Blurrrred: Salem at Glasslands 1/05/10

So Chicago-based death-crunk-goth-tech-slowcore trio Salem hit Glasslands in Brooklyn over a week ago now, and we've still yet to say anything about it. It's possible that's because, um, The New York Times was there and missed the point, and we're not much on cleaning up messes. It may be because Michael Stipe, also, was there, and he and I never get along when we encounter each other (it didn't happen this time). 

More accurately and more in the realm of possibility, though, it's because the friends I went to Glasslands with and I have been throwing around words, ideas, concepts, trying to get a handle on what exactly we lived through that night.

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Buried in the snow

In New York, it's a week for dark, overwhelming sounds: both on the pushing, progressively head-melting tip and on a more dreamy, shoegazy approach.

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salem ticket giveaway

The Pendu Organization is presenting SALEM at Glasslands (Brooklyn, NY) in Jan (Jan 5). Tickets are dwendling for this night of utter, extreme slow-core crunk darkness, and soldout has a ticket to give away.

All you have to do to win? Email info @ soldoutmusic dot com with what you hear when you close your eyes and listen to SALEM. CONTEST CLOSES JAN 1 2010.

Bonus points and extra win for horrorcore, sadness and the grotesque.

cut the lights

All lights off. Salem's coming.

The Pendu Organization presents Salem at Glasslands, Jan 5 in New York. Yes, we will be there. No, we may not survive to report back.

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All Soft And Free

When news of The Big Pink-a band supposedly combining the best of 4AD London roughneck sounds (wind tunnel guitar explosions, raw edges and morose sneer) with Factory (love, love, synths, love)-first reached my ears, I immediately hunted down their debut album A Brief History Of Love, fittingly enough released on 4AD. What I found was an addicting, lush but deceptively upfront collection of songs about sex and heartbreak and...well, what else is there, really?

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