree - with lines like "Take a piece of raw vegetable and hold it to your breast and say you stood for nothing/You were just a hole that lacked passion. /Another undignified product of society/That girl should have been a mansion," it's time to start paying attention. Nash isn't talking about knitting or shoe-shopping or a game of croquet before supper. No flower-picking, strolling, picnicking parklife here, darling." [Sentimentalist Magazine]
I believe the new UK folk scene has a serious admiration for the NYC alt-folk scene of the early 2000's. Staying consistent with that, Trachtenburg Family Slideshow spin-off group Supercute! opened the show, and were, to quote Eric, "cute".
another review here
Sassy Kate Nash shows New York she can still stand on her own two feet
April 29, 2010, at the Bowery Ballroom
By Maureen Fleming
Published: May 3rd, 2010 | 6:40pm
Kate Nash entered the stage of the Bowery Ballroom on crutches, thanks to an apparent ankle injury. “I’m kind of bummed about my ankle,” she told the audience,“but fuck it.” The sweet-voiced Brit was her usual blend of sugar and spice and sat down for her first three songs of the evening at a keyboard covered with a banner that read, “A cunt is a useful thing.” Nash then ditched the crutches, propped up her foot, and promptly broke into a triple stack of crowd pleasers that included her new song, “Do Wah Doo,” an upbeat, Motown-inspired throwback with the lyrical bite one would expect from Nash.
The singer’s short set list was comprised almost entirely of songs from her new album, My Best Friend is You, which was just released on Geffen Records on April 20. Decked in a black leather jacket plus dramatic eyeshadow and a new haircut, Nash seemed to be dressing the part for her new, edgier sound. There was “Mansion Song,” a part performance art/part slam poetry number about sex and drugs, which Nash delivered passionately from her feet, despite the injury. That was followed by, “I Just Love You More,” a song where Nash screams, “I love you, I love you,” over and over again.
“This is a quiet song, so I’m going to politely ask you shut up,” Nash told the audience before sitting down for ballad, “I Hate Seagulls.” The song moved couples to hold hands and cuddle with poetic lines like, “And I can’t find the words to make it sound unique / But honestly you make me strong.” But it was the few songs Nash sang off her first album (2007’s Made of Bricks) like “Mouthwash” and “Foundations” that had the crowd singing along at the sold-out show.
Tween-bop band Supercute! opened the show on a fun note, fronted by the confident Rachel Trachtenburg of the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players. The tiny trio dressed in shiny outfits and plastic hair-bows, the perfect visual cues for songs like “Not to Write About Boys,” about having a crush on the same boy; the “Hula Hoop Song,” during which they did hula hoop; and “Candy City,” where the girls won points for tossing out Pop Rocks to the audience.
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28 Apr 2010 20:00 Great Scott w/ Kate Nash Boston, Massachusetts
review from here
This is the introduction to this song,” 22-year-old British singer/pianist Kate Nash said midway through her 85-minute, sold-out set at Great Scott Wednesday.
Then she belched into the microphone.
The crowd cheered.
Nash is in the United States playing small-club “warm-up” shows before a bigger tour to follow in support of her new album, “My Best Friend Is You.” She’s the type of artist who does what she wants when she wants. She wants to have fun on stage, and her audience will, too.
Nash’s show was bursting with exuberance and cut with a punky, spunky attitude - despite a sprained ankle (an injury that occurred Monday night after a Toronto concert) that had Nash sitting for quite a few numbers.
She joked about her bandaged and shoeless foot before opening with “Paris,” a bouncy, but biting number. “A size eight,” she said, “and ugly at that.” Again, the crowd ate it up.
By the time the song was over, Nash had spilled her vodka-and-cola, and requested another, which was quickly delivered.
Nash, who broke onto the scene with 2007’s chart-topper “Foundations,” is obsessed, chatty and cheerfully profane. She crams a lot of musical and lyrical ideas into her songs. She’s equally enamored of gorgeous pop hooks, bitter vocal rants and noisy guitar squalls. Think Blondie, PJ Harvey and Bikini Kill.
In “Mouthwash” and “I’ve Got a Secret,” Nash and her band drove the catchy melodies hard, pulled back and revved up again. The infectious “Kiss That Grrrl” had a Phil Spector girl group beat and feel-good vibe. But in the lyrics, Nash dissed both a boyfriend and the girl trying to seduce him.
The centerpiece was “Mansion Song,” which started as a diatribe over minimal backing. Nash tore into rock star groupie culture while the song built to a rip-roaring climax.
On the closer, “Model Behaviour,” she returned to the theme of degradation and sexual power, yelping and raving as guitarist Brett Alaimo turned up the noise.
New York acoustic bubblegum trio Supercute! - three girls ages 13-16 handpicked by Nash for the tour after she saw them play a club - opened. They were both insouciant and, in Nash’s own words, “clever.” Led by Rachel Trachtenburg, they sang of teen rivalry, pigeons and Hula Hoops - which they brought along. They also covered - and made sense of - Led Zeppelin’s “Misty Mountain Hop” and Pink Floyd’s “Pigs (Three Different Ones).”
KATE NASH, with SUPERCUTE!
At Great Scott, Wednesday night.
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26 Apr 2010 20:00 The Mod Club Theatre w/ Kate Nash
review from here
On her first album Made Of Bricks, Kate Nash was the cute British newcomer who sang about needing a boy’s kiss when not singing about foundations and mouthwash.
But can the slightly quirky Nash, 22, now be simultaneously cute and shocking?
Judging by her sold-out show Monday night at The Mod Club in support of her new album My Best Friend Is You, it’s a bit of yes and no.
Opening a North American jaunt behind the record, Nash has put aside the sweet, sugary piano pop found on the strong selling debut for a meaner, at times potty-mouthed, guitar-driven sophomore record.
Heck, even before she started her roughly 80-minute set, a rather odd statement was displayed below her keyboard stating the usefulness of a crudely described female body part.
Fortunately Nash and her four-piece band led by drummer Elliott Andrews were in good humor for most of the show, with Nash getting under the skin of a few in the crowd by asking for quiet during I Hate Seagulls, a song which initially didn’t quite hit the mark.
What the singer – wearing a black and white striped dress whose bottom was attached to her sleeves – often hit gold with was a ‘60s styled soul-meets-rock flavoring on the new songs, especially the lead single Do-Wah-Doo as well as Kiss That Grrrl. Meanwhile R n B Side, a b-side off My Best Friend Is You, was a tune Nash described as what Destiny’s Child would be had she been in the group. Here she swayed to the song while uttering the cheeky lyric, “Why did you have to be such a wanker?”
Nash, who thanked the audience often when not trying to make out what people were shouting at her, also delved into her first album with instant crowd-pleasing pop ditties like Foundations, Mouthwash and the chipper Beatles-tinged Merry Happy. Most of the crowd drowned out Nash’s vocals on these songs but other new numbers which definitely held their own included the rowdy rockabilly romp entitled Take Me To A Higher Plane, Don’t You Want To Share The Guilt? and I’ve Got A Secret.
The somewhat hit-and-miss feel of the new album might have been best exemplified by the show opener Paris which hit the ground running, something which couldn’t be said about Mansion Song near the homestretch. Here Nash did a stream-of-conscious rant behind a growing wall of sound. A decent try but perhaps left to the likes of Patti Smith or PJ Harvey.
One thing which nobody could argue with Nash about was her affection for super cute openers, er, Supercute! The quirky, humorous New York teenage trio – featuring June Lei, Julia Cumming and Rachel Trachtenburg (The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players) – resembled the grandkids of Tiny Tim playing some songs on ukuleles. The group managed to surprise a few with rather nifty covers of Pink Floyd’s Pigs and Misty Mountain Hop by Led Zeppelin.
Three and a half stars out of five
another review
My Best Friend Is You
Kate Nash, Brett Alaimo and Supercute! at The Mod Club in Toronto
Frank YangWhenever I see reviews of Kate Nash’s just-released sophomore effort My Best Friend Is You that put forward the tracks that represent her well-documented discovery of Riot Grrl as the standouts and bemoan the number of pure pop numbers on the record, I have to wonder if the writers of said pieces actually like Kate Nash. Because as commendable as it is that she’s seeking to branch out beyond her precocious piano girl image and explore her interest in louder, rawer sounds, the inescapable fact is is that she’s not very good at it.
In its finest moments, Best Friend finds Nash taking what made Made Of Bricks such a delight – the fast-talking sass and hooky piano-led melodies – and honing them further, exhibiting the growth you’d expect over three years without sounding too grown-up. Tracks like “Paris”, “Don’t You Want To Share The Guilt” and lead single “Do Wah Do” are immediate and indelibly catchy sugar bombs that hold up over repeat listens, and the like thankfully outnumber those where Nash attempts to get her punk on. While “Mansion Song” actually works better than you’d expect, segueing from profanity-laced spoken word intro into a clattering, stomping sing-along, other stylistic forays like “I Just Love You More” find Nash tries to sound angry and guttural but instead comes across as on the verge of laughing hysterically – probably not the desired effect – and the lo-fi “I’ve Got A Secret” just wobbles aimlessly. But missteps aside – Bricks had its share as well – Best Friend is a largely enjoyable listen that gives Nash fans what they want… and sometimes you have to take the crunchy with the smooth.
