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Band Booking: Talking Fetishism, Language and Narrative With Parenthetical Girls

January 10, 2013 0 Comments

Parenthetical Girls are an art pop band from Portland, Oregon. Formed in 2002 under the Brian Eno-inspired name “Swastika Girls”, they’ve developed a varied repertoire of albums and singles across a decade-long career, centered on their three previous full-length releases: (((GRRRLS))), Safe As Houses and 2008’s Entanglements. They’ve collaborated with Xiu Xiu and Dead Science, and have accumulated a devoted following.

Books, music

John Jeremiah Sullivan Keeps Us Looking South

January 7, 2013 0 Comments

You would think we’d want to journey out of the American South after two posts dealing with Flannery O’Connor, but then all of a sudden we notice that The Paris Review has published an essay by John Jeremiah Sullivan, “Saved,” and we realize that resistance is futile. Today is officially Vol. 1 Brooklyn Loves the South Day. This latest J.J.S. piece might or might not be the same essay you get when you purchase the Tompkins Square compilation Work Hard, Play Hard, […]

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Bad Brains Have a Hot Sauce

January 3, 2013 0 Comments

Via Brandon Stosuy comes the news that Bad Brains now sell an official hot sauce. “Punky Reggae party in every bottle,” the label says. Which, I suppose, you could put on your breakfast while drinking Will Oldham’s coffee blend to chase off a hangover from chugging Craig Finn’s beer the night before. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google + and our Tumblr.

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Hey, It’s a New Grouper Song

December 28, 2012 0 Comments

Not surprisingly, we are big fans of the music of Liz Harris. Mirroring, who released an album earlier this year, paired Harris with Tiny Vipers’ Jesy Fortino. Her work as Grouper has ranged from the ethereal to the jarringly surreal; 2011’s A I A (released on CD by Kranky this year) is probably the best overview of her work as a whole.

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John Zorn, Mike Patton, and Friends Wish You a Merry Christmas

December 21, 2012 0 Comments

Remember that time last year when John Zorn released A Dreamer’s Christmas? And rather than being an ear-shredding deconstruction of holiday standards, it turned out to be…well, all kinds of pretty? We do. And in the interest of being seasonally relevant, we figured we could do worse than cueing up his band’s version of “The Christmas Song,” which finds Mike Patton in full-on crooner mode. Enjoy. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google + and our Tumblr.

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Brief Notes From BAM’s Next Wave Festival

December 21, 2012 0 Comments

Through January, the Brooklyn Academy Of Music is holding their annual Next Wave Festival. Over the past few weeks, I’ve gone to a number of performances there; some thoughts on three of them follow.

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A Year of Favorites: Tobias Carroll’s Favorite New Music of 2012

December 20, 2012 0 Comments

This was a strange year for me and music. There were albums aplenty that I enjoyed, but I’m also a little frustrated to look back at this list. It feels…maybe too comfortable, in a way? Two returns to form by artists whose music I’ve enjoyed for ages. (Three, if you count the Forgetters album.) I’ve had more daring top ten lists; this reads like what it is: the favorite albums of someone raised on punk rock with a fondness for […]

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Band Booking: Talking Kafka, Toronto, and Biographies with METZ

December 11, 2012 0 Comments

METZ are a noise/punk band from Toronto, currently on tour promoting their self-titled debut LP. Though they’ve long been a respected band in the Toronto scene, they’ve garnered a huge amount of fresh buzz in a short period of time, due to their recent signing to legendary Seattle label Sub Pop. As anyone who’s ever attended one of their gigs can attest, they are masters of the wall-of-sound technique and consistently deliver one of the most blistering live shows around. I got […]