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30Jul
Plastic Ono Band
Amazing documentary on this dessert island album. Go. Watch. Now. Better screams than any douche medal band.
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29Jul
Inception
Tired of talking about this one yet? Well, we’re all huge C. Nolan fans here, and I think I need more time processing this movie, but my friend Alex just sent me this cool post about Inception’s sound design. I was just about to tell him how much I dug all the Edith Piaf. Some smart stuff…
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27Jul
Thanks Austin Music & Entertainment
for the great review!
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25Jul
Huge thanks to Adam’s Castle, The Courtesy Tier, Asleep in a Box, Bot, and Viva Nada for joining us last night.
It was everything we expected and more…
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21Jul
Some Good Pics from the Great Scott Show Last Week
Courtesy of Nir Landau at Foundwaves.
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20Jul
What You sing when you haven’t written the lyrics yet
PS – This beat kills. Well played GRZL*.
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20Jul
Nice Review of the Monuments Album…
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18Jul
Join us in Philly at The Khyber!
First time at this classic joint. We’re debuting a lot of new material for this one. Thursday, 7/22. Don’t miss it!
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18Jul
Monuments Interview with Reviewsic
We discuss favorite bands, the Brooklyn rock scene, and the new album. Have a read!
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9Jul
Next Week in Boston and Fairfield
We’re opening for Earl Greyhound next week at Great Scott with Appomattox on Thursday, 7/15. Serious bill. Buy tix here.
Also headed up to Fairfield the following night on 7/16 to do a show at the Acoustic Cafe. Come one, come whole world.
RSS Upcoming Shows
For booking and general inquiries, e-mail monumentsmusic@gmail.com.
| August 7 2010 | in Danbury, CT | Cousin Larry’s |
| 9:00pm. Admission: 5. Age restrictions: No minors. | ||
| August 31 2010 | in Lower East Side, NY | Rockwood Music Hall |
| 8:00pm. Admission: $0. Age restrictions: All Ages. | ||
| September 9 2010 | in Williamsburg, Brooklyn | Trash Bar (with Donk Songs) |
| 9:00pm. Age restrictions: No minors. | ||
| September 12 2010 | in Philadelphia, PA | Kung Fu Necktie |
| 8:00pm. Admission: 6. | ||
| September 17 2010 | in Westchester, PA | The Note |
| 9:00pm. Buy tickets. | ||
| October 2 2010 | in Williamsburg, Brooklyn | Spike Hill |
| 8:00pm. | ||
The Band
In the winter of 2008, Monuments drove north to begin laying down tracks for their debut album. Surrounded by snow, in a studio in Woodstock, many of the songs they recorded had begun as lyrical inquiries: singer Gabriel Berezin, 10 minutes late to work, watched an airplane fly through his office window in the World Trade Centers on Sept 11, 2001.
Monuments’ lineup took form over the intervening years; in came drummer Mike Cook, followed by guitarist Kevin Plessner, and bass player Grant Zubritsky. The band co-founded The Periodic Label, a collective of twenty bands, and played shows throughout Brooklyn and the surrounding environs.
Their self-titled debut album, to be released January 2010, includes tracks “Not My Own,” an existential sci-fi exploration, the epic and waltzing “Silver Star,” and “I’m Here Now,” a stomping narrative, fever dream. Led by vocals swooping from an imaginary mountain peak, Monuments layers cascading, chiming guitar textures with throbbing bass, tightly tethered by metronomic, drum like precision. From a devastated diary of home recordings, Monuments re-imagines the future of the past into sonic hope.
Monuments is one of Brooklyn's finest, miraculously so in a borough that overflows with artists [...] its essence trends to subtle manipulations of space, the sort of attenuated twang that made Crazy Horse revered, and extending soulful harmonies far into the cosmos. - The Village Voice