In Waste Of Paint, our writer/artist team of Jamie Peck and Debbie Allen will review goings-on about town in words and images.

Maybe it was just the warm weather messing with my head, but everyone in New York seemed a little bit friskier this weekend. From the black-clad romantics swaying back and forth to Zambri to the feral nerds who worship Black Pus, bands and fans alike were in it to win it.

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Hull.

Sound of the City's staff has opinions about which bands to see at the CMJ festival, happening around the city this week. In our final installment of recommendations, music editor Maura Johnston offers her picks. (Check out Nick Murray's and Martika Finch's selections, too.)

Hull
Face-melting metal with just a touch of Southern-rock swagger from deep Brooklyn. Saw them last Monday, was completely blown away. Sample an MP3 from their new album Beyond The Lightless Sky here.
Where to catch them: Friday at 11 p.m. at Union Pool; they're playing the Tee Pee Records showcase.

The Duke Spirit
Moody, dark, and grand, this UK band—led by the formidable Liela Moss—finally has a new album coming out after way too long.
Where to catch them: The Union Square Puma Store, where they go on at 2:30 on Wednesday. Take a late and dramatic lunch!

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Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent.

The last time we checked in with Brooklyn's cheery, shambolic, noise-fucked surfcore kiwi-punks Coasting they were new, they were nervous, and they were recording their songs on a laptop plopped on a couch. Since then they've released a wealth of well-received cassettes and 7"s, drummer Fiona Campbell has become a fulltime Vivian Girl and--well, some things never change. Their brand new 7" (out via M'ladys) is as lo-fi as ever, featuring fabulous a-side, "Same Old Same Old." The track is a cheery blowout where "Wipeout" meets the Ronettes under Reverb Boardwalk. But the disc's real charm comes when you turn out the lights--the record glows in the dark! "United in Nashville had just finished making that weird Triple Decker record for the Dead Weather--you know the one with the 7" inside the 12"? And they had all this glow in the dark compound left over from that," says drummer Fiona Campbell. "Good timing I guess, and lucky for us, it's so pretty! It's this mint green, and the paper stock for the art work is sheer so you can see it even when it's in the sleeve. It lights up the artwork."

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Coasting crack a smile. All photos by Georgia Kral

Fluffy Lumbers and Coasting
Dead Herring
Saturday, September 11

Better Than: Your usual house party.

Dead Herring is a first floor loft apartment located next to the Williamsburg bridge on-ramp. It's an odd experience--if not completely un-surprising one (this is Brooklyn)--to see a show there, because the bands play in front of a window looking out onto the street and the bridge. Every few minutes a J-train goes rushing by, inching up or down not far from where you stand.

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Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent.

Brooklyn duo Coasting have accidentally boogie-boarded their way into a not-so-chill wave of ecstatic local surf-punk, adding their own distorto-crunchy twist. Less bubblegum than Beachniks, more lo-fi than Real Estate, and more jaded than Best Coast, the two gals in Coasting are more mature, more unhinged and more demented. They were raised on a steady diet of Cramps records, kiwi punk deep cuts, and Todd P shows--in fact, drummer Fiona Cambell and guitarist Madison Farmer met while they were building and managing stages and for various Todd P events. Campbell, a New Zealand native who had logged time in NZ rockers the Coolies, had been in Brooklyn for four years but was hesitant to form a new band until just recently. "I was so scared to play music with anyone because things can get serious so quickly," says Campbell. "Madison has such an awesome attitude about it: 'Lets just mess around and see what happens.'" Their de facto theme song "Coasting" is a great example of this serendipitous motto. Recorded a laptop the duo had perched on a couch, "Coasting" showcases everything this band is great at in one spontaneous burst--barbaric drum pound, playful shore-licking surf riffs, skuzzy waves of static, and an anarchic joy somewhere between vintage NYC scumfuckery and the bear hugs of contemporary nu-fi. Stay tuned for their debut 7", set to be the second release on promising, brand-spankin-new noize-surf label Group Tightener.

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