Freeload: Crystal Stilts—Daytrotter Sessions
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To be perfectly honest, we saw the singer for Crystal Stilts on the subway with a pretty girl last week. They looked like a good match—tight jeans, tight tights, all black with a little red. It’s weird to see people on the subway—weirder than seeing people in traffic for those of you not taking the subway on the regular basis—because you’re in the same space, same air, same interminable submarine voyage from work to home and back again. Seeing people messes up your trip. So you look and then you pretend not to and then you’re on the train for ten minutes and now you’re just regular not looking until they get off a stop before you. Wonder where they’re going. Probably some place cool when you’re just going home. Anyway, Crystal Stilts went by the Daytrotter studio and recorded some good songs.
Download: Crystal Stilts: Daytrotter Sessions
CMJ Elsewheres: Stereogum Jumpoff
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We are, of course, throwing our own CMJ party known as The Levi’s®/FADER Fort NYC, but we also keep the fire lit long after we are done at our space. All week long we’ll be covering everything we manage to see via our intrepid edit staff.
After watching Lykke Li sing, dance, and play her own necklace (there was a kazoo attached to it) at the V Magazine party, I was already sufficiently tired, crowd-weary and beer-soaked, but I’m glad that three tacos later, I found myself walking into the Stereogum showcase at the newly-opened “Studio” at Webster Hall.
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posted on Oct 22, 2008 in MUSIC NEWS tags CMJ, Crystal Stilts, Lykke Li, Marnie Stern, Ponytail, rock
NYC: A New Venue is Born
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Like those statistics you learned in middle school about deforestation or endangered manatee, it seems like every four seconds a new venue opens up in New York City. The latest is 92YTribeca, a new arts center opening October 18th, who are throwing a pre-opening show tomorrow night with FADER 57 GEN F-ers Crystal Stilts along with Violens and Chairlift. So you can get a jump on new venue discovery, and it’s free if you RSVP! Just email Bsisto@92Y.org with the subject “10.11.08 – 92YTribeca – BV” and your first and last name in the body of the email and you’re set. (via Brooklyn Vegan)
Freeload: Crystal Stilts, “Crystal Stilts”
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A couple months of steaming sidewalks and thick, clothes-sticking humidity can slow our musical metabolism down to a more lethargic, hazy level. The beginning of the summer is all rah-rah, but towards the end sometimes we want to be lulled through the dog days. Luckily for everyone these types of climates have been fruitful for the development of druggy, sort of spooky garage rock saturated with reverb and tambourines and airy organs and mumbled, chanted vocals. That’s why we’re feeling Crystal Stilts right now. The song is probably about stuff like dreams and distorting time and strange memories and being scared but we’re not sure because our minds are so fried from laying around in the sun on the pavement and listening to the rolling guitars and haunted vocals of “Crystal Stilts” (taking a self-titled song cue from bands like Black Sabbath, Motörhead and Iron Maiden) so many times in a row.
Download: Crystal Stilts, “Crystal Stilts”