That said, the balance of the two wasn’t what many would have liked on Monday night at the Mod Club in Toronto. It marked the kickoff of her North American tour and in rounding up support acts, she didn’t have to look too far. Rachel Trachtenburg opened for Nash before – The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players opened up for her on a number of her 2008 dates – but this time, she was fronting her new band Supercute!, which teamed the 16-year old with 13- and 14-year old accomplices in shiny outfits and giant hair bows, playing Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd covers alongside self-penned songs about candy, hula-hooping and boys. It was short, sweet and strange. Considering that there would have been an hour wait between the end of Supercute!’s set and the start of Nash’s, the unbilled set by Nash guitarist Brett Alaimo was a welcome one. Playing mostly solo, except for one song where he was accompanied by the rest of Nash’s band, he was part Libertines, part Billy Bragg and part spoken-word poet/stand-up comic. Certainly a more enjoyable way to pass the time than constantly checking my mail (especially since I wasn’t getting much mail).
At this point it’s worth noting that this show was a) all-ages and b) sold-out, which is generally a recipe for a) feeling old and b) losing a few degrees of hearing from the squealing that inevitably occurs when the headlining act comes on stage. And so it was that the crowd went mad when Kate Nash finally followed her band onstage and seated herself at the keyboard with the empowering message, “A c*nt is a useful thing” emblazoned across a sheet draped off it (the message itself wasn’t censored, just my transcription). Grinning ear to ear at the enthusiasm of the crowd, she kicked off with Best Friend’s “Paris”, which proved as excellent a set opener as it is an album opener, and straight into “Do Wah Do” and then Bricks’ “Mouthwash”, all sounding great and setting the tone for what was looking like a terrific show. She then surprised by moving over to guitar for the next song and remaining there for the next few numbers, all scrappy pop selections from the new record and all also sounding quite good.
The second half of the show was decidedly less triumphant, with the more questionable bits of her repertoire making appearances and Nash seemingly determined to redefine herself as guitar-wielding rocker chick right then and there. While some fans indulged her, even attempting to pogo or mosh a bit, most waited patiently for her to get back to doing what she did best. They were repaid with the likes of “Foundations” and “Very Merry”, but the show failed to end on a high note. Both main set closers “Mansion Song” and “I Just Love You More” came across more awkward live than on record – and as stated, the latter was pretty awkward to begin with – and the encore selection was b-side “Model Behaviour”, which gave Nash leave to do more shrieking and sent many heading for an early exit.
Poor finish aside, the night still went in the win column though only barely. This was my first time seeing Nash live and it was great to finally hear some of those songs done live – though more than three selections from Bricks would have been nice – and Nash’s rapport with her very devout fanbase was charming and fun to watch. But if she’s going to continue to try and be the second coming of Bikini Kill, she’s really going to have to work on her screaming.
The Toronto Sun, Spin, Exclaim, Chart and Panic Manual also have reviews of the show while The Daily Mail and Nylon have interviews with Nash.
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25 Apr 2010 14:00 Maxwell’s JACK SKULLER’S CD RELEASE PARTY!!!!
review from here
Maxwell's in Hoboken looked more like a day care center than a rock club on Sunday afternoon, and the term "all ages show" took on a whole new meaning. Toddlers and tweens (and their parents) took over the premises, bopping to the fresh-faced rockabilly sounds of Jack Skuller.
Skuller, 14, has helped spearhead a new tween underground in the greater New York area. You can already find the good-looking eighth-grader from Weehawken High School all over YouTube, in his own video for "Love is a Drum" (his just-released debut single on the well-regarded Hoboken indie Bar/None Records) and in a cameo with the tween girl trio Supercute, who opened Sunday's show. He's also shared the stage at the Cake Shop in Manhattan with Park Slope's Care Bears on Fire and Nat and Alex Wolff, formerly the stars of Nickelodeon TV's "Naked Brothers Band."
And not one of them is old enough to drive.
Skuller, who will also perform at the Hoboken Arts and Music Festival on Sunday, got his start performing with his father, musician Eddie Skuller, at the popular "Loser's Lounge" cabaret series at Joe's Pub in Manhattan, where he belted out tunes in tributes to artists like Michael Jackson and David Bowie. But when "Love is a Drum" won a local radio station's talent contest, the Skuller family decided to record a few of Jack's songs, recruiting veteran New Jersey producer Daniel Rey, whose credits include the seminal punk bands the Ramones and Misfits.
Here's the thing with Jack Skuller, though: He's not just a cute little kid trying to sing pop songs. He understands rock 'n' roll. His clean, muscular chordings on electric guitar delivery a clarity and freshness that's missing from much of today's indie scene. Backed by the concise precision drumming of Hoboken session man Pete Martinez, Skuller rocked through his set with panache and the command of an old pro.
Growing up in a household packed with classic vinyl albums provided an education you'd never get in music school. Jack opened his set with a cover of '50s blues legend Little Walter, performed several of his originals -- including "Love is a Drum" and a new tune called "Second Hand Smoke" -- and then brought Sophie, the lead singer of Care Bears on Fire, onstage for a raucous cover of Joan Jett's "I Hate Myself For Loving You." It stopped just short of being sexy, but it definitely had chemistry.
Supercute -- three adorable girls between the ages 13 and 16, in short skirts with oversized ribbons in their hair -- opened the show with a set that included ukulele, guitar, hula hoops and synthesizer. Lead singer Rachel Trachtenburg is no stranger to show business; she's toured internationally with her parents as the lead singer of the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players.
The third act on the bill, the Indecent, features 15-year old triplets -- Emily, Maddy and Bo Brout -- along with drummer Nicholas Burrows. Based in New York City, the band's grunge-inspired rock takes a much darker and heavier approach than Skuller, Supercute or the Care Bears; but in all fairness, you can't really classify any of these young talents as teen-pop.
Tweencore, anyone?
Jack Skuller
Where: Hoboken Arts and Music Festival, Washington Street between Observer Highway and Seventh Street, Hoboken
When: Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. (Skuller performs at 1 p.m.)
How much: Free. Call (201) 420-2207 or visit hobokennj.org
29 Apr 2010 20:00 Bowery Ballroom w/ Kate Nash NYC, New York
review here
Kate Nash, who I hardly recognize in these pictures, played a show at Bowery Ballroom last night (4/29). It was her first of two NYC shows on her current tour in support of a new album. The next one is Saturday night at Music Hall of Williamsburg (it's sold out). Having recently injured her leg or ankle, Kate was walking on crutches, couldn't stand much and had to rest her knee on a stool for balance.
"Playing with a punk band, The Receeders, in her off time has served Nash well, imbuing her latest material with a compelling, believable and, dare I say, informed anger and sass, as evidenced by hyper takes on "Take Me to a Higher Plane," and "I've Got a Secret," and the fearless, stream-of-consciousness mania that encompasses the best parts of "Don't You Want to Share the Guilt?" and "Mansion Song." These are no PMS tantrums; no, these are the panicked thoughts of a successful young girl finding her inner riot grrl and licking her red-stained lips in bemused satisfaction. While Q Magazine warned readers to "look away now," I wholeheartedly disagree - with lines like "Take a piece of raw vegetable and hold it to your breast and say you stood for nothing/You were just a hole that lacked passion. /Another undignified product of society/That girl should have been a mansion," it's time to start paying attention. Nash isn't talking about knitting or shoe-shopping or a game of croquet before supper. No flower-picking, strolling, picnicking parklife here, darling." [Sentimentalist Magazine]
I believe the new UK folk scene has a serious admiration for the NYC alt-folk scene of the early 2000's. Staying consistent with that, Trachtenburg Family Slideshow spin-off group Supercute! opened the show, and were, to quote Eric, "cute".
another review here
Sassy Kate Nash shows New York she can still stand on her own two feet
April 29, 2010, at the Bowery Ballroom
By Maureen Fleming
Published: May 3rd, 2010 | 6:40pm
Kate Nash entered the stage of the Bowery Ballroom on crutches, thanks to an apparent ankle injury. “I’m kind of bummed about my ankle,” she told the audience,“but fuck it.” The sweet-voiced Brit was her usual blend of sugar and spice and sat down for her first three songs of the evening at a keyboard covered with a banner that read, “A cunt is a useful thing.” Nash then ditched the crutches, propped up her foot, and promptly broke into a triple stack of crowd pleasers that included her new song, “Do Wah Doo,” an upbeat, Motown-inspired throwback with the lyrical bite one would expect from Nash.
The singer’s short set list was comprised almost entirely of songs from her new album, My Best Friend is You, which was just released on Geffen Records on April 20. Decked in a black leather jacket plus dramatic eyeshadow and a new haircut, Nash seemed to be dressing the part for her new, edgier sound. There was “Mansion Song,” a part performance art/part slam poetry number about sex and drugs, which Nash delivered passionately from her feet, despite the injury. That was followed by, “I Just Love You More,” a song where Nash screams, “I love you, I love you,” over and over again.
“This is a quiet song, so I’m going to politely ask you shut up,” Nash told the audience before sitting down for ballad, “I Hate Seagulls.” The song moved couples to hold hands and cuddle with poetic lines like, “And I can’t find the words to make it sound unique / But honestly you make me strong.” But it was the few songs Nash sang off her first album (2007’s Made of Bricks) like “Mouthwash” and “Foundations” that had the crowd singing along at the sold-out show.
