Pictures from Head of Femur and Jon Hardy & The Public

Last week, I caught Jon Hardy & The Public, Head of Femur and Walkie Talkie USA.

I have been enjoying JH&TP's new CD, Working in Love for a few weekes now. The band was energetic and engaging live, and Jon's voice sounded great. I would definitely recommend you check them out live ifyou get a chance:









Head of Femur was next. They were appreciative of the crowd, but I felt bad there weren't more people to enjoy their solid set:







Walkie Talkie USA finished out the night. They were loud and had a decent-sized, enthusiastic crowd for a Thursday night. I had to leave early, and my camera died before there set, but I did get to catch their cover of The Soft Boys "I Wanna Destroy You."

Pictures from The Lot

So, I posted some video from this year's Lot Festival earlier this week, and tonight I am going to post some GREAT photos taken at this year's event by Jim Courrier (see all of his flickr photos here and his myspace page here). He managed to snap pictures of all but one of the bands that night and, as usual, his photos are top-notch.

7 Shot Screamers:






Jumbling Towers:







Nite Owl:






Bunnygrunt:







Say Panther:







Tenement Ruth:





Everything Else:

An Under Cover Weekend, Night 2

So after a first night that blew away all of my expectations, I made it back to Off Broadway last Saturday for Night 2 of An Under Cover Weekend. Unfortunately, I missed Fattback's take on The Cars, but I heard was great. Bad Blogger, Bad. (I apologize that the video from this night wasn't of that good quality...) Be sure to check out my review of Night 1 here.

Fortunately, I was able to catch all of The Feed's outstandingly awesome set as The Clash. The Feed was the one band playing this weekend that I had never heard before. The band is a trio: a drummer, piano player and sax player/bassist. They tore through a great, great set of The Clash's best songs, including "London Calling", "Rock the Casbah", "Complete Control", "The Magnificent 7", and "Train in Vain" (with Mike Tomko on guitar). The drummer was crazy good, and the piano player was rocking out guitar solos on his Rhodes... perfectly. It was the set of the night.

The Feed as The Clash:

Ghost in Light was up next with their intense and moody Cure set. They definitely stayed away from the "hits" (with one or two exceptions) and played to the multitude of "true" Cure fans in attendance. It was yet another great set from this weekend.

Ghost in Light as the Cure:









We went from Goth to New Wave pretty quickly when The Bureau came up with a tight set of Duran Duran songs. They started off with "Girls on Film" and, of course, rocked out to "Rio" and "Hungry Like a Wolf."

The Bureau as Duran Duran:

7 Shot Screamers finished out the night with a sloppy set of Ringo-fronted Beatles songs... But no Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da... Hmmm. Despite this glaring omission, it was actually a great set, minus the overlong breaks between songs. You also got the feeling that guitarist Deano Sabella really wantd to be covering Black Sabbath...

7 Shot Screamers as the Beatles:

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Read Annie Zaleski's re-cap of Night 2 HERE.

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OMG!!!! It's Simon LeBon at The Clash show!!!!