The Bowery Presents

The Mercury Lounge upcoming shows

Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs
10:30

She Keeps Bees
9:30
Nouvellas
8:30
Vandaveer
7:30

Vandaveer 7:30
Venue:
The Mercury Lounge
Date:
Thu 12/10
Notes:
21+
Doors: 7:30 PM / Show: 7:30 PM
$12 adv / $14 dos
Tickets
Holly Golightly
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Holly started her musical career as a co-founder member of all girl garage band Thee Headcoatees, who were Thee Headcoats splinter group in 1991. Holly made her first solo album, The Good Things, in 1995. Although often connected with garage rock, Holly's music is more a mixture of pre-rock electric country blues, folk and less frantic rock & roll. It brings to mind a bourbon soaked honky tonk bar, evenings on a dusty front porch with your faithful hound, cracked hearts and foot stomping good times. She creates a world all of her own, one that's warm hearted, true to it's roots and not swayed by fads and fashions.
Nouvellas
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When the Nouvellas played their first show in late 2007, those in attendance remarked in disbelief about how tight and talented the band was. For a first show, the members all played in perfect synch with each other, as if they'd been playing together for years. Truth be told, they had been. They were all former members of the New York soul girl-group The Dansettes. When the Dansettes called it quits, the five of them decided that they were far from quitting the music scene, though all ready for a slight change. Vocalists Leah Fishman and Jaime Kozyra, along with the Pierce brothers -- Dennis on guitar and Andy on drums - as well as Justin Angelo Morey (also of the Black Hollies) had a new vision: build on the solid soul foundation that was their reputation, but also blend in all of their other favorites. From the sounds of Lyn Collins and Bobbie Gentry to Steve Cropper and Black Sabbath; the group delivers something fun, something toe-tapping, something that will stick in your head for weeks to come!

The band hit the ground running, playing their first shows to packed houses with the likes of Mary Weiss of the Shangri-Las, the Reigning Sound and the Mooney Suzuki. It wasn't a huge surprise, as The Dansettes spent the last few years building a name for themselves while sharing the stage with bands including The Dirtbombs, Vampire Weekend, and The Electric Six, while also serving as a backing band for seasoned soul legends Archie Bell, The Mighty Hannibal, Roscoe Robinson, and Young Jesse. When the incomparable Sharon Jones makes an appearance in New York, Jaime and Leah can be seen on stage with her adding backing vocals to the arrangement -- just as they did on Jones' most recent LP (so it comes as no surprise that Jones' Daptone label-mates,The Budos Band, can be heard lending a hand on the Nouvellas upcoming debut 45).

They may have some hefty credits and appearances, but the Nouvellas are nobody's backing band. All five members share a hand in the songwriting and arranging. They record live in Dennis' basement studio to a 1969 Ampex tape machine, with all hands on the mixing board. On stage, the chemistry is even more apparent -- the dynamic dual lead vocals and harmonies of the two ladies are delivered with a punch and passion that puts their hearts on their sleeves. Combined with biting guitar lines, in-the-pocket bass, and heavy drum grooves, the band creates a raw, stripped-down sound that cuts deep and brings rock'n'soul back to the basics in a refreshing new way.

On their first single, "Satisfied" b/w "Right Kind of Woman," their collaborative formula creates an energy that's hard to argue and guaranteed to make a splash while they get to work on their upcoming full-length.
She Keeps Bees
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Simple, gritty and downright sexy. Howlin’ Wolf and Millie Jackson to start, but you’ll probably hear PJ Harvey…

About Nests: This homemade recording keeps it real simple: drums, guitar and little else. Recorded over the course of 2008, eMusic hailed Nests as “absolutely astonishing… every song is great.” Other Music NYC described Nests as “packed with straightforward, rocking electric guitar…a shoo-in for one of the new music highlights of the year.”

NME Radio made ‘Gimmie’ Single of the Week, The Guardian said ‘full marks…literally, raunchy.’ The stunning live show will be all across the UK this summer climaxing at The Greenman Festival and End of the Road.
Vandaveer
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VANDAVEER is the alt-folk song-singing/record making/globetrotting project penned and put forth by DC-by-way-of-Kentucky tunesmith Mark Charles Heidinger. Vandaveer’s debut album, Grace & Speed, a mostly live, stripped down affair, swiftly entered this great big dusty world in the spring of 2007. The press responded heartily, with The Washington Post saying Vandaveer “revives the earnestness of the pre-psychedelic 60’s,” and XM Cafe calling him “this generation’s Nick Drake.”

Touring continually on both sides of the Atlantic ever since, Vandaveer has played 250+ shows, sharing stages with a host of humbling artists including Bon Iver, Vetiver, Alela Diane, Alejandro Escovedo, Vashti Bunyan, Bill Callahan, Fleet Foxes, and the like. In addition to said Vandaveering, Heidinger has been known to fraternize and conspire with other music-making hooligans, primarily as a bassist for fellow DCers These United States.

Vandaveer’s sophomore effort, Divide & Conquer, touches upon similar themes found in its elder sibling, winding timeworn themes of love & death, malice & goodwill, sin & perseverance into (mostly) four-minute vignettes. To see D&C through, Vandaveer enlisted the able assistance of longtime collaborator and producer Duane Lundy, brothers-in-arms/These United States bandmates Robby Cosenza and Justin Craig, and most notably, Rose Guerin, supplying the loveliest harmonies this side of Eden. A decidedly more produced venture, D&C offers up a flourishing chamber folk companion to its bedroomy lo-fi folk/pop predecessor.

Released in France in April 2009 on Alter. K Records, Divide & Conquer was hailed by Rolling Stone as “jarring new folk”. The US release of Divide & Conquer was August 25th, 2009, on Supply And Demand Music.
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