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First Avenue's Best New Bands Of 2009
Leisure Birds and Moonstone Continuum and No Bird Sing and Peter Wolf Crier and Red Pens and Slapping Purses and The Twilight Hours
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Christopher Bahn
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Fri Jan 15
7 pm
First Avenue's Best New Bands Of 2009 at First Avenue
One of the milestones of the annual local-music calendar, First Avenue's yearly new-band showcase is rarely less than compelling, and this year brings an especially fine crop. Leisure Birds, featuring former members of Thunder In The Valley and Hockey Night, make reverb-laden, '60s-style psych-pop that sounds like The Kinks as played by Hawkwind. Moonstone doubles down on the psychedelia, calling itself not a band but a "lunarian organization," and stretches out on weird but charming space-scapes. Peter Wolf Crier is the Bon Iverian new project from ex-Wars Of 1812 leader Peter Pisano, and carries over his smart pop sensibility. Hip-hop trio No Bird Sing takes a low-key, lo-fi, and intricate approach, while punk duo Red Pens is all about pure, fast, fuzzy, loud rock. One-man electronica mauler Slapping Purses creates propulsive, noise-heavy dance music that hits the Black Dice sweet spot. And The Twilight Hours need little introduction—the duo re-teams former Trip Shakespeare singers Matt Wilson and John Munson.
First Avenue 701 1st Ave. N., Twin Cities, MN
One of the milestones of the annual local-music calendar, First Avenue's yearly new-band showcase is rarely less than compelling, and this year brings an especially fine crop. Leisure Birds, featuring former members of Thunder In The Valley and Hockey Night, make reverb-laden, '60s-style psych-pop that sounds like The Kinks as played by Hawkwind. Moonstone doubles down on the psychedelia, calling itself not a band but a "lunarian organization," and stretches out on weird but charming space-scapes. Peter Wolf Crier is the Bon Iverian new project from ex-Wars Of 1812 leader Peter Pisano, and carries over his smart pop sensibility. Hip-hop trio No Bird Sing takes a low-key, lo-fi, and intricate approach, while punk duo Red Pens is all about pure, fast, fuzzy, loud rock. One-man electronica mauler Slapping Purses creates propulsive, noise-heavy dance music that hits the Black Dice sweet spot. And The Twilight Hours need little introduction—the duo re-teams former Trip Shakespeare singers Matt Wilson and John Munson.
