Johnny Brenda's Presents:
An American Chinese
Cheers Elephant, Horse's Mouth, The Bee Team
Johnny Brenda's
Wed, March 24, 2010
Doors: 8:00 PM / Show: 9:00 PM
$10.00
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Doors: 8:00 PM / Show: 9:00 PM
$10.00
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An American Chinese - (Set time: 11:30 PM)
Intriguingly awesome lo-fi indie shoegazy pop from Philly. "An American Chinese is Mitch Marzec, Mark Skierski, Becca Huston, Joy Marzec, Josh Pintye, Tim Gerz, and Kaight Taylor. Reminiscent of early Elephant 6 bands such as Olivia Tremor Control and Chocolate USA...the group masterfully blends rich layers of instrumentation, psychedelic lo-fi vocals, and pop/ballad compositions" - Papermachine.com
Cheers Elephant - (Set time: 10:30 PM)
"Their live show is what I would imagine would happen if a train marked "rock" smashed into a van marked "folk", and then an airplane called "drugs" smashed into that mess, and then cool kids showed up to dance on the wreckage. Interestingly, their recorded stuff is much sweeter than the live show might suggest: they bring a manic intensity when they're on stage, but their songs are legitimately layered and interesting in CD format, too." - Soundcheckmagazine.com
Horse's Mouth - (Set time: 9:45 PM)
"Inserting moments of musical unrest into pop music without disturbing the graceful flow that makes pop songs so pleasurable is an incredibly difficult task. Even brief moments of dissonance can be distracting (occasionally one gets the feeling that they are intentional distractions from poor songwriting) or come off as forced, an insincere attempt to make a band sound more interesting or difficult than they really are. It requires a remarkably gentle touch to make dissonances and rhythmic quirks not only slip by without disrupting the song, but actually lock in and sound as if they are essential and natural, and this is, in fact, just the thing Tavo Carbone of Brooklyn’s Horse’s Mouth excels at. Carbone’s songs are short and restless, full of small idiosyncrasies and twitches (beats added or missing, lush vocal harmonies appearing and disappearing just as fast, tempos that lurch and accelerate). " - AmpEater
Chrissy likes girls. Josh likes girls too. This being one of their major influences, they are in a band together that plays music that is fun and honest. The band is called The Bee Team. The band blends good times, rock N roll, banjos, and cute guy/girl tradeoffs into one giant bowl of tasty awesomeness. The band writes songs to make you sing along and have a good time.