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Shudder to Think

Shudder to Think

The Jealous Girlfriends / Pattern is Movement

Webster Hall

Sat 10/4
Tickets
18+

Doors 7pm

$25

Shudder to Think

  • Shudder To Think are most often credited as being the creators of the “Emo” movement, being one of the first – if not the first - bands to successfully fuse intensely emotional melodic vocal performances with raw guitar driven punk music. Shudder To Think’s singer and songwriter Craig Wedren has been hailed as a major influence by many of today’s most popular musical icons including Dash Board Confessionals’ Chris Carrabba, Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters and Nirvana, the members of OK GO, and Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes (Oberst released Wedren’s solo album “Lapland” on his own Team Love / Saddle Creek Label in 2005. Grohl took Wedren with him to perform with Foo Fighters at the Sydney Opera house in 2007).

    Shudder To Think were born in the Washington DC hardcore music scene in the mid 1980s, releasing records on the widely revered “Dischord” label before being one of the first passionately “indie” bands to break rank and sign to a major label. Once signed to Epic / Sony by Michael Goldstone (whose two prior signings at the label were Pearl Jam and Rage Against The Machine), the major label machinery set out to make Shudder To Think a top charting band. The band released their seminal “Pony Express Record” on Epic Records in 1994. “Pony Express Record” created a unique musical template by fusing skewed avant garde prog-rock musical equations with Wedren’s melodic hooks and operatic vocals in a revolutionary way. It developed an intense following and is regarded by many musicians and critics as a wholly unique reinvention of the rock medium. The music on “Pony Express Record” is still referenced by taste makers including writers at Pitchfork and Stereogum for it’s powerful impact on the musical landscape.

The Jealous Girlfriends

  • http://www.myspace.com/thejealousgirlfriends
  • http://www.thejealousgirlfriends.com/
  • The Jealous Girlfriends make it work. The Brooklyn four-piece pull together the tunefulness of Anglo New Wave and BritPop, the aggression and energy of Washingtonian indie rock – both district and state - and infuse it all with a little soul, working an alchemy that transforms these base musical elements into songs crackling with tension and excitement that are instantly memorable while revealing something new with every listen.

    Overtop a rhythmic foundation laid down by drummer Michael Fadem, Josh Abbott and Holly Miranda’s buzzsaw guitars carom and careen against Alex Lipsen’s square wave synths as their voices duet and duel overtop in tones that are playful and plaintive, menacing and mesmerizing. It’s this potent lineup that has crafted their eponymous album following a 2005 debut mini-album featuring only Miranda and Lipsen.

    The Jealous Girlfriends have already achieved a tremendous amount for a wholly independent band, earning that blessing and curse of being one of the best-kept secrets in independent music. Now signed to Good Fences Records, they’re set to be unleashed upon an unsuspecting world.

    Armed with hooks, barbs, and velvet-lined bludgeons, The Jealous Girlfriends – the album – makes a striking statement that reveals The Jealous Girlfriends – the band - as an outfit that bends and pushes against the boundaries of rock music not so much with the intent to break them, but simply to see what kind of shapes they can make.

Pattern is Movement

  • http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=8289989
  • http://www.patternismovement.com
  • Andrew Thiboldeaux and Chris Ward embody Pattern is Movement and the music that's been a long time building, rising out of the ether of evangelical childhoods, best friendship, and life in Philadelphia. The two met at the ages of 13 and 14 --- as part of a Christian hip hop group. Raised in strict Pentecostal households and schools (see Jesus Camp), both Andrew and Chris found refuge in their shared love for Dr. Dre's The Chronic --- and a friendship born out of secular escape turned into a creative collaboration. In high school, hand-me-down church sound equipment and a weekend obsession with making and recording music provided the means for what became Pattern is Movement.

    "All Together," their fourth album, continues the mysterious narrative of the band and it exalts their existence as a two-man wall of sound. The pounding energy of their live show --- with Chris and Andrew side-by-side, simultaneously hammering their instruments, sweat flying --- resides in ten exquisitely constructed tracks. In the studio (Scott Solter's), every idea was given its voice; a range of guest instruments embellished the core magic of Andrew's vocals and keys and Chris' drums. All Together embraces the vocabulary of the band's experienced and obsessive recording language, yet it holds on to that unmistakable dynamism of their live performance.

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