New York Independent Music’s Hottest Dateable Former FADER Cover Star and Mogul-Bachelor!
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Internet dating is pretty 1999 in general. Speed dating is coming back with a vengeance. Yet apparently the next level in new media matchmaking is becoming interesting/accomplished enough to have a local events magazine write a mini-feature about you. This is what happened to Rich Zerbo, proprietor of the excellent record label The Social Registry and F55 cover star Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson, clearly men in possession of some top-notch dating credentials. Think about it: you already know they have great taste in music (Miles: a totally excellent debut album. Rich: Gang Gang? Growing? I.U.D.? Doy!). We learn in their profiles that Miles is a bookworm (”Literate”) who will put together your Ikea furniture while watching You’ve Got Mail with you (”I enjoy records, rom-coms and carpentry”). Meanwhile Rich is generous (”I sometimes offer up my couch for 14 days at a time to people I hardly know”) and practices good hygiene (”I sincerely hope I can squeeze in a haircut before the photo shoot”). Valentine’s Day is real whatever to us but who can deny the undertow of potential romance with a nice boy from Brooklyn?! If you want to holler at these enterprising young men you can email miles@tonypersonals.com or rich@tonypersonals.com. If you like stand-up, you could also peruse the rest of the Time Out New York date pool: they seem to have uncovered every single comedian in Manhattan. At the very least you will be participating in economic zeitgeist.
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posted on Feb 12, 2009 in MUSIC NEWS tags Gang Gang Dance, Growing, I.U.D., Rich Zerbo, The Social Registry
Exclusive Freeload: Growing, “Innit” + Get Weird With IUD Tonight
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Usually, putting limitations on yourself helps you create some wild shit. Brooklyn’s Growing use only two guitars and move from quick percussive punches to expansive blooms of fuzzy ambience that eventually envelope the entire song. The lack of drums, or any other instrument, makes Growing’s music sound out there, but their attempts—furthered with each album—to create something approaching structure and beauty out of clipped noise frequently result in totally not embarrassing moments of fist pumping from dudes and ladies like us.
“Innit” from their upcoming album All The Way (out September 9th on Social Registry) is a perfect example of this, with Joe Denardo and Kevin Doriain’s guitars emulating drums and something that sounds like an underwater xylophone. Basically, Growing provoke a lot of “DUDE—DUDE!—Dude…” moments, also known as Epic Stoner Visionquests Into The Heart Of Music. If all that sounds like your thing, hit the New Museum tonight to catch Growing play the final Get Weird of the summer along with Gang Gang Dance side project I.U.D.
Download: Growing, “Innit”
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posted on Jul 17, 2008 in MP3 / STREAMS tags experimental, freeload, Get Weird, Growing, I.U.D., MUSIC-MP3/STREAMS
LA: Ooga Booga Growing Hot Chips
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It’s supposed to rain in New York on Sunday so we’re going to fly out to LA for some sun and good times because we ball like that. We’re just gonna to go to this Ooga Party and fly back. And pay for the whole thing with dried up chewing gum.
From the Ooga Booga blog (Ooga Blogga?):
Please join us this Sunday evening 6-8pm for the launch of Oliver Payne’s new zine, Safe Crackers!!!! This will be the debut of issues 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, and each issue is narrowly focused on topics such as The Wire, Hot Chip, Wolfboy, Growing, and Rei Kawakubo!
We will also unveil the newest window installation by Joe Denardo of Growing, along with DJ tunes by Hot Chip! Free and everyone welcome always!
Live: Growing At Death By Audio
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The last time we saw Growing we were sitting directly across from them near the Gowanus Canal, drinking beers in the sun as they sat in folding chairs and played 30 or so minutes of epic choppy guitar jams. Last night at Death by Audio, it was significantly colder and totally packed but Growing turned up real loud and essentially played layered circus music that somehow sounded beautiful, before letting it all dissolve into soothing noise. Good vibes! Growing’s EP Lateral comes out Feb 19th on Social Registry.
Audio: Growing, “Swell”
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This summer we saw Growing play next to the Gowanus canal, we sat in a lawn chair, eating hot dogs and drinking beer. Growing played a set of choppy guitar bits that cohered into layered noise—guitars acting as rhythm and lead. “Swell,” from their upcoming Lateral is not like that. “Swell” is full of fuzzy guitar washes, beautiful and loud and cohesive. Dudes, this is a winter jam if we’ve ever heard one.
