Local synth-pop group Hennessey released a new single today ... check out "8 Men" in the above video...
Showing posts with label Fridays at 5. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fridays at 5. Show all posts
Friday, January 29, 2021
8 is enough
Friday, January 22, 2021
Mind the 'Store'
New York-based trio Palberta have a new release out this week... Palberta5000 is the band's fifth record.
The video here is for "Corner Store."
You can read a interview with the band, who have drawn comparisons to Captain Beefheart and the Raincoats, among others, at NPR.
Friday, January 15, 2021
RIP Sylvain Sylvain
As you may have heard, Sylvain Sylvain, co-founder and guitarist of the New York Dolls, died Wednesday of cancer. He was 69.
An appreciation via Jem Aswad at Variety:
While singer David Johansen was a classic Jaggeresque frontman and Johnny Thunders oozed degenerate charisma and played snarling lead guitar, Sylvain was the group's foundation, bringing textured riffs and rhythmic power that underpinned the songs' melodies and meshed with the bass and drums. The twang of his Gretsch guitar countered Thunders' blistering, distorted leads and gave the group a melodic bedrock.Sylvain previously lived in the East Village, starting in 1967.
Johansen is now the only surviving member of the original lineup, seen in the above video with "Stranded in the Jungle" from 1973.
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Friday, January 8, 2021
'Five Years' to start the New Year
A televised version of "Five Years" by David Bowie from 1972... from "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars."
Bowie was born on this day in 1947. (And he died on Jan. 10, 2016.)
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Friday, January 1, 2021
Year in review
This week local singer-songwriter Fiona Silver released a video for her latest single — the aptly named "2020."
Silver wrote the song and also directed the video. As she explained:
"I wanted to make a video that reflected some of the themes of [2020] — protests, police brutality, environmental issues, financial insecurity, and of course the COVID-19 pandemic, combined with the incredible perseverance of spirit I found from people coming together, supporting each other, and celebrating life in the face of fear. It's been a wild year..."
Her band features Guy Fiumarelli on guitar, Steve Salerno on bass, Brian Duke on drums and Gregg Foreman on keys.
To 2021!
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Friday, December 25, 2020
Hello again
One last Christmas song for the season... and one we aren't tired of — the recently released "Hello Santa Claus" by the local band Pom Pom Squad.
Friday, December 18, 2020
RIP Sam Jayne
Sam Jayne, the talented singer-songwriter of Love as Laughter and Lync, has died. He was 46.
According to his friends and multiple media outlets, he had been missing since Dec. 7. There was a frantic social-media-driven search for him. Police found him in his car on Tuesday. An NYPD spokesperson told Pitchfork that a preliminary investigation didn't show any "signs of criminality." (Update: His family created a website in his memory. According to his family, he died of an undiagnosed heart condition.)
Jayne had been bartending at Daddy's and Clem's in Williamsburg.
This Brooklyn Vegan post has tributes from his many peers in the music business.
The above video is for the Love as Laughter track "Coconut Flakes" from 2007.
Friday, December 11, 2020
Gleaming the 'Cube'
The prolific John Dwyer and his merry band of Osees are releasing an epic live set titled Live at the Henry Miller Library Big Sur... which you can stream next Saturday, Dec. 19. (Details here.)
Ahead of that they've released a view tracks from the show, including "Gelatinous Cube."
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Friday, December 4, 2020
News break
Local duo the Acute (you may have seen them play this year in Tompkins Square Park) recently released an EP titled Infinidy ... the above video is for "Newsical," the first track from the record.
BTW this is the final Bandcamp Friday of the year, in which the platform foregoes its revenue and gives the bands all the $$$ from the day's sales.
Friday, November 20, 2020
"Pressure' drop
In case you already haven't heard this 500,000 times since it was released late last month... here's Karen O and Willie Nelson ("the Duet We Didn’t Know We Needed in 2020") with their soothing acoustic cover of "Under Pressure."
Friday, November 13, 2020
It's a heartache
Something a little different ... this is "Something on Your Mind," a song from 1971 by Karen Dalton from the folk blues singer's second and final studio album.
Although Bob Dylan once called her his favorite singer from the Greenwich Village folk scene of the 1960s, she was mostly forgotten until some years after her death in 1993 at 55.
She is the subject of a new documentary (produced by Wim Wenders) titled "In My Own Time: A Portrait of Karen Dalton" that's featured at DOC NYC this month.
Friday, November 6, 2020
Some kind of 'Wonderful'
Baltimore's War On Women released a new LP last week titled Wonderful Hell ... the video here is for the title track...
Friday, October 30, 2020
Built to Spell
Siouxsie & the Banshees have been on heavier heavy rotation in recent days... the video is for "Spellbound" from 1981. Top of the Pops!
Friday, October 23, 2020
Sweetness and light
East Village-based Cults released a video (described as "like stepping into a too-sweet, too-pink Candy Land") this week for "A Low," another single from their recently released record Host.
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Friday, October 16, 2020
Put a spell on you
Pinc Louds have a new single and video out today ... the band describes "Spellbound" as "a bolero-tinged ode to classic harmony groups of the 50’s and 60’s."
And there's a dreamy summer-in-the-city vibe in this video filmed in Tompkins Square Park...
Previously on EV Grieve:
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Friday, October 9, 2020
Friday, October 2, 2020
In the company of 'Men'
The Barcelona-based post-punk trio Mourn have a new album coming out next month titled Self Worth.
The video here is for "Men."
Friday, September 25, 2020
Soak up the 'Sun'
Sunflower Bean, a band with some East Village roots, released a new single last week titled "Moment in the Sun" ... along with a summery video.
Friday, September 18, 2020
'Nonsense' you say!
Osees have a new record out today. John Dwyer’s band — you may know them as Oh Sees and Thee Oh Sees and a few others — remains incredibly prolific and ass-kicking.
From that new record, here's the 94 seconds of "Dreary Nonsense."
Friday, September 11, 2020
'Hold' on
Death Valley Girls have a new record, Under the Spell of Joy, out on Oct. 2. Ahead of that, here's a single from the release titled "Hold My Hand."
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