Open Bar With The Cave Singers
- story Sam Hockley-Smith
Certain bands sing songs that make you want to live inside them instead of listen to them. The Cave Singers—who have a new record out on Matador—is a band that excels at making liveable songs, singer Pete Quirk’s voice full of craggy hooks you can huddle up and stay warm in. This video is under four minutes, so its not like you really have time to crack a tall can and relax like you can with the entire record, but you can drink extra fast and feel like you were right there with all of us at Heathers Bar. Plus it’s an excuse to watch this a bunch of times and drink beers at your desk in the middle of the afternoon without feeling bad about it. It’s all about the experience. Also drinking.
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posted on Sep 22, 2009 in FADER TV, MUSIC CHANNEL, MUSIC OPEN BAR SHOW tags FADER TV, Heathers, Open Bar, the cave singers
Open Bar With Foreign Born
- story Hanly Banks
When Los Angeles-based Foreign Born rolled through Heathers on a sloppy-hot NYC day last week, they’d just finished a whirlwind Northwest tour. They had a few beers, broke out some pretty haggard looking instruments and told us tour bummers, like having their van searched for drugs by West Texas cops. They also, with the exception of singer Matt Popieluch, did not remove their sunglasses once, which is either a cause or effect of the fuzz hassles. We may never know.
Here they are playing “Early Warnings,” just one of the many feel-good numbers from their recent album Person To Person.
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posted on Aug 11, 2009 in FADER TV, FADER TV MUSIC CHANNEL SPOTLIGHT, MUSIC CHANNEL, MUSIC OPEN BAR SHOW tags FADER TV, Foreign Born, Heathers, Open Bar
NYC: FADERNOON at Heathers Bar
- story THE FADER
We spend so much time at Heathers in the East Village (that’s where we film our Open Bar series for FADER TV) that eventually they gave us our own day. Hence: FADERNOON, the new monthly(ish) Saturday afternoon happy hour where FADER editors play music and FADER contributor T. Cole Rachel slings two-for-one drink specials. We debuted it last week and it was a complete blast, so we’re reprising it tomorrow from 4-8PM with more hot tunes (including an R&B set by the ladies of FADER to honor Chioma’s mom) and an infinite amount of beers and champagne in a can. Heathers is at 506 E 13th Street between A & B, so you should totally come.
FADER TV: Open Bar With …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
- story THE FADER
There’s a connection between …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead and The Band that didn’t really hit us until we saw them cover The Band’s “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” for our Open Bar series at Heathers. Both groups approach songwriting the same way, burrowing deep and emerging with something so well-crafted that it seems like it’s existed for a thousand years. Watch the video above and seek out Trail of Dead’s sixth album The Century of Self on February 17th.
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posted on Feb 12, 2009 in MUSIC OPEN BAR SHOW tags ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Heathers, Open Bar, rock
FADER TV: Open Bar with Phosphorescent
- story THE FADER
On one of the shittiest winter days New York has seen in awhile, we invited Matthew Houck aka Phosphorescent to come by Heathers for the latest installment of our Open Bar series. Houck, along with Angel Deradoorian of the Dirty Projectors, ran through a couple bleary-eyed and comfortably worn songs from his Willie Nelson covers album To Willie (out right now on Dead Oceans). Up above is their performance of “It’s Not Supposed To Be That Way” and about half of the album is streaming on the Phosphorescent MySpace page.
