The Bowery Presents

The Mercury Lounge upcoming shows

DD/MM/YYYY
10:00
Wavves
9:00

Vampire Hands
8:00
Real Estate
7:00

Venue:
The Mercury Lounge
Date:
Mon 3/30
Notes:
21+
Doors: 7:00 PM / Show: 7:00 PM
$10
Tickets
DD/MM/YYYY
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Our newest album, Black Square, is scheduled for digital release on February 17th, street release on March 17th through We Are Busy Bodies (Canada) & European Release through Deleted Art shortly thereafter. It is the by-product of van-confined wanderlust, inevitable maturity & our growing comfort level in the studio environment. We do not deviate too far from our origin, but there’s an inherent seriousness that may have evaded previous releases.

We don’t have a name and there is no wrong way to say DD/MM/YYYY. We are inclined to explore, open to all concepts, and are stubborn only with regards to a ‘no-style’ approach to making music. Notable inspiration comes to us from the works of Frank Zappa, Melt Banana, DADA art and video games. Anticipate an urgent set of elastic songs – dramatic & tempered by healthy doses of irreverence that make it hard to stand still. A swat-team style five-man workout along with healthy jogs from one instrument to another, arrangement-swapping, and seemingly random walks on & off the stage.

We have supported every release with incessant, warrior-like, touring. Our upcoming North American tour with Don Caballero spans 4 weeks & includes several dates with sBACH. Previous North American tours have paired us with Crystal Castles, Japanther, as well as Video Hippos and saw us crossing paths with Kid Koala, Blood Brothers, Matt & Kim, No Age, Dan Deacon, Mika Miko, & The Yardbirds! In fall ‘08 we embarked upon a 4-week European tour.

We have received profiles &/or praise from the Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, Chart Attack, Now, Eye, exclaim! LA Weekly, MuchMusic, Myspace, & Spin.com. 777 Out of Touch Records, May ’08).
“Sirens roar, guitars burn their notes, drums scatter like cockroaches in light and a breakdown hammers home their discombobulating nature before launching into a riveting climax that ends with a calming plateau.” – exclaim!
Wavves
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Some bands are so good they deserve their own genre and DOO-WAVE is the term exactly one person (hi!) is using to describe the exhilarating doo-wop surf-punk made by San Diego's Wavves.

Wavves is the work of Nathan Williams, who writes the classic rap blog Ghost Ramp and makes tapes of awesome songs he says are inspired by "the sun. And feeling like shit." His explosive new single Beach Demon assaults the monotony of endless suburban sunshine with zigzagging harmonies and a blitzkrieg of fuzzed-out noise.

“Beach Demon is about getting drunk on the beach and not having or feeling any real purpose in your life," explains Nathan. "That's why the chorus is 'going nowhere, I'm going nowhere', this overwhelming feeling of unimportance in the real scheme of things, ya know?" And Weed Demon, the languid, freewheeling b-side, what's that about? "Weed Demon is about weed." Ah. Of course.

-NME.com
Vampire Hands
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Vampire Hands is from the Twin Cities and began playing in 2006. The band has been writing songs at a furious pace and are constantly outdoing themselves with each release. It was only Fall 2007 that Vampire Hands released their first full album, Virgin Dust American Lips. This followed two excellent self-released EPs that were later released together on vinyl. Me & You Cherry Red followed in 2008.

A mix of influences can be heard from psychadelic, experimental, noise, garage, dub, glam and pop. Comparisons can be drawn to Liars, T.Rex, Brian Eno, Can, Les Savy Fav, Iggy Pop, Royal Trux, John Lennon an Velvet Underground, but thier music comes off as much more than a collection of its influences. The band continues to tread new ground, working on several new records and touring constantly in the coming year.
Real Estate
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Real Estate waft in on vibes of hazy summers past. The New Jersey quartet of Martin Courtney IV, Matthew Mondanile III, Etienne Pierre Duguay and Alex Bleeker cut the sleeves short and the pop smooth to shade you from the midday heat. Every song works its way to that part of your consciousness that reveled in the fleeting waves of freedom that eked in once classes broke and the sun lingered a little longer over suburban roofs. And with three quarters of the band holding down Garden State roots its no surprise that a bit of Jersey indie-pop heritage sneaks its way into their sound, lifting the most sun streaked moments from The Feelies and Yo La Tengo and filtering them through the kaleidoscope of memories aimless drives through parched neighborhood streets.

Martin Courtney's songwriting has a way of wrapping up the immediacy of youth with the ennui of age for the perfect shade of bittersweet bliss, mind you though, much heavier on the sweet than the bitter. Add to this Mondanile's (Ducktails/ Predator Vision) shimmering guitar strains full of equal parts sea foam and beer foam, pepper in the boardwalk clatter of Duguay's drums Bleeker's staccato low end and the perfect afternoon is just a lawn chair and boom box away.
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