Short Takes + Weekend Shows

It's been way too long since we last heard from Love Is All, but the awesome band are finally trying to make up for it by playing a few dates and bringing their excellent 5-song EP of covers along with them for the ride! The covers they chose are perfectly selected 80's pop songs that fit Love Is All's style to a t! Tracks from Flock of Seagulls, Dire Straits, and Prince sparkle with all of the bands synths and funky sounds and the call and response vocals. It's a match made in indie pop heaven, and now thanks to eMusic the EP also comes with a brand new track off the band's forthcoming full length. "Wishing Well" became one of my favorite songs of the year the second I heard it and I don't think anything's going to change that over the next few months. The whole album is fantastic, but I'm sure this is seriously just a primer for the new album! Be prepared!!!
Love Is All - "So Far Away" (Dire Straits cover)
Love Is All - "Darling Nikki" (Prince cover)

On Let's Drag Our Feet, BOAT introduced themselves to me with their infectious brand of indie pop. The album features some awesome songs that should be listened to over and over again (and I have!), but since then we haven't heard anything new from the band, and since they've never made it to New York yet we are crawling out of our skins for something new from BOAT. Enter Topps, a four song EP with a mild skewing towards baseball cards. It's four songs that we were in desperaete need of for a little fix of BOAT and like Let's Drag Our Feet, it features some truly fantastic and catchy indie pop. Quirky lyrics abound, solid melodies, perfectly placed singing, it's all here and why would you look anywhere else for shit like this! This is a fantastic short player and it will suffice for now, but I'm telling you BOAT better get themselves a new album or finally pass through New York or I'm gonna start going ape shit!
BOAT - "Topps"
BOAT - "Four Beds for BOAT"

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Friday, July 4th:

Sonic Youth + The Feelies @ Battery Park (River to River) [FREE]
Sonic Youth - "Kissability"
The Feelies - "The High Road"

Titus Andronicus @ Solar One (Rooftop Films) [tix]
Titus Andronicus - "No Future"

Ponytail + Marnie Stern @ The Yard [tix]
Ponytail - "Sky Drool"
Marnie Stern - "Precious Metal"

Saturday, July 5th:

Dengue Fever + Apollo Heights @ Central Park Summerstage [FREE]
Dengue Fever - "Sober Driver"

Thurston Moore @ Rehab [info]
Thurston Moore - "Honest James"

RZA (as Bobby Digital) @ Webster Hall [tix]
RZA - "Good Night"

Sunday, July 6th:

Ronnie Spector @ McCarren Park Pool [FREE]
Ronnie Spector - "All I Want"