11/04 – Cleveland, OH – Grog Shop Holy Ghost! spent the better part of 2010 on the road with the likes of LCD Soundsystem and Chromeo. In 2011, they shifted into high gear, with the release of their eponymous debut LP in April on DFA Records, thrilling the longtime fans of their ubiquitous singles and remixes. Album tracks like “Do It Again”, “Wait & See”, and most recently “Some Children” (feat. Michael McDonald) have been mainstays on the blogosphere and probably every party you went to over the last 6 months. Now Holy Ghost! are releasing their latest single, crowd f...
10.27.2011 Beachland Ballroom - Cleveland, OH w/Future Islands Javelin throw a party that sees nothing wrong with dropping crooked disco ("On It On It"), schoolyard funk ("Intervales Theme"), abstract R&B ("Dep") and pitch-perfect pop ("Mossy Woodland") in the same set. At least that's the way things unfold on Javelin's debut album, No Más, the eagerly-awaited follow-up to a self-released collection of demos (Jamz n Jemz) and a pair of limited Thrill Jockey 12-inches (Javelin, Number Two). It's as if Javelin were programmed to reproduce the golden age of every genre known to man, bouncing be...
Their biography bills them as “the rock equivalent of a duty-bound pack of Wild West outlaws who've spent the last 25 years on Mars and are now returning to right the musical wrongs of us puny Earth creatures”. When you think of a clever way to fuse rock and punk, yet stay laid-back and funky…but you need some falsetto disco vocals, it could seem like impossibility. Electric Six says no, it’s really not. See them for yourself at the Grog Shop in Cleveland, November 6th, doors at 8pm. Though Electric Six have such a huge range of styling’s, they tend to reject such ugly genre class...