Tween-bop band Supercute! opened the show on a fun note, fronted by the confident Rachel Trachtenburg of the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players. The tiny trio dressed in shiny outfits and plastic hair-bows, the perfect visual cues for songs like “Not to Write About Boys,” about having a crush on the same boy; the “Hula Hoop Song,” during which they did hula hoop; and “Candy City,” where the girls won points for tossing out Pop Rocks to the audience.
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28 Apr 2010 20:00 Great Scott w/ Kate Nash Boston, Massachusetts
review from here
This is the introduction to this song,” 22-year-old British singer/pianist Kate Nash said midway through her 85-minute, sold-out set at Great Scott Wednesday.
Then she belched into the microphone.
The crowd cheered.
Nash is in the United States playing small-club “warm-up” shows before a bigger tour to follow in support of her new album, “My Best Friend Is You.” She’s the type of artist who does what she wants when she wants. She wants to have fun on stage, and her audience will, too.
Nash’s show was bursting with exuberance and cut with a punky, spunky attitude - despite a sprained ankle (an injury that occurred Monday night after a Toronto concert) that had Nash sitting for quite a few numbers.
She joked about her bandaged and shoeless foot before opening with “Paris,” a bouncy, but biting number. “A size eight,” she said, “and ugly at that.” Again, the crowd ate it up.
By the time the song was over, Nash had spilled her vodka-and-cola, and requested another, which was quickly delivered.
Nash, who broke onto the scene with 2007’s chart-topper “Foundations,” is obsessed, chatty and cheerfully profane. She crams a lot of musical and lyrical ideas into her songs. She’s equally enamored of gorgeous pop hooks, bitter vocal rants and noisy guitar squalls. Think Blondie, PJ Harvey and Bikini Kill.
In “Mouthwash” and “I’ve Got a Secret,” Nash and her band drove the catchy melodies hard, pulled back and revved up again. The infectious “Kiss That Grrrl” had a Phil Spector girl group beat and feel-good vibe. But in the lyrics, Nash dissed both a boyfriend and the girl trying to seduce him.
The centerpiece was “Mansion Song,” which started as a diatribe over minimal backing. Nash tore into rock star groupie culture while the song built to a rip-roaring climax.
On the closer, “Model Behaviour,” she returned to the theme of degradation and sexual power, yelping and raving as guitarist Brett Alaimo turned up the noise.
New York acoustic bubblegum trio Supercute! - three girls ages 13-16 handpicked by Nash for the tour after she saw them play a club - opened. They were both insouciant and, in Nash’s own words, “clever.” Led by Rachel Trachtenburg, they sang of teen rivalry, pigeons and Hula Hoops - which they brought along. They also covered - and made sense of - Led Zeppelin’s “Misty Mountain Hop” and Pink Floyd’s “Pigs (Three Different Ones).”
KATE NASH, with SUPERCUTE!
At Great Scott, Wednesday night.
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26 Apr 2010 20:00 The Mod Club Theatre w/ Kate Nash
review from here
On her first album Made Of Bricks, Kate Nash was the cute British newcomer who sang about needing a boy’s kiss when not singing about foundations and mouthwash.
But can the slightly quirky Nash, 22, now be simultaneously cute and shocking?
Judging by her sold-out show Monday night at The Mod Club in support of her new album My Best Friend Is You, it’s a bit of yes and no.
Opening a North American jaunt behind the record, Nash has put aside the sweet, sugary piano pop found on the strong selling debut for a meaner, at times potty-mouthed, guitar-driven sophomore record.
Heck, even before she started her roughly 80-minute set, a rather odd statement was displayed below her keyboard stating the usefulness of a crudely described female body part.
Fortunately Nash and her four-piece band led by drummer Elliott Andrews were in good humor for most of the show, with Nash getting under the skin of a few in the crowd by asking for quiet during I Hate Seagulls, a song which initially didn’t quite hit the mark.
What the singer – wearing a black and white striped dress whose bottom was attached to her sleeves – often hit gold with was a ‘60s styled soul-meets-rock flavoring on the new songs, especially the lead single Do-Wah-Doo as well as Kiss That Grrrl. Meanwhile R n B Side, a b-side off My Best Friend Is You, was a tune Nash described as what Destiny’s Child would be had she been in the group. Here she swayed to the song while uttering the cheeky lyric, “Why did you have to be such a wanker?”
Nash, who thanked the audience often when not trying to make out what people were shouting at her, also delved into her first album with instant crowd-pleasing pop ditties like Foundations, Mouthwash and the chipper Beatles-tinged Merry Happy. Most of the crowd drowned out Nash’s vocals on these songs but other new numbers which definitely held their own included the rowdy rockabilly romp entitled Take Me To A Higher Plane, Don’t You Want To Share The Guilt? and I’ve Got A Secret.
The somewhat hit-and-miss feel of the new album might have been best exemplified by the show opener Paris which hit the ground running, something which couldn’t be said about Mansion Song near the homestretch. Here Nash did a stream-of-conscious rant behind a growing wall of sound. A decent try but perhaps left to the likes of Patti Smith or PJ Harvey.
One thing which nobody could argue with Nash about was her affection for super cute openers, er, Supercute! The quirky, humorous New York teenage trio – featuring June Lei, Julia Cumming and Rachel Trachtenburg (The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players) – resembled the grandkids of Tiny Tim playing some songs on ukuleles. The group managed to surprise a few with rather nifty covers of Pink Floyd’s Pigs and Misty Mountain Hop by Led Zeppelin.
Three and a half stars out of five
another review
My Best Friend Is You
Kate Nash, Brett Alaimo and Supercute! at The Mod Club in Toronto
Frank YangWhenever I see reviews of Kate Nash’s just-released sophomore effort My Best Friend Is You that put forward the tracks that represent her well-documented discovery of Riot Grrl as the standouts and bemoan the number of pure pop numbers on the record, I have to wonder if the writers of said pieces actually like Kate Nash. Because as commendable as it is that she’s seeking to branch out beyond her precocious piano girl image and explore her interest in louder, rawer sounds, the inescapable fact is is that she’s not very good at it.
In its finest moments, Best Friend finds Nash taking what made Made Of Bricks such a delight – the fast-talking sass and hooky piano-led melodies – and honing them further, exhibiting the growth you’d expect over three years without sounding too grown-up. Tracks like “Paris”, “Don’t You Want To Share The Guilt” and lead single “Do Wah Do” are immediate and indelibly catchy sugar bombs that hold up over repeat listens, and the like thankfully outnumber those where Nash attempts to get her punk on. While “Mansion Song” actually works better than you’d expect, segueing from profanity-laced spoken word intro into a clattering, stomping sing-along, other stylistic forays like “I Just Love You More” find Nash tries to sound angry and guttural but instead comes across as on the verge of laughing hysterically – probably not the desired effect – and the lo-fi “I’ve Got A Secret” just wobbles aimlessly. But missteps aside – Bricks had its share as well – Best Friend is a largely enjoyable listen that gives Nash fans what they want… and sometimes you have to take the crunchy with the smooth.
That said, the balance of the two wasn’t what many would have liked on Monday night at the Mod Club in Toronto. It marked the kickoff of her North American tour and in rounding up support acts, she didn’t have to look too far. Rachel Trachtenburg opened for Nash before – The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players opened up for her on a number of her 2008 dates – but this time, she was fronting her new band Supercute!, which teamed the 16-year old with 13- and 14-year old accomplices in shiny outfits and giant hair bows, playing Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd covers alongside self-penned songs about candy, hula-hooping and boys. It was short, sweet and strange. Considering that there would have been an hour wait between the end of Supercute!’s set and the start of Nash’s, the unbilled set by Nash guitarist Brett Alaimo was a welcome one. Playing mostly solo, except for one song where he was accompanied by the rest of Nash’s band, he was part Libertines, part Billy Bragg and part spoken-word poet/stand-up comic. Certainly a more enjoyable way to pass the time than constantly checking my mail (especially since I wasn’t getting much mail).
At this point it’s worth noting that this show was a) all-ages and b) sold-out, which is generally a recipe for a) feeling old and b) losing a few degrees of hearing from the squealing that inevitably occurs when the headlining act comes on stage. And so it was that the crowd went mad when Kate Nash finally followed her band onstage and seated herself at the keyboard with the empowering message, “A c*nt is a useful thing” emblazoned across a sheet draped off it (the message itself wasn’t censored, just my transcription). Grinning ear to ear at the enthusiasm of the crowd, she kicked off with Best Friend’s “Paris”, which proved as excellent a set opener as it is an album opener, and straight into “Do Wah Do” and then Bricks’ “Mouthwash”, all sounding great and setting the tone for what was looking like a terrific show. She then surprised by moving over to guitar for the next song and remaining there for the next few numbers, all scrappy pop selections from the new record and all also sounding quite good.
The second half of the show was decidedly less triumphant, with the more questionable bits of her repertoire making appearances and Nash seemingly determined to redefine herself as guitar-wielding rocker chick right then and there. While some fans indulged her, even attempting to pogo or mosh a bit, most waited patiently for her to get back to doing what she did best. They were repaid with the likes of “Foundations” and “Very Merry”, but the show failed to end on a high note. Both main set closers “Mansion Song” and “I Just Love You More” came across more awkward live than on record – and as stated, the latter was pretty awkward to begin with – and the encore selection was b-side “Model Behaviour”, which gave Nash leave to do more shrieking and sent many heading for an early exit.
