#NewYorkBands

Jake in the desertjake4480@c.im
2025-04-07

Listening to some fucking EXCELLENT hardcore this morning (something that's admittedly sometimes difficult to find.)

This is New York's MINDFORCE and they're fairly well known around in hardcore circles, I believe. This is their first LP 'Excalibur' from 2018 and it fuckin RIPS-- the breakdowns, lyrics, everything else. Definitely almost some Warzone feel & some general early 00s hardcore vibes.

bbbrecords.bandcamp.com/album/

#NowPlaying #hardcore #NewYorkHardcore #NYHardcore #NewYorkBands #Mindforce #HardcoreBands @Defiance @irafcummings

Jake in the desertjake4480@c.im
2025-02-21

#NowPlaying (yet again) - Thought I'd talked about New York's WILD PINK here, but maybe not. Thanks to @jeffrey I was alerted to this killer record juust barely past when I wrote about my favorites of last year. 'Dulling the Horns' is an amazing album. Imagine REM, Tom Petty, Weezer, Bob Dylan and Billy Joel all together somehow. Pretty sure @HailsandAles and @wendigo will dig this one, maybe I've already mentioned this to both of ya'll. Couldn't find it if I have. Anyway.

wildpink.bandcamp.com/album/du

#NewYorkBands #NewYork #NY #WildPink #indie #IndieMusic

Jake in the desertjake4480@c.im
2024-12-30

Wow, huge thanks to @jinscho for alerting me to Wild Pink, some great songwriting here- 'Dulling the Horns' is yet another awesome record from 2024. Kinda Dylan, kinda Petty, also has some Gin Blossoms, Weezer or Lemonheads vibes. Catchy rootsy guitarry rock stuff.

wildpink.bandcamp.com/album/du

#2024Albums #WildPink #NewYorkBands #NewYork #IndieRock #IndieMusic #indie

Jake in the desertjake4480@c.im
2024-10-03

#ThursDeath this week, I've been listenting to a lot of ELIMINATOR from NYC. Their name sounds kinda like a thrash band, but this is some solid deathgrind. They put out this 'Termination EP' in 2022. It rips. (I put their logo here instead the album cover, as I realized it's a little disturbing maybe. So, a warning there.)

eliminatordeathmetal.bandcamp.

#metal #DeathMetal #DeathGrind #OSDM #grind #grindcore #Eliminator #NY #NYC #NewYork #NewYorkMetal #NewYorkBands @wendigo @HailsandAles @BlackenedGreen @umrk @Kitty

Eliminator's logo
Jake in the desertjake4480@c.im
2024-08-08

I love when a metal band's name perfectly illustrates what they sound like, and for this week's #ThursDeath, FOUL DECAY nails it.

Foul Decay is just one dude in Queens, and he makes gross, fantastic death metal. The first Foul Decay demo 'Sullied as They Are by Rot and Putrefaction' is great too, but this is their first true EP from 2022, 'Cesspool of Osseous Infested Confinement'.

These four disgusting tracks are just what you needed today.

fouldecay.bandcamp.com/album/c

#metal #DeathMetal #OSDM #FoulDecay #NewYorkMetal #NewYorkBands #Queens #GrodyMetal @wendigo @HailsandAles @BlackenedGreen

2024-06-26

Listen to this track by New York-based trip-hop kitsch pop duo Cibo Matto. It’s “Sugar Water” a cut from their 1996 debut record, Viva! La Woman. Among other things, the band were known as the pop group who wrote songs about food, their name being an Italian phrase roughly translated crazy food or food madness. The subject of food on the record is consciously in place to make their material easily relatable. After all, meals and eating are as big a part of the human experience as any heavy emotion or event in one’s life. In that respect, their material was written with the conventional goal to establish common ground with an audience; an old-fashioned punk rock gambit if there ever was one.

Besides that, Cibo Matto are pretty hard to pin down genre-wise. Founding members Yuka Honda (keyboards, sequencers) and Miho Hatori (vocals) both emerged from noise rock and experimental scenes in New York. Their music is a strain of deconstructed and reconstituted hip hop and pop music with a punk-funk edge filtered through disparate and far flung ingredients like bossa nova, Sixties lounge jazz, and vintage soundtracks. On “Sugar Water”, they sample Ennio Morricone’s “Sospesi Nel Cielo” from the film score for the 1964 Italian subculture documentary I Malamondo.

