Give Thanks For Music!

11-8- Banned Books-Dreamcastle (South Philly)

11-9 The Blow- FUC

11-11 The Morning Benders- FUC

11-12 Maserati- KNT

11-16- Azure Ray/ Tim Fite/ James Husband- JB

11-17- Bear In Heaven-JB

11-21 Terror/ Mindset/ Wrong Answer- BARB

11-26- Kurt Vile and The Violators- JB

What You Should Be Doing This Week (10/19)

Tonight (Monday): Our favorite funny man Steve (Diary of a Band) and his band Odessa Stair take the Stage at North Star Bar 7 p.m. on the dot! They are Playing with Jupiter One and Me and My Arrow. Be there. They are so talented, and we have to make sure they make enough money so that Steve can continue to write for us for free!

Wednesday Night: We are going to see Banned Books at Silk City. These guys have a great sound. Check out Nataly’s review of their album, Mission Creep. If you can’t make it Wednesday night they will be at The Danger Danger Gallery on Sunday. There is no excuse not to go see them. You’ve got two days to pick from.

Thursday Night: Holy shit balls! I am so excited for Portugal. The Man with Drug Rug and Hockey. It’s a R5 show at Johnny Brendas. It is sold out! You snooze you loose!

Friday Night: Nataly will be attending the Man Man show in D.C at the 9:30 Club. I will be at home weeping into my pillow. WTF Man Man?! Come to Philly!

*****Breaking News, This Just In: Hockey is no longer playing Philadelphia this Thursday. I don’t know why, but I will ask them when I interview them this weekend. Kinda wish I hadn’t bought the tickets but Portugal. The Man will still be a good show. That’s the bad news, the good news…..I’m going to Man Man!!!! Yay me! That might not be great news for you, unless you’re going too.

Don’t Ban These Books!

Remember that awesome CD review about Banned Books?  Well, now is your chance to experience them for yourself, live!  They will be playing at Silk City on Oct. 21st .  If for some lame reason you can’t attend that show you have another shot.  Don’t fuck this one up.  They will be playing at Danger Danger Gallery on the 25th which is a DIY venue that rocks.  Don’t miss out because then you will be banned from the cool club.

Nataly

Mission Creep

Play this while reading to enhance pleasure.

Banned Books Mission Creep

You have probably never heard of banned books.  I hadn’t either until running into singer, Zane Kanevsky, while promoting my very own launch party.  I handed him a flyer.

“I’m in a band,” he spurted out. “We’ll play for free.”

I thought to myself, yeah sure you are. Who isn’t in a band? I gave him my business card and walked away.  Then, one jobless morning I got tired of blankly staring at my wall and decided to check them out. I am so glad I did.

banned books has existed barely a full year, although you would never know by the tight sound of their first album, Mission Creep.  A fresh album created by self-proclaimed, “immature white kids playing loud music.”

These three white boys, Ben Crouse, Matthew Dermond and Zane Kanevsky from South Jersey, have created a unique sound via synthesizers, drums, guitars, bass, vocals and other various and unidentifiable sounds.  They might be just kids, but their album reflects musical maturity.

Mission Creep, measuring in at a short 8 tracks, leaves you feeling full.  Reminiscent of a variety of sounds from Danny Elfman, to thumping camp songs you sang when you were ten, Mission Creep has it all.  Melodic yet dissonant, the songs on the album are only enhanced by, Kanevsky and Dermond’s chameleon like vocals.  At times they conjure Jack White, other times the little boy from The Shinning (red rum.)

Each and every track has its own appeal.  Some catchier than others like, “Supernatural Mongoloid.” Others are more sinister, as in “Trophy Wife Sings the Devil’s Fanfare.” But all are well executed and injected with unadulterated rock-n-roll. Banned books has created an album that you can sing along to, rock out to, scream to, push to and skip to.  Awesome!