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In Ear Park, Department of Eagles
If you go out to a band today, you're sure for a big surprise, as the ubiquity of animal band names is getting downright ri-donkey-luss. Formed in 2000, Department of Eagles certainly aren't the latest, but they are remarkably remarkable.
Singer Daniel Rossen is more widely known for his other animal band, Grizzly Bear, who developed a cult following after the 2006 strikingly original, avant-folk stunner YELLOW HOUSE.
Vivian Girls
In addition to sharing the name of one of Melbourne's finest bygone groups, Brooklyn's Vivian Girls sound Australian in other Chapter Music / best indie senses. The trio's head-first, shambling delivery couches a classic handling of melody reminiscent of QLD greats, Small World Experience, and there's a joy of fuzz and bubblegum sentiment reminiscent of Adelaide's Hit the Jackpot and Lindsey Low Hand.
Dre Skull
WHAT
DRE SKULL (NYC) W/ SLEATER BROCKMAN, BADTEETH & STREETPARTY
WHERE
OXFORD ART FACTORY, 38-46 OXFORD ST, DARLINGHURST
WHEN
FRI SEP 5, 11PM
HOW MUCH
$20 + BF HERE
Ol' Dirty Bastard's ‘Got Your Money' is one of those mad-awesome nostalgic songs that, without fail, gets everyone sitting low into that early ‘90s bump and grind. So when it's mashed up with The Kingsmen's ‘Louie Louie' -well, it's on. Dre Skull did it, and his sets are littered with the kind of hook-laden early ‘90s house and disco that makes you wanna rise up and feel that beat.
Event: DJs
Stimulus: A
Dr Bonner's Magic Soaps
Emanuel H. Bronner might have been mad as a brush, but he were surely clean. "Enjoy only two cosmetics, enough sleep and Dr Bronner's Magic Soap to clean mind-body-spirit instantly uniting One! Absolute cleanliness is Godliness! For facial packs, scalp and soothing body scrub, add dash on bath towel in sink of hot water.
Fort Nightly, White Rabbits
It's official - white is the new black.
After Black Mountain, Black Angels, Black Dice, Black Keys, and Blackety Blackety Black Black (they're HUGE in Oslo), now we're into whites: White Williams, White Rainbow, White Stripes, Barry White, and your new favourite band - White Rabbits.
Coming atcha from NYC via Columbia Missouri (which they deserted a short two years ago), White Rabbits wield catchy, urgent indie pop ala The Walkmen or French Kicks, but mix in some second-wave ska and tango tinges.
Rev Jen's Really Cool Neighbourhood
Reverend Jen is, in her own words, a social deviant and freak, which, no doubt makes her the perfect person to write a travel guide to the Lower East Side.
There may be a lot of goons on the LES these days, who, according to Jen, eat at Ray's pizza, unaware of the part it played in putting Sal from Rosario's out of business, but the dirty, freakish soul of this block south of Houston beats on.
Justice of the Unicorns
Hailing from Puerto Rico Town in New York City, Justice of the Unicorns is a peculiar band. And not just due to their cover art. Within the sound of this five-piece, one might hear vocals variously reminiscent of Nick Cave or My Morning Jacket, drumming that is The National-esque, a musical variety like that of (appropriately) The Unicorns and strange innocence akin to Bright Eyes.
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