Charles Reinhardt

Band Booking: Talking Searchable Band Names and Booze With The Denzels

January 29, 2013 No Comments

The Denzels have been playing shows around Brooklyn for the past two years, releasing two EPs in the process: Slow Death and last year’s Easy Tiger. Their membership (David Beegun, Tom Hinga, Aman Ellis, Matthew Degorio and Paul Lizarraga) hails from the South and the West Coast, and have gathered in Brooklyn to produce a garage rock and synth-inflected musical project with overt pop ambitions. I saw them play at the Living Bread deli in Bushwick, and met up with singer Tom Hinga and keyboardist […]

Band Booking, music

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

January 10, 2013 1 Comment

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.

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The Bookish Banker: An Interview with The Epicurean Dealmaker

January 8, 2013 6 Comments

As we all know, the internet is filled with overlapping blogospheres that cater to different tastes. There’s the food blogosphere and the fashion blogosphere, one for sports and another for literature. There’s also the finance and economics blogosphere, which, like its peers, has its own distinct center of gravity and cast of characters. Among these is the anonymous investment banker who goes by the name The Epicurean Dealmaker. A fixture of the high finance commentariat, he’s known for holding forth on […]

Band Booking, Featured

Band Booking: Talking True Crime and Bad Economists With Heaven’s Gate

December 18, 2012 1 Comment

Heaven’s Gate is a rock band based in Brooklyn, New York. Formed after the dissolution of the punk/shoegaze band Sweet Bulbs, their garage-tinged sound boasts driving guitars and clear ringing vocals courtesy of their singer Jess Paps. Composed of members Mike Sheffield, Jess Paps, Jack Wolf, Patrick Stankard and Alex Cvetovich, they sound like what would happen if My Bloody Valentine had listened to more Gun Club. I caught up with them backstage at New York University’s Kimmel Center, where […]

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

December 11, 2012 No 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 […]

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Band Booking: Talking Books, Music, and Atheism with Brooklyn’s Natureboy

September 4, 2012 No Comments

Natureboy is the musical project of singer/songwriter Sara Kermanshahi and producer Cedar Apffel. I’ve been watching them play for years in Brooklyn and recently caught their June series of shows at Pianos in the Lower East Side. Their work is defined by Sara’s unique voice, which perches atop a canopy of echoing guitars and synths, managing to sound both sullen and beautiful. Knowing that they were just finishing a new album, I invited them over to my house for beers […]

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Band Booking: Talking D’Aulaire’s Mythology, Crafting Lyrics, and The KLF With Brooklyn’s Phone Tag

July 16, 2012 No Comments

Phone Tag is the musical project of multi-instrumentalist Gryphon Graham, formerly of Austin, Texas. Along with Bodhi Landa, and Eliza Walton the band makes soft electronic pop with unabashedly attractive melodies and harmonies. I first saw them during CMJ last year, playing a show at my old loft. The first thought that crossed my mind was that they were too damn good to be playing there. Since then, I’ve seen them play at Cameo and watched their name pop […]

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Band Booking: Night Manager

June 12, 2012 No Comments

Night Manager is one of those bands that kind of throws you off the first time you hear them. With Caitlin Seager’s clear-as-a-bell vocals sitting atop a fuzzy guitar canopy of noise produced by Ezana Edwards, Chris Clarke and David Tassy, you’d be forgiven for imagining that this was another 60’s throwback surf rock band. The backbeat provided by Jordyn Blakely helps to reinforce that impression when the sound first hits your eardrums. However, anyone who listens to them for […]

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