Your SAK correspondent is sad to report that one of the first bands he ever profiled, Brooklyn three-piece Beat The Devil have broken up. The entire report (unceremoniously offered as a MySpace blog post) is below:

Thursday, May 29, 2008

R.I.P.

In the short time your SAK correspondent has spent interviewing New York City bands, he has come to understand just how important finding a decent and affordable practice space is to local musical talent, and how New Yorkers have to go that extra mile to rock (bands in Portland have houses with basements that they can practice, after all).

Beat The Devil recorded an interview with me in their tiny, triangular Greenpoint rehearsal space, which was a bit smaller than the average Manhattan bedroom, and The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart used to practice at their employer’s Chinatown offices after hours.

Hence the New York Times story on the subject, with an economic breakdown (some groups, who one assumes have never heard of Bushwick, pay $40 an hour for a place to practice). One more reason to pay the $7 cover Tuesday night at Glasslands (instead of having your bassist friend put you on the guestlist).

The Ballet

Beat The Devil

The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart

Vampire Weekend / The Harlem Shakes

Jens Lekman

Greg Burgett