Poor finish aside, the night still went in the win column though only barely. This was my first time seeing Nash live and it was great to finally hear some of those songs done live – though more than three selections from Bricks would have been nice – and Nash’s rapport with her very devout fanbase was charming and fun to watch. But if she’s going to continue to try and be the second coming of Bikini Kill, she’s really going to have to work on her screaming.
The Toronto Sun, Spin, Exclaim, Chart and Panic Manual also have reviews of the show while The Daily Mail and Nylon have interviews with Nash.
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25 Apr 2010 14:00 Maxwell’s JACK SKULLER’S CD RELEASE PARTY!!!!
review from here
Maxwell's in Hoboken looked more like a day care center than a rock club on Sunday afternoon, and the term "all ages show" took on a whole new meaning. Toddlers and tweens (and their parents) took over the premises, bopping to the fresh-faced rockabilly sounds of Jack Skuller.
Skuller, 14, has helped spearhead a new tween underground in the greater New York area. You can already find the good-looking eighth-grader from Weehawken High School all over YouTube, in his own video for "Love is a Drum" (his just-released debut single on the well-regarded Hoboken indie Bar/None Records) and in a cameo with the tween girl trio Supercute, who opened Sunday's show. He's also shared the stage at the Cake Shop in Manhattan with Park Slope's Care Bears on Fire and Nat and Alex Wolff, formerly the stars of Nickelodeon TV's "Naked Brothers Band."
And not one of them is old enough to drive.
Skuller, who will also perform at the Hoboken Arts and Music Festival on Sunday, got his start performing with his father, musician Eddie Skuller, at the popular "Loser's Lounge" cabaret series at Joe's Pub in Manhattan, where he belted out tunes in tributes to artists like Michael Jackson and David Bowie. But when "Love is a Drum" won a local radio station's talent contest, the Skuller family decided to record a few of Jack's songs, recruiting veteran New Jersey producer Daniel Rey, whose credits include the seminal punk bands the Ramones and Misfits.
Here's the thing with Jack Skuller, though: He's not just a cute little kid trying to sing pop songs. He understands rock 'n' roll. His clean, muscular chordings on electric guitar delivery a clarity and freshness that's missing from much of today's indie scene. Backed by the concise precision drumming of Hoboken session man Pete Martinez, Skuller rocked through his set with panache and the command of an old pro.
Growing up in a household packed with classic vinyl albums provided an education you'd never get in music school. Jack opened his set with a cover of '50s blues legend Little Walter, performed several of his originals -- including "Love is a Drum" and a new tune called "Second Hand Smoke" -- and then brought Sophie, the lead singer of Care Bears on Fire, onstage for a raucous cover of Joan Jett's "I Hate Myself For Loving You." It stopped just short of being sexy, but it definitely had chemistry.
Supercute -- three adorable girls between the ages 13 and 16, in short skirts with oversized ribbons in their hair -- opened the show with a set that included ukulele, guitar, hula hoops and synthesizer. Lead singer Rachel Trachtenburg is no stranger to show business; she's toured internationally with her parents as the lead singer of the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players.
The third act on the bill, the Indecent, features 15-year old triplets -- Emily, Maddy and Bo Brout -- along with drummer Nicholas Burrows. Based in New York City, the band's grunge-inspired rock takes a much darker and heavier approach than Skuller, Supercute or the Care Bears; but in all fairness, you can't really classify any of these young talents as teen-pop.
Tweencore, anyone?
Jack Skuller
Where: Hoboken Arts and Music Festival, Washington Street between Observer Highway and Seventh Street, Hoboken
When: Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. (Skuller performs at 1 p.m.)
How much: Free. Call (201) 420-2207 or visit hobokennj.org
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
March 2010
Friday March 19 2010 Corn Mo with The Pendulum Swings@ Bushwick studios NYC 9pm
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Thursday 4 March 2010 21:30 Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre NYC, New York
Cost: $5
Todd Barry and Kurt Braunohler.
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What It Feels Like for a Girl with Supercute!
92YTribeca
200 Hudson St (between Watts and Desbrosses Sts)
Tribeca | Map
212-601-1000
Subway: A, C, E, 1 to Canal St | Directions
http://www.92ytribeca.org
Prices
Tickets: $12
Description
The writers Sean Fennessey, Emily Gould, Marisa Meltzer and Elizabeth Spiridakis gather to discuss girlhood and music; the groovy local band featuring a trio of teens—Rachel Trachtenburg, Julia Cumming and June Lei—performs.
Mar 3 7pm
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Thursday 4 March 2010 21:30 Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre NYC, New York
Cost: $5
Todd Barry and Kurt Braunohler.
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What It Feels Like for a Girl with Supercute!
92YTribeca
200 Hudson St (between Watts and Desbrosses Sts)
Tribeca | Map
212-601-1000
Subway: A, C, E, 1 to Canal St | Directions
http://www.92ytribeca.org
Prices
Tickets: $12
Description
The writers Sean Fennessey, Emily Gould, Marisa Meltzer and Elizabeth Spiridakis gather to discuss girlhood and music; the groovy local band featuring a trio of teens—Rachel Trachtenburg, Julia Cumming and June Lei—performs.
Mar 3 7pm
Saturday, February 13, 2010
February 2010
26/02/2010 22:00 Rachel Trachtenburg host's the Lloyd Floyd Show!!!!!!
308 Bowery bet. Bleecker & 2nd, NYC, New York
Cost: $10
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Saturday, February 20 2010 Two Supercute Shows
First, catch us at The Living Room (154 Ludlow St) with Board of Education, for a fun, kid-friendly show!12 noon ($12 adults, $7 kids, $25 families)
Then, see us at Sidewalk Café (94 Avenue A) at 12 midnight (7:00pm Julie Hill/ 7:30pm Annie Crane/ 8:00pm Jordan Levinson/ 8:30pm Angela Carlucci/ 9:00pm Emily Einhorn/ 9:30pm Elizabeth Devlin/ 10:00pm Erin Regan/ 11:00pm Debe Dalton/ 12:00am SUPERCUTE!), FREEEEEE!!! (Listed below)
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2/7/10- The Winter Antifolk Fest at Sidewalk Cafe Schedule:
Monday, February 15 - Fest Kickoff at the Open Stage! Sign-up at 7:30!
Tuesday, February 16
7:00 Adam Finchler
7:30 Michael Winkler
8:00 Ramblings of a Gentleman Scumbag (feat. John Murdoch)
8:30 Larkin Grimm
9:00 Master Lee
10:00 Brian Speaker Presents *The Mars Chronicles*
11:00 Jeffrey Lewis (solo)
12:00 The Everybody Knows
Wednesday, February 17
7:00 Thomas Patrick Maguire
7:30 Secret Salamander
8:00 J.J. Hayes
8:30 Joe Crow Ryan
9:00 Justin Remer of the Elastic No-No Band
9:30 The Telethons
10:00 Casey Holford
11:00 Phoebe Kreutz
12:00 Kung Fu Crime Wave
Thursday, February 18
7:00 Blurple (feat. Phoebe Blue)
7:30 Charles Mansfield
8:00 MILF City (feat. Lance Romance)
8:30 Barry Bliss
9:00 Emily Moment
9:30 Bernard King Presents
10:30 The Pendulum Swings (feat. Jason Trachtenburg)
11:30 Smoke (feat. Jo Schornikow of The Shivers)
Friday, February 19
7:30 Peter Dizozza
8:00 Steve Espinola/Lookalikes USA Reunion Hour
9:00 Fenton Lawless
9:30 Joe Bendik
10:00 Lenny Molotov
11:00 The Sprinkle Genies
12:00 The Humans
Saturday, February 20
7:00 Julie Hill
7:30 Annie Crane
8:00 Jordan Levinson
8:30 Angela Carlucci
9:00 Emily Einhorn
9:30 Elizabeth Devlin
10:00 Erin Regan
11:00 Debe Dalton
12:00 Supercute
Sunday, February 21
I Heart U Night (Antifolkers Covering Their Peers)
7:00 I Heart U
7:30 Sammy Shuster
8:30 Ray Brown
9:00 I Heart U
9:30 Trevor Jude Smith
10:00 David Greenberg
10:30 I Heart U
Monday, February 22
The Monday Night Open Stage with Ben Krieger! Sign-up 7:30
Tuesday, February 23
7:30 Lady Blanche
8:00 Jon Berger
8:30 A Brief View Of The Hudson
9:00 Amos Torres
9:30 Dan Costello
10:00 Patsy Grace
11:00 Churchill Downs (feat. Mike & Dina Rechner)
Wednesday, February 24
8:30 Domino
9:00 Nan Turner
9:30 Major Matt Mason USA
10:00 Dufus
11:00 The Lisps
12:00 Ching Chong Song
Thursday, February 25
7:00 Beau Alessi
7:30 Albert Goold
8:00 Hank & Pigeon (feat. Morgan Herringer & Alex P)
8:30 Aaron Invisible
9:00 Roger Manning
9:30 Liv Carrow
10:00 Brook Pridemore
11:00 Huggabroomstik
12:00 Crabs on Banjo
Friday, February 26
7:00 Charles Latham
7:30 The Fools
8:00 The Debutante Hour
8:30 Myron the Magnificent (feat. Herb Scher)
9:00 Crazy And The Brains
9:30 Don McCloskey
10:30 Lach
11:30 Toby Goodshank
12:30 The Wowz
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Sunday, February 14th at Pete's Candy Store 709 Lorimer St
Brooklyn, NY 11211
Jason Trachtenburg, Jae, McCarthy Trenching
--------------------------------------------------------------------Saturday February 13th at Vaudeville Park (26 Bushwick Ave. Brooklyn, NY). SUPERCUTE on at 9pm, but of course you can't miss BIGGER PRINCESS, PHOEBE KREUTZ AND REBECCA SCHIFFMAN, so make sure you arrive when doors open, at 7pm.
