Earlier today we presented you with Real Estate's mellow update on "Green River." We called the guys busy then -- new album, forthcoming EP -- and I think it's appropriate to repeat it now: Here's "Sandglider" from Real Estater Matt... CONTINUE READING NEW DUCKTAILS - "SANDGLIDER"»
Posted on November 18, 2009 in MP3 (7 comments)
Tags: Dan Melchoir | Ducktails | Real Estate
Busy Jersey-born favorites Real Estate slowed things down and classed them up on their excellent new self-titled Woodsist full-length. For instance, we first heard a speedier, electric "Green River" as the nugget-sized B-Side on the "Fake Blues" 7": Take a... CONTINUE READING THE 'GUM DROP CXV: HEAR NEW REAL ESTATE, WIN A DJ HERO BUNDLE»
Posted on November 18, 2009 in Giveaway, MP3 (3 comments)
Tags: DJ Hero | Real Estate | The Fresh And Onlys
After giving a number of listens to Real Estate's self-titled Woodsist collection and the six-song Reality EP -- which includes the recently viewed "Basement" -- it's clear the Jersey-born BTW have decided to go an even more laidback than in... CONTINUE READING NEW REAL ESTATE - "DUMB LUCK" (STEREOGUM PREMIERE)»
Posted on November 16, 2009 (5 comments)
Tags: Real Estate
Things were different from the last time we saw Girls live, when we hosted their first NYC show at Market Hotel: near unanimous praise for one of the year's best Albums, and a recently reconfigured lineup that saw the abrupt... CONTINUE READING GIRLS/REAL ESTATE @ BOWERY BALLROOM, NYC 11/6/09»
Posted on November 9, 2009 in Concert, Photo (3 comments)
Tags: CMJ | Dominant Legs | Girls | Real Estate | The Selmanaires | Tough Knuckles
As we've seen previously, NYC filmmaker Ray Concepcioñ's into creating leisurely, continuous establishing shots before he takes you into any given venue. You saw the street and the feet that walk it before watching Surfer Blood, for instance, and the... CONTINUE READING NEW REAL ESTATE - "BASEMENT" (LIVE @ CMJ)»
Posted on October 30, 2009 in Video Games (2 comments)
Tags: CMJ | Real Estate | Treasure Island
One last gargantuan batch of photos from an exhausting, exhaustive week of NYC showgoing. On Friday Jessica Amaya joined us at Doveman's record release party at the Elevated Hole, a Chelsea loft owned by the Yale English Dept. chair Michael... CONTINUE READING CMJ '09: WEEKEND IN PHOTOS»
Posted on October 26, 2009 in Concert, Photo (2 comments)
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On Thursday at CMJ the xx played theIr 66th and 67th shows of the week -- one at the Apple Store SoHo, another as the "x-rated" secret guest at the horribly delayed, horribly sweaty Club NME showcase at the Delancey.... CONTINUE READING CMJ '09: THURSDAY IN PHOTOS»
Posted on October 24, 2009 in Concert, Photo (0 comments)
Tags: A Place To Bury Strangers | Alec Ounsworth | Bear Hands | CMJ | Crystal Antlers | Delorean | Freelance Whales | Happy Hollows | Hockey | Japandroids | Local Natives | Lovvers | Male Bonding | Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson | Peggy Sue | Real Estate | Rebecca Shiffman | Reni Lane | Sky Larkin | Small Black | Suckers | Surfer Blood | The Antlers | The xx | We Are Enfant Terrible | Yes Giantess
As far as full-on noon-to-2AM marathon set hunting goes, Wednesday's spread won't be topped this year. In addition to bringing us memorable sets from two bands we'll be watching much more closely in Sleigh Bells and Golden Silvers, the day... CONTINUE READING CMJ '09: WEDNESDAY IN PHOTOS»
Posted on October 23, 2009 in Concert, Photo (5 comments)
Tags: Apache Beat | Beach Fossils | CMJ | Cymbals Eat Guitars | Deastro | Dutchess Says | Eternal Summers | Evan Voytas | Faces On film | Fool's Gold | Free Energy | Freelance Whales | Golden Silvers | Grooms | Holopaw | I Was A King | Javelin | Malajube | Midnight Juggernauts | NewVillager | Real Estate | Seven Saturdays | Sleigh Bells | Small Black | Stilly Flyin' | Stricken Sound | Suckers | Surfer Blood | The xx | Theophilus London | These United States | Ungdomskulen | VEGA
Online retailer Insound celebrated its tenth year in business with an impressive line-up of local music and an unimpressive display of hipster bowling skillz (though they can blame that on the free beer). Suckers were the not-that-surprise performers, joining fellow... CONTINUE READING INSOUND 10TH ANNIVERSARY W/ THESE ARE POWERS/CYMBALS EAT GUITARS/SUCKERS/DRUMS/REAL ESTATE @ BROOKLYN BOWL 8/27/09»
Posted on August 28, 2009 in Concert, Photo (1 comments)
Tags: Cymbals Eat Guitars | Drums | Pearl Jam | Real Estate | Suckers | The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart | These Are Powers
We've been keeping a close watch on the Real Estate camp because, well, we like them ... and their camp puts out a lot of stuff. The other day it was bassist Alex Bleeker fronting the Freaks, a band that... CONTINUE READING NEW DUCKTAILS - "ROSES" (STEREOGUM PREMIERE)»
