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Description Saturday December 10th 8:00pm DEATH BY AUDIO HOLIDAY PARTY with: A Place To Bury Strangers The Immaculates Evi Antonio DJ EDAN WILBER $7 @ the new Secret Project Robot 389 Melrose St. Brooklyn, NY between knickerbocker and flushing/Irving morgan or jefferson Lhttp://www.aplacetoburystrangers.com/http://theimmaculates.com/http://eviantonio.posterous.com/
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Saturday December 10th 8:00pm

DEATH BY AUDIO HOLIDAY PARTY

with:

A Place To Bury Strangers
The Immaculates
Evi Antonio
DJ EDAN WILBER
$7

@ the new

Secret Project Robot
389 Melrose St.
Brooklyn, NY
between knickerbocker and flushing/Irving
morgan or jefferson L

http://www.aplacetoburystrangers.com/
http://theimmaculates.com/
http://eviantonio.posterous.com/

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Nestled in the pages of the new issue of The L is a list of 26 bands you should see during CMJ, which, holy crap, starts next week. There’s one for every letter of the alphabet because that way we can call the piece “The ABCs of CMJ” and then later make jokes about it on our blog. Despite these obvious upsides, it’s also a tidy approach to the 900+ bands set to play during the five-day whirlwind, except that in the cases of most letters — especially “G,” “W” and, weirdly enough, “I” — there are more than a single band worthy of attention. So let’s talk about Ill Fits and The Immaculates. Both are Brooklyn supergroups of sorts, the former made up of members of MGMT, Amazing Baby, Foreign Islands and voiced by the wide-reaching Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson; the latter consisting of spazzes from French Miami, Sisters and the label head of Famous Class Records. Both really lay into into their sound, pulling off a type of wild abandonment not typically associated with the Brooklyn music scene these days. For Ill Fits, it’s a groove-rooted spin-off of the glammy psych-pop established by Amazing Baby and MGMT, but with Robinson’s steady, serious vocals adding depth. He sometimes likes to lie down on the stage during shows and sing face up, which we’re into. The Immaculates take the same free-for-all energy and channel it through what they keep selling as a soul throwback, a response to frontman Jay Heiselmann’s white-boy James Brown inflections and Matt Conboy’s funkified basslines. But kill me if the song “Love Dream” from their debut EP, Vol. 1, doesn’t recall a sad-sacked Jonathan Richman. Live, there are suits, whiskey, tambourines and we have on good word that, in the flesh, they sound like the Stooges. We’re also into that. Ill Fits are playing The Thompson Hotel on 10/19 and Pianos on 10/20 and 10/22. The Immaculates are playing Shea Stadium on 10/18, Cake Shop on 10/19 (afternoon), and Knitting Factory on 10/19 (night). Listen to tracks from both bands after the jump. http://www.thelmagazine.com/TheMeasure/archives/2011/10/14/addendums-to-the-abcs-of-cmj-ill-fits-the-immaculates
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Nestled in the pages of the new issue of The L is a list of 26 bands you should see during CMJ, which, holy crap, starts next week. There’s one for every letter of the alphabet because that way we can call the piece “The ABCs of CMJ” and then later make jokes about it on our blog. Despite these obvious upsides, it’s also a tidy approach to the 900+ bands set to play during the five-day whirlwind, except that in the cases of most letters — especially “G,” “W” and, weirdly enough, “I” — there are more than a single band worthy of attention.

So let’s talk about Ill Fits and The Immaculates. Both are Brooklyn supergroups of sorts, the former made up of members of MGMT, Amazing Baby, Foreign Islands and voiced by the wide-reaching Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson; the latter consisting of spazzes from French Miami, Sisters and the label head of Famous Class Records. Both really lay into into their sound, pulling off a type of wild abandonment not typically associated with the Brooklyn music scene these days. For Ill Fits, it’s a groove-rooted spin-off of the glammy psych-pop established by Amazing Baby and MGMT, but with Robinson’s steady, serious vocals adding depth. He sometimes likes to lie down on the stage during shows and sing face up, which we’re into. The Immaculates take the same free-for-all energy and channel it through what they keep selling as a soul throwback, a response to frontman Jay Heiselmann’s white-boy James Brown inflections and Matt Conboy’s funkified basslines. But kill me if the song “Love Dream” from their debut EP, Vol. 1, doesn’t recall a sad-sacked Jonathan Richman. Live, there are suits, whiskey, tambourines and we have on good word that, in the flesh, they sound like the Stooges. We’re also into that.

