A birthday party and some nice musical surprises
I walked over to Maxwell’s on this night to celebrate Stuyvesant bassist and top-notch Hoboken bartender Brian Musikoff’s birthday. That and I really love this band with their hard-pop sound and boundless oomph (yeah … I said oomph).
I was in for a couple of pleasant surprises tonight. First up was Boy/Girl whose line up is, well a boy on guitar and vocals and a girl on drums. But that is where the ease of description ends. Theirs is a sound of spastic anger and dysfunctional brilliance. I was immediately drawn into this screaming aural creep show.
After the fun and wonder that is Stuyvesant effectively entertained me, up came The Swingin’ Neckbreakers. Though this Trenton, NJ band has been around since 1992, I’d never been exposed to their heavy and precise garage-rock onslaught. Their philosophy was spelled out clearly in the refrain of one tune ‘It’s a God Damned Rock n Roll World’.
All of this with plenty of beer in my belly made for a very fun night indeed.
See Also:
Photo Gallery
Maxwell’s
Boy/Girl
Stuyvesant
Swingin’ Neckbreakers
