The Bowery Presents

The Mercury Lounge upcoming shows

The Tryptics
10:30
The Stationary Set
9:30

Honor By August
8:30
Fight Like Apes
7:30
BEAST
6:30

Venue:
The Mercury Lounge
Date:
Wed 2/17
Notes:
21+
Doors: 7:30 PM / Show: 7:30 PM
$10
The Tryptics
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Led by the epic vocals of Charles Preston and dynamic beats of Daniel Imana, The Tryptics formed in 2009 and have been infectious to anyone lucky enough to experience their luscious Rock/Electronic hybrid sound. Having released a highly acclaimed 5-track EP last May on Audio Pirhanna Group and performing regularly at Brooklyn and Manhattan venues, the band has an exciting year ahead of them with the addition of Derek Sexton on bass and Santiago Muñoz on guitar. Using all original material, The Tryptics continue to create music that can be enjoyably listened to on repeat, an endeavor few musicians can accomplish.
The Stationary Set
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The Stationary Set was born out of Andrew Lutes' over-production of indie-rock/pop songs for the east lansing outfit: thefarewelldrive. Teaming up with long-time friend and rock-band veteran Josh Hoisington (The Minor Fall, The Giveaway, Four Days), The Stationary Set have put their emotionally taxing indie-rock back on the shelf in exchange for this new blend of light-hearted social commentary coupled with highly contagious, guitar-driven pop melodies. The songs herein represent a turn towards the lighter, more attainable hooks that made up the mid/late nineties mix tapes of Andrew's youth. The diary-esque yet surprisingly optimistic lyrics set in a backdrop of deliciously intelligent arrangements, led by Hoisington, make The Stationary Set a safe bet for anyone with a pension for melody. Goes great with your morning coffee.
Honor By August
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Led by 23-year-old Michael Pearsall, Honor By August has already shared an arena stage with Bon Jovi and had its music broadcast to millions of television viewers. Honor By August is a modern, melodic rock band focused on personal, powerful songs and dynamic live performances. Award-winning songwriting, a distinct voice and strong musicianship are a few reasons why HBA is a world-class band in the making.
Fight Like Apes
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Following the success of their two EP’s in 2007, Fight Like Apes will digitally release their brand new single Something Global on July 13th 2008 on new Irish label Model Citizen Records. Fifteen hundred numbered copies of the single will also be made available as a limited edition CD on July 18th 2008.

Recorded in Seattle and pFight Like Apes ‘Fight Like Apes And The Mystery Of The Golden Medallion’ Model Citizen January 26th 2009 With a summer of frenzied festival activity behind them and a hectic autumn/winter schedule ahead, here is the blast we have all been waiting for - be it in fear or excited anticipation: the debut album by Fight Like Apes.

Already out in their native Ireland and garnering responses such as this from Hot Press: “probably the best Irish album of the year just doesn't do it justice, as pound for pound it's probably the best slab of wax to be released in 2008, period”, the album goes by the name ‘Fight Like Apes And The Mystery Of The Golden Medallion’ (referencing Mr T’s post A-Team cartoon series).

Twelve sticks of electronic punk dynamite, ranging from the miniscule, eight second BLAM of ‘Megameanie’ to the echoing canyons of sound and space at the climax of ‘Snore Bore Whore’. FLA live faves like ‘Jake Summers’, ‘Lend Me Your Face’ and ‘Do You Karate?’ have been jacked up, stripped down and retooled in producer John Goodmanson’s Seattle garage, to emerge gleaming in the sunlight like renegades at some pumped-up monster truck convention. Hearing these babies for the first time is like being given the keys to the Millennium Falcon when you’ve been used to doing the milk round.

The UK release of the album comes at the end of a remarkable twelve month period for Fight Like Apes. Having toured the UK with Untitled Musical Project (on the Artrocker tour) and The Von Bondies, a smash and grab raid at SXSW followed. The group moved to Seattle in the Spring to record the album with producer John Goodmanson (Los Campesinos, Sleater-Kinney, Bikini Kill). In the meantime Fight Like Apes have released two singles in the UK, 'Lend Me Your Face' and 'Jake Summers', ridden roughshod through summer festival fields the length of the UK and Ireland, made friends with Steve Lamacq, Huw Stephens and Marc Riley, and continued to torment the tarmac with the likes of We Are Scientists, Ting Tings and Kasabian, kidnapping passing Von Bondies and Johnny Foreigners for sport on the way.

Emphatically pro-profanity and anti-mundanity, Fight Like Apes choose music as their weapon; a synth-splattered hybrid of tasers and nunchucks in high-voltage pop songs the size of Saturn.

It’s the planet of the Apes. We just live on it.
BEAST
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A prominent journalist who shall go unnamed * wrote: “ Beast sounds like what you might hear at the last cabaret on the road to hell.” And you wonder, “is the kitchen there opened late?” Probably for an eternity. And if there was a juke box in this supposed cabaret on the outskirts of the Devil’s hang, would our music be in it? And if our music was in it, would it be classified under alternative, electro, hip hop, trip-rock or just ‘go to hell music’? It’s hard to tell you what we do. ...when we first started doing it we had no idea either. Count it in, see what happens. Slightly amused, massively inspired and very curious, we kept searching and then locked and loaded this CD. What’s the backstory? Well, we live in Montreal. Betty Bonifassi sang on the Oscar nominated soundtrack, Triplettes of Bellville…. sang at the Oscars actually. Betty also sang on the hit DJ Champion album “Chill ‘em all” which she toured to sell outs everywhere. Jean-Phi Goncalves has written, produced and played drums for Araine Moffat, Pierre Lapointe, Jean Pierre Ferland, Lauryn Hill and many others. He is a founding member of Montreal’s Plaster. The Beast CD dropped Nov. 18 in Canada, March 3 in the States. Before the metaphysical release of the album, the first single, Mr. Hurricane was picked up by iTunes in an unprecedented simultaneous international release ….more than 375,000 people downloaded it in North America alone.
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