Your SAK correspondent helped make sure The New York Press Best Of Manhattan issue made a little less sense with several shout outs to some keepin’-it-real Brooklyn peeps.
Apart from the love for Entertainment4Every1 and Sleep When Dead NYC above, go here for SAK-penned picks for Best Local Rock Band (like you didn’t already know it was The So So Glos?) and Best DIY Venue (Schmarket Schmotel, of shcourse).
Not only is this kinda arty video from last Friday’s not-so-secret Deerhunter gig at Market Hotel, but the dude that posted it, UN:ART:IG, has an Angelfire page. (Plus, the audio quality sucks! Thanks, YouTube!)
The only thing more retro than serious Angelfire Style are Bradford’s shades, which SAK correspondent thinks he got out of a cereal box in the 4th grade. Peep the evidence culled from SAK’s ‘08 SXSW files, which captured him in action leading Atlas Sound:
The So So Glos, who live at Market Hotel, tore it up for about twenty people at Greenpoint, Brooklyn’s Lost and Found last night. The guys (3 of the 4 are brothers, raised in Brooklyn’s Bay Ridge ‘hood) stood out front, pre-performance, smoking cigarettes, wearing leather jackets, telling punk-rock tales of touring and breaking jaws (”I got arrested,” one of them told me, regarding an intra-band fight one night) and just being awesome dudes.
You may recall a previous rave from me on the NY Press Blog, so I wanted to catch them again to make sure I wasn’t imaging their raw punk power when I caught them in Austin last month. I most certainly did not. See this band! (and not just in the extra photos after jump).