Pop and Rock Listings
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AUGUSTANA (Wednesday) This popular California quintet is best known for its mawkish, piano-driven ballad “Boston,” which has been featured in many popular television shows. (It’s typically employed during moments of deep, brow-wrinkling catharsis.) The band’s latest LP, “Can’t Love, Can’t Hurt” (Epic), is packed with earnest, midtempo rock songs in the adult-alternative spirit of Counting Crows and the Wallflowers. With Wild Sweet Orange and David Ford. At 9 p.m., Bowery Ballroom, 6 Delancey Street, near the Bowery, Lower East Side, (212) 533-2111, boweryballroom.com; sold out. (Amanda Petrusich)
BISHOP ALLEN (Friday) Borrowing from the playbook of early Jonathan Richman, this Brooklyn band puts a boyish smile on spunky, angst-ridden guitar-pop, and nurses worries about the slow crawl toward the workaday adult life: “Burn, calendar, burn.” With the War On Drugs and the Silent Years. At 9 p.m., Music Hall of Williamsburg, 66 North Sixth Street, Brooklyn, (718) 486-5400, musichallofwilliamsburg.com; $13 in advance, $15 at the door.
★ BLOOD ON THE WALL (Saturday) One of New York City’s most beloved local bands, the Brooklyn trio Blood on the Wall plays belligerent, lo-fi stoner-rock marked by largely unintelligible lyrics and throbbing guitar riffs. Along with the band’s steadfast embrace of feedback, the oscillating boy-girl vocals of siblings Courtney and Brad Shanks recall “Daydream Nation”-era Sonic Youth. With Abigail Warchild, Lights and Cause Co-Motion. At 8:30 p.m., Mercury Lounge, 217 East Houston Street, at Ludlow Street, Lower East Side, (212) 260-4700, mercuryloungenyc.com; $10 in advance; $12 at the door. (Petrusich)
★ GLENN brANCA (Thursday) This avant-garde composer and guitarist transcends mere riffing: acclaimed for his experiments with volume, drone, tuning, microtonality and harmonics, Mr. Branca, a primary player in the No Wave movement of the late 1970s and early 1980s, is best known for his 100-guitar symphonies and for his 1981 masterpiece, “The Ascension” (99 Records). With the Paranoid Critical Revolution. At 8 p.m., Issue Project Room, 232 Third Street, at Third Avenue, Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, (718) 330-0313, issueprojectroom.org; $10.
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May 17th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
I don’t necessarily hate her, but I can say with certainty that her music could probably used as a form of torture at Gitmo. For me anyway.
May 17th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
Yes yes, more rules will fix your problems.
May 17th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
china, for once, you didn’t execute someone. you’d have been given a nobel peace prize for getting rid of shitty music. why did you not execute her?
May 17th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
Wait, nevermind. The original Herzeleid album cover. The American Herzeleid album cover.Described by the New York Times as a “powerful strain of brutally intense rock” who “bring gale-force music and spectacular theatrics together”, Rammstein has been a band with a highly controversy-prone nature.[19] Rammstein have not been shy about courting this controversy and have periodically attracted condemnation from morality campaigners. Their stage act earned them a night in jail in June 1999 after a liquid-ejecting dildo was used in a concert in Worcester, Massachusetts.permalinkparentBenny_Lava (0 children) [+]Benny_Lava 2 points 2 months ago [-]I mis-read the headline and thought it was “Clinton” instead of “China”. Too much saturation in the news about politics lately. It is more amusing the way that I first read it though (and got me to read the article to figure out WTF was her problem!)
May 17th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
I said DYING sun. I was talking about CHINA. I wasn’t saying CHINA and JAPAN are the same.It’s a fucking metaphor so don’t try and read TOO much into it.Don’t try and paint me as a fucking racist either, asshole.And hey, don’t tell me about the “growing pains”, tell the fucking dead dissidents and dead girl babies in the rivers, and the fucking clouds of pollution death in their skies.Also, China has been around since the fucking dawn of civilization, excuse me if I expect a little more civility.
May 17th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
Your analogy makes no sense Japan claims to the land of the rising sun, unless you view all Asians as the same. Every nation goes through it’s own transition and I’m sure with a rising middle class that China will be free and democratic in time. It needs to go through it’s own growing pains.
May 17th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
Perhaps a better way to look at it is that the people who want to keep a lid on this are the ones wanting to maintain the problems.
May 17th, 2008 at 10:58 pm
Which country are you talking about? Tibet, China, or Japan?
May 17th, 2008 at 11:48 pm
well, it really takes a certain kind of person to really enjoy her music.or a lot of drugs.
May 18th, 2008 at 12:39 am
Denmark is controlling Greenland? that is ridiculous
May 18th, 2008 at 1:29 am
Amazing, it’s as though she is a free and sovereign human being capable of thinking for herself… Outrageous, she must be stopped!