Unsigned Bands: NYCSmoke
Fri, Jul 10, 2009 12:48 pm
NYCSmoke:
Often referred to as “New York’s best kept secret,” NYCSmoke fuses all that is real and beautiful about rock n’ roll, past, present, and future. Since 2000, the band has represented the gritty Lower East Side of Manhattan with a blistering urban style of rock n’ roll.
The Village Voice describes NYCSmoke as “Bruce Springsteen meets The Strokes.” Others refer to the sound as “Tom Waits on speed.”
Permission to Get Down is the band’s fourth release and the latest collection of masterfully crafted, smoothly delivered new tunes – all recorded in a single day in January 2008.
Howie Statland, the brainchild behind NYCSmoke, spent the ‘90s playing guitar for his critically acclaimed band, Thin Lizard Dawn. Since then he has created NYCSmoke, several experimental films and collaborated on music for cinema with Philip Glass. NYCSmoke has shared the stage with Interpol, New York Dolls, The Bravery, They Might Be Giants, Franz Ferdinand, and Jet among other national acts.
NYCSmoke brings raw guitars, a driving rhythm section, and melodies that intertwine like something celestial and divine, all delivered straight from the gritty voice of songwriter Howie Statland. On Permission to Get Down one can feel the primitive spirit of rock n’ roll – this is a band that makes music vibrant again, with real instrumentation and pure, old-fashioned songwriting and composition.
» add a comment
TJ
Jul 23 2009, 5:01 pm
tembol
Jul 21 2009, 11:51 am
and still
Damo
Jul 19 2009, 11:25 pm
JH
Jul 11 2009, 5:58 pm
Brad
Jul 11 2009, 11:42 am
HUFtaDragoon420
Jul 11 2009, 11:19 am
I was at Central park and herd sum good bands playin right in the middle..joints were being passed around like water, and the pigs were are eating donuts outside the fences...it was coool
just wished i could of seen NYCsmoke play
P.S. the best song i herd was Just beat it- MJ
everyone got united there.
NYCSMOKE
Jul 11 2009, 12:24 am
JULY 23, 2009
The Delancey
168 Delancey St. at Clinton
8pm
www.thedelancey.com
JULY 25, 2009
Pianos
158 Ludlow
8pm
www.pianosnyc.com
» add a comment