Posted on July 23, 2009 in Album Art, MP3 (16 comments)
Tags: Ducktails | Mi Ami | Real Estate
If you take a look at the accompanying photo, you might recognize Alex Bleeker as BTW Real Estate's bassist. What you can't see is the Freaks' frontman is surrounded by a couple other folks from his more well-known band: Matt... Epilogue"'">CONTINUE READING NEW ALEX BLEEKER & THE FREAKS - "SUMMER SONG > EPILOGUE"»
Posted on July 21, 2009 in MP3 (4 comments)
Tags: Alex Bleeker And The Freaks | Ducktails | Feist | Kings Of Convenience | Real Estate
After the scene portrait painted by Woodsist and Captured Tracks on Independence weekend, a Bowery bill boasting Woods and Real Estate wouldn't register as a must-see despite those bands standing at the top of their class. But there was one... CONTINUE READING WAVVES/WOODS/REAL ESTATE @ BOWERY BALLROOM, NYC 7/15/09»
Posted on July 16, 2009 in Concert, Photo (37 comments)
Tags: Popo | Real Estate | Wavves | Woods
Real Estate's Matt Mondanile continues exploring his blissed-out abstract/expansive sides in Ducktails and Predator Vision (a trio with another Real Estater Etienne Duguay). As the former, he has a new split with fellow Ridgewood New Jersey resident, Julian Lynch. (You... CONTINUE READING NEW DUCKTAILS - "PARASAILING"»
Posted on July 8, 2009 in MP3, Video (7 comments)
Tags: Ducktails | Real Estate
This past weekend was all about the USA, and nothing says America quite like a day full of shitgaze in a graffitied, degenerated yard under some train tracks in Bushwick (or "East Williamsburg," if your real estate agent is shady).... CONTINUE READING WOODSIST/CAPTURED TRACKS FEST @ 979 BROADWAY BACKYARD, BROOKLYN 7/4/09»
Posted on July 6, 2009 in Concert, Photo, Video (6 comments)
Tags: Beach Fossils | Blank Dogs | Crocodiles | Crystal Stilts | Dum Dum Girls | Ganglians | Kurt Vile | Real Estate | The Beets | The German Measles | Vivian Girls | Woods
It's difficult making out all the lyrics floating around in "Green Rivers"'s echo chamber, but it'd be a nice change of course if the track was about either the Seattle proto-grunge crew, the Washington State serial killer Gary Ridgway who... CONTINUE READING NEW REAL ESTATE - "GREEN RIVER"»
Posted on June 18, 2009 in MP3 (5 comments)
Tags: Real Estate
This footage of BTW Real Estate doing "Beach Comber" was captured in one continuous, brightly shadowed shot by Ray C. at the Annex, NYC on 5/27. As mentioned a ways back, the guys are a super tight live band, so... CONTINUE READING NEW REAL ESTATE LIVE VIDEO - "BEACH COMBER"»
Posted on May 29, 2009 in Video (7 comments)
Tags: Real Estate
Real Estate's breezy pop songs feel effortless. This is one of the New Jersey BTW's charms. That, and they're a tight live band, who come off loose enough to lock into a 10-minute extended and sunny Galaxie-500-style jams at any... CONTINUE READING NEW REAL ESTATE - "BEACH COMBER" & "SNOW (INSTRUMENTAL)"»
Posted on May 7, 2009 in MP3 (4 comments)
Tags: Real Estate
Matt Mondanile, a member of NJ BTW (and enjoyable live act) Real Estate takes care of his more abstract and/or expansive tendencies in Ducktails and Predator Vision. To date the LP section of Ducktails' discography remains somewhere in the future,... CONTINUE READING NEW DUCKTAILS VIDEO - "LANDRUNNER"»
Posted on April 27, 2009 in Video (7 comments)
Tags: Ducktails | Dum Dum Girls | Predator Vision | Real Estate
One of the more enjoyable SXSW day parties was the Woodsist/ToddP collaboration at Ms. Bea's on Saturday afternoon. It might have been the absurd amount of sunshine or the slight breeze that kept it from ever getting too hot. Or... CONTINUE READING NEW REAL ESTATE VIDEO - "FAKE BLUES" (LIVE AT SXSW)»
Posted on March 25, 2009 in Video (8 comments)
Tags: Real Estate | Sufjan Stevens
By Amrit Singh & Brandon Stosuy The last day at SXSW is always tinged with a depressing end-of-the-summer vibe. (Or maybe end of the school year?) However you want to frame it, once the Saturday sun sets, the remaining hours... CONTINUE READING SXSW 2009: SATURDAY IN PHOTOS»
Posted on March 23, 2009 in Concert, Photo (4 comments)
Tags: Common | Dirty Projectors | Erykah Badu | Ganglians | Girls | Grandaddy | Jason Lytle | Kanye West | King Khan | Little Boots | Natalie Portman's Shaved Head | Peelander-Z | Perez Hilton | Real Estate | Rye Rye | Solange | SXSW | Theophilus London | Thom Yorke | Thunderheist | Victoria Legrand
The words after the backslash at their MySpace are "Let's Rock The Beach," but Real Estate are more about the lovably down-and-out Jersey Shore than a pristine Caribbean. The quartet mention Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood NY, Jersey City, and Brooklyn as... CONTINUE READING BAND TO WATCH: REAL ESTATE»
Posted on January 23, 2009 in Band To Watch, MP3 (17 comments)
Tags: Bumbershoot | Ducktails | Real Estate
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