Despite their wide musical interests, it was hard for a lot of people to get past the quirkiness of the whole food thing. In some ways, Cibo Matto leaned into their bubbly, quirky image and their reputation for writing upbeat punkish songs about chicken, beef jerky, and birthday cakes. It was easy to miss the deeper territories found in their songs that point in directions hinting that food was always a metaphor for bigger themes that aren’t so bubbly and quirky.

On “Sugar Water”, the lyrical imagery is dreamlike, surreal, wrapped in aural muslin and away from the brashness of some of their other early songs. That doesn’t mean that it’s lightweight or that it doesn’t contain some powerful ideas. In fact beneath the veneer, there are some big themes that make this song a part of a tradition that New York-based bands have explored for decades in one manner or another; urban isolation and how to best survive it.

The Michael Gondry-directed music video for the song helps to bring this to the surface, notable at the time for its use of split-screen and time-shifting narratives of two women living in the city. In it, their lives cross only briefly in an environment characterized by cramped spaces, busy streets, unpredictable conditions, and potentially dangerous events. This is a New York song, a characteristic that’s only enhanced by its disorienting and yet visually compelling narrative sense.

But even without the visuals, “Sugar Water” is still a narrative about being in an urban environment that can feel overwhelming, separating its inhabitants from the natural world and often from each other as crowded and cramped as it can be. It’s the concrete way as named in the lyrics; the unforgiving expanse that can potentially cut one off from the wider world, and even from oneself. It is a reflection of the city as a looming presence that can swallow you up. But this song doesn’t remain in that setting for long.

Cibo Matto live at Brighton Music Hall in Boston, July 20, 2011. Miho Hatori (foreground) and Yuka Honda. (image: Chris Devers)

“Sugar Water” turns that dour landscape into something that springs from a fertile imagination instead; coconut trees and the smell of sand from the southern island, conjured in a mind that has the power to transform settings, conditions, and states of mind at will. The woman who sings from the moon to the earth is arguably the narrator herself, with the evocation of moon imagery being a classic representation of female power; Viva! La Woman, indeed. This is in contrast to a world of stage techs, engineers, and record producers assuming that the women in the band don’t even know how their own gear works; evidently a true story.

“Sugar Water” is about what creativity and imagination can do for people during the mundane routines of their lives to break out of all that. It’s about finding one’s own energy to turn the inflexible cold concrete surfaces in one’s life into the romantic expanses of desert landscapes, or any other setting that helps to lend perspective and bring relief to one’s everyday circumstances and surroundings. It’s about how music itself can transport musicians and listeners alike to another place, away from the day-to-day, even when the black cat of circumstance crosses our path when we least expect it.

When a black cat crosses my path
A woman in the moon is singing to the earth
A woman in the moon is singing to the earth

La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la …

– “Sugar Water”, Cibo Matto

There’s a kind of defiance to be found in this tune; that one doesn’t have to accept what one is given on the surface if one has the imagination to transcend it. It establishes calmness, trading on a kind of ruminative trip-hop groove that acts as a backdrop for an imaginative excursion. The la la la la la refrain is like a subversive splash of daylight cast in the darkness. Like the act of eating, listening to music and indulging in our imaginations is revealed to be a kind of nourishment, giving us strength as much as any three course meal to help get us through.

Cibo Matto put out two albums before splitting amicably in 2002. After exploring new projects separately, they reunited in 2011 and eventually put out a third record, Hotel Valentine, in 2014. This was before parting ways again in 2017. It seems that Cibo Matto is a force of nature even in the lives of the two principal musicians who formed it, coming and going as it pleases.

For more about Cibo Matto and their unique impact on the musical landscape of the 1990s, read this article from 2021 about how they represented women’s perspectives at the time, and specifically Asian women’s perspectives.

And here is an interview from 2023 with musician, record producer, and Cibo Matto co-founder Yuka Honda talking about her career and how technology played an integral role in her development as an artist.

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#90sMusic #CiboMatto #experimentalPop #NewYorkBands #tripHop

2024-04-25

YOUBET
"CARSICK"
BRAND NEW - THE ALBUM COMES OUT MAY 10, 2024
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Carsick
from Way To Be by youbet

youbetband.bandcamp.com/track/

Two youbet tracks have gotten most YouTube plays so far. "Carsick" has far and away the better recording sound mix and it is the place to start.

