Live: No Age @ MoMA

After showing a Patrick O’Dell selected variety of skateboarding videos spanning the last thirty years, everyone moved upstairs to MoMA’s atrium, double fisted some of those tiny airplane beers, and No Age got to work at the Museum’s atrium. They bumped old hits and a few new ones, not quite right for a museum, though also somehow appropriate with their youthful nihilism. Isn’t that the point of art? No Age is the new Basquiat. Fittingly, before this all went down, we stopped in the bathroom and heard an official yelling at no one in particular about how this place is a museum, damn it, and there should not be any graffiti in the bathroom. High/low culture clash—careful what you wish for. Check it all out filmed by the inimitable Ray Concepcion.

Video: Wavves Live at Santos Party House

One of the best things about the Wavves live show has always been watching Nathan Williams stumble through live versions of his music with the same I-don’t-give-a-fuck-but-actually-secretly-do-or-else-you-wouldn’t-be-listening-to-this attitude that exists in the margins of his recorded work. When he announced that technical drum beast Zach Hill would officially be a part of the band and then followed that up with a six(!) minute single, it seemed like Wavves was going to get real complicated real fast. Maybe that’ll be the case at some point in the future, but watching the pair slam their way through their set on Thursday night at Santos Party House was about balance. Hill bulldozed Williams’ earlier work, but the newer material is clearly something they’ve worked on together. Professional concert-goer/filmer Ray Concepcion, was, of course, on hand to capture the whole event. We saw him in the middle of the pit shaking his camera around like he was simulating the world’s largest earthquake. You’ll probably catch that in one of the three videos he filmed from the show. It’ll be just like you were there.

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Video: Smith Westerns, “Be My Girl” (Live at Monster Island)

The Smith Westerns and their shouty, glammed demand for lady-friendship made its debut right here and also appears on our first Visionary Podcast, but it took Ray Concepcion’s jerky video, from the band’s recent show at Brooklyn’s Monster Island (looking as hellish and hot as ever), to make us realize how badly we want these dudes to become the next Rolling Stones. Or Strokes. Whatever, we just want them to get big.

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It Came From Brooklyn: High Places

To celebrate its 50th anniversary, venerable Manhattan museum The Guggenheim started a new concert series called It Came From Brooklyn with that borough’s best playing in the Frank Lloyd Wright rotunda. The series started last Friday with The Walkmen, High Places and The Brooklyn Steppers with readings of Walt Whitman by Colson Whitehead in between. Does that mean there are no artists left in Manhattan? Either way, local filmmaker Ray Concepcion, whose music shorts have quickly become our favorite way to watch local shows (other than going to the actual shows), asked to film it for us and here is his video of High Places, the cheery Brooklyn duo we featured in FADER #56.

It Came From Brooklyn: The Walkmen

To celebrate its 50th anniversary, venerable Manhattan museum The Guggenheim started a new concert series called It Came From Brooklyn with that borough’s best playing in the Frank Lloyd Wright rotunda. The series started last Friday with The Walkmen, High Places and The Brooklyn Steppers with readings of Walt Whitman by Colson Whitehead in between. Does that mean there are no artists left in Manhattan? Either way, local filmmaker Ray Concepcion, whose music shorts have quickly become our favorite way to watch local shows (other than going to the actual shows), asked to film it for us and here are his videos of The Walkmen’s “In The New Year,” “On The Water” and “Red Moon,” all from the band’s intense and awesome You & Me.

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