Tickets are sliding scale($7 to $25), and all $$ benefits SHOWPAPER ( a free publications that list only all ages shows in NYC).
308 Bowery bet. Bleecker & 2nd, NYC, New York
Cost: $10
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Saturday, February 20 2010 Two Supercute Shows
First, catch us at The Living Room (154 Ludlow St) with Board of Education, for a fun, kid-friendly show!12 noon ($12 adults, $7 kids, $25 families)
Then, see us at Sidewalk Café (94 Avenue A) at 12 midnight (7:00pm Julie Hill/ 7:30pm Annie Crane/ 8:00pm Jordan Levinson/ 8:30pm Angela Carlucci/ 9:00pm Emily Einhorn/ 9:30pm Elizabeth Devlin/ 10:00pm Erin Regan/ 11:00pm Debe Dalton/ 12:00am SUPERCUTE!), FREEEEEE!!! (Listed below)
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2/7/10- The Winter Antifolk Fest at Sidewalk Cafe Schedule:
Monday, February 15 - Fest Kickoff at the Open Stage! Sign-up at 7:30!
Tuesday, February 16
7:00 Adam Finchler
7:30 Michael Winkler
8:00 Ramblings of a Gentleman Scumbag (feat. John Murdoch)
8:30 Larkin Grimm
9:00 Master Lee
10:00 Brian Speaker Presents *The Mars Chronicles*
11:00 Jeffrey Lewis (solo)
12:00 The Everybody Knows
Wednesday, February 17
7:00 Thomas Patrick Maguire
7:30 Secret Salamander
8:00 J.J. Hayes
8:30 Joe Crow Ryan
9:00 Justin Remer of the Elastic No-No Band
9:30 The Telethons
10:00 Casey Holford
11:00 Phoebe Kreutz
12:00 Kung Fu Crime Wave
Thursday, February 18
7:00 Blurple (feat. Phoebe Blue)
7:30 Charles Mansfield
8:00 MILF City (feat. Lance Romance)
8:30 Barry Bliss
9:00 Emily Moment
9:30 Bernard King Presents
10:30 The Pendulum Swings (feat. Jason Trachtenburg)
11:30 Smoke (feat. Jo Schornikow of The Shivers)
Friday, February 19
7:30 Peter Dizozza
8:00 Steve Espinola/Lookalikes USA Reunion Hour
9:00 Fenton Lawless
9:30 Joe Bendik
10:00 Lenny Molotov
11:00 The Sprinkle Genies
12:00 The Humans
Saturday, February 20
7:00 Julie Hill
7:30 Annie Crane
8:00 Jordan Levinson
8:30 Angela Carlucci
9:00 Emily Einhorn
9:30 Elizabeth Devlin
10:00 Erin Regan
11:00 Debe Dalton
12:00 Supercute
Sunday, February 21
I Heart U Night (Antifolkers Covering Their Peers)
7:00 I Heart U
7:30 Sammy Shuster
8:30 Ray Brown
9:00 I Heart U
9:30 Trevor Jude Smith
10:00 David Greenberg
10:30 I Heart U
Monday, February 22
The Monday Night Open Stage with Ben Krieger! Sign-up 7:30
Tuesday, February 23
7:30 Lady Blanche
8:00 Jon Berger
8:30 A Brief View Of The Hudson
9:00 Amos Torres
9:30 Dan Costello
10:00 Patsy Grace
11:00 Churchill Downs (feat. Mike & Dina Rechner)
Wednesday, February 24
8:30 Domino
9:00 Nan Turner
9:30 Major Matt Mason USA
10:00 Dufus
11:00 The Lisps
12:00 Ching Chong Song
Thursday, February 25
7:00 Beau Alessi
7:30 Albert Goold
8:00 Hank & Pigeon (feat. Morgan Herringer & Alex P)
8:30 Aaron Invisible
9:00 Roger Manning
9:30 Liv Carrow
10:00 Brook Pridemore
11:00 Huggabroomstik
12:00 Crabs on Banjo
Friday, February 26
7:00 Charles Latham
7:30 The Fools
8:00 The Debutante Hour
8:30 Myron the Magnificent (feat. Herb Scher)
9:00 Crazy And The Brains
9:30 Don McCloskey
10:30 Lach
11:30 Toby Goodshank
12:30 The Wowz
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Sunday, February 14th at Pete's Candy Store 709 Lorimer St
Brooklyn, NY 11211
Jason Trachtenburg, Jae, McCarthy Trenching
--------------------------------------------------------------------Saturday February 13th at Vaudeville Park (26 Bushwick Ave. Brooklyn, NY). SUPERCUTE on at 9pm, but of course you can't miss BIGGER PRINCESS, PHOEBE KREUTZ AND REBECCA SCHIFFMAN, so make sure you arrive when doors open, at 7pm.
Tickets are sliding scale($7 to $25), and all $$ benefits SHOWPAPER ( a free publications that list only all ages shows in NYC).
Monday, November 30, 2009
January 2010
30/01/2010 23:30 atJoe’s Pub (Jason Trachtenburg does comedy with God’s Pottery), NYC,
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26 Jan 2010 21:00 The Pendulum Swings (Jason Trachtenburg) w/.357 Lover (Corn Mo) Brooklyn
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Sunday Jan 24, 2010 The Pendulum Swings featuring Jason Trachtenburg in Brooklyn Pete's Candy Store 709 Lorimer Street
Brooklyn, NY 11211
Revolution Church with Jay Bakker 4
Open Mic 5-8
The Pendulum Swings featuring Jason Trachtenburg 8:30
"Original new (!) standards interpreted by NYC's most unique male vocalist. Highly recommended." Time Out NY Nov 2009.
Elizabeth Devlin 9
Elizabeth Devlin invokes influences from scratchy phonographs, combining bitter sweet, haunting vocals with poignant lyrics and angelic, cacophonous melodies. Papa Devlin fancied himself a gypsy and traveled the coast peddling his one-man-band street performance; Momma was a writer, who tended many children and hand sewed puppets to sell on the DC streets. Pulling these things to her, Elizabeth's performance art began as lyrical, melodic, acapella poetry but soon blossomed into an electroacoustic sound when she began to play the Autoharp.
Lady Blanche 10
Lady Blanche is a pop punk princess rooted in a slight country drawl who sings Flight of the Conchords-esque compositions, not so ladylike confessionals, and stream of consciousness rambles. Her live performances are often ruckus affairs including much laughter, an occasional tear, and more often that not a really bad 90's cover song.
I'm Turning Into 11
I'm turning into is a Brooklyn based experimental pop band. The band seeks to combine a great range of sound and technique with universal melodies to create appealing and innovative songs. Their can-do attitude translates into a fun and unique live performance.
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Thu, January 21, 2010 7:00 PM (Doors: 6:30 PM) $10.00
All Ages
Knitting Factory Brooklyn Presents
The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players
Supercute, Julia Weldon
Knitting Factory Brooklyn NY
Modern ‘Family’! The Trachtenburgs now live in Brooklyn
By Sabrina Jaszi
for The Brooklyn Paper
Modern family: The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players will bring their quirky show to the Knitting Factory on Jan. 21.
Rachel Trachtenburg is the youngest member of the group, but the linchpin.
Call it kitsch for the new decade or our world through cat-eye glasses, but the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players are now, officially, Bushwick-based.
Some 20 years ago, Jason and Tina Trachtenburg locked eyes across a Greenwich Village open-mic. Four years later, two became three, and six years after that, the trio became a band, with the littlest Trachtenburg, Rachel, on drums.
Their act — a thrift store-dressed show and tell of found vintage slides and Burt Bacharach-inflected musical narration — travelled the world before settling on Manhattan’s Lower East Side five years ago.
But last year, the band achieved its greatest success, moving to Bushwick. A few months later, the Knitting Factory did the same thing — and on Jan. 21, the two former Manhattan institutions will join forces again.
And the now–16-year-old Rachel’s teengirl pop trio, Supercute!, is slated to open that night.
“When I perform with my parents, my dad does all the songwriting and I keep the drums pretty simple,” said Rachel. “He loves Frank Sinatra and the Bee Gees, that kind of stuff. In my group, we do ukulele covers of Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd and write our own bubblegum indie stuff.”
The Slideshow Players’ set will include two new songs from a forthcoming album. New slides were bestowed upon the Trachtenburgs by an audience member who also housed and fed them one night during their most recent tour.
And that’s not unusual. Wherever they go, the family inspires warm, fuzzy feelings.
“I’ve seen them a few times and you always feel as if you’re in someone’s basement looking at pictures from their trip around the world,” said Chris Diaz, talent buyer for the Knitting Factory. “It’s great family fun.”
Maybe that’s because, for the Trachtenburgs, the sunny, nomadic Partridge Family is more than just a musical influence. The Players have created their own — albeit quirky and crafty — version of the archetypal show-biz family.
