delicious foods: No Age

valentine's day British Sea Power devastated the Rhapsody Rocks Austin Party at the Mohawk yesterday afternoon, thrashing through a 30 minute set exclusively culled from their new album Do You Like Rock Music? and re-solidifying their position (in my mind at least) as one of the most entertaining and eventful live shows out there. Undaunted by potential showers (dig the Technicolor rain gear in the pics) or the early set time (12:30pm on the dot), the boys showed more spark, ferocity and good humor than their previous headlining gig at Bowery during CMJ.

Since then, they've added a violinist as well as another multi-instrumentalist (shown after the jump playing a guitar with a...trumpet?) to fill the sizable void left by the departure of Eamon Hamilton as well as to flesh out the big arrangements that pervade the new album. So, the question remains: Do I Like Rock Music? Hells yes.

After BSP, current hot-shit (or future hot-shit depending on your vantage point) No Age performed. You may remember them here on EF previously in the Liars show recap; since then, I've been eager to check them out for myself, and at first I was slightly disappointed. It must have been the looming afterglow from BSP or something, because as their set progressed my disappointment gradually shifted to mild interest, then slight head-nodding, and finally fist-pumping as guitarist Randy Randall climbed a towering speaker and precariously resumed shredding as the foundation wobbled back and forth. So all in all, I suppose it broke down like this: songs posing as two-minute bursts of noise + high-risk stage theatrics = a winning formula.
See more pics from this show after the jump...

British Sea Power

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Listen: "Waving Flags"

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No Age

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Listen: "Loosen This Job"

See more pictures of No Age (from this show) HERE.

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valentine's day Liars (above) and No Age played an amazing show at Warsaw this past Friday night. Both bands were on point: No Age proving themselves (at least) worthy of all of the attention they've received over the past six months and Liars simply proving themselves to be one of the best bands on the planet. More pictures, as well as live video/MP3s of three Liars songs, after the jump.

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