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December 17, 2004
If the Beatles conceived a lovechild with The Kinks while Pet Sounds blasted in the background and then made him listen to a lot of 60's pop music - this lovechild would be Jeddediah Smith. He is the one man behind My Teenage Stride. With a voice that, from song to song, can go from one of those early mop tops to a more chipper Ian Curtis...MTS appeals to the masses. Chances are that... [continue]
| December 3, 2004
[Photo by Couirey Eckmayer] Morning Theft, fresh off the bus from Boston in 2003, have been desribed as Pearl Jam meets Travis, Nirvana meets the Cure, the Pixies meets Radiohead...you get the point. But these guys have their own sound. And it sounds good. They're the band who has been (not so) silently brooding in the corner of the indie rock scene. They're loud. They're catchy. They're pensive mood rock. Gothamist (and pretty much... [continue]
December 1, 2004
Gothamist first saw Gym Class back in August at Pianos. We can't remember who we originally went there to see, but we remember Gym Class. They had faux hawks. They played edgy synth rock that made us tap our feet (the equivalent to dancing in these parts). We imagine that if heaven and hell existed, and it existed as multi-leveled notes and chords played in the 1980's, 1990's and 2000's simulatenously...and they crashed together...Gym... [continue]