Father, guitarist and piano player Jason shuns e-mail and cellphones, occupying himself with a macrobiotic diet and his other band, The Pendulum Swings.
“It’s a swing band and Jason is the horned, Sinatraesque frontman,” said matriarch Tina, who is in charge of buying up Goodwill items and then reworking them into costumes.
Rachel is the most creative of the bunch.
“I like to play the ukulele while hula-hooping. I think I invented that,” she said.
Because mother, father and daughter are as kooky as a sitcom characters, it’s logical that they’ve made a pilot episode for a TV Show.
The kids program, to be called “Rachel Trachtenburg’s Homemade World,” is set in the family kitchen and its first plotline was inspired by real events. When a mouse finds its way into Jason’s spirulina, it turns green. The family fears that, hopped up on supplements, it will live forever. Since all three are vegetarians, they don’t want to kill it. Famed drag king Murray Hill plays the band’s manager.
Colorful, alternative fun ensues.
The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players and Supercute! at the Knitting Factory [361 Metropolitan Ave. at Havemeyer Street in Williamsburg, (347) 529-6696)]. Jan. 21 at 10 pm. Tickets are $10.
©2010 Community Newspaper Group
another article from here
By Meredith Deliso
The family that plays together stays together.
That, at least, seems to be the case with the Trachtenburgs.
Even as they juggle more and more creative projects, the trio keeps at their shtick, the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, as they’ve been doing for the past 10 years ago.
Between dad Jason’s own swing band, The Pendulum Swings, daughter Rachel’s girl band, Supercute!, and mom Tina’s steering of their children’s program, “Rachel Trachtenburg’s Homemade World,” the three still find time to do slideshow shows. And on January 21, they do just that at the Knitting Factory in Williamsburg, with mom on the projector, dad on the keys and vocals, and their daughter on the drums as the family performs conceptual art-rock pop with a message.
“We’re informational artists,” says Jason. “We feel it’s our duty and responsibility to give information as we see it.”
That includes extolling the health benefits of vegetarianism (Jason and Tina are going strong 20 years, 16-year-old Rachel has been one most her life), individuality (“We can’t just turn into a culture of conformity,” says Jason), and politics (Rachel made the news last year as vocal opponent against third terms for city politicians).
The family makes a similar statement as they move into children’s programming. Next month, the second episode of “Rachel Trachtenburg’s Homemade World” will be shown in Brooklyn February 14, details TBA (the first episode is available here).
“We really want to influence and expand television entertainment,” says Jason. “I think we can raise expectations with what we’re doing with the show. It has real purpose, real ideas about art and life.”
The show, says Tina, is like “’H.R. Pufnstuf’ meets the ‘Partridge Family.’ But it’s real as opposed to a fantasy.”
It presents a day in the life of Rachel in their Bushwick apartment, with original music by Rachel and Jason and guest appearances from friends like Andrew W.K, Murray Hill and Kevin Allison. Then there’s Supercute!, Rachel’s trio which she fronts with a ukulele, (they are also on the Knitting Factory bill), and dad’s band, The Pendulum Swings, which gives him an outlet for music that doesn’t quite jive with the Slideshow Players’ aesthetic.
“The Slideshow goes in so many different directions, I will never grow tired of it. (But) ultimately, Rachel’s getting older and focusing on her band. It was essential that I started up a new project,” says Jason, whose new project is an indie swing band. Though no retro throwback here – “We’re trying to live in the culture of the time,” says Jason. And, unlike the Slideshow Players, “the emphasis is music, not so much politics or entertainment or art.”
While the Pendulums don’t make the Knitting Factory bill, don’t rule it out in the future.
“Lately we’ve been doing shows together, all of us,” says Jason. “Slideshow, Supercute and Pendulum Swings.”
Yep, they’re keeping it all in the family.
The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players are at Knitting Factory (361 Metropolitan Ave.) January 21 at 7 p.m. With Supercute! and Julia Weldon. Tickets are $10. For more information, call 347-529-6696.
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Tuesday 12 January 2010 Kissy Kamikaze at Knitting Factory Brooklyn (Brooklyn)
with Jason Trachtenburg, Magic Brian, Miss Saturn, and Roger Hailes
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Sunday January 9 2010 Supercute @ Let Them Eat Cake @ The Cake Shop 152 Ludlow Street $5.00
review from here
The Kids Are All Right (and Flaunting Their Hooks, Taste and Cred)
Published: January 10, 2010
On Thursday night Nick Jonas of the Jonas Brothers made his New York debut as a solo act at the Beacon Theater for around 2,000 shrieking young girls (and a couple of boys) and their chaperones. On Saturday afternoon, in the basement of Cake Shop on the Lower East Side, the all-girl Brooklyn kid-punk outfit Care Bears on Fire hosted a showcase of teen bands for an audience of a couple hundred: plaid-wearing peers, small children, parents scarfing down sandwiches and salads.
Not as different as they sound, really.
Scale isn’t much of a measure of talent or maturity, of course, or even of intentions. Exclude the size of the room, and the two shows looked alike: teenage performers eager to flaunt their bona fides and their taste, exactly the things that probably set them apart from their classmates, but not, it turns out, from one another.
These are also the things that have separated Nick Jonas from his brothers Kevin and Joe over the four-plus years in which the Jonas Brothers have been marching toward pop supremacy. Even as success took them beyond the world of Disney, the Jonas Brothers never felt sophisticated; of the three Nick came closest, with his sharp, forward fashion choices and name dropping of influences like Elvis Costello.
The primary aim of his solo debut, “Who I Am” (Hollywood), which is to be released next month under the name Nick Jonas & the Administration, appears to be re-education. A couple of songs revisit Jonas Brothers bop, but Mr. Jonas, 17, is more interested in reclaiming 1970s rock, a relatively unfashionable choice that will force fans to accept him on different terms.
“Who I Am” is reminiscent of Justin Timberlake’s first post-’N Sync solo album, “Justified”: eager to toy with new influences, far from perfect. Mr. Jonas’s plays for credibility are naked. Three of his four touring band members did stints with Prince’s New Power Generation. The song “State of Emergency” is a virtual rewrite of Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition.” “Olive & an Arrow,” a blues-rock number, recalls John Mayer.
At Thursday’s show he attracted a discerning, self-selecting subset of Jonas Brothers fans, drawn to his shy charm, perhaps, over Joe’s puckish flamboyance and Kevin’s, um, positive attitude? They were older too: many seemed to be in the upper reaches of teenagedom, taking style cues from “Gossip Girl,” and only a few wore hand-scrawled T-shirts of the kind ubiquitous at Jonas Brothers concerts. A handful were sipping Bud Lights by the lobby bar before the show.
They were rabid for Mr. Jonas, who seemed completely comfortable without his brothers, fitting in easily with his startlingly good band. It helped that he was in top form, far more convincing than on his album, but it didn’t matter: almost everything he did met with adulation. (Though his New Year’s resolutions — “As a country we’re in a place of fear, and we need to put that behind us” — provoked confused murmurs, and his cover of Mr. Wonder’s “Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I’m Yours,” was appreciated more by the adults in the crowd.)
Charmed though it may seem, the path that Mr. Jonas has chosen is not the easy one. He’s savvy enough, though, to know he needs to shift gears. Soon he won’t be a teenager anymore — a conundrum also faced by his friend Taylor Swift, who turned 20 last month, effectively aging out of her old material — and the slate gets wiped clean.
By and large the bands that played at Cake Shop on Saturday afternoon as part of the Let Them Eat Cake showcase have chosen to skip right past the potential crisis of growing out of their sound by making music most adults would be proud of.
Mr. Jonas might find he has much in common with Ethan Levenson, 15, who opened his Cake Shop set with a cover of Girls’ “Lust for Life,” one of last year’s hipster anthems, obscuring the profanity slightly, but not completely. Mr. Levenson, who wore a loose gray cardigan and whose songs were filled with mopey inner-life-centric lyrics, might not want to talk to Mr. Jonas, though they probably have similar record collections.
Mr. Levenson was the only boy on the bill, save for two members of Blame the Patient, the third band on the lineup, effective miners of late-’80s and early-’90s indie rock with a ferocious lead guitarist, Hunter Lombard, and a kinetic lead singer, Sofie Kapur.
Last year Blame the Patient recorded an as-yet-unreleased album produced by Kevin March, drummer of the well-regarded post-hardcore band Shudder to Think. On the Let Them Eat Cake circuit such high-profile — in the indie rock world at least — hand holders are the norm. On its recent album “Get Over It!” (S-Curve), Care Bears on Fire worked with Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne and Jill Cunniff, late of Luscious Jackson, among others.
At 16, Rachel Trachtenburg of Supercute!, who opened the showcase with a set of tidy, clever bubblegum pop, is already a veteran thanks to her years with the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players. One song played by Supercute!, “Not to Write About Boys,” was incisive and cynical about inter-band relations: two group members fall for the same guy, then realize it’s tearing the group apart, and sacrifice the guy for the sake of friendship. For kids, it’s dark stuff.
And polished too: Supercute! has pop instincts as finely honed as Mr. Jonas’s. The same goes for Care Bears on Fire, who straddle the mainstream and D.I.Y. worlds, proving that they’re not that far apart. The group was signed to S-Curve by Steve Greenberg, who, as president of Columbia Records, signed the Jonas Brothers to their first major-label deal. Over the summer Care Bears on Fire toured with Nat & Alex Wolff, of the Nickelodeon series “The Naked Brothers Band,” and in November, Care Bears on Fire appeared on another Nickelodeon show, “True Jackson, VP,” in which the group subbed in for a gig blown off by Justin Bieber: not exactly the punk rock episode of “Quincy, M.E.,” but something.
