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  • 8Feb

    Corrosion of Conformity

    With Dave Grohl.  Despite having Ashton Kutcher in it, this band smokes.

  • 4Feb

    Dammit St. Vincent

    I love this song. Different direction on the video for this one…http://tinyurl.com/y949yzv

  • 26Jan

    Once in a lifetime offer

    We’ll be selling our debut CD at our release party for only $5 this Thursday, 1/28.   If you’re in NY city, come on by Mercury Lounge.

  • 20Jan

    And you will know us…

    by the streaming album playing when you arrive here.  If you’re in NY, join us at the album release show at Mercury Lounge next Thursday, 1/28.

  • 8Jan

    With a band name like Monuments…

    It’s hard to resist advertising an album release show as “monumental,” but it appears I just did. The date is set, the album complete – hope you’ll join us for the release celebration at Mercury Lounge, Thursday, Jan 28th with The Majority Rules, Glint, and Violet Soho. We go on around 10:30. Bring your photo albums!

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For booking and general inquiries, e-mail monumentsmusic@gmail.com.

March 5 2010 in Park Slope, Brooklyn Union Hall (w/ Appomattox, Adam’s Castle)
  8:30pm. Admission: $8.

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