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Have yet to see Surefire, Cavalier Rose or The States, but have heard nothing but good things - good songwriting, too. Still, though, I've seen The Shake, and they're really, really fucking good.
why no love for these guys in the comments? ive seen em play around the city a couple of times - they know how to bring the ruckus. they deserve to be on this list.
Hi, I work in A&R at Capitol Records and I was wondering if somebody could give me more information about signing The Shake to a record deal because thats what I'd like to do.
Thanks!
I'm a 12 year old girl and The Shakes music really speaks to me!!! I'm so glad they were chosen by music industry professionals as the best band in NYC!!
A couple of points: first, this category is "Alt Rock + Metal," not "Avant Indie" or something. Second, it's fairly obvious, to me at least, why this band won - the music's really fucking good. Just listen to the tracks on the myspace and you'll see that a band doesn't necessarily need eight synthesizers, a Nintendo, a mudslide of plate reverb and a forced sense of hipsterdom to deliver great songs.
Just because we live in NYC doesn't mean we're not allowed to appreciate (and like) really good Rock n Roll. -DFH
In the year 2010, I'm suprised that a band which such a generic sound (as tight as they may be) was able to win this contest. I think it reflects the current state of the music industry quite well though.
Well it seems like the sounds from the 80s are back in vogue, right? All the cheesy blips and the "housy" synths and the gasping vocals and the campy clothing and so on and on and on... Well you won't find all this in The Secret History's debut CD "The World That Never Was". You will find references to to great artists from that decade which followed a more personal and sincere musical path though. We are referring (for example) to the melancholic, beautiful and supremely blip free tunes of 10,000 Maniacs, or the daring, electric songs of The Throwing Muses, and their spin off super-dreamy project Belly. Besides the songwriting, what really hits you here is Lisa Ronson's voice - warm and strong, it confers character and personality to the band's elegant tunes through melodies that are never banal nor foreign. We also recommend you to check out the band members' previous project, "My Favorite", which probably failed to emerge because of an unfortunate name choice in this "Google Age", but that has recently garnered some post-mortem attention from music scene fat cats Pitchfork.com.
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