Date/Time
Date(s) - 10/08/2014 - 10/12/2014
All Day
Location
R Bar
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The 3rd Annual CBGB Music & Film Festival (www.cbgbfest.com) takes over Manhattan once again from October 8 – 12 for five days of incredible concerts, art exhibitions, movies and entertainment industry shoptalk. And Guitar World will be right in the thick of things.
On Saturday October 11th, Guitar World is going to host an kick-ass evening of music featuring four of the most exciting up-and-coming female-fronted alternative and punk rock bands in New York at Manhattan’s legendary R Bar on 218 Bowery (right across from where the old CBGB used to be).
C’mon out and join Guitar World editor in chief Brad Tolinski, have some beers and watch these women work it! The bill includes:
9:15 pm – WISE GIRL: With a sound somewhere between Ninties alternative and riot grrrl, Wise Girl is a sharp, power pop Foursome that draws from the past but produces something wholly modern. 2013 marked the release of the band’s first, full-length, debut You’ll Just Have To Wait. The album is a 10-track LP filled with power chords, driving beats and fabulously quirky lyrics.
8:30 pm – IZZY ZAY & THE INMATES: Vocalist/guitarist Izzy Zay is a very strange and mysterious girl. She speaks fluent English, French, Portuguese and Spanish, so it’s often difficult to pin down where she’s from or where she’s been. With her beautifully resonant voice and evocative lyrics, she explores the same subconscious landscapes and symbolic terrain as the Doors or perhaps Syd Barrett’s Pink Floyd. The band features Guitar World’s Brad Tolinski on guitar and violin.
7:45 pm – SHARKMUFFIN: Sharkmuffin’s name fits. The Brooklyn 3-piece outfit crafts adorable pop music with jagged, garage-aged fangs. With lyrical subjects including incest, mythical bestiality, and homicidal heroin using femebots, girl group-esque hooks are paired with heavy Seventies-inspired guitar riffs to create the raw sound of these punk- rocking debutants. With these guys, it’s no secret the end goal is fun.
7:00 pm – PARTY LIGHTS: Party Lights unabashedly wears their power pop hearts on their sleeve. The bastard child of Cheap Trick and The Go-Go’s, the Brooklyn quartet doesn’t see a problem with worshipping at the altar of the Knack and the Real Kids every now and again (and again and again). Revenge, heartbreak and bad choices might be bad in real life but are songwriting gold, and luckily – depending on who you ask – Party Lights has been through it all, surviving by the skin of their teeth.