Ill Fits are playing The Thompson Hotel on 10/19 and Pianos on 10/20 and 10/22. The Immaculates are playing Shea Stadium on 10/18, Cake Shop on 10/19 (afternoon), and Knitting Factory on 10/19 (night). Listen to tracks from both bands after the jump.

http://www.thelmagazine.com/TheMeasure/archives/2011/10/14/addendums-to-the-abcs-of-cmj-ill-fits-the-immaculates

we get a lot of music filling our email in boxes and across our desks, and in them there is a diamond in the rough that we totally dig. the immaculates are one of them. hailing from new york, this soul trio has done their homework. channeling their inner james brown, these guys play simple harmonic boogie down soul. i would be surprised if there was ONE person standing still during a show. below, stream two of their tracks “love dream” and “hey joe kelly” and listen to a live session for heritage radio network’s snacky tunes. http://magicarrows.com/2011/10/13/spotlight-the-immaculates/
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we get a lot of music filling our email in boxes and across our desks, and in them there is a diamond in the rough that we totally dig. the immaculates are one of them. hailing from new york, this soul trio has done their homework. channeling their inner james brown, these guys play simple harmonic boogie down soul. i would be surprised if there was ONE person standing still during a show. below, stream two of their tracks “love dream” and “hey joe kelly” and listen to a live session for heritage radio network’s snacky tunes.

http://magicarrows.com/2011/10/13/spotlight-the-immaculates/

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Along with the very intentional inflections of 60s soul bass lines and beats, Jonathan Richman should be proud of the fact that in 2011 there’s a band that’ll be drawn along by the charisma of the vocalist. The band’s live show is already an instant hit, and not just for the whiskey swiller on the side of the stage who keeps the tambourine safely packed in a briefcase until needed. And I’m just gonna say it: this song pulls some New York indie heart strings that they weren’t perhaps going for — the minimalism of the instrumental interplay gives off some Interpol heat (so do the suits*). Perhaps the dust has settled long enough on that band for this to be a welcome intrusion back into the wall of scuzz flaking off most of the band’s contemporaries. DOWNLOAD: The Immaculates, “Love Dream” The track comes off the band’s Vol. 1 EP, out (wait for it) October 1 on vinyl from Death Class, October 4 digitally from Famous Class, and October 8 on cassette from Whoa Whoa. Link to Impose
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Along with the very intentional inflections of 60s soul bass lines and beats, Jonathan Richman should be proud of the fact that in 2011 there’s a band that’ll be drawn along by the charisma of the vocalist. The band’s live show is already an instant hit, and not just for the whiskey swiller on the side of the stage who keeps the tambourine safely packed in a briefcase until needed.

And I’m just gonna say it: this song pulls some New York indie heart strings that they weren’t perhaps going for — the minimalism of the instrumental interplay gives off some Interpol heat (so do the suits*). Perhaps the dust has settled long enough on that band for this to be a welcome intrusion back into the wall of scuzz flaking off most of the band’s contemporaries.

DOWNLOAD:

The Immaculates, “Love Dream”

The track comes off the band’s Vol. 1 EP, out (wait for it) October 1 on vinyl from Death Class, October 4 digitally from Famous Class, and October 8 on cassette from Whoa Whoa.

Link to Impose

The Immaculates’ Tumblr describes the band succinctly: “A soul band from New York, N.Y.”, and like that sentence, The Immaculates’ sound is lean, literal, and stripped of everything but the absolute essentials: drums, bass, and vocals. There’s as much Iggy Pop and The Sonics as there is James Brown to front man Jay Heiselman’s smoker’s yowl, and the three members each do their best to embody the epitome of vintage cool, right down to their matching black-and-white suits (the jackets never come off). On “Hey, Joe Kelly,” Heiselman sounds close to tearing his larynx as he wails over Matt Conboy’s wicked funked-up bassline. Perhaps most impressive, though, is Cyrus Lubin’s drumming, whose epic breaks are more technically impressive than they have any need to be. Until recently, The Immaculates’ one-sentence bio was followed by another: “Available for parties.” Hopefully, they still are. Link to Refinery29
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The Immaculates’ Tumblr describes the band succinctly: “A soul band from New York, N.Y.”, and like that sentence, The Immaculates’ sound is lean, literal, and stripped of everything but the absolute essentials: drums, bass, and vocals. There’s as much Iggy Pop and The Sonics as there is James Brown to front man Jay Heiselman’s smoker’s yowl, and the three members each do their best to embody the epitome of vintage cool, right down to their matching black-and-white suits (the jackets never come off). On “Hey, Joe Kelly,” Heiselman sounds close to tearing his larynx as he wails over Matt Conboy’s wicked funked-up bassline. Perhaps most impressive, though, is Cyrus Lubin’s drumming, whose epic breaks are more technically impressive than they have any need to be. Until recently, The Immaculates’ one-sentence bio was followed by another: “Available for parties.” Hopefully, they still are.

Link to Refinery29

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