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Reprint from DDM Issue 4 (Subscribe HERE)
An excellent Indy music blog Better Than Sex run by one of our long time contributors has just reprinted an updated Yip Yip interview from DDM Issue 4. With Blip Fest underway in NYC this weekend what better time to showcase one of our favorite 8-bit bands. Enjoy the video and check out the full interview in print Drop Dead Magazine Issue 4 or on line Here.
9.8 out of 10 New York music fiends and club owners know NYC is total shit for all ages shows. Be it because city officials are consistently waging a war against under 21 venues or because clubs make money from alcohol proceeds and they don’t really fight for the under 21 crowd, NYC 18+ let alone all ages clubs are overwhelmingly a hard gig to find.
But as the old saying goes where there is a will there is a way. There is a thriving DIY all ages scene in New Your City. In the vacuum of proper all ages venues, shows are being booked in everything from music studios, to wear house spaces, even into living rooms. These clubs not being exactly legal it’s a bit tricky to advertise so everything is done mostly through word of mouth, social networks like myspace and free pamphlets and publications like Showpaper.
Last Friday at a benefit for Showpaper at Brooklyn’s Vanishing Point, of course a DIY all ages event, a 6 bands picked up a flag of the original NYC no wavers and raised a banner of New New Sound. The cool thing about the show was the variety of sound, from punk, to tribal world music, to post punk, to 8 bit, to no wave and art punk. Kids at this show stayed for the whole concert, getting into each band, dancing, going generally going crazy being proficient at a serious business of having a good time.
You be the judge bellow: full evidence complete with show videos!
It’s no secret that we admire the french electro punks Kap Bambino. Imagine our happy surprise when they actually came to play NYC few month ago. The show was crazy packed, singer Caroline Martial was frantic bouncing around the stage, jumping into the audience, and generally going crazy while keyboardist Orion Bouvier stayed in the background drinking PBR’s and controlling the machinery. Although sound wasn’t the greatest (maybe because we were right upfront?) the energy of the show more then made up for it. Judge for your self, submitted for your approval here are the photos and a video direct from that show. In addition we included a few of our favorite mp3s from their 2007 album New Breath from Zero Lite Night Vision.
Photo Gallery: Kap Bambino at the Ruff Club, 8/15/08 NYC
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MP3
Kap Bambino New Breath from Zero Lite Night Vision (2007)
Kap Bambino Save from Zero Lite Night Vision(2007)
Video: Kap Bambino in NYC August 15, 2008
Links:
Kap Bambino http://www.myspace.com/kapbambino
Ruff Club: http://www.thehotpink.com/
