Late Show
Hank & Cupcakes
Charlene Kaye, The Kickback
Sat, December 8, 2012
Doors: 10:00 pm
Mercury Lounge
New York, NY
$10
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Hank & Cupcakes
After kicking off 2012 in the most incredible way - by opening a sold-out show for Deadmau5 at NYC's Pier 36, the dynamic twosome is tearing full-speed ahead with the release of their debut album titled NAKED, recorded last summer at the famous Hansa Studios in Berlin (U2, David Bowie, Iggy Pop). "Liquid Mercury" the album’s first single appeared in Billboard Magazine’s Top 40 Indicator Highlights after climbing to the #37 position on the Indicator Charts, making Hank & Cupcakes the highest unsigned band on the chart. The band has also played select dates across Europe and the Middle East so far this year, including playing to a crowds of over 2,000 in Barcelona and 700 in Stockholm and are ’Getting NAKED on the road’ as they put it, this summer, with over 30 tour dates across the US.
Incessant action and whirlwind touring are nothing new to Hank & Cupcakes, who formed in Tel Aviv just prior to moving to Cuba where they spent six months of musical exploration. The duo ended up in Williamsburg, Brooklyn almost two years ago, drawn by what Cupcakes describes as "the music, the streets, the energy, the electricity and the nonstop movement of NYC... We feel we can't just sit still here and have the urge to be in constant musical motion." But if these two feel drawn to NYC, it's clear that the city strongly reciprocates that very sentiment.
Incessant action and whirlwind touring are nothing new to Hank & Cupcakes, who formed in Tel Aviv just prior to moving to Cuba where they spent six months of musical exploration. The duo ended up in Williamsburg, Brooklyn almost two years ago, drawn by what Cupcakes describes as "the music, the streets, the energy, the electricity and the nonstop movement of NYC... We feel we can't just sit still here and have the urge to be in constant musical motion." But if these two feel drawn to NYC, it's clear that the city strongly reciprocates that very sentiment.
Charlene Kaye
It’s been all systems go for Hawaii-born, New York-based Charlene Kaye since releasing her sophomore album “Animal Love,” which reached #15 on the iTunes pop charts upon its release this May and has been hailed as “a tour de force of Kaye’s songwriting talents and her voice” (the Pop Stereo) and “fluent in classical piano as [it] is in glam rock” (the New Yorker). In addition to touring relentlessly and playing CMJ and SXSW festivals, the ambitious songwriter/multi-instrumentalist has earned enthusiastic reviews from PopMatters, VH1, Huffington Post, NPR, The Atlantic, the NY Deli, the Village Voice and more for her commanding voice, deft guitar playing and electrifying live shows. She has shared a bill with the likes of Big Boi, Minus the Bear and Holly Miranda and has over a million views on her YouTube channel. This past November and again in May, she went on two national tours supporting musical theater/internet sensation Team StarKid, earning her thousands of new fans. Her single “Dress and Tie” featuring good friend Darren Criss of Glee was featured in a promo for NBC’s Chuck, had extensive play on radio stations nationwide, and was selected as official boarding music for Delta Airlines. With a rapidly growing fan base and more touring on the horizon, Kaye shows no signs of slowing down, picking up steam even before she leaves the ground.
The Kickback
The Kickback wants to be the Zombies listening to Jeff Buckley listening to a moderately-talented church choir listening to The Beatles in the "back to basics" stage of their career who would stay together long enough to be influenced by the Sales brothers who wound up backing Iggy Pop in the "Berlin Era."" OR: A band trying to use chord changes from Muppet movies in innovative and gratifying ways