More immediately the group recalls the Runaways, who were a teen punk band when that was still a dangerous idea. The members of Care Bears on Fire — Izzy, Sophie and Jena — are younger, and not nearly as salacious as the Runaways, but they have a similar verve. Their music is accomplished, tackling kid subjects in a mature way, with furiously energetic playing, especially on the part of the drummer, Izzy, who on Saturday was sporting a torn Patti Smith T-shirt.
The songs were cheerily scornful, thanks to Sophie, the guitarist and lead singer. And the band’s cover of Tears for Fears’s “Everybody Wants to Rule the World,” was smart, comprehending that its lyrics were always far brattier than its arrangement. At the end of the show the punk pioneer Handsome Dick Manitoba went backstage and gave all the girls hugs.
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Tue., January 5, 8:00pm Knitting Factory Price: $5 Kissy Kamikaze + Jason Trachtenburg + Magic Brian + Miss Saturn + Roger Hailes
361 Metropolitan Ave.
Brooklyn, NY
347-529-6696
ting Factory Brooklyn
361 Metropolitan Ave (at Havemeyer St)
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
347-529-6696
Subway: L to Lorimer St, G to Metropolitan Ave | Directions
Prices
Tickets: $5
Description
Jason Trachtenburg, the adult musician in the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, is underrated as a songwriter, and tonight’s solo gig is a good place to hear him sans slides and kid. Check out the Volume (timeoutnewyork.com/thevolume) to view an exclusive holiday performance from Trachtenburg.
When
Tue 7pm
Read more: http://newyork.timeout.com/events/music/319615/kissy-kamikaze-jason-trachtenburg-magic-brian-miss-saturn-roger-hailes#ixzz0bSm8bvDQ
review from here
Though he will be playing a show with the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players on January 21 at the Knitting Factory, Jason Trachtenburg took to the same stage solo on Tuesday night as part of .357 Lover's circus of a residency. There's always a lot of humor in his set (it's up for debate if this humor is intentional or not), and when he is solo, there's also a sort of simplistic beauty to his songs. Check out photos from the show after the jump.
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Sunday, January 3rd, 8pm
Pete's Candy Store
709 Lorimer Street
Brooklyn, NY 11211
Emily Manzo performing Katherine Young's Underworld (Dancing) for Tuba and Wurlitzer and piece for TBT
Clara Latham's Selected Songs
We are joined by tuba virtuoso Dan Peck, and play at 8pm, followed by Baby Copperhead and Jason from the Trachtenburg family slideshow- should be a wonderful evening!
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26 Jan 2010 21:00 The Pendulum Swings (Jason Trachtenburg) w/.357 Lover (Corn Mo) Brooklyn
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Sunday Jan 24, 2010 The Pendulum Swings featuring Jason Trachtenburg in Brooklyn Pete's Candy Store 709 Lorimer Street
Brooklyn, NY 11211
Revolution Church with Jay Bakker 4
Open Mic 5-8
The Pendulum Swings featuring Jason Trachtenburg 8:30
"Original new (!) standards interpreted by NYC's most unique male vocalist. Highly recommended." Time Out NY Nov 2009.
Elizabeth Devlin 9
Elizabeth Devlin invokes influences from scratchy phonographs, combining bitter sweet, haunting vocals with poignant lyrics and angelic, cacophonous melodies. Papa Devlin fancied himself a gypsy and traveled the coast peddling his one-man-band street performance; Momma was a writer, who tended many children and hand sewed puppets to sell on the DC streets. Pulling these things to her, Elizabeth's performance art began as lyrical, melodic, acapella poetry but soon blossomed into an electroacoustic sound when she began to play the Autoharp.
Lady Blanche 10
Lady Blanche is a pop punk princess rooted in a slight country drawl who sings Flight of the Conchords-esque compositions, not so ladylike confessionals, and stream of consciousness rambles. Her live performances are often ruckus affairs including much laughter, an occasional tear, and more often that not a really bad 90's cover song.
I'm Turning Into 11
I'm turning into is a Brooklyn based experimental pop band. The band seeks to combine a great range of sound and technique with universal melodies to create appealing and innovative songs. Their can-do attitude translates into a fun and unique live performance.
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Thu, January 21, 2010 7:00 PM (Doors: 6:30 PM) $10.00
All Ages
Knitting Factory Brooklyn Presents
The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players
Supercute, Julia Weldon
Knitting Factory Brooklyn NY
Modern ‘Family’! The Trachtenburgs now live in Brooklyn
By Sabrina Jaszi
for The Brooklyn Paper
Modern family: The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players will bring their quirky show to the Knitting Factory on Jan. 21.
Rachel Trachtenburg is the youngest member of the group, but the linchpin.
Call it kitsch for the new decade or our world through cat-eye glasses, but the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players are now, officially, Bushwick-based.
Some 20 years ago, Jason and Tina Trachtenburg locked eyes across a Greenwich Village open-mic. Four years later, two became three, and six years after that, the trio became a band, with the littlest Trachtenburg, Rachel, on drums.
Their act — a thrift store-dressed show and tell of found vintage slides and Burt Bacharach-inflected musical narration — travelled the world before settling on Manhattan’s Lower East Side five years ago.
But last year, the band achieved its greatest success, moving to Bushwick. A few months later, the Knitting Factory did the same thing — and on Jan. 21, the two former Manhattan institutions will join forces again.
And the now–16-year-old Rachel’s teengirl pop trio, Supercute!, is slated to open that night.
“When I perform with my parents, my dad does all the songwriting and I keep the drums pretty simple,” said Rachel. “He loves Frank Sinatra and the Bee Gees, that kind of stuff. In my group, we do ukulele covers of Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd and write our own bubblegum indie stuff.”
The Slideshow Players’ set will include two new songs from a forthcoming album. New slides were bestowed upon the Trachtenburgs by an audience member who also housed and fed them one night during their most recent tour.
And that’s not unusual. Wherever they go, the family inspires warm, fuzzy feelings.
“I’ve seen them a few times and you always feel as if you’re in someone’s basement looking at pictures from their trip around the world,” said Chris Diaz, talent buyer for the Knitting Factory. “It’s great family fun.”
Maybe that’s because, for the Trachtenburgs, the sunny, nomadic Partridge Family is more than just a musical influence. The Players have created their own — albeit quirky and crafty — version of the archetypal show-biz family.
Father, guitarist and piano player Jason shuns e-mail and cellphones, occupying himself with a macrobiotic diet and his other band, The Pendulum Swings.
“It’s a swing band and Jason is the horned, Sinatraesque frontman,” said matriarch Tina, who is in charge of buying up Goodwill items and then reworking them into costumes.
Rachel is the most creative of the bunch.
“I like to play the ukulele while hula-hooping. I think I invented that,” she said.
Because mother, father and daughter are as kooky as a sitcom characters, it’s logical that they’ve made a pilot episode for a TV Show.
The kids program, to be called “Rachel Trachtenburg’s Homemade World,” is set in the family kitchen and its first plotline was inspired by real events. When a mouse finds its way into Jason’s spirulina, it turns green. The family fears that, hopped up on supplements, it will live forever. Since all three are vegetarians, they don’t want to kill it. Famed drag king Murray Hill plays the band’s manager.
Colorful, alternative fun ensues.
The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players and Supercute! at the Knitting Factory [361 Metropolitan Ave. at Havemeyer Street in Williamsburg, (347) 529-6696)]. Jan. 21 at 10 pm. Tickets are $10.
©2010 Community Newspaper Group
another article from here
By Meredith Deliso
The family that plays together stays together.
That, at least, seems to be the case with the Trachtenburgs.
Even as they juggle more and more creative projects, the trio keeps at their shtick, the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, as they’ve been doing for the past 10 years ago.
Between dad Jason’s own swing band, The Pendulum Swings, daughter Rachel’s girl band, Supercute!, and mom Tina’s steering of their children’s program, “Rachel Trachtenburg’s Homemade World,” the three still find time to do slideshow shows. And on January 21, they do just that at the Knitting Factory in Williamsburg, with mom on the projector, dad on the keys and vocals, and their daughter on the drums as the family performs conceptual art-rock pop with a message.
“We’re informational artists,” says Jason. “We feel it’s our duty and responsibility to give information as we see it.”
That includes extolling the health benefits of vegetarianism (Jason and Tina are going strong 20 years, 16-year-old Rachel has been one most her life), individuality (“We can’t just turn into a culture of conformity,” says Jason), and politics (Rachel made the news last year as vocal opponent against third terms for city politicians).
The family makes a similar statement as they move into children’s programming. Next month, the second episode of “Rachel Trachtenburg’s Homemade World” will be shown in Brooklyn February 14, details TBA (the first episode is available here).
“We really want to influence and expand television entertainment,” says Jason. “I think we can raise expectations with what we’re doing with the show. It has real purpose, real ideas about art and life.”
The show, says Tina, is like “’H.R. Pufnstuf’ meets the ‘Partridge Family.’ But it’s real as opposed to a fantasy.”
