After work on Friday I headed out to Bushwick to go to the "Rock Against Trump" charity benefit show at The Gateway. One outfit that I liked was Brooklyn band Sic Tic. The three-piece has a variety of styles in both its web and live music. I like the song structures with some of the changes in tempo. Here is "Ego Walls Fall When You're In Love" :::
Sic Tic has another show coming up at The Gateway on February 4th. In the meantime, if you would like to visit the band on Facebook, here is the click ::: Sic Tic on Facebook (CLICK HERE).
High point of that night at Goldsounds was New York artist Sam Seeger and his band. After pre-listening to his music on line, I was eager to see the outfit live. And I wasn't disappointed. While some bands show a wide difference between their web and live personas, this band doesn't show a gap.
I heard great guitar work, great drum work, and just the right amount of fuzz. The band has four members, with Sam Seeger up from doing the lead vocals and guitar. There are also one other guitar, a bass, and drums.
Maybe I should say the band has four regular members, but, at Goldsounds that night there was a surprise trashed audience member who walked up to the stage between each song and tried to shout over Sam as he was talking to the audience and announcing the next song. Everything he was yelling was complimentary, so that was good. ... Sam Seeger handled the situation well. The audience was entertained all around. :)
The band has a number of good songs posted on the web. One of their more recent pieces is "Drumbeat of the Apocalyse". Here is a video of the band playing the song live in a studio session: :::
So a couple weeks ago I headed to Bushwick after work and saw Adam Travis & The Soul. This was my first time seeing them live. They opened up the night at Goldsounds. It wasn't the first time that I saw an outfit from the Philly area do a show in Brooklyn. That's the way my work schedule sometimes works out.
Adam Travis & The Soul has a unique sound, somewhere around the juncture point where rock, jazz, and reggae all meet. Here is a video of a live house show they did back in 2013. The song is "Foolin Around" :::
Adam Travis will be doing another show in Brooklyn this coming weekend. This is a free show at Pete's Candy Store on Saturday night. For more details and information about the show and the band, check out their Facebook page ::: Adam Travis on Facebook (CLICK HERE)
Wow these guys are experts at Garage. Can't see them enough. I think I've lost track of how many of their shows I've seen, some in Philly, some in Brooklyn and Manhattan.
The Mystery Lights did a great show headlining at Kung Fu Necktie on December 9. They never disappoint. Met fans who came there all the way from NY and DE.
The band played a lot of the songs off their new album. Here is "Flowers In My Hair, Demons In My Head", the third track on the band's new album, also titled "The Mystery Lights" :::
The Mystery Lights will be leaving on a European tour in just a few weeks. Keep an eye on their Facebook page for shows back here when they return ::: The Mystery Lights on Facebook (CLICK HERE).
New Music / Freshly Written & Recently Released (Fall 2016)
A few weeks ago I saw Warbly Jets live for the first time when they opened an exciting evening at Kung Fu. This show was drawing towards the end of a big tour that the band was doing with Brooklyn band The Mystery Lights. While it was The Mystery Lights, one of my favorites, that was the original draw for the evening, I wound up liking Warbly Jets and wanting to see them again.
While they played lots of good solid rock at Kung Fu, they've got only a limited amount of music on line. Here is "Alive" just posted within the past couple months:
Warbly Jets doesn't appear have any plans to come back east in the near future, but here is the click to their Facebook page where you can keep an eye on their events ::: Warbly Jets on Facebook (CLICK HERE).
