The Black Hollies at The Knitting Factory
I was told that every performer at the Reisling Festival received a bottle of wine. Some of them seem to have finished their bottles before others. While I would not rank this among the top Black Hollies performances I have seen, I will say that with the spirit of the occasion in them they performed in the spirit of the occasion.
Nouvellas at The Knitting Factory
Apparently there is a National Chocolate Ice Cream day, which is of course just an excuse to eat chocolate ice cream. Then there's the week long Reisling Festival. It's a type of wine. Guess what the point of that is? Yes, and also music apparently. Here we have Nouvellas performing for a classier bunch of boozehounds than usual.
Burger Records Showcase at Don Pedro
I already posted some shots of Apache from the Burger Records Showcase show at Don Pedro, but I figure I should do right by the other bands and post a few shots of them too. Here are three photos eaco of Cum Stain, Cosmonauts, and Conspiracy of Owls. My apologies to MMOSS, whose set I missed.
Stalkers at Lulu's
Nothing like a free show to bring people together. Free pizza (with purchase) didn't hurt either. But the main draw was the calibre of the music, which is to say that Stalkers kicked ass and inspired the audience to kick each other's ass. Can anything be more American than that? Happy 4th of July, folks.
Apache at Don Pedro
Apache are playing six shows in town this weekend (Thurs-Sat!) They can manage this kind of booking because they are absolutely incredible. Yes, their lyrics are solidly in the "turn brain off before use" category. But with a little help from the audience at Don Pedro, especially Josh (of the band Ex-Humans), they turned a room full of perfectly normal drunks into moshing headbanging psycho-drunks, which is just tremendous fun to photograph.