[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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I haven't been shy about talking up Crystal Stilts: The Brooklyn quartet, who got together back in 2003, and recently added ex-Vivian Girls drummer Frankie, concoct a dark, minimalist, melancholic sound, frontman Brad Hargett making like Ian Curtis fronting a Phil Spector-produced down-tempo Chills. Their forthcoming Slumberland full-length Alight Of Night, an '08 favorite, is great, as evidenc...
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Been posting about these guys a lot lately but they're two NYC favorites .... both hitting the West Coast soon after shows at Death By Audio (this Sat.) and Pianos (for CMJ on Oct. 23). And both with new records on Slumberland.Crystal Stilts - "Shattered Shine"Cause Co-Motion! - "Which Way Is Up?"
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When writing up Crystal Stilts earlier today, I mentioned label/city-mates caUSE Co-MOTION!, a quartet with a snotty, upbeat approach to stripped-down classic-seeming noise pop. Over the past three years they've released singles on various labels -- What's Yr Rupture?, Cape Shok, Can't Cope, Slumberland. They've collected these brief jangle anthems on It's Time, a recommended 14-track, 21-minu...
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Stereogum's 2008 CMJ event is a jam-packed show taking place midnight to 4 a.m. on Tuesday, 10/21. It's at the brand new venue The Studio at Webster Hall (yes, located inside Webster Hall). It's so new, our show takes place the first night it's open. It's also the first night of CMJ '08, so you shouldn't be too tired (i.e. no excuse for not staying until the end). Then again,we think the line-u...
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Crystal Stilts' Love is a Wave 7" is out March 31 on Slumberland. If you aren't familiar with Crystal Stilts yet here are some keywords: post-punk, 50's/60's pop, garage rock, buzz, echo, and twang. For fans of Vivian Girls, Wavves, etc. Saw it at Gorilla Vs Bear.Crystal Stilts - Love Is A WavePigeonsandPlanes
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Crystal Stilts are releasing a new 7" on March 31st through Slumberland Records. Here is the title track...Crystal Stilts - Love Is A WaveCrystal Stilts Tour Dates:Mar-14 Brooklyn, NY Music Hall of WilliamsburgMar-15 Washington, DC DC9Mar-16 Lexington, KY Al's BarMar-17 Jackson, MS 121 MilsapsMar-18 Houston, TX Rudyard'sMar-19 - 21 Austin, TX SXSW Jun-18 New York, NY Cake Shop----------------...
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Love Comes In Spurts Or so Richard Hell says. He was probably talking about the sticky kind of love, but it works figuratively as well and in this instance I'll use it that way. Prismatic Room is from the Stilts' Alight of Night LP. Pitchfork.tv is functioning oddly this morning. If the embedded video below is not [...]
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There are still tickets available for this excellent lineup at the Music Hall of Williamsburg on Saturday night. We saw Crystal Stilts open for Love Is All at Bowery in December, and they very nearly got called back for an encore. We saw Women three times at CMJ in October, and captured one [...]
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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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