The Bowery Presents

The Mercury Lounge upcoming shows

CMJ Music Marathon

Shout Out Out Out Out
2:00
Blip Blip Bleep
1:00
The Picture
12:00
Deadbeat Darling
11:00
The Dig
10:00
Ravens & Chimes
9:00
Silver Starling
8:00
Goldhawks
7:00

All set times are actual times.
Venue:
The Mercury Lounge
Date:
Fri 10/23
Notes:
21+
Doors: 6:30 PM / Show: 6:30 PM
$10
Shout Out Out Out Out
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"If this is a dude ranch, where are all the dudes? cuz all I see is haters that I’m chasing out of town!"

two drummers + four bass players + two samplers + five synthesizers + five cowbells + two octapads + one vocoder. Shout out out out out plays volatile dance music.

Shout out out out out is made up of nrmls wlcm label bosses Nik Kozub and Jason Troock, whitey houston members Lyle Bell and Gravy, sketchy casanova Will Zimmerman, and a lil' spazz named Clint Frazier. They are a live spectacle, leaving jaws dropped and dance floors filled with their chaotic blend of epic bumpin'. Hell yes, let us do the electro rock and dance the night away.
Blip Blip Bleep
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Brooklyn's indie-pop/electro act Blip Blip Bleep is the work of producer Sean Han, who started recording under the name in 2006. With the help of singer/keyboardist Alexa Danner and drummer Jojo Schwarz, BBB is excited to be celebrating the release of their debut full-length album, Like Track Stars, at Mercury Lounge on Saturday, June 26th. The official release date is Tuesday June 29th (via Undercover Culture/IODA), but advanced copies will be available at the 6/26 show!

BBB has released two prior EPs, 2006's Wireless and 2008's Alarm Clock, Snooze Bar, Get Up. The EPs have earned the project a thumbs up from the likes of IndieFeed, PopMatters, LimeWire, The Deli NYC, BillBoard Underground, and NME.com's video blog. Songs have been licensed to NBC, ABC, The GAP, EMI, MTV, and BravoTV, among others. The trio has had the pleasure of sharing a stage with acts such as Still Life Still, Bear Hands, Boy Crisis, XYZ Affair, Baby Dayliner, Walter Meego and Woodhands.
The Picture
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Not long ago, jumping off an iceberg on fire, a theorist slowly drifted out to sea in search of others who would embrace the chance to change the stars and emerge from a series of systematic network attacks. Soon he hit the continent and was joined by an Englishman and knowledge expert, ghosts and getaways, a chuckler and a bass player, a shepherd herding his flock with mallets and a forgotten hunter… all coincidentally perfect companions to bounce any intangible object they could find off of… and a group was formed.

Now this was no ordinary sequence of events, no path of least resistance. Something changed when the five came together and now it could be said that this group was in fact a band. A band of questions, of pieces and fragments of memories. This band fit together, like Bluebirds and Artichokes.

The Picture is Robert Abel, Greg Abel, Chris Buckle, Jake Siegler and Jared Vergilis. They are releasing, BLUEBIRDS, the first of two EPs on Jan 24th,.
Deadbeat Darling
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Equal parts mischief and bliss, eloquence and irreverence, Deadbeat Darling is a New York City-based rock band whose music shimmers with hints of dub and electronica, and has thus far inspired a rabid and eclectic fanbase solely upon word of mouth. They released their debut full length album "Weight of Wandering"during the Summer of 2009, followed by a sold out show at the Bowery Ballroom in New York City and a run of album release shows throughout Texas and the Midwest...

"Deadbeat Darling's "Weight of Wandering” mesmerizes listeners with gentle reggae waves, sprinkles of exotic modulation, a dab of Dub, and tinges of electronica... Fusing an enchanting instrumentation with (Joseph) King’s soaring, soothing, and shining vocals that attend to every nuance and touch every emotion, the Brooklyn quartet creates a “zen-rock” experience on their ten-track album.... “Weight of Wandering” is heavy with poeticism that is matched by substantial musicality." – Meijin Bruttomesso, Deli NYC

"Deadbeat Darling's music pulsates and breathes. It's electronic rock that brings to mind bands like the Killers and the Strokes." – Hector Saldana, SA Express

"The move to NYC has been good for the cosmically talented Joseph King. With Deadbeat Darling, he's been able to stretch out and fully embrace his muse with these songs about the slippery slopes of relationships, drugs, and bliss." – Loris Lowe, KGSR Austin
The Dig
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Not many bands can claim to have origins in grade school, but in one incarnation or another, some members of The Dig have played music together since they were ten years old.

