The Woodsist and Captured Track labels have an impressive roster of artists under their names and this years joint festival between the two labels looks mightily enjoyable. The festival takes place in Brooklyn on July 3rd - 4th and features Crystal Stilts, Woods, Vivian Girls, Blank Dogs, The Mayfair Set, Real Estate and many more.
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Current band of the moment Crystal Silts - who we happen to love, check out our review of their debut record 'Alight of the Night' HERE and our interview with them HERE) - have just announced a brief tour around England, lasting for only four nights.
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MP3 - "Love Is a Wave" - Crystal StiltsOakland's Slumberland Records has a pair of 7" records out today - one from the Pains of Being Pure at Heart, and another from Brooklyn-based Crystal Stilts. The 7" contains a pair of new tracks from the band - "Love is a Wave" and "Sugar Baby." Crystal Stilts released their debut, Alight of Night last October, a moody album with steeped in dark David Ly...
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Crystal Stilts have finally started to get the recognition they deserve after what has been a slow burn increase in exposure since they released their album 'Alight of Night' last year. The album blends the influences of Joy Division and The Velvet Underground and comes out with an album that sounds textured and fresh.
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[03-19-2009] Whereas my day was spent inside clubs or on walled-in patios, I was grateful to get out on a real patio, where the Texas breeze could take away some of my accumulating festival stank. Knowing I was in for a long night, nothing could have been a better rejuvenating tonic than sitting on the off-beaten-track enclave in the late-afternoon sun taking in a surprisingly chipper group of ...
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Crystal Stilts have released a new video for a brand new song by the name of Love Is A Wave. Their debut studio length Alight Of Night was fantastic (SG review HERE) and impressed more than just a few peoples ears.
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Do you ever find yourself in a really bad mood, trawling through post upon post of upbeat dance remixes, synth pop next big things and twee indie rubbish? Well... even though it was me who wrote all of it, sometimes I find myself agreeing with you! So this post is designed as the antithesis of that; so that you can download a few moody tunes and go and sit in your room, wishing that Nirvana sti...
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Theoretically, you've already heard this album. But that doesn't mean you won't like it.
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Photo by J. Lidgett‘Pop will eat itself’ is an oft-used phrase in the arena of music journalism, mostly with negative connotations. But if Crystal Stilts is the proof in the pudding of such a hypothesis, pop can bloody well continue to gorge on its own, delicious self until the cows come home, for all I [...]
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For a band apparently so obsessed with light (the tracklisting for Crystal Stilts' deut album 'Alight of Night' includes the words dazzled, crystal, prismatic, shine, gaze and bright), Crystal Stilts are a pretty dark bunch. Opener 'The Dazzled' starts with a promising riff and has a pulsing if predictable chord sequence. Singer Brad Hargett sounds like he's trying to break the world record f...
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[photo by nyctaper] We have read much about Crystal Stilts over the last couple of years, but by happenstance we had not seen them live until last Sunday night at Bowery. Crystal Stilts are currently on tour with Love Is All, and this was their hometown show — with a large and supportive crowd. [...]
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In this special Thanksgiving installment of Quit Your Day Job, Frankie Rose and I talk a lot about drinks. When not bartending at Great Jones Cafe in New York City the ex-Vivian Girl plays stand-up drums in Crystal Stilts, the Brooklyn band that recently released Alight Of Night , a tight collection of dark minimalist, melancholic pop. Again, think Ian Curtis-on-Spector on down-tempo Chills. It...
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The butt of my Levi's are wearing through in two spots. Holes - large, gaping holes - are the inevitable end of my relationship with each pair of jeans I've owned. The pair that is wearing through are only about a month old so you could imagine that the sudden signs that our relationship has [...]
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All of the above bands will be playing tonight at the Summit, next to Cafe Bourbon St. I was supposed to cover the show but woke up feeling like sh*tgaze. It should be a good show, though, and I recommend checking it out. I'm betting the first band will go on around 10 or 10:30. Love is All is a crazy bunch of Swedes playing a crazy bunch of jittery punk, Crystal Stilts play really morose songs...
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We got a late start in inaugurating the new Studio at Webster Hall, but it was worth the wait. Scheduled for midnight to 4AM, our CMJ kick-off party ran about an hour behind schedule, but even at 4:30AM -- after they stopped serving liquor -- folks were still deep into to Crystal Stilts. Good morning!Somehow Gang Gang Dance get better and better. They've been around forever (OK, since 2001), bu...
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