Sorry, everybody, but the only thing allowing us to claw and scrape through these last three weeks of winter is any and all music that sounds like The Jesus & Mary Chain and The Ronettes put together. So yesterday, it was Best Coast; today, it’s Philly’s own Party Photographers. This is real primitive Velvets-styled screeching and thumping we’re talking here, pulled along by simple tunes that indicate the grotesque violence and hidden beauty of this totally happening world we all live in today, baby. Sure, it could have been made at any point in time since 1965. That’s the whole idea. And sure, there could be 5,000 bands doing just this all over the world right now — hell, there probably are (and guess what, they’re ALL playing SXSW this year!) — but that doesn’t mean we wouldn’t love every one of them just as much as we love our little sister. And dude, we love our little sister. So go see Party Photographers at Silk City tonight, with Far Out Fangtooth and DJ Astro Caveman. Hey, if you have to believe in something, it might as well be the positive power of noise.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 at 5:20 pm.