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PUBLISHED JANUARY 1, 2010AT 3:00PM IN PRIOR LAKE, MNHappy New Year! Feb 138:30 pmMaxwell's1039Washington StHoboken, NJ07030ph 201 653 1703.One Set only.$10 admission._________________________ PUBLISHED DECEMBER 12, 2009NEW YORK CITY, NY-WNYC REVIEW Worth the Wait? Hackamore Brick Returns to Bitter End After 39 YearsMonday, December 07, 2009By Doug Mosurock The largely forgotten Brooklyn duo Hackamore Brick hadn’t played the venerable Village stage of the Bitter End since 1970. Yet, here they were, an unsung harmony group from the turn of the '70s, back to try again. Hackamore Brick (Jon Vachon) First, a short history lesson: Singer-songwriters Chick Newman and Tommy Moonlight came up in between a changing of the guards in the music industry, having found work as salaried tunesmiths in the late ‘60s, before the LP really took hold and FM rock radio changed the way people listened to music. Existing off a stew of early rock ‘n’ roll, doo-wop, folk rebellion and Brill Building pop, Hackamore Brick attached itself to the same roots of NYC’s rock legacy as Lou Reed, Billy Joel and John Sebastian (of the Lovin' Spoonful). It shows on their lone LP, 1971’s One Kiss Leads to Another, an eye-opening collection of folk, dry humor and the anger of the day (not to mention a dead ringer for the Velvet Underground). The music press recognized the group’s talents, but it seems as if they were too early for the party, and the duo broke up about a year later. Moonlight and Newman soldiered on throughout the ‘70s, playing locally with a number of outfits, but no more records were forthcoming, and their lone effort drifted into obscurity, becoming a holy grail for record collectors who heard in One Kiss both the allegiance to rock ‘n roll as it used to be and the ascent of punk and new wave. OK, so back to the Bitter End. Newman and Moonlight emerged with their chops and, most importantly, their singing voices fully intact. Their sound has stayed put over the past four decades, making for a refreshing perspective on pop music, which you can hear on their new six-song EP, Long Way Home. In this era’s hyper-aware, dissolvable notions on culture and trends, Hackamore Brick brings a remarkable sense of purity to what they’re doing. You could see it in their faces: these guys are having more fun getting out there than just about any other band in town. ______________ NEW YORK CITY, NY UPCOMING SHOWS: Sat Dec 5 ---The Bitter End-----7pm----1 set----50 minutes---147 Bleecker St Thurs.Aug 6--7pm---one set======National Underground (downstairs)--159 E.Houston St.(betw Allen & Eldridge Sts.)NY,NY---212 475 0611 Thurs.Aug 20--7pm---one set=====R bar--218 Bowery(betw Prince & Spring Sts.)NY,NY--212 334 0484 ______________ May 30, 2009 NEW YORK CITY, NY-...twenty two minutes of material consisting of songs about trips to Rainbowville, people who eat lots of ravioli, a missing toy, a series of caroming and talkative echoes, a lemonade drinking woman with a thing for moaning, a lost soul with a bad sense of direction, and finally, a happy fellow who likes to dance all night and prefers the color red to blue, has had his heart awoken and defrosted and sings with his friend and remembers stuff. ______________
May 20, 2009 LA MESA, CA-Welcome to Ugly Things, the ultimate rock'n'roll read, bringing you wild sounds from past dimensions, from times when rock'n'roll was young, daring, dangerous and vital...Sixties garage rock predominates as always with stories on The Good Feelins, The Daughters of Eve, The Boy Blues, The Living Children and TV’s Shindogs featuring the late Delaney Bramlett. We also reveal the strange but true tales of ‘70s Parisian proto-punks Angel Face, the Northwest’s once mysterious New Dawn, hard rockers Troyka, and New York cult underground heroes Hackamore Brick. Not to mention the bizarre saga of Philippe Debarge, the millionaire French playboy who made an amazing 1969 psych album with The Pretty Things...(syndicated in its exactness directly from the Ugly Things website...there's a lot more there so click on the cover above!) ______________ |
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