It presents a day in the life of Rachel in their Bushwick apartment, with original music by Rachel and Jason and guest appearances from friends like Andrew W.K, Murray Hill and Kevin Allison. Then there’s Supercute!, Rachel’s trio which she fronts with a ukulele, (they are also on the Knitting Factory bill), and dad’s band, The Pendulum Swings, which gives him an outlet for music that doesn’t quite jive with the Slideshow Players’ aesthetic.
“The Slideshow goes in so many different directions, I will never grow tired of it. (But) ultimately, Rachel’s getting older and focusing on her band. It was essential that I started up a new project,” says Jason, whose new project is an indie swing band. Though no retro throwback here – “We’re trying to live in the culture of the time,” says Jason. And, unlike the Slideshow Players, “the emphasis is music, not so much politics or entertainment or art.”
While the Pendulums don’t make the Knitting Factory bill, don’t rule it out in the future.
“Lately we’ve been doing shows together, all of us,” says Jason. “Slideshow, Supercute and Pendulum Swings.”
Yep, they’re keeping it all in the family.
The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players are at Knitting Factory (361 Metropolitan Ave.) January 21 at 7 p.m. With Supercute! and Julia Weldon. Tickets are $10. For more information, call 347-529-6696.
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Tuesday 12 January 2010 Kissy Kamikaze at Knitting Factory Brooklyn (Brooklyn)
with Jason Trachtenburg, Magic Brian, Miss Saturn, and Roger Hailes
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Sunday January 9 2010 Supercute @ Let Them Eat Cake @ The Cake Shop 152 Ludlow Street $5.00
review from here
The Kids Are All Right (and Flaunting Their Hooks, Taste and Cred)
Published: January 10, 2010
On Thursday night Nick Jonas of the Jonas Brothers made his New York debut as a solo act at the Beacon Theater for around 2,000 shrieking young girls (and a couple of boys) and their chaperones. On Saturday afternoon, in the basement of Cake Shop on the Lower East Side, the all-girl Brooklyn kid-punk outfit Care Bears on Fire hosted a showcase of teen bands for an audience of a couple hundred: plaid-wearing peers, small children, parents scarfing down sandwiches and salads.
Not as different as they sound, really.
Scale isn’t much of a measure of talent or maturity, of course, or even of intentions. Exclude the size of the room, and the two shows looked alike: teenage performers eager to flaunt their bona fides and their taste, exactly the things that probably set them apart from their classmates, but not, it turns out, from one another.
These are also the things that have separated Nick Jonas from his brothers Kevin and Joe over the four-plus years in which the Jonas Brothers have been marching toward pop supremacy. Even as success took them beyond the world of Disney, the Jonas Brothers never felt sophisticated; of the three Nick came closest, with his sharp, forward fashion choices and name dropping of influences like Elvis Costello.
The primary aim of his solo debut, “Who I Am” (Hollywood), which is to be released next month under the name Nick Jonas & the Administration, appears to be re-education. A couple of songs revisit Jonas Brothers bop, but Mr. Jonas, 17, is more interested in reclaiming 1970s rock, a relatively unfashionable choice that will force fans to accept him on different terms.
“Who I Am” is reminiscent of Justin Timberlake’s first post-’N Sync solo album, “Justified”: eager to toy with new influences, far from perfect. Mr. Jonas’s plays for credibility are naked. Three of his four touring band members did stints with Prince’s New Power Generation. The song “State of Emergency” is a virtual rewrite of Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition.” “Olive & an Arrow,” a blues-rock number, recalls John Mayer.
At Thursday’s show he attracted a discerning, self-selecting subset of Jonas Brothers fans, drawn to his shy charm, perhaps, over Joe’s puckish flamboyance and Kevin’s, um, positive attitude? They were older too: many seemed to be in the upper reaches of teenagedom, taking style cues from “Gossip Girl,” and only a few wore hand-scrawled T-shirts of the kind ubiquitous at Jonas Brothers concerts. A handful were sipping Bud Lights by the lobby bar before the show.
They were rabid for Mr. Jonas, who seemed completely comfortable without his brothers, fitting in easily with his startlingly good band. It helped that he was in top form, far more convincing than on his album, but it didn’t matter: almost everything he did met with adulation. (Though his New Year’s resolutions — “As a country we’re in a place of fear, and we need to put that behind us” — provoked confused murmurs, and his cover of Mr. Wonder’s “Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I’m Yours,” was appreciated more by the adults in the crowd.)
Charmed though it may seem, the path that Mr. Jonas has chosen is not the easy one. He’s savvy enough, though, to know he needs to shift gears. Soon he won’t be a teenager anymore — a conundrum also faced by his friend Taylor Swift, who turned 20 last month, effectively aging out of her old material — and the slate gets wiped clean.
By and large the bands that played at Cake Shop on Saturday afternoon as part of the Let Them Eat Cake showcase have chosen to skip right past the potential crisis of growing out of their sound by making music most adults would be proud of.
Mr. Jonas might find he has much in common with Ethan Levenson, 15, who opened his Cake Shop set with a cover of Girls’ “Lust for Life,” one of last year’s hipster anthems, obscuring the profanity slightly, but not completely. Mr. Levenson, who wore a loose gray cardigan and whose songs were filled with mopey inner-life-centric lyrics, might not want to talk to Mr. Jonas, though they probably have similar record collections.
Mr. Levenson was the only boy on the bill, save for two members of Blame the Patient, the third band on the lineup, effective miners of late-’80s and early-’90s indie rock with a ferocious lead guitarist, Hunter Lombard, and a kinetic lead singer, Sofie Kapur.
Last year Blame the Patient recorded an as-yet-unreleased album produced by Kevin March, drummer of the well-regarded post-hardcore band Shudder to Think. On the Let Them Eat Cake circuit such high-profile — in the indie rock world at least — hand holders are the norm. On its recent album “Get Over It!” (S-Curve), Care Bears on Fire worked with Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne and Jill Cunniff, late of Luscious Jackson, among others.
At 16, Rachel Trachtenburg of Supercute!, who opened the showcase with a set of tidy, clever bubblegum pop, is already a veteran thanks to her years with the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players. One song played by Supercute!, “Not to Write About Boys,” was incisive and cynical about inter-band relations: two group members fall for the same guy, then realize it’s tearing the group apart, and sacrifice the guy for the sake of friendship. For kids, it’s dark stuff.
And polished too: Supercute! has pop instincts as finely honed as Mr. Jonas’s. The same goes for Care Bears on Fire, who straddle the mainstream and D.I.Y. worlds, proving that they’re not that far apart. The group was signed to S-Curve by Steve Greenberg, who, as president of Columbia Records, signed the Jonas Brothers to their first major-label deal. Over the summer Care Bears on Fire toured with Nat & Alex Wolff, of the Nickelodeon series “The Naked Brothers Band,” and in November, Care Bears on Fire appeared on another Nickelodeon show, “True Jackson, VP,” in which the group subbed in for a gig blown off by Justin Bieber: not exactly the punk rock episode of “Quincy, M.E.,” but something.
More immediately the group recalls the Runaways, who were a teen punk band when that was still a dangerous idea. The members of Care Bears on Fire — Izzy, Sophie and Jena — are younger, and not nearly as salacious as the Runaways, but they have a similar verve. Their music is accomplished, tackling kid subjects in a mature way, with furiously energetic playing, especially on the part of the drummer, Izzy, who on Saturday was sporting a torn Patti Smith T-shirt.
The songs were cheerily scornful, thanks to Sophie, the guitarist and lead singer. And the band’s cover of Tears for Fears’s “Everybody Wants to Rule the World,” was smart, comprehending that its lyrics were always far brattier than its arrangement. At the end of the show the punk pioneer Handsome Dick Manitoba went backstage and gave all the girls hugs.
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Tue., January 5, 8:00pm Knitting Factory Price: $5 Kissy Kamikaze + Jason Trachtenburg + Magic Brian + Miss Saturn + Roger Hailes
361 Metropolitan Ave.
Brooklyn, NY
347-529-6696
ting Factory Brooklyn
361 Metropolitan Ave (at Havemeyer St)
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
347-529-6696
Subway: L to Lorimer St, G to Metropolitan Ave | Directions
Prices
Tickets: $5
Description
Jason Trachtenburg, the adult musician in the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, is underrated as a songwriter, and tonight’s solo gig is a good place to hear him sans slides and kid. Check out the Volume (timeoutnewyork.com/thevolume) to view an exclusive holiday performance from Trachtenburg.
When
Tue 7pm
Read more: http://newyork.timeout.com/events/music/319615/kissy-kamikaze-jason-trachtenburg-magic-brian-miss-saturn-roger-hailes#ixzz0bSm8bvDQ
review from here
Though he will be playing a show with the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players on January 21 at the Knitting Factory, Jason Trachtenburg took to the same stage solo on Tuesday night as part of .357 Lover's circus of a residency. There's always a lot of humor in his set (it's up for debate if this humor is intentional or not), and when he is solo, there's also a sort of simplistic beauty to his songs. Check out photos from the show after the jump.
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Sunday, January 3rd, 8pm
Pete's Candy Store
709 Lorimer Street
Brooklyn, NY 11211
Emily Manzo performing Katherine Young's Underworld (Dancing) for Tuba and Wurlitzer and piece for TBT
Clara Latham's Selected Songs
We are joined by tuba virtuoso Dan Peck, and play at 8pm, followed by Baby Copperhead and Jason from the Trachtenburg family slideshow- should be a wonderful evening!
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