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Oxford Collapse make music that sounds made to play over a montage at the end of a weekly Primetime Drama. A cool one, though. Like How I Met Your Mother or The first season of the OC. It's not sappy or overintellectualized, but pleasantly upbeat and refreshing. The vocals are a bit rough and hysteric, not unlike the Walkmen or Modest Mouse and everyone, but the contrast with the sunny, hopeful music backing them up is what makes it work.
The band is playing an album release party this Saturday for their Sub-Pop debut at the Glasslands Gallery in Brooklyn. Cause Co-Motion and Chin Up Chin Up will be joining them. Check out some tunes on the Myspace.
Are you in a local band that deserves this city's attention? Have you discovered a group that needs to be noticed? Email us at jeff@gothamist.com, we're always looking to hear something new.
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Hey, yeah, um... Oxford Collapse is NOT A GOOD BAND! Seriously, not even just saying that to be funny, they're really not any good. $kins had to walk out of their last show at Cake Shop - they sucked and $kins just couldn't take it. They were sloopy and unoriginal - I mean total crap. Sorry, but they were.
P.S. How in god's name did this band get signed to Sub Pop? How???
Argg. Nana here. I died last week and i can still hear my grandson $kins (you guys probably know him) playing this in his cage of a room.
Some might say my car 'accident' caused my death, but I think it was this group of retards that the fella driving the tractor was listening to.
-nana out
Oh come on. Dude in the back is flipping so punk rawk double birds! (i.e. of course they are mediocrisuck!)
another Gothamist band of the week, another shitty band photo.
Decent bands, take note.
yo! the one with the beard...
...RIGHT BACK AT YA BRO !.
I hope your not the guitar player cause I'm gonna snap those suckers off when I come across you someday.
I know we're supposed to be too cool to care about this kind of thing, but SWEET MOTHER OF FUCK can't at least ONE of the band members be remotely good-looking?
This photo looks like a cross between an Old Navy ad and a public service poster for fetal alcohol syndrome.
actually, i don't think the guy in the back is a band member, just some dude.
Can I recommend you all go and listen to:
http://www.oxfordcollapse.com/songs/oxford%20collapse%20-%20back%20in%20com%20again.mp3
For fans of Joy Division, The Feelies, The Embarrassment, early REM, Rock, and, Roll.
Or just forget them because of the stupid photo.
For fans of Joy Division, The Feelies, The Embarrassment, and early REM, can I recommend that you stick with those bands?
This band rules! I mean, not like in the way that like Devandra and TV on the Radio rule, right? I mean those guys have sweet haircuts! And great press photos with awesome brooklyn sites! Not as sweet songs. Come to think of it, the songs aren't enough... OC are lame! Get a new band photo! Why are you outside? Whose pants are those? Whiten your teeth! Get your feet done! Ever heard of nail polish? Know about polyeurathane? I have to go to the bathroom...
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TV host Oprah Winfrey gives audience members $1,000 (£526) each to donate to a charitable cause...
you guys rock