Our renegade pop consorts, Magic Magic, are playing a couple shows on the East coast! You can find us Mushpot ladies celebrating Liz’s birthday at the Tank show in NYC! The Boston Phoenix also declared Magic Magic the best band in Massachusetts as part of their Independents Day: Best New Bands in America round-up. Read the article here.
July 25, 2009 /// Provincetown Rocks: The Festival Main Stage, Provincetown, MA
July 26, 2009 /// The Tank (with You Can Be a Wesley) // New York, NY
July 27, 2009 /// Pianos // New York, NY
August 7, 2009 /// Harper’s Ferry (with Harvey Danger!) // Allston, MA
August 20, 2009 /// The Sierra Grille // Northhampton, MA
October 10, 2009 /// The Paradise // Allston, MA
This week, we’d like to unveil French Horn Rebellion’s remix of Magic Magic’s “Sleepy Lion”! Feel the goodness drop at 2:14.
Whew, Boston’s finest – You Can Be A Wesley – has a lot going for it. For starters, the band will release Heard Like Us , their first full-length recorded straight to two-inch tape with Jeremy Mendicino of Pretty & Nice, next week. To help celebrate the band will have an album release party at Middle East in Cambridge, MA July 20 (with Casper & the Cookies plus Magic Magic) and at Pianos in New York July 21. Come on out and behold how wonderful these dudes and dudette are live and make sure to pick-up your very own copy of the limited vinyl run of Heard Like Us while you’re at one of the shows. Don’t forget, You Can Be A Wesley will also be at The Tank in New York with Magic Magic on July 26 for a very special Mushpot wonder showzen that you surely don’t want to miss out on.
That’s not all. Just this week CMJ posted a really lovely review of the album which you can read at length here. To see more of these fine people and listen to some tunes check them out on myspace.
We were so excited to attend the Woodsist / Captured Tracks Festival during the weekend of July 4th, we could hardly contain ourselves. Chillaxing outside, drinking tallboys and listening to bands we love! HELLO! The first day was moved inside Market Hotel because of the threat of rain, which I totally appreciated (even though the rain ended up happening before the first band played). There is nothing I hate more than standing outside for long periods of time in the rain. Thank you, festival organizers for alleviating the stress of this being a possibility. Anyway, back to bands. So Liz and I were a little late – those tracking phone calls aren’t going to make themselves! We were sad to have missed The Gutsies but, you know, we’ll see them again and again and again. Until next time, we’ll keep blasting “Surfer Body,” which has officially been declared the “summer jam” of 2009. Our favorites might have been Toronto’s Little Girls and the debut of Dum Dum Girls + Blank Dogs collaboration, the Mayfair Set which, live, was a Dum Dum Girls/Blank Dogs/Crystal Stilts/Woods supergroup.
The second day was held at the scheduled 979 Broadway Backyard. We were thankfully on time to see Beach Fossils, which was a lovely way to begin the day. Real Estate had a couple of sound issues but they still played great. I have seen this band quite a few times and, seriously, they never disappoint. In fact, months later, I still remember their set at the Woodsist showcase at Ms. Bea’s as one of my top five things I loved at SXSW ‘09. The Beets also appeared to have had some equipment troubles but they powered through it all, as energetic and fun as ever. We were also super stoked to see Sacramento’s Ganglians, Dum Dum Girls, Woods and Thee Oh Sees. Dee Dee of Dum Dum Girls was debut-crazy this weekend, as this was also the first Dum Dum Girls live performance, with Blank Dogs, Frankie of Crystal Stilts and Brandon of Crocodiles joining her on stage. Newly signed to Sup Pop, Dee Dee is definitely Mushpot’s new hero and style icon, so seeing her perform faves like “Hey Sis” live was truly a highlight of the day.
I was able to capture some cell phone photos of some of the bands on Saturday but Brooklyn Vegan totally posted a photo of us Mushpotters enjoying Thee Oh Sees in their Day 2 recap. Thanks, guys!
Marmor out!
Mushpot Records is an independent and underground music label, creative, event, catering and publicity agency interested in working with twee, pop, IDM, and lo-fi artists as well as alternative and theme-specific children's music compilations.
Mushpot Records is an independent and underground music label, creative, event, catering and publicity agency interested in working with twee, pop, IDM, and lo-fi artists as well as alternative and theme-specific children's music compilations.