Walked into Irving tired, walked out in desperate need of another party; such is the rejuvenating power of Santo/Rock. We were more thinking “dance” than “soaring reverb rock,” but it didn’t take much prodding to get us to hit Band Of Horses’ late-night set at Blender’s room at Gramercy with the PSNYC fellas. During a premature evaluation we called Ben’s new one, Cease To Begin, “very pretty, but very slight”; after seeing Cease live, we’ll go with “very pretty, but very rocking.” Seriously great set; of course it was a seriously late hour, but any previously perceived disparity between the Everything All The Time tunes and those of the new LP seemed buried by the band’s echo-y, hearty performance. (Also, Ben now has this absurdly awesome double-neck guitar now, which somehow we found instantly endearing.) Snuck backstage past a distracted security dude as the show ended, only to find a small hallway occupied by a few hip folks and Josh Hartnett, busy being handsomer than we are. We’ll spare you the iPhone shot this time; instead, check the high quality shot by Café Eclectica Music.

Eighteen strings of badass, right there.

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Comments (9)
  1. technically 18 strings of badass.

  2. Seriously, BoH orcked hard that night.

  3. eighteen it is, ggg. that’s 33% more badass than i first acknowledged. sorry, ben!

  4. I’m sure that he would forgive you, amrit.

  5. Elliot  |   Posted on Oct 22nd, 2007

    I hope you guys videotaped them playing The Funeral.

  6. The Funeral

  7. See the “The Funeral” from the Blender CMJ show.

  8. Elliot  |   Posted on Oct 24th, 2007

    (sorry guys. i was actually mocking band of horses. re: Band of Horses flips the eff out at people who go to their show only to listen to Funeral. And then videotape it.)

  9. Frank  |   Posted on Oct 24th, 2007

    Elliot you’re a dumbass

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