Eternal Summers - Gouge Video!

The Drop Beneath due out 3/4 via Kanine Records.

Vivian Girls, Widowspeak, Eternal Summers & Heliotropes @ Music Hall of Williamsburg Live Show Review!

On Friday, Music Hall of Williamsburg hosted a stellar set of indie rock with legendary local icons Vivian Girls (their first NY show since 2011!) and Widowspeak, along with the up-and-coming Brooklyn bands Eternal Summers and Heliotropes.

Everybody's favorite shoe—that would be Converse of course—sponsored the free-with-RSVP event. I'm not exactly sure if it was required of performers to don the shoes, but it was probably mere coincidence that I caught Vivian Girls bassist Katy Goodman wearing a pair of ankle-high all-black converse. Sweet. I'm sure she was not the only one wearing them too, but I've always felt that winter is not the best time to wear my pair.

But I digress. It was a night of memorable performances, start to finish, although I missed most of the Heliotropes so I guess I can't really say that, but I'm sure they were great too! I've been a fan of them since discovering their cover of Roky Erickson's "I Walked with a Zombie." Oh well. Red Bull is apparently curating a new monthly showcase on trending local bands, and Heliotropes will be playing the inaugural event at the Bowery Electric this Tuesday for only $3—count me in.

For the performances I did see in full, all were pleasantly excellent and unique, I guess a little paradoxically, like every band in Brooklyn these days. And that's a compliment to the fact that I am fortunate to see so many great bands in one music scene. But because there's so much greatness going on at once, I was actually not too familiar with most of the acts, so I saw this show as an opportunity to see bands I have heard good things about across the blogosphere. In fact it was this very blog that named "You Kill" by Eternal Summers its favorite song of 2012. And I did know a lot of about Vivian Girls from a peripheral standpoint, enjoying associated acts like The Babies and the work of former bandmates Frankie Rose and Ali Koehler, who drummed for a bit with Best Coast.

I won't bore you with my vapid observations, but here were two noteworthy things: two of the bands were entirely female, and all leading vocalists were women. I really hope that we're at a time in music where no one will think twice about that, because this wasn't a showcase of great female musicians. This was awesome rock, period.

The second observation is that the drummer for Eternal Summers looks like he could play Sabretooth in an X-Men movie, and I'm very jealous about that. Check out my photos if you don't believe me.

And don't forget to check out my photos of Vivian Girls and WIDOWSPEAK too!

-Photos and Story by Joe Waslin

Viva Indie Rock Podcast #42 - Favorite Tracks of 2012!

Podcast version of the live Viva Indie Rock radio show Thursdays 9PM on Plaza Midwood Community Radio! This week: a recap of some of our favorite tracks from 2012. Mind you, this is only a one hour radio show, so we had to condense. But, here's 14 songs we absolutely love!

Track List:
1) Cloud Nothings  Attack On Memory  Stay Useless
2) Eternal Summers  Correct Behavior  You Kill
3) Moonface  With Sinaii:Heatbreaking Bravery  Teary Eyes and Bloody Lips
4) The Babies  Our House on the Hill  Alligator
5) Cheers Elephant  Like Wind Blows Fire  Leaves
6) Fawn  Coastlines  Pixels
7) CocoRosie  We Are On Fire Single  Tearz for Animals (feat Anthony Hegarty)
8) The Eversons  Summer Feeling  Could It Ever Get Better
9) PAWS  Cokefloat  Catherine 1956
10) Tanlines  Mixed Emotions  All of Me
11) KIDS  KIDS  My Sincerest Apologies
12) Satellite Stories  Phrases to Break the Ice  Anti-Lover
13) Stargroves  Within Me A Lunatic Sings Single
14) Frankie Rose  Interstellar  Interstellar

10 Favorite Tracks Second Half of 2012

Here are 10 tracks that never left heavy rotation on my personal playlist the second half of 2012. Again, it was brutal trying to pare this down to 10 songs. In truth, there were about 40 tracks I seriously considered. You can also revisit my 10 Favorite Tracks First Half of 2012!

#10 Reptile Youth - Morning Sun



#9 Plateaus - Blackout



#8 Local Natives - Breakers



#7 The Babies - Alligator



#6 Stargroves - Within Me A Lunatic Sings



#5 Satellite Stories - Anti-Lover



#4 Parakeet - Shonen Hearts



#3 PAWS - Catherine 1956



#2 Fawn - Pixels



#1 Eternal Summers - You Kill

Eternal Summers - You Kill Video!

Been playing the hell out of this album (Correct Behavior on Kanine Records) on the radio show!Check out this fun video!

Viva Indie Rock Podcast #29

Viva Indie Rock Podcast #29 is available for your streaming or downloading pleasure. Tons of great new music this week. See below for a complete tracklist. Catch a live broadcast sometime! Thursdays, 9pm EST. You can stream it on the interwebs at PMCRadio.org!


