Top Ten Songs of the Week 6/15/09
We do this every Tuesday. You’ll see this week’s #1 song on our Best 100 songs of 2009 list at the end of December, along with maybe some of the rest of these too. This is strictly for fun – it’s Lucid Culture’s tribute to Kasey Kasem and a way to spread the word about some of the great music out there that’s too edgy for the corporate media and their imitators in the blogosphere. Just about every link here will take you to each individual song.
1. Steve Kilbey – Forever Last for Nothing
Gorgeously terse call to arms and cautionary tale from the Church’s frontman’s excellent latest album. They’re at Irving Plaza on 7/8.
2. The French Exit – To Term
New song, characteristically intense. “Will I be ok…I just want to be left alone,” snarls frontwoman Mia Wilson in this fiery noir dirge. They’re at Local 269 at 269 E Houston on 6/17 at 9.
3. Silver Dollar – Showdown
Killer, bouncy, hypnotic oldschool ska.
4. Kerry Kennedy – As You Are
Big soul ballad in 6/8 with David Lynch unease by the up-and-coming New York noir chanteuse. Unreleased – see her now before she’s famous.
5. Ninth House – Fifteen Miles to Hell’s Gate
Characteristically furious lament about the death of New York by gentrification by the long-running Nashville gothic rockers. Frontman Mark Sinnis is at Sidewalk at 9 on 7/12.
6. La Res – Masters of War
Ominous cover of the Dylan classic by this fiery, artsy soul/metal trio with a powerful frontman.
7. Num & Nu Afrika – New Orleans
Resonant, politically conscious roots reggae. They’re playing Make Music NY on 6/21 at 3 at DRastadub Studio, 58 West 127th St., Harlem.
8. Bato the Yugo – My Mountainous Mind
Pensive Balkan jazz for solo piano. Usually a guitarist, he’s at Nublu on 6/21 at 11.
9. Cumbiagra – Dejame en Paz
They’ve taken over Monday nights at Barbes, replacing Chicha Libre, but the danceable vibe is undiminished.
10. Rock Plaza Central – Panama
Van Halen cover. Jack Grace (of our own sick/funny VH cover band Van Hayride) would approve.
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