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Singing DJ Jens Lekman / Passion Pit / Ponytail / Shearwater / The Sammies / Emmy The Great

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BrooklynVegan Official CMJ Showcase Featuring

Singing DJ Jens Lekman / Passion Pit / Ponytail / Shearwater / The Sammies / Emmy The Great

Plus a midnight set by The Phenomenal Handclap Band

Part of CMJ Music Marathon

Tue 10/21

18+

Doors 6pm / Show 7pm

$15 advance / $15 day of show

Jens Lekman

  • http://www.jenslekman.com/
  • Jens Lekman (born 1981) is a Swedish pop musician. He has released one album and several EPs since 2003. His music can be described as guitar based pop with heavy use of samples and strings, the lyrics are often witty, romantic and sad. His work is often compared to that by Stephin Merritt, Jonathan Richman, Morrissey and The Magnetic Fields.
    - ArtistDirect

Passion Pit

  • http://www.myspace.com/passionpitjams
  • Boston’s Passion Pit is the brainchild of Michael Angelakos. A songwriter’s songwriter drawing from a variety of influences, from the classic pop of Randy Newman to the synth work of Giorgio Moroder.

    The Chunk of Change EP was originally put together as a (belated) Valentine’s Day present to Angelakos’ girlfriend which then prompted him to give it out to friends and fellow students at Emerson College. Angelakos wrote and recorded the entire record by himself and it only hints at what is to come from this extremely talented perfectionist. The production of the recording - brief, sporadic, and explosive - worked towards the development of Angelakos’ signature euphoric and blissfully melancholic sound. Frenchkiss Records will reissue the ep this fall with the addition of two bonus tracks “Better Things” and “Sleepyhead” that are already catching the online world on fire. All of this is in preparation for Passion Pit’s debut full length coming out in early 2009.

    Playing as a five piece live, Passion Pit has already blown away audiences opening up for Death Cab For Cutie, Girl Talk, These New Puritans and more. Also winning the WFNX/Boston Phoenix Best Music Poll as the Best New Local Act of 2008, Passion Pit hopes to bring their soulful dance explosion to your town this fall.

Ponytail

  • http://www.myspace.com/jreamteam
  • http://www.ponytailband.com
  • A four-piece multi-style rock act that drew comparisons to Deerhoof and Ecstatic Sunshine, Ponytail released its first slab of infectious sugar fueled two guitar trad punk (Kamehameha on Creative Capitalism) in January of 2007. The Baltimore, Maryland quartet featured drummer Jeremy Hyman, guitarist Ken Seeno, other guitarist (and Ecstatic Sunshine member) Dustin Wong, all fronted by the vast array of sounds that was vocalist Molly Siegel. Winning critical praise for their hyper noisy live show that evoked elements of heavy duty riffage, yells, growls, art-rock, surf rock, ska, and Indian war chants, the outfit of youngsters appeared at the South By Southwest Music Conference in Austin, Texas in the early part of 2008. Their second album, Ice Cream Spiritual, was due out in June of 2008 on We Are Free records.
    --by Chris True

The Sammies

  • http://www.myspace.com/thesammies
  • http://www.the-sammies.com/
  • Co-founded by Frank and younger brother Donnie Yale (these are their rock pseudonyms), The Sammies grew up in rural Wadesboro, NC. When Donnie got a guitar for Christmas one year, it immediately became the brothers’ obsession. Unfortunately, they didn’t know how to tune it. Backgammon says, “We played that guitar out of tune for probably the next year, just cranking it up and sliding up and down the strings making horrible noises.” Thankfully just when the racket was bordering on unbearable, a friend came to the rescue and tuned it for them. As Frank honed his guitar skills, Donnie banged away on a drum set he received the next Christmas.

    The brothers’ initial jam sessions took place when Frank was home for long weekends from school at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. As the band began to gig around Wadesboro and Charlotte they picked up close friend and guitarist Bobby Freedom along the way. While touring locally, The Sammies caught the ear of Chuck Morrison, founder of MoRisen Records. Committed to cultivating local talent, Morrison quickly signed the band and soon had them in the studio recording their debut. Produced by John Agnello (Sonic Youth, The Breeders), the album reached the Top 5 on four of CMJ’s music charts and secured licensing deals for several major motion pictures.

Emmy the Great

  • http://www.myspace.com/emmythegreat
  • http://www.emmythegreat.com/
  • Inventive acoustic guitar-wielding alternative folksinger Emma-Lee Moss was born in Hong Kong and moved with her family to England, where she became a fixture of the burgeoning London anti-folk scene. The young singer/songwriter collaborated with Lightspeed Champion, Fyfe Dangerfield, and Jeremy Warmsley, and shared the stage with Martha Wainwright, Tilly and the Wall, and Kimya Dawson. Her debut single, "Secret Circus," was released in 2006. It was followed in 2007 by the My Bad EP.
    - James Christopher Monger, allmusic.com

The Phenomenal Handclap Band

  • http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=7731922
  • In the midst of popular electronic-based production teams such as Justice and DFA, Embassy Sound Productions (ESP) emerges with a fresh approach to dance-oriented rock and roll, using live instrumentation to evoke the intricate arrangements of Norman Whitfield, Quincy Jones, and Phil Spector as well as the pared down beats of contemporaries like The Neptunes and Danger Mouse.
    ESP is Daniel Collás and Sean Marquand, two New York underground club DJs who became restless with the concept of playing other people's music. Having been involved with and disenchanted by the local rock and roll scene, they began to focus on producing.
    Their initial projects resuscitated the respective careers of two veteran soul acts (New York's Joe Bataan and Brazil's União Black) and garnered critical acclaim, leading Daniel & Sean to set their sights on The Phenomenal Handclap Band, a supergroup comprised of a "who's who" of the indie rock and underground soul scenes.
    Members of such diverse bands as TV on the Radio, L'Trimm, Calla,
    Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Mooney Suzuki, and Sí Se
    all contribute their individual talents to the album.
    The Phenomenal Handclap Band sound is an anthemic, dancefloor-oriented blend of progressive rock, disco, electro, and '60s soul with sprinklings of hip hop-styled orchestral breakbeats and moody, synth-heavy hooks. Although their sound is not explicitly similar, the group has been compared to Daft Punk and Amy Winehouse (whose bassist and guitarist also appear on the Handclap album).

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