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On Wednesday, Philly natives the Disco Biscuits performed at the New Year's Run Kick-Off concert at the Best Buy Theater in NYC. The Biscuits' signature style, "Trancefusion" — a crossbreed of jam, prog and electronica — has elevated their status from sonic experimenters to pioneers to figureheads of the jam-band circuit. And, with the mainstream advent of EDM and dubstep finding the band's techno-savvy sound in high demand, it seems they're looking to make this New Year's Run one for the books.
The band returns to Time Square's Best Buy Theater again tonight and Sunday, taking a night off before hitting Madison Square Garden on New Year's Eve with fellow jam giants, Phish.
If this is all jargon to you, the video above from Wednesday's show will give you a taste of the atmosphere. If the intoxicants don't get you, the light show will.
I’m still posting standout tracks/videos every night at midnight because why not. (Click here to see them all so far.) Patty Crash is local. She’s fierce. I cannot wait till she drops a whole album.
Rewards abound at The Institute Bar for those who know their quarter-pounders from their royales with cheese. Twelve bucks gets you dinner (an entrée and a beer), a movie (Reservoir Dogs) and some all-Tarantino quizzo to end the evening. Winners get a $25 gift card to The Institute, a copy of Reservoir Dogs on Blue Ray and two tickets to see Tarantino’s latest film, Django Unchained.
Thu., Dec. 27, 8 p.m., $12, The Institute Bar, 549 12th St., 267-318-7772, institutebar.com.
Saw some of these tucked into City Paper boxes around Old City. Rodney Anonymous of course is one of the Dead Milkmen and a columnist for this newspaper. I'm guessing he did not like our Top 21 issue.
I’m still posting standout tracks/videos every night at midnight because why not. (Click here to see them all so far.) This is the title track off Aimee Mann’s 2012 album Charmer and I think the song is lovely and the video is great. But the same could be said for “Labrador.” It was a total coinflip. By the way, both videos were directed by Tom Scharpling, legendary host of The Best Show on WFMU.
I’m still posting standout tracks/videos every night at midnight because why not. (Click here to see them all so far.) This year’s Transcendental Youth came in ninth in our Top 21. I’ve never heard a Mountain Goats album I didn’t love.
I’m still posting standout tracks/videos every night at midnight because why not. (Click here to see them all so far.) I’m not a huge fan of this video, but I think “Apocryphon” the song is one of the best things I heard all year. It’s Sabbathious, heavy and kinda nerdy.
I’m still posting standout tracks/videos every night at midnight because why not. (Click here to see them all so far.) A couple year, New Jersey flag-fliers Titus Andronicus stormed through our Top 21 with The Monitor. This year’s Local Business was more of a slow burn, something you need to spend some time with.
I’m still posting standout tracks/videos every night at midnight because why not. (Click here to see them all so far.) I’m not endorsing coke or yoga, but i recommend you get hooked on Philly rapper Ethel Cee.
I’m still posting standout tracks/videos every night at midnight because why not. (Click here to see them all so far.) I knew people liked Kendrick Lamar but I had no idea everybody was into him until I was putting together City Paper’s Top 21 Albums of the Year list.
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