Our past few Fridays-at-5 posts have featured bands on tap for the New Colossus Festival, taking place in LES/EV venues next week.
Up next, the French shoegazers Sarakiniko. The above video is a live version of "Fade it Away into the Sea."
The band will bring their firepower to Rockwood Music Hall on Allen Street next Friday night (set time: 11:30).
NYC's dream-pop duo Phantom Handshakes is just one of the bands playing this year's New Colossus Festival in several LES-EV music venues. Check out the lineup for the festival, March 6-10, right here.
The above video is for "Stuck in a Fantasy."
P.S.
Phantom Handshakes play Arlene's Grocery on March 8 at 7:45 p.m.
The Chicago-based Dehd has a new record due out May 10 on Fat Possum.
Ahead of that, they released this video-single "Mood Ring." (If you want to skip the setup, the song starts at the 2:25 mark. And this Dehd video is still my fave.)
London-based trio Night Tapes has released several singles of late... the video here is for a track from December titled "Drifting," which the band describes as an "existentialist pop song."
A version of a holiday song that maybe you aren't tired of yet (and isn't by, say, Wham, the Waitresses, Paul McCartney & Wings ... all fine classics, but.)
This is a cover of "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" by the Beths... (The Cat Power cover is great too.)
You might think a recently released song called "Everlasting Gobstopper" might have something to do with the new"Wonka" film.
The track by The Veldt is actually 34 years old... the Raleigh, N.C.-based soul-shoegaze-alternative rock band has finally seen the release of what was to be their debut record, produced by the Cocteau Twins' Robin Guthrie. Capitol Records shelved the recording in 1989, and reportedly sent the band back into the studio to do another record, which turned out to be Marigold.
Anyway! Always thought they were very under-appreciated...
Emma Anderson, songwriter, guitarist and singer in the shoegazing/Britpop band Lush, recently (Oct 20!) released her debut solo record, Sonic Cathedral.
Kurt Vile has a new record out on Nov. 17 titled Back to Moon Beach ... ahead of that, he released this track, "Another Good Year for the Roses."
The above video takes place, in part, at Otto's Shrunken Head on 14th Street near Avenue B. Vile and his side-project band of actors, Big Daddy in the Sky, featuring Michael Shannon, Kevin Corrigan and David Wike, have jammed there a few times in recent months.