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Photos: Dan Deacon, Health, Black Pus at the Market Hotel

Posted by Camille Dodero at 4:24 AM, April 2, 2008


Dan Deacon holding hands with his friends

Dan Deacon, Health, Black Pus
Market Hotel
Tuesday, April 1
photos by Rebecca Smeyne

Pretty sure last night's Health and Black Pus (a/k/a Lightning Bolt's Brian Chippendale) show was the first weekday Market Hotel music since the NYPD went Orlando's on its ass. But with Baltimore touring automaton Dan Deacon added to the bill late last week, DIY don Todd P arranged for tickets to be sold at Cinders Gallery and Goodbye Blue Monday in advance, rather than having the Pratt bus roll up at the last minute and puke 300 kids at the door. Good move: it appears that everything went spectacularly. "Dan Deacon was crazy," reports back our venerable lens-lady. "He played against a wall in a narrow area between two speaker stacks. The crowd was on top of him." This man better have healthcare.


Black Pus


Health was sick

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BLACK PUS

HEALTH

DAN DEACON

Photos: Genghis Tron @ Market Hotel [03.01.08]

Posted by Camille Dodero at 2:22 PM, March 4, 2008


photo by Rebecca Smeyne

Quick Genghis Tron primer from the black-and-white Voice by Phil Freeman: "The first time I read the name 'Genghis Tron,' probably on some website, I laughed out loud. It's a pretty awesome name, and it helps separate them from the metal hordes—which is a good thing. Despite being on Relapse (after some early EPs and a full-length on Crucial Blast), they're not a metal band, though crunching guitars and grindcore-ish screamed vocals are elements of their sound. The dominant elements, though, are synths and programmed drums."

On Saturday, Genghis Tron headlined the Market Hotel, which did not get shut down by the cops.

More of Rebecca Smeyne's photos below. . .

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Photos: Ponytail at Market Hotel [03.01.08]

Posted by Camille Dodero at 12:52 PM, March 3, 2008

Ponytail
Market Hotel
Saturday, March 1
photos by Rebecca Smeyne

Updated Market Hotel Show Info: High Places at the Silent Barn, Gengis Tron at Market Hotel

Posted by Camille Dodero at 4:04 PM, February 29, 2008

Despite last night's minor hiccup, the two Market Hotel shows scheduled for tonight and tomorrow are still happening, but one has moved to Ridgewood, Queens. Tonight's show will take place at the Silent Barn; tomorrow's is still gonna be at the Market Hotel, where there will be no "beverage donation stand." Enjoy the bevy of local neighborhood bodegas.

Friday, February 29th @ SILENT BARN <====

:: High Places
:::: Lucky Dragons
:::::: Soft Circle
:::::::: Picture Plane

[ SILENT BARN ]
9:30pm | all ages | $7 rec donation

PLS - DON'T HANG OUT / DRINK ON THE SIDEWALK OUT FRONT!

====> SATURDAY 3/1 @ MARKET HOTEL <====

:: IN THE BIG ROOM
::
:: Genghis Tron
:::: Aa aka BIG A little a
:::::: Ponytail
:::::::: Shooting Spires

:: IN THE LITTLE ROOM
::
:: Cheveu --------> France
:::: Double Dagger

[ MARKET HOTEL ]

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Last Night's Market Hotel Doorman: the NYPD

Posted by Camille Dodero at 9:01 AM, February 29, 2008

. . . If You're Looking For Me, I'm Still Busy Weeping


Hmm. The last time Bikes in the Kitchen and Team Robespierre hooked up, this happened.

Don't want to cause any unnecessary hysteria here, but in the interest of service, I gotta pass this along. Last night around 11:15 pm, I got to the Market Hotel—a/k/a the 20 day-old all-ages space where Todd P and other DIY-minded folks have been booking rad shows, the same tremendously rad space where I snapped these nifty No Age pics couple Mondays ago—only to pull open its metal door and find the lights on, total silence, and a NYPD officer standing at the top of the stairs. Then, a frustrated bark: "We're closed."

It was supposed to be a four-band benefit for Showpaper, topped off by Ninjasonik and Team Robespierre. But according to a couple kids who'd already been inside (one of whom was Crowd-Surf Girl—her name turns out to be Stephanie), the bill didn't make it past the Vivian Girls before the po-po showed.

No official word yet what this means for the stellar line-ups scheduled for the next two nights (High Places/Lucky Dragons tonight; Ghengis Tron, Aa, Ponytail, Shooting Spires on Saturday), but as of this moment all the dates are still on the Market Hotel MySpace page.

Seriously though kids, this is a perfect time for a reminder. If you want to hear music in places where you can loiter outside to talk on your cell phone, here's an idea: Manhattan! I hear the bouncers are really nice.

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Photos: No Age, High Places at Market Hotel

Posted by Camille Dodero at 11:35 AM, February 12, 2008

No Age, High Places
Market Hotel
Monday, February 11
photos by Cami D

More photos below. . .

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