Dead Leaf Echo 7" Release Party!:
Apollo Heights
Dead Leaf Echo
Her Vanished Grace, Washerwoman, Perfect Prescription (DJs)
Saturday, February 4, 2012
Doors: 7:30 pm / Show: 8:00 pm
Spike Hill$5.00 - $7.00
Tickets
Apollo Heights - (Set time: 11:00 PM)
Rising from the ashes of the seminal rock group The Veldt (Chapel Hill/Raleigh, N.C.) Danny and twin brother Daniel Chavis formed Apollo Heights in New York City's Lower East Side in 2002. With nothing more than couple of guitars and a drum machine, they took their sonic alchemy assault to New York's nightclub scene. After numerous line up changes, the band recruited bassist and programmer Hayato Nakao straight from Japan, and Kelsey Warren of Pillow Theory. Apollo Heights is loud, exploring color, space, sensuality, and beat driven melodies with rhythmic and dynamic tension. Daniel's falsetto vocals cast a contrast upon the wall of sound created by Danny's heavy rock dream scape guitar and Hayato's pounding and licentious beats. Fans of Bloc Party, My Bloody Valentine and Massive Attack, take note.
Far from predictable, Apollo Heights flips hip hop programming on its head to make use of the guitar driven feed-back, adding a down south flavor all its own. Influences range from Curtis Mayfield to The Cocteau Twins, Jimi Hendrix to Massive Attack, and pretty much all in between. Apollo Heights have appeared on stage with Oasis, The Pixies, The Cocteau Twins, The Manic Street Preachers, The Jesus and Mary Chain, and most recently completed a U.S. tour with TV on the Radio. After a short tour of Europe the group have still been honing their song craft with guitarist Robin Guthrie of The Cocteau Twins in France.
Far from predictable, Apollo Heights flips hip hop programming on its head to make use of the guitar driven feed-back, adding a down south flavor all its own. Influences range from Curtis Mayfield to The Cocteau Twins, Jimi Hendrix to Massive Attack, and pretty much all in between. Apollo Heights have appeared on stage with Oasis, The Pixies, The Cocteau Twins, The Manic Street Preachers, The Jesus and Mary Chain, and most recently completed a U.S. tour with TV on the Radio. After a short tour of Europe the group have still been honing their song craft with guitarist Robin Guthrie of The Cocteau Twins in France.
Dead Leaf Echo - (Set time: 10:00 PM)
Dead Leaf Echo is a NYC band that has just finished recording their debut LP " now mixed by John Fryer (Cocteau Twins NIN). The album is scheduled for release in early 2012. Their first single "Kingmaker" will be released in 7" vinyl and digitally on 1.31.11 on Custom Made Music.
The band toured the US this summer in support of their latest EP "Versimilitude" which was released on May 31st featuring remixes and collaborations from Mark Van Hoen (Seefeel, Mojave 3), John Fryer (This Mortail Coil, Depeche Mode), Elika, RxGibbs and Remarkably Spry!
The band played SXSW earlier this year on bills with "A Place To Bury Strangers" and "And Your Will Know Us By the Trail Of the Dead" and played sold out shows in 2010 opening for the reunited Chapterhouse and Ulrich Schnauss.
"Words like ethereal, atmospheric and dreamy all come to mind after a spin of Dead Leaf Echo's Truth, and while all these descriptions are apt (and have been used repeatedly in other Dead Leaf Echo reviews), it's safe to say that the band could similarly be described as heavy, raucous - or simply, loud-as-fuck."
- H Magazine
"Some of the best live music in the city"
- Time Out NY
"We love Dead Leaf Echo's dreamy pop"
- The L Magazine
The band toured the US this summer in support of their latest EP "Versimilitude" which was released on May 31st featuring remixes and collaborations from Mark Van Hoen (Seefeel, Mojave 3), John Fryer (This Mortail Coil, Depeche Mode), Elika, RxGibbs and Remarkably Spry!
The band played SXSW earlier this year on bills with "A Place To Bury Strangers" and "And Your Will Know Us By the Trail Of the Dead" and played sold out shows in 2010 opening for the reunited Chapterhouse and Ulrich Schnauss.
"Words like ethereal, atmospheric and dreamy all come to mind after a spin of Dead Leaf Echo's Truth, and while all these descriptions are apt (and have been used repeatedly in other Dead Leaf Echo reviews), it's safe to say that the band could similarly be described as heavy, raucous - or simply, loud-as-fuck."
- H Magazine
"Some of the best live music in the city"
- Time Out NY
"We love Dead Leaf Echo's dreamy pop"
- The L Magazine
Her Vanished Grace - (Set time: 9:00 PM)
Refining their signature power dream pop, Her Vanished Grace is back with their new release SEE THE MOON (2011).
These mosaics of surging atmospheres and ringing melody take you out to stargaze and inward to witness subatomic mysteries. HVG is a vivid, shape-throwing bliss machine.
The beautifully wounded song craft is dressed with luscious bass lines, hazardous drums and sweeping guitars that shine like beacons. Sound hangs like breath in the frosty air. Nance and Charlie's voices trace out luminous octaves and harmonize over big beats and swirling colors that polish these pulsing anthems like waves on the beach.
After the romantic melancholy of their last CD, BLUE, HVG found themselves seeking music with a little more edge but still very atmospheric, with rich chord voicings and the harsh sheen of early 80s production. The lunar imagery stands as a way of interpreting the dissolute yet creative forces that flow around and through all of us.
Taking the glow that simmers beneath the surface of sleep and making real life shine like dreams, on SEE THE MOON, Her Vanished Grace captures the enormous sound of the Earth spinning on its axis.
These mosaics of surging atmospheres and ringing melody take you out to stargaze and inward to witness subatomic mysteries. HVG is a vivid, shape-throwing bliss machine.
The beautifully wounded song craft is dressed with luscious bass lines, hazardous drums and sweeping guitars that shine like beacons. Sound hangs like breath in the frosty air. Nance and Charlie's voices trace out luminous octaves and harmonize over big beats and swirling colors that polish these pulsing anthems like waves on the beach.
After the romantic melancholy of their last CD, BLUE, HVG found themselves seeking music with a little more edge but still very atmospheric, with rich chord voicings and the harsh sheen of early 80s production. The lunar imagery stands as a way of interpreting the dissolute yet creative forces that flow around and through all of us.
Taking the glow that simmers beneath the surface of sleep and making real life shine like dreams, on SEE THE MOON, Her Vanished Grace captures the enormous sound of the Earth spinning on its axis.
Washerwoman - (Set time: 8:00 PM)
Washington, DC band, Washerwoman (ex-Phonic Riot), is for lovers of Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds, My Bloody Valentine, A Place To Bury Strangers, Echo And The Bunnymen, Grinderman, Puerto Rico Flowers, Clockcleaner, The Jesus And Mary Chain, Joy Division, We Are Hex, Skywave.
Perfect Prescription (DJs)
Perfect Prescription is usually housed at the Shea Stadium art/event space in Bushwick, Brooklyn.
House DJs Paul Dillon, Voidsong, Stephan C and Tara Angell spin the best psychedelic/ shoegaze/ spacerock/ garage/ kraut music...
House DJs Paul Dillon, Voidsong, Stephan C and Tara Angell spin the best psychedelic/ shoegaze/ spacerock/ garage/ kraut music...
