The Joy Collective are embarking on a hopefully fruitful and musically fucking brilliant little partnership with the nice people at Ten Feet Tall. The first of these little shin digs is on Monday 14th September and should be a cracker.
SHE KEEPS BEES has this amazing talent to churn out the rawest, grittiest, get-to-the-point songs out there right now. With the help of Andy LaPlant on drums, Jessica Larrabee is the fiery force behind this righteous band that melds that renewed soul of Cat Power and the blues of The Black Keys. With lyrics such as “Work me like my back ain’t got no bone,” in their addictive song, “Gimme,” this band is far beyond flashy or superfluous. Larabee’s vocals speak for themselves in sparse arrangements that immediately satiate your hunger for the “good stuff.”
Formed in 2006, Brooklyn’s She Keeps Bees are a couple/band you WON’T want to slap the crap out of. Their music is bluesy, but not what you’re thinking. Jessica sings ’til her stomach hurts while Andy holds down the rhythm – lumberjack style.
The music is simple, gritty and downright sexy.. Howlin’ Wolf and Millie Jackson to start, but you’ll probably hear PJ Harvey in there too.
This homemade recording keeps it real simple: drums, guitar and little else. Recorded over the course of 2008, eMusic hailed Nests as “absolutely astonishing… every song is great.” Other Music NYC described Nests as “packed with straightforward, rocking electric guitar…a shoo-in for one of the new music highlights of the year.”
‘With their primal thumping and hollering, this boy-girl duo make a raunchy racket with their rough-and-ready blues-rock’ – The Guardian ‘Band Of The Day’
‘A Sultry mix of shuffling rhythms, dark, bluesy riffs and melodies that are simples aching with longing’ – NME
‘She keeps bees might be just the kind of sting you’re after’ – Kruger
‘Stripped-to-the-bone and down-durdy chunk of blues-splashed, garaged-reared rock n soul’ – Time Out
The three classical guitarists who make up TWI THE HUMBLE FEATHER, based in Brooklyn, include their unconventional tuning in the credits of their debut EP, “Music for Spaceships and Forests” (Friendly Ghost). Such music geekery suits a band that builds its songs out of repeated chords and picking patterns that are staggered among the three guitars, along with mouth-percussion noises, falsetto vocals and stray sounds like bird calls and electronic swoops. Precise and ethereal, the music ends up in a peculiar place, somewhere in the midst of math, meditation and the singsong of a child making up a new myth.
RACE HORSES have stepped in for ATTACK PATTERN to open the show.
THE LATE NIGHT LIVE DJS FROM 9PM UNTIL 3AM with CINEMA SAM playing the best in post punk, 50s/60’s garage rock and delightful oddities, brought up to date with STACEY’S contemporary indie, electro and garage rock, mixed in with some old skool hiphop and floor-splitting classics!
9-3AM // £6 UPSTAIRS // FREE DOWNSTAIRS
Credit to Bryan Bruchman for the She Keeps Bees photograph.
