Sarah Assbring bka El Perro Del Mar was not in New York to play any CMJ sets. She instead came to hang out and drum up some excitement for her beautiful new LP Love Is Not Pop. Quietly, she plopped down on our bathroom floor to play two songs from said LP, both of which broke our hearts into roughly three trillion pieces. See why in the clips of ” Change Of Heart” and “Gotta Get Smart.”
Over the past few years, the men of Brand New have been shedding their pop-punk past with every new release. With great success. “Bought A Bride” is a cut from their fine new full-length Daisy, a mid-tempo beauty frontman Jesse Lacey actually penned during a recent tour. Below is an exclusive video of the Long Island rockers taking it for a spin in the studio. Keep it close and if you can, check the band out when they play Nassau Coliseum on November 28th.
To conclude our three day flight through the many orbital rings of Real Estate, we’ve got a strummer from bassist Alex Bleeker and his Freaks. You might recognize some of them from Hotbox videos past. Judging by “Never Goin’ Back”’s titular refrain, Bleeker loves summer just as much as his bandmates do. Memories.
Lo! In an effort to make the cyberwave you’re currently surfing all the more comfortable and convenient, we’ve taken to compiling the video footage from our bathroom at the Levi’s®/FADER Fort in one glorious post. Updated daily until we run out of tape, you’ll find a host of bathroom performance bits as experienced at the Ace Hotel during CMJ week in New York. Most of them are PG-13, few are destined to be collector’s items, all are worth checking out anyway.
Best Coast
“Sun Was High (So Was I)”
“Brat”
Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson
“The Debtor”
“Losing 4 Winners”
Cymbals Eat Guitars
“Some Trees”
“Plainclothes”
“Two-Headed Boy Pt. 2″
Surfer Blood
“Swim (To Reach The End)”
“Catholic Pagans”
Real Estate
“Beach Comber”
“Green River”
“Fake Blues”
Ducktails
“House Of Mirrors”
“Backyard”
Alex Bleeker and The Freaks
“Never Goin’ Back”
El Perro Del Mar
“Change Of Heart”
“Gotta Get Smart”
The Antlers
“Atrophy”
Dent May
“Love Song 2009″
Crystal Antlers
“It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue”
About thirty seconds after Real Estate had finished paddling through the jams we shared with you yesterday, guitarist Matthew Mondanile asked his friends to back him in acoustic, pedal-less renditions of two Ducktails songs to which we most likely air soloed during Mondanile’s killer set at the Group Tightener party one week ago yesterday. Can’t be too sure, we drink beers. The very beautiful “House of Mirrors” and “Backyard” are below!
