BeatCrave brings you band, Dead Leaf Echo, as part of our Know Your NYC Bands series. Combining post-romantic compositions with a sophisticated visual concept, Dead Leaf Echo represents the classy but daring sound of New York City, itself. There is a sense of fashion attached to the band’s creativity, which fans are basking in the beauty of it all.
BeatCrave brings you band, Via Audio, as part of our Know Your NYC Bands series. Jessica Martins, Tom Deis, David Lizmi, Adam Sturtevant may all hail from Berklee College of Music but their music is far from pretentious. With indie pop songs that have dangerously smooth hooks, this Boston-to-Brooklyn band’s popularity had gone from obscure blogs to important conferences such as SXSW.
Their big break came when Jessica had gone to a Spoon concert and met up with drummer, Jim Eno. Being one who took chances, she handed him a Via Audio CD. However, it wasn’t until later that Eno had offered to help them produce their album, Say Something. Death Cab For Cutie’s Chris Walla had already been writing them up as his “new favorite band” in his Under the Radar column.
BeatCrave brings you April Smith as part of our Know Your NYC Bands series. We recently had the opportunity to talk with her before she hit the road with JD Souther for a North American tour. Having just toured the east coast this summer with her band in a van running on vegetable oil, April Smith is a fun-loving eco-friendly musician whose talent has only just begun to grow. On her recent release, Live from the Penthouse, April shines and provides listeners with one catchy track after another.
BeatCrave talked about her upcoming tour, what bands can do to go green, how she manages to take classic sounds and turn them into fresh tracks and what albums she would not be able to live without.April Smith is a singer/songwriter whose retro sound never sounds stale and is defintiely someone worth getting to know.
BeatCrave is extremely proud to bring you an interview with Brooklyn-based band, Vivian Girls, as a part of our new Know Your NYC Bands series. Starting out in garage punk bands in their original New Jersey homes a little over a year ago, Vivian Girls decided to try out the Brooklyn scene. Their initial attempt turned them into underground rock queens over night. After putting out a simple homemade demo on an everyday CD-R, fans couldn’t get enough of the down to earth girls playing their Shangri-La pop melodies over Jesus and Mary Chain reverb and the sweet noise combination reminiscent of The Vaselines.
Vivian Girls may be bad ass without even trying because they’ve got some simple substance in their songwriting that is undeniably infectious. Punk, post-punk, shoegaze are also all mixed in there as they’ve become experts at blurring genre lines. The fuzziness of it all has a charm to it and one can only conclude three things: Great bangs, great vocals, great sound.
