July 31, 2006
WWJUD
What would Jim Utz do? Well, on Wednesday, he'd suggest going to Off Broadway. And since that club is the toast of the stlsyndicate this week, I'll go ahead and post-jack a missive Jim sent out to local music-heads, promoting a band he's been talking about for a few months now. When in doubt, trust the Vintage Vinyl publicist, say I.
Here you go:
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I don't send "bulletins" out much anymore so it has to be something I am REALLY excited about to get me motivated to tell other people about it. This is actually only my second "you should check this show out" email of 2006 with Bobby Rush in February being the other, which won rave reviews from the half dozen or so people that got my email and attended.
The Black Angels are playing this Thursday (August 3rd) at Off Broadway. Their debut album, "Passover", has been my favorite record released so far in 2006 and I managed to catch them live in March in their hometown of Austin and they were great live.
Musically the band reminds me of what the Velvet Underground might have sounded like had they came out in the 2000s with maybe some Joy Division (the guitar oriented stuff) tossed in as well. Dark, edgy, sinister, psychedelic, droney all while unmistakably being rock music that is definitely 'groove' oriented, The Black Angels sort of are the 'anti-music' to anything poppy or punk. If I had to make contemporary comparisons, groups like The Warlocks & Brian Jonestown Massacre come to mind.
Want to know more..........
www.theblackangels.com
http://www.myspace.com/theblackangels (check out the song "Sniper at the Gates Of Heaven")
Need hear more?
http://www.theblackangels.com/mp3/01-Passover-Young_Men_Dead.wma
http://www.theblackangels.com/mp3/08-Passover-Better_Off_Alone.wma
The band has a huge 'buzz' on them that hasn't seemed to quite make it here to St. Louis but I expect will shortly. Also, Off Broadway has done some major renovations (the PA is hung from the ceiling---perfect sightlines from anywhere now) so this is the perfect venue to see them in as well as the perfect time.
Doors are at 8:00PM
Music starts at 9:00PM
There are two opening bands, Melody Grove & The Movement (which I know nothing about) and Tone Rodent (featuring Matty from The Electric).
Tickets are $5.00 if purchased at the link below and only $7.00 at the door
http://www.ticketfusion.com/sites/schedules/one/index.html?web_org_id=3630
...and they've got a really cool poster for the show, which really doesn't happen here that often even for bigger bands that come through town. I would post a link to my blog that shows it, but apparently my domain name is "questionable content".
You'll have to substitute the word "where" for the blanks to see it: http://no_____nothin.blogspot.com/2006/07/black-angels.html
As I've noted in the past, I clean out the copious amounts of spam comments and probably, erroneously deleted one of your posts; the domain name would've gone into the banned folder. I've attempted to pull some clean domain names out of that file, but seem unable to pull that off. For example, Ecology of Absence was added once, to my dismay.
My apologies.
And thanks for passing along the poster link. Now that I think of it, we do tend to lack for these type of collector-ready rock posters for STL shows.
Posted by thomas on Tue., Aug 1, 2006 at 4:52 PM