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 The
Reel Good Show Part Deux featuring Cinema Cinema, Ateah, Brian Moon,
DJ D-Wet and DJ Fusstasche.
Saturday February 7th / 9pm at The Old Chop
Suey - 1317 W. Cary St. Richmond, VA.
Free / All Ages
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CMJ reviews "Exile
Baby"
http://prod1.cmj.com/articles/display_article.php?id=97047783
Cinema, Cinema – Exile Baby
By Tom Duffy
/ CMJ
On
their first full-length
Exile Baby,
Brooklyn's Cinema, Cinema have created a musical melting pot full of
sonic soundscapes, avant pop and good old-fashioned rock songs. After
two EP's with earlier incarnations of the band, singer/ guitarist Ev
Gold has reformed the outfit into a pounding two-piece that allowed him
the space and creativity to record the epic album he was striving for on
the previous efforts.
The addition of drummer Paul Claro, who sounds like he is doing drum
rolls with eight arms, has shown to be the perfect time keeper for Gold
to attack his guitar riffs and effects pedals the way that Jackson
Pollock would attack his canvas. The album kicks of with "Shiner No.1,"
an atmospheric journey into the art of sound, followed by a minute-long
haunting instrumental that serves as the true foundation for the LP.
Often times it's hard for a band to take the raw power and intensity of
their live gigs and translate that in the studio, but tracks like "The
Desperate Acts," "Drydive" and "I Don't Wanna Be Yr Boyfriend" show this
was not even close to an issue. Each song is filled to the brim with
floor-trembling drums, sleazy guitars and gut-wrenching vocals that
garner fist-pumping status.
Gold's intellectual lyrics are often overshadowed by the crunching music
that is being played along with them, but that's what makes the songs
what they really are, just beautiful poetry paired with soul drenching
music. The album's overall vibe is very dingy and dark, like a back
alley in New York City in the early '70s, but the band also creates
elegant rock numbers that teeter on '50s r&b, funk and a pinch of '80s
rock ballads. In the eerily gorgeous "Still/Life," Gold sings of a "man
who's lost his love" with such heartbreak and conviction, you can
understand why the album took on the dark undertones in which it did.
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NEW RELEASES
Cinema, Cinema - Exile Baby
 Drawering
on drawerings and focusing on focus, Brooklyn based experimental 2 piece
Cinema, Cinema present a new direction in sound with their 1st full
length LP, EXILE BABY, their 2nd release of 2008. Treating the studio as
a camera, they capture moving still pictures of their growth on this
record. Epic highs, cold iron lows and cinematic musical movements.
driven and pounding drums ring like cannon's chaotic splintered guitars
chime with purpose. Vocals cry with the urgency of a dying man.
Sit down and hear the cry of
the Exile Baby, a story about the end of the world as we know it and the
birth of the next.
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Cy Taggart - Beet The Meetles
 Beet
The Meetles - An album of Lennon and McCartney “uncovers". Arranged by
Cy Taggart and performed by The Chicago Cy Band featuring Cy Taggart on
Guitar/Vocals, Tim Stanton on Bass/Vocals and Tom Lenahan on
Drums/Vocals.
Cy’s Chicago grown Americana arrangements and
abridgments present a fresh outlook on the genre of 20th century popular
music with tight vocal harmonies and great dance grooves. “A Blast from the Past with a Nod to the Mod”
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