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Thu 2/16 - Doors: 8:00 p.m.. Show: 8:30 p.m. 18 + $8

Yellowbirds

Yellowbirds - Brooklyn

Yellowbirds is the moniker for the latest musical exploits of Sam Cohen (guitarist / songwriter / vocalist in the psychedelic collective Apollo Sunshine). Cohen grew up in Houston, Texas, and while the Texas of his teens may have been home to Big Oil, Enron, the Bush family, and the drab grey Astros jerseys of the 90′s, he prefers to think of it as the Texas of yore- home to Roy Orbison, Buddy Holly, the Space Program, and rainbow orange Astros jerseys. It stands to reason, then, that his current home of New York City must be the mythical Empire City – Rocky Mountains of architecture, epicenter of modern art, home to Charles Mingus and The Velvet Underground.
It was with these timeless inspirations in mind that Cohen created The Color by Yellowbirds, his “solo” debut. Double-speed auto-harp glissandos, glowing backwards pedal-steel, bubbling echo and fuzz guitars coalesce into a warm wall of sound. As existential lyrical themes emerge, delivered nonchalantly over psyched-out aural landscapes, the picture emerges of a dust-blown, 4th dimensional Future West. This is Cohen’s quixotic world where “only the purist tones can be heard.”

Yellowbirds is the moniker for the latest musical exploits of Sam Cohen (guitarist / songwriter / vocalist in the psychedelic collective Apollo Sunshine). Cohen grew up in Houston, Texas, and while the Texas of his teens may have been home to Big Oil, Enron, the Bush family, and the drab grey Astros jerseys of the 90′s, he prefers to think of it as the Texas of yore- home to Roy Orbison, Buddy Holly, the Space Program, and rainbow orange Astros jerseys. It stands to reason, then, that his current home of New York City must be the mythical Empire City – Rocky Mountains of architecture, epicenter of modern art, home to Charles Mingus and The Velvet Underground.

It was with these timeless inspirations in mind that Cohen created The Color by Yellowbirds, his “solo” debut. Double-speed auto-harp glissandos, glowing backwards pedal-steel, bubbling echo and fuzz guitars coalesce into a warm wall of sound. As existential lyrical themes emerge, delivered nonchalantly over psyched-out aural landscapes, the picture emerges of a dust-blown, 4th dimensional Future West. This is Cohen’s quixotic world where “only the purist tones can be heard.”

 

GOOSE HUT - Montreal 

Not much around the interwebs about these guys, other than that they are a trio out of Montreal. So we’re gonna shoot from the hip here a little bit. Like their fellow Montrealians The Handsome Furs, it seems Goose Hut are using some combination of guitars and synthesizers. But this is a little more dance-oriented affair than the Furs. Check It Out is a deliriously disco oriented track, prone to the body-shaking style of dancing than anything structured. It’s the perfect 3 AM song, when you’re all partied out and should just go home. But you keep going, on the basis of things wholly different than alcohol.

SHELLY SHREDDER - Burlington

the band is:

Tristan Baribeau of Villanelles

Hanna Hiller & Jake Brennan of Buzz Jar & Sad Bastards

Rob Voland of Dangerbird

Corey Wilhelm of Bearquarium

theENGINEear -Burlington

 


 

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