Track List:
1) Swearin'  Swearin' Here to Hear
2) Wavves  Adult Swim Singles  Hippies is Punks
3) Casiokids  Aabenbaringen Over Aaskammen  Olympiske Leker
4) Kisses  Funny Heartbeat  Funny Heartbeat
5) Black Moth Super Rainbow  Windshield Smasher EP  Windshield Smasher
6) Reptile Youth   Summer Sampler  Morning Sun
7) Ormonde  Machine  Cherry Blossom
8) Eternal Summers  Correct Behavior  Girls in the City
9) PAWS  Cokefloat!  Miss American Bookworm
10) Thee Oh Sees   Putrifiers II  Flood's New Light
11) Paul Banks  Banks  The Base
12) Blonds  The Bad Ones  Time
13) Levek  Look A Little Closer  French Lessons
14) The Deadly Syndrome  All In Time  Whatever Comes Our Way
15) Paradise  Nocture  Wild Nothing

Viva Indie Rock Podcast #28

Welcome to Podcast #28! Check out the complete track list below! Try to catch a live broadcast sometime! Thursdays, 9pm EST on Plaza Midwood Community Radio. You can catch the stream on UStream or go direct to the station site: www.pmcradio.org



Track List:
1) Trails and Ways  Trilingual (Singles)  Mtn Tune
2) Boxed Wine  Boxed Wine EP  Waste Your Time
3) The Sea and Cake  Runner   Harps
4) Eternal Summers  Correct Behavior  You Kill
5) Lawrence Arabia  The Sparrow  Bicycle Riding
6) Dum Dum Girls  End of Daze  Lord Knows
7) WHY?  Sod in the Seed EP  Twenty Something
8) Race Horses  Furniture  My Year Abroad
9) Girls Names  7"  A Troubled See
10)  Pains of Being Pure At Heart  Belong  My Terrible Friend
11) Young Moon  Navigated Like the Swan  The Crystal Text
12) Sad Disco  Honestly 
13) Ormonde  Machine  Drink
14) Swans  The Seer  The Apostate

Viva Indie Rock Podcast #27

Great week for new music!! Check out the complete track list below! Try to catch a live broadcast sometime! Thursdays, 9pm EST on Plaza Midwood Community Radio. You can catch the stream on UStream or go direct to the station site: www.pmcradio.org


Track List:
1) Dirty Projectors  White Label Tour 7"  Buckle Up
2) Moon King  Obsession I   Only Child
3) Lord Huron  Lonesome Dreams  Time to Run
4) Eternal Summers  Correct Behavior  I Love You
5) Fergus and Geronimo   Funky Was the State of Affairs  No Parties
6) Young Moon  Navigated Like the Swan   Summit and Blue Air
7) School of Seven Bells  How To Love   How To Love
8) Crystal Castles  Plague
9) Dots Will Echo  Drunk Is the New Sober  I'm A Monkey  
10) The Mountain Goats  Transcendental Youth  Cry For Judas
11) Lawrence Arabia  The Sparrow  The Bisexual
12) Chelsea Light Moving  Frank O'Hara Hit
13) Ned Collette and Wirewalker   2  Long You Lie

Viva Indie Rock Podcast #25

Podcast #25 is available for streaming online or downloading and listening at your leisure! Live broadcast radio shows are 9pm Thursdays (EST) on PMCRadio.org.



Tracklist:
1) The Helio Sequence Negotiations October
2) Chelsea Light Moving  Groovy and Linda
3) Future Islands  FAMOUS CLASS RECORDS / LAMC 7" SERIES LAMC # 2 Cotton Flower
4) Eternal Summers Correct Behavior You Kill
5) MNDR Feed Me Diamonds Faster Horses
6) Fawn Coastlines All The Lights
7) Gold Motel Gold Motel Musicians
8) Fulhäst Down The Deuce Robot Blood (instrumental)
9) Echo Lake Wild Peace In Dreams
10) Family Of The Year Loma Vista Living On Love
11) Mission Of Burma Unsound 7's
12) METZ METZ Headache
13) Taken By Trees  Dreams
14) Echo Lake Wild Peace Even the Blind

Viva Indie Rock Podcast #15

Podcast #15 is available for streaming online or downloading and listening at your leisure! Live broadcast radio shows are 9pm Thursdays (EST) on PMCRadio.org.



Track List:
1) Mystery Jets  Radlands  Greatest Hits
2) Allo Darlin'  Europe  Europe
3) Evans the Death  Evans the Death  I'm So Unclean
4) Deerhoof  Offend Maggie  Basketball
5) The Spinto Band  Shy Pursuit  Father's Office
6) Blues Control  Valley Tangents  Iron Pigs
7) White Woods  Where Did You Go 7"  Paper Cutout
8) Purity Ring  Shrines  Obedear
9) Dope Body  Natural History  Weird Mirror
10) Eternal Summers  Correct Behavior  Millions
11) Light Asylum  Light Asylum  Hour Fortress
12) DNTEL  Aimlessness  Bright Night
13) Campfire Girls  Mood Enhancer EP  Quick Phone Call
14) Is/Is   III  Sun Tsunami