In Westchester County – just a stone’s throw from New York City, where they now call home – singer/guitarist David Baldwin and singer/bassist Emile Mosseri first met in sixth grade, becoming fast friends and playing in bands. Baldwin and Mosseri met keyboardist/guitarist Erick Eiser at a summer music program in high school, and the three reunited in college in Boston. In 2007, all three relocated to New York City and began writing songs in Baldwin’s basement as The Dig. The relentless, hard-working young band dug their foundation the old-fashioned way: they embraced an indefatigable DIY ethic, playing all over the city regularly and hitting the streets with an endless stream of posters, flyers, and free music. The band released their debut EP Good Luck and Games (produced by Bryce Goggin, who has produced, mixed, or engineered Pavement, Antony & the Johnsons, The Ramones, Bishop Allen) late that year, catching the attention of Popmatters, who wrote in a review, “This is the catchiest, most intriguing power pop band to emerge out of the no-name pile in some time…”

The Dig’s self-booked shows and self-promotion began to pay off by late spring 2008, when the band was booked for three, month-long residencies through the summer at Piano’s in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. With a strong and ever-growing fanbase, late that year esteemed local venues like the Bowery Ballroom and the Music Hall of Williamsburg began to call upon the band consistently to open for national touring bands such as Mission of Burma, The Soft Pack, The Rakes, Longwave, and Rural Alberta Advantage, shows that earned The Dig praise from local blogs such as Music Snobbery: “I have no witty observations or creative writing pull quotes to give you. They are just a damn good band.”

Never resting and looking to expand their base past hometown confines, The Dig began touring in the northeast and southeast in early 2009. Touring over the next six months, the band was profiled in major dailies and weeklies – like the DC Examiner, The Washington Times, The Winston-Salem Journal, and The Asheville Citizen-Times. New drummer Jamie Alegre, a Toronto ex-pat from a family of musicians, joined the band in-between tours in April. Alegre, who moved to NYC four years earlier to pursue a life in music, had gotten to know them through playing the same LES haunts with other bands. With his previous band having just gone on hiatus when The Dig’s first drummer departed, he landed as a perfect fit.

The Dig’s continual touring and dynamic live show caught the attention of noted booking agent Kevin French at the Paradigm Agency, who quickly signed the band in June 2009. Around the same time, the band headed into Brooklyn’s Trout Recording with returning co-producer Goggin to record their full-length debut, Electric Toys. With the album, The Dig has crafted 12 rock songs of various shapes, sizes, and moods, linked by the band’s indelible hooks. Written and arranged by all four members, the songs often tell a story: darkish tales with twisted circumstances and desperate people driven to do bad things. Alternately, there are classical references to girls, love, and the many points in-between. Mosseri and Baldwin alternate lead vocals throughout the album; Mosseri’s soaring, roguish tenor takes lead on the poppier tracks, while Baldwin’s raspy, weathered croon holds court on the guitar-heavy, wall-rattling anthems. Differing in sound, their voices retain a stylistic similarity won by playing, singing, and writing together for the past 14 years.

