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Stereogum Does CMJ: Band Of Horses @ Blender Theatre At Gramercy, NYC 10/20/07

Walked into Irving tired, walked out in desperate need of another party; such is the rejuvenating power of Santo/Rock. We were more thinking "dance" than "soaring reverb rock," but it didn't take much prodding to get us to hit Band Of Horses' late-night set at Blender's room at Gramercy with the PSNYC fellas. During a premature evaluation we called Ben's new one, Cease To Begin, "very pretty, but very slight"; after seeing Cease live, we'll go with "very pretty, but very rocking." Seriously great set; of course it was a seriously late hour, but any previously perceived disparity between the Everything All The Time tunes and those of the new LP seemed buried by the band's echo-y, hearty performance. (Also, Ben now has this absurdly awesome double-neck guitar now, which somehow we found instantly endearing.) Snuck backstage past a distracted security dude as the show ended, only to find a small hallway occupied by a few hip folks and Josh Hartnett, busy being handsomer than we are. We'll spare you the iPhone shot this time; instead, check the high quality shot by Café Eclectica Music.

Eighteen strings of badass, right there.

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technically 18 strings of badass.

Posted by: ggg at 10/21/07 11:53 PM | Reply
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Seriously, BoH orcked hard that night.

Posted by: Eduardo at 10/22/07 12:31 AM | Reply
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eighteen it is, ggg. that's 33% more badass than i first acknowledged. sorry, ben!

Posted by: amrit at 10/22/07 12:57 AM | Reply
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I'm sure that he would forgive you, amrit.

Posted by: ggg at 10/22/07 1:51 AM | Reply
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I hope you guys videotaped them playing The Funeral.

Posted by: Elliot at 10/22/07 2:20 AM | Reply
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The Funeral

Posted by: SteveO at 10/23/07 12:51 AM | Reply
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See the "The Funeral" from the Blender CMJ show.

Posted by: Brian Berkowitz at 10/23/07 12:55 AM | Reply
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(sorry guys. i was actually mocking band of horses. re: Band of Horses flips the eff out at people who go to their show only to listen to Funeral. And then videotape it.)

Posted by: Elliot at 10/24/07 1:42 AM | Reply
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Elliot you're a dumbass

Posted by: Frank at 10/24/07 10:08 PM | Reply
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