Sepultura played the Marlin Room at Webster hall on Saturday night. Far from the largest room within the venue, It’s smaller size lent an air of intimacy that was entirely appropriate considering the band in question was Sepultura and the…
It starts off not unlike many post-punk standards of the day – drums first. The snare pops and the kick-drum fills the bottom end, with the sibilant high-hat coming in later with the bass. But for a whole measure the…
What clever rubric explains my selection of songs for the year 2014? There is none. I’m usually satisfied with a tried and true playlist, even if many of the songs are a few years old. That said, our interconnectedness through…
Something few guys are aware of and even fewer women keep in mind is that talent makes a woman hot. Or at least hotter than she would be otherwise, crudely judging the whole by the sum of her parts. (Yes,…
Night Club are a synth-pop duo out of Los Angeles who’ve laid their heads before the altar of 80’s New Wave. In an attempt to summon the dark electronic gods of old, responsible for the drink and drug fueled revelry at dance clubs throughout the 80’s and early 90’s, Night Club chose to cover Inxs’s “Need You Tonight,” Michael Hutchence being already somewhat deified in certain circles.
From the first digitized bass hit, Night Club makes their supplicative cries clear. Their language is synth. Digitized and over-saturated, the melodies sound like the beautifully low-fi blips and beeps of 8 bit video games.
The cover is straight forward. No license is taken with the material, the only difference being that the singer for Night Club is female. Her voice is sultry and full. You can picture it coming from a confident, full-figured woman which turns the chorus of I “Need you tonight” into more of an expectation than a request.
Covers like these are typically well received because they’re old enough to evoke nostalgia but recent enough that no grandparent can claim them as their own. The ones who were around can reminisce about the halcyon days when experimentation in drugs, sex and music was the norm. The line between excess and good taste not existing, any indulgence could be chalked up to exploration. Those who are too young to have been there can romanticize its excesses and experimentation without having the consequences that befell many dampen their enjoyment. Night Club’s cover of “Need You Tonight” can help you do that.
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Island is Fou De Toi’s attempt to write a happy song in contrast to their otherwise meloncholic repertoire. I think they succeeded. From the first guitar chord, Island chimes in like…well…chimes – bright and clean and warm. The singer’s voice resembles Chris Martin’s…
This song is light – in the cold, through the clouds, reflected off of snow – but ideally in the summer, and always near water. Or maybe it’s slipping into the warm ocean and dissolving into a thin film that…
I wish I knew more about Jazz, so I could tell you what influences I hear in Too Many Zooz. I could then intelligently explain where this band is coming from and to what extent the direction they’re going is…
The Astrobastards are three guys based out of Bridgewater, Ma. With a name like The Astrobastards there really is no telling what to expect, although the Bridgewater, Ma part didn’t have me bracing for bone crunching riffs and gargling-with-gravel vocals…
On a Tuesday night I visited Alphabet Lounge to listen to the opening act of Julia Weldon, part of the CMJ music marathon running in the city now. I walked in as they were doing soundcheck, and, since technical problems…
