(Sinagra) Editors (Tuesday and Thursday) Another in the line of British post-punk bands joining the dark, danceable Joy Division parade, the Editors have strong singles, like the propulsive "Munich," but none that top the best from its sonic cousin, Interpol.
7 30 and 9 30 p.m., Joe's Pub, at the Public Theater, 425 Lafayette Street, at Astor Place, East Village, (212) 239-6200; $20. (Sinagra) EDITORS (Tonight and Tomorrow) Another in the line of British post-punk bands joining the dark, danceable Joy Division parade, the Editors have strong singles, like the propulsive "Munich," but none that top the best from its closest sonic cousin, Interpol.
The group's first single, with its bee-like guitar riff, propulsive beat and dissonant harmonies in the chorus, is about a woman who wakes up with her new husband and feels alienated and repulsed.
Drohojowska-Philp, an art critic based in Los Angeles and a biographer of Georgia O'Keeffe, handles an increasingly crowded and complicated story deftly in a series of short chapters that center on specific players: individual artists, new dealers like Virginia Dwan and propulsive personalities like the actor-collector-painter Dennis Hopper.
Some, like the choppily propulsive "Bangers & Mash" and the ruminative "4 Minute Warning," were crowd favorites during a tour last year.
Guests and visitors alike can sign up for the 90-minute classes on Wednesday evenings, which focus on moves like ballet legs, propulsive sculling and eggbeater kicking.
It's hypnotic and propulsive, like something cultivated in a petri dish using tissue samples from Lou Reed, Roky Erickson, and Jim Morrison.
Welshman Robin Edwards crafts propulsive soundscapes, the likes of which will have electronic music nerds setting their laptop keyboards ablaze in a flurry of enthusiasm when his album In Hz is released December 2nd on Turnstile.
Little-known Welshman Robin Edwards crafts propulsive soundscapes, the likes of which will have electronic music nerds setting their laptop keyboards ablaze in a flurry of enthusiasm when his album Hz is released December 2nd on Turnstile.
The music — guitars, violins, drums, keyboards — became more propulsive, more like rock; sometimes the fiddling sounded a bit Scottish.