A current post at the WFUV site says, "It's hard to nail down a standard genre for Brooklyn band youbet; the sounds on the forthcoming Way To Be, released on May 10, are unabashedly colorful and the labyrinthine song structures radiate a playfulness that is equally confounding and inviting."

wfuv.org/content/youbet-2024

Notice that one of the musicians is dressed up as a member of the Mighty Mighty Bosstones.

When I say I love you, you say, "You better"
You better, you better, you bet .....

-- The Who

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#2020sbands #2020smusic #2020srock #bandcamp #carsick #mightymightybosstones #musicnews #newyorkbands #newyorkcity #newyorkmusic #newyorkrock #waytobe #wfuv #wfuvradio #youbet #youbetband

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2024-04-14

SHARON JONES
"THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND"
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This Land Is Your Land
from Naturally by Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
[Daptone Records]

sharonjonesandthedapkings.band

Woody Guthrie really didn't like the song, "God Bless America." So, he wrote verses of his own with at least a working title of "God Bless America for Me."

This land is your land, this land is my land
From California to the New York island
From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters
God bless America for me

Sharon Jones took verses from that early creation and worked them into "This Land Is Your Land" in its most commonly known form, resulting in this excellent version of the song.

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#bandcamp #brooklynbands #brooklynmusic #brooklynnewyork #brooklynny #brooklynrock #dapkings #daptonerecords #godblessamerica #godblessamericaforme #musicnews #naturallyalbumtitle #newyorkbands #newyorkcity #newyorkmusic #newyorkrock #sharonjones #sharonjonesandthedapkings #thedapkings #thislandisyourland #woodyguthrie

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2024-02-22

"SUSS"
"SALT"
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Salt
from Ghost Box (Expanded) by SUSS

suss.bandcamp.com/track/salt-2

One or, I think, two members of SUSS were in a New Wave / Western band, Rubber Rodeo, out of Providence, Rhode Island. "New wave," in this instance, has more to do with The Cars, as one terrific example, and less to do with what 1980s/MTV kids call "new wave." Rubber Rodeo was quite good and it had a hit single, "The Hardest Thing."

SUSS takes the ambient country/western idea to completion. I have only heard "Ghost Box: Expanded." "Salt" is one of my favorite tracks.

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Music Museum of New England short article

mmone.org/rubber-rodeo/

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#1980smusic #ambientcountry #ambientcountrymusic #bandcamp #carsband #ghostbox #ghostboxexpanded #mmone #mtv #musicmuseumofnewengland #musicnews #nemsbk #newenglandbands #newenglandmusic #newwaverock #newyorkbands #newyorkcity #newyorkmusic #providencerhodeisland #providenceri #rhodeislandbands #rhodeislandmusic #rubberrodeo #salttrack #suss #thecars #thecarsband #thehardestthing

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2024-02-12

SHARON JONES AND THE DAP-KINGS
"SIGNED, SEALED, DELIVERED, I'M YOURS"
*****
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Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours
from Just Dropped In To See What Condition My Rendition Was In by Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings

sharonjonesandthedapkings.band

Sharon Jones said that, in earlier days, when she approached record labels, hoping to get signed, they said she was

Too short, too fat
Too old, too black

Thorough. Jones solved the problem by making herself into a rock star anyway.

From a great Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings covers/interpretations album, "Signed Sealed Delivered" easily earns its Five Stars. This is one of her best.

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#brooklynmusic #dapkings #newyorkbands #newyorkcity #newyorkmusic #sharonjones #sharonjonesandthedapkings #signedsealeddelivered #singersongwriter #thedapkings

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2024-01-27

BAILEN
"These Bones"

These Bones (feat. Amos Lee)
from Tired Hearts (Deluxe Edition) by BAILEN

bailen.bandcamp.com/track/thes

New York City's BAILEN gets good airplay on their hometown radio station, WFUV. This is the group's latest single.

Succinct review: I bought it.

It is quite common for the album cut being promoted to be somewhere around Track 3. This is Track 13. Not the usual.

Time travelers BAILEN posted this track several days into the future, February 6, 2024.

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#bailen #bandcamp #newyorkbands #newyorkcity #newyorkmusic #singersongwriter #wfuv

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