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Tuesday, February 28th at Mercury Lounge
217 East Houston St
New York, NY 10002ARMS
ARMS is what happens when the back burner bursts into flame. A one-time side project transformed into a full band, ARMS synthesizes Todd Goldstein's years of bedroom experimentation and sharpens them into a single bright blade.
Goldstein has been writing and recording songs as ARMS since 2004 - although never quite like this. During his years playing guitar in NYC-based indie rockers Harlem Shakes, Todd quietly self-released his own music as ARMS, sneaking home-recording sessions in his rare spare time. Todd's first album as ARMS - the luminous, ramshackle pop of Kids Aflame - was released on Melodic Records (UK) / Gigantic Music (US) in 2008 to enthusiastic Internet-praise. When Harlem Shakes disbanded in the summer of 2009, Goldstein expanded ARMS into a full band with the addition of Tlacael Esparza on drums, Matty Fasano on bass / vocals and David Harrington on keyboards / electronics. The group immediately began writing the songs that would become Summer Skills, holing up with producer Shane Stoneback (Vampire Weekend, Sleigh Bells, Cults, Fucked Up) in Stoneback's Treefort Studios in Brooklyn.
Amid the life-or-death stakes of Summer Skills, noses drip kerosene, chill winds [Read more]
Goldstein has been writing and recording songs as ARMS since 2004 - although never quite like this. During his years playing guitar in NYC-based indie rockers Harlem Shakes, Todd quietly self-released his own music as ARMS, sneaking home-recording sessions in his rare spare time. Todd's first album as ARMS - the luminous, ramshackle pop of Kids Aflame - was released on Melodic Records (UK) / Gigantic Music (US) in 2008 to enthusiastic Internet-praise. When Harlem Shakes disbanded in the summer of 2009, Goldstein expanded ARMS into a full band with the addition of Tlacael Esparza on drums, Matty Fasano on bass / vocals and David Harrington on keyboards / electronics. The group immediately began writing the songs that would become Summer Skills, holing up with producer Shane Stoneback (Vampire Weekend, Sleigh Bells, Cults, Fucked Up) in Stoneback's Treefort Studios in Brooklyn.
Amid the life-or-death stakes of Summer Skills, noses drip kerosene, chill winds [Read more]
ARMS is what happens when the back burner bursts into flame. A one-time side project transformed into a full band, ARMS synthesizes Todd Goldstein's years of bedroom experimentation and sharpens them into a single bright blade.
Goldstein has been writing and recording songs as ARMS since 2004 - although never quite like this. During his years playing guitar in NYC-based indie rockers Harlem Shakes, Todd quietly self-released his own music as ARMS, sneaking home-recording sessions in his rare spare time. Todd's first album as ARMS - the luminous, ramshackle pop of Kids Aflame - was released on Melodic Records (UK) / Gigantic Music (US) in 2008 to enthusiastic Internet-praise. When Harlem Shakes disbanded in the summer of 2009, Goldstein expanded ARMS into a full band with the addition of Tlacael Esparza on drums, Matty Fasano on bass / vocals and David Harrington on keyboards / electronics. The group immediately began writing the songs that would become Summer Skills, holing up with producer Shane Stoneback (Vampire Weekend, Sleigh Bells, Cults, Fucked Up) in Stoneback's Treefort Studios in Brooklyn.
Amid the life-or-death stakes of Summer Skills, noses drip kerosene, chill winds blow sweet and razor-sharp teeth gleam in the darkness. It's this terrain of texture and mood, set among the long purple shadows of August afternoons, that underpins the album's sequence of haunting moments - little nightmares lit with the blurry shine of dreams. With Summer Skills, ARMS manages the elusive trick of weaving these threads into something both lush and beautifully, painfully alive.
More info:
http://www.armsarms.com/
http://www.facebook.com/armsongs
User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available under the GNU FDL.
Goldstein has been writing and recording songs as ARMS since 2004 - although never quite like this. During his years playing guitar in NYC-based indie rockers Harlem Shakes, Todd quietly self-released his own music as ARMS, sneaking home-recording sessions in his rare spare time. Todd's first album as ARMS - the luminous, ramshackle pop of Kids Aflame - was released on Melodic Records (UK) / Gigantic Music (US) in 2008 to enthusiastic Internet-praise. When Harlem Shakes disbanded in the summer of 2009, Goldstein expanded ARMS into a full band with the addition of Tlacael Esparza on drums, Matty Fasano on bass / vocals and David Harrington on keyboards / electronics. The group immediately began writing the songs that would become Summer Skills, holing up with producer Shane Stoneback (Vampire Weekend, Sleigh Bells, Cults, Fucked Up) in Stoneback's Treefort Studios in Brooklyn.
Amid the life-or-death stakes of Summer Skills, noses drip kerosene, chill winds blow sweet and razor-sharp teeth gleam in the darkness. It's this terrain of texture and mood, set among the long purple shadows of August afternoons, that underpins the album's sequence of haunting moments - little nightmares lit with the blurry shine of dreams. With Summer Skills, ARMS manages the elusive trick of weaving these threads into something both lush and beautifully, painfully alive.
More info:
http://www.armsarms.com/
http://www.facebook.com/armsongs
User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available under the GNU FDL.
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Glass Ghost
Glass Ghost is Eliot Krimsky on Vocals and Keyboards and Mike Johnson on Drums. They used to play together in 'Best of Boston' at community centers, clothing stores and for kids. Then they played together in 'Flying', and now in Glass Ghost. Their debut album, 'Idol Omen' will be out on Western Vinyl recordings on Oct 27.
User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available under the GNU FDL.
User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available under the GNU FDL.
Glass Ghost is Eliot Krimsky on Vocals and Keyboards and Mike Johnson on Drums. They used to play together in 'Best of Boston' at community centers, clothing stores and for kids. Then they played together in 'Flying', and now in Glass Ghost. Their debut album, 'Idol Omen' will be out on Western Vinyl recordings on Oct 27.
User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available under the GNU FDL.
User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available under the GNU FDL.
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