This similarity grants Electric Toys a seamless flow from track to track, striking a perfect equilibrium between upbeat and moody rockers. The unaccompanied chords of Eiser’s keyboard launch the alternately wistful and roaring album opener “Carry Me Home,” introducing essential atmospherics that, along with his rhythm guitar parts, in many ways help shape the sound of both the album and the band with additional layers of depth and color. Like that first song, the humming, hypnotic “Two Sisters” and the ominous, hot-blooded “She’s Going to Kill That Boy” build to explosive climaxes. In contrast, the jaunty, hand-clapping “You’re Already Gone” and the spry, ebullient beat of “Penitentiary” highlight the band’s strong pop instincts. “For All Your Sins” and “Feel Like Somebody Else,” meanwhile, are dreamy, string-laced ballads. Mosseri and Alegre’s intertwining rhythm section propels each track, while Baldwin’s deft guitar work ranges from a lilt to a shimmer to a howl across the album.
Ravens & Chimes
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"The New York-based quintet sounds like a more confident Bright Eyes or maybe a folksier version of Wolf Parade (minus their anthemic song structure leanings). They're pretty darn cool and they're hitting the spot right about now." - Nik Mercer / BibaBidi
Silver Starling
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An acclaimed five piece who pour their emotions into every track, Silver Starling is composed of Marcus Paquin, Marika Anthony-Shaw, Liam O’Neil, Gab Lambert and Peter X. The group has quickly found its way onto critics’ radars and their highly anticipated self-titled debut – mixed by Paquin and Peter Katis (Interpol, The National) -- will be released in Canada on September 22 and the U.S. on October 20.

Canadian audiences have already been won over by the group’s brand of earnest and energizing rock, which earned them a deal with Toronto label Last Gang Records (New Pornographers, Metric and MSTRKRFT). The band’s moving songwriting and hummable melodies have garnered comparisons to everyone from The Beatles to Jeff Buckley and Irish super group U2.

Raised in the west part of the Montreal island, Paquin became obsessed with the Beatles’ Abbey Road at age four. He focused on music full time after a brief stint studying engineering, and eventually received a degree in jazz guitar and a Master’s in recording engineering from McGill University. He went on to work as a recording engineer for various labels and studios across Montreal.

Upon his first performances as a solo singer/songwriter, however, he felt something was missing. “I was writing tunes and trying them out at open mics and cafes,” he says, “but I started quickly seeing the limitations of that idiom. It wasn’t as fun to be on my own.” After attending a show put on by a free jazz trio one night in 2007, he was impressed by the group’s drummer and introduced himself. “I made an unsolicited approach, trying not to look like an obsessed fan,” he remembers. “I told him I liked his playing, and that we should jam.” The drummer was O’Neil, and the pair began playing together and performing as a duo at local bars later that year.

Anthony-Shaw, a violin, viola and keyboard player -- and Paquin’s wife -- became the natural third member of the group, though at first she juggled her time between Silver Starling and playing viola on Arcade Fire’s Neon Bible tour. “Liam and I were working on the songs,” Paquin says, “and she would come back for a week at a time and jam with us, or just lend an objective ear.” A friend of Paquin’s and bassist for We Are Star 69, Peter X, offered to record with the pair and he was eventually added to the line-up. Silver Starling has also added Gab Lambert to their touring line-up, who plays guitar and banjo and interjects a sparkling personality into the mix.

Silver Starling, the group’s lush first album, is a tribute to a longtime friend of Paquin’s, who was stricken with pancreatic cancer and passed away in September of 2008. “He’s the glue that holds all of this material together,” says Paquin. “He is one of my oldest friends, and his sickness sparked a lot of emotions in me.” Tracks like “Ghosts” and “Love and a Broken Heart” display a rare feat in songwriting, balancing difficult realities with poignant optimism. This promising new band’s first work is full of sincere, sonically-rich tracks, and such nuance is at the core of Silver Starling’s appeal.
Goldhawks
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Formed by frontman and songwriter Bobby Cook, Goldhawks started life as a three piece consisting of Bobby’s younger brother, Jack (guitar), and old school mate, Nick (keyboards). Colin (bass) and Graham (drums) were later recruited through an unlikely collaboration with Julian Cope cohort, Donald Ross Skinner and his band Kiosk. Cook had met Skinner whilst working at Notepad Studios and was irresistibly drawn to Kiosk’s jagged punk/blues and joined the group, which at that time included Graham and Colin.

Named after the West London street they were born and raised on, the Goldhawks palette is a unique mix of vintage Americana and quintessentially British fare – think Ryan Adams, Petty, Springsteen, Echo and the Bunnymen, The Cure and you’re somewhere in the right ball park.
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