Firstly, the “Sibilance” staff would like to apologize for any misbehavior we engaged in at the Best Music Poll festival shows. You get a couple of those cosmos in us and, whoo-hoo, things get ugly. Talk about ugly? Staff members were sitting at the end of the Big Easy bar following the Cosades,Loverless,Rock Kills Kid show (which was stellar, by the way) when the RKK lead singer orders us all a round of shots. Cool. Rock. Then he made us pick up the tab! Uncool. Not rock.
If you didn’t see Cosades open the Big Easy show this last weekend (and you probably didn’t, considering you were huddled around your buddy’s beer-bong until, like, midnight), you better check them out this weekend at the Alehouse, May 27, with Fifty Seven Foxtrot. They say it’ll be their last gig before they enter the studio this summer to record the already-titled Tusks and a Moustache, with Jack Murray over at Big Sound. It better be good, considering their first disc won this year’s Bimpy for Best Album.
Bob Smyth and Ginette Labonville, former teammates in the indie-rock band Fumare, have teamed again for the two-piece Pursesnatcher, a lo-fi guitar and drums thing that crashes around behind repeated guitar phrases and not many chords. Their first gig was earlier this month.
American Radio Runaway, a radio-rock group out of Dover, New Hampshire, who are in the Too Late the Hero, Minus Scale, and In the Arms of Providence fan club, and used to be called Our Last Summer (gotta have three words, right?) have released a five-song EP. They claim to be ready “to explode from small town local band to nationally touring, 10,000-Myspace-friend-having, super-awesome group.” Hard to argue with that.
The “Sibilance” staff wish this was our life: indie frontman Adam Flaherty is taking a few weeks to skip out of work and go on the road with As Fast As as their stage manager/guitar tech. Check out www.adamflaherty.com/blog if you want to read all about it. Zany and wacky things are bound to ensue.
By the way, Passing Lane won the 22nd Annual Reindeer Rock-Off. But you knew that. Did you also know that Passing Lane features Aaron Peisner, brother of Sam Peisner, whose band the Sauce (nee the Slurpees) released their second full-length album late last year? You didn’t? What are you, dense?
Speaking of last gigs, May 13 saw Conifer play their last gig at Geno’s before heading out on a big-time national tour that will take them to California and back with gigs just about every day until their glorious return June 27 at (where else?) Geno’s. Included will be a stop at the Emissions from the Monolith Festival VII, in Youngstown, Ohio. Oh, and they’ve been joined by former 6gig drummer Jason Stewart. Hard to understand how heavy they’ll be now.
