Yet Another Show
New music up at Em411.com. Another song in the clothing series, “Sneakers & Socks”. Check it out.
Last night was the Velvet Teen show, the release party for their new album, Elysium. I showed up midway through the set of the opening band, the Americas, and wished that I had shown up early. They were awesome…just a guitarist and a drummer, and they did these incredibly dynamic build-ups, from almost nothing to Lightning-Bolt-esque explosions. Their Statuette EP is pretty damn good too.
Then, Little Cat took over the lobby for a rare-in-these-parts live electronic music set. He had a few racks of gear (all hardware) stacked up behind two stacks of speakers, and was blasting out some great blippy IDM/drill n bass type sounds, and he even had a few kids dancing. He played several sets, between each of the main stage acts, and packed the lobby area for each of them.
I skipped over to Volpi’s for a couple of drinks during Inventing Edward’s set. And I also stayed outside talking to Fonda and Laura during most of the Desert City Soundtrack. But then the Velvet Teen took the stage, and of course everyone had to crowd right in. They played a lot of new material, including a song that seemed to go on forever, or at least 15 minutes. They had a lot of pre-recorded string and synth parts that they played along with, and new drummer Casey Dietz (also from the Americas) played along with headphones on for about half the songs. The set was dedicated to former drummer Logan Whitehurst, which drew an incredible amount of applause from the audience.
The set was OK…it was impossible to hear the actual lyrics because of how loud and overbearing the house mix was though. Of course, “Naked Girl” and “Counting Backwards” were played as encores. Not to be too obvious or anything…The new songs, while impressive, didn’t exactly grab me the way the best of their earlier stuff did. Maybe it’ll grow on me? I didn’t pick up a copy of the album though, so who knows.
More later….
