08 Oct
FRICTION @ Cake Shop w/ The Pains of Being Pure at Heart + Women + The Beets + Katie Stelmanis | 10.19.08

GET HYPE! With our second show of the weekend, on the eve(-ish) of the CMJ, FRICTION invades Cake Shop with a lineup designed to make you stay put. Save those feet from all of the pavement pounding they’re about to do a few days later and get a jump on some of the […]
07 Oct
FRICTION @ Mercury Lounge w/ Japanther, Ninjasonik, Killer Dreamer, SS Pyramid Snake | 10.17.08

Japanther, Ninjasonik, Killer Dreamer, and S.S. Pyramid Snake bring the fucking party to The Mercury Lounge on Friday, October 17th for this installment of FRICTION. Brookyn’s very own lo-fi heroes, Japanther celebrate their RECORD RELEASE and North American tour kick-off with San Pedro’s Killer Dreamer! DJ Porkchop of SSPS and Excepter fame spins all […]
24 Sep
9.22.08 FRICTION: IN PICTURES

More pictures from Monday night’s FRICTION show on Flickr. All images © 2008 Patrick Parault
11 Sep
FRICTION @ Cake Shop w/ Lissy Trullie, Apse, and Jean on Jean | 9.22.08

Thanks to everyone who made last week’s FRICTION show at Mercury Lounge a jam-packed, sold-out and festive affair. We’re back again this month with another show at Cake Shop on September 22nd with downtown darling, Lissy Trullie, atmospheric rockers Apse, who are making a special trip down to NYC following ATP New York and […]
22 Aug
FRICTION @ Mercury Lounge w/ Bear Hands, Boy Crisis, Blip Blip Bleep, Bottle Up & Go | 9.5.08

GET HYPE! Bear Hands bring their fiery pitch-perfect pairing of post-punk and indie rock, while Boy Crisis unleash their highly danceable electro-pop “that’s so brutally hip it hurts” to The Mercury Lounge for this strictly local edition of FRICTION. Brooklyn’s euphoric new wavers Blip Blip Bleep ready the dancefloor with shimmering pop hooks and throbbing […]
24 Jul
Television Ghost Puts the ‘Punk’ Back Into Post-Punk

This isn’t music for the faint of heart, this is music for, as Nghia so eloquently puts it, “scaring the rodents away from your apartment” (if you’re so lucky enough to have any scurrying about). The City of Lafayette, Indiana, home to Purdue University and birthplace of Axl Rose (no shit!?) has a paranoia […]
23 Jul
Vermillion Sands: Garage Done the Italo Way

Vermillion Sands may be from Treviso, Italy, but that doesn’t stop the quartet from churning out solid American-styled garage meets country-rock’n’roll. Fronted by the Italian version of Holly Golightly, Vermellion Sands’ single “Mary” is a catchy as hell garage-pop number with a killer hook, swinging bassline, weird electronic manipulations, and a tough fuzzed-out guitar […]