Name: Das Damen
Start: 2023-09-14T20:00:00-04:00
Location: Monty Hall

Das Damen

WFMU

Revolutionary NYC rock quartet Das Damen have returned!

Monty Hall

The Special Pillow

Founded in 1984 by singer/guitarist Jim Walters, guitarist Alex Totino, eight-string bassist Phil Leopold Von Trapp, and drummer Lyle Hysen, Das Damen immediately proved themselves to be the electric children of the Stooges, MC5, Cheap Trick, and the Beatles, whipping up a glorious cosmic swirl of stadium-sized proportions that flattened East Village clubs while earning them a hardcore following of devoted fans across America and around the world. Originally released on Sonic Youth co-founder Thurston Moore’s Ecstatic Peace! imprint in 1986 (and later reissued by SST Records), DAS DAMEN remains an earth-scorching touchstone in the downtown NYC underground movement and a milestone recording in the annals of American indie rock. The six anthemic songs contained therein remain as fist-pumpingly huge and evocative as ever, dripping with the grit, grime, chaos, and sludge of the 1980s downtown scene where the band members first converged as fledgling teenage punks attending New York University. But while Das Damen certainly shared an affinity for jacked-to-11 amps and ear-busting volume akin peers like Sonic Youth and Dinosaur Jr., songs like “Trick Question,” “Slave Bird” and “How Do You Measure” stand alone with otherworldly singalong harmonies, tasty hooks, monster riffs, and miles and miles of paisley-draped, hair-exploding style.“Photos by Naomi Petersen, courtesy of Chris Petersen Images/Punk Life Naomi”.

The Special Pillow are esteemed purveyors of a full-spectrum, string-driven sound encompassing concise ’60s-flavored pop gems, dreamy hallucinogenic reveries, and pulse-pounding propulsion redolent of your favorite antipodean indie upstarts of the ’80s. Since 1995, the Hoboken, NJ, band have trafficked in catchy and confounding songcraft that has earned them notable fans such as Yo La Tengo, who have covered the group’s classic “Automatic Doom.”Praise for The Special Pillow “A dose of psychedelic sunshine from New Jersey’s veteran astral travelers, Mind Wipe continues their steady diet of quirky pop tunes sprinkled with hallucinogenic pixie dust. . . . Six hellzapoppin’ toe-tappers, with tongues firmly in cheeks and earwig melodies soldered into your synapses.” —Shindig! “The Special Pillow’s string-driven synthesis of psychedelia, chamber-pop, and new wave has delighted a coterie of fans. . . . Sonorous layers of sound . . . a haunting, spacey jumble that leaves a lasting impression.” —The Jersey Journal “While undeniably exhibiting traits that can be described as post-Feelies and Yo La Tengo-descended, the band is so much more, with an incontestable tendency towards psychedelia. . . . Unabashedly melodic, often downright catchy, and frequently baroque.” —The Vinyl District “Pop songs like taffy—sweet, sticky, and stretchy though less messy. Think of the poppier Shimmy Disc records or Syd’s Pink Floyd (though more wine than acid). . . . In touch with the harsh realities of the contemporary world, but also buoyed by the absurdities.” —Vol. 1 Brooklyn “Surely there must be a place in this human world for their smart, poetic music.” —Jack Rabid, The Big Takeover https://thespecialpillow.bandcamp.com

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