Stephanie11229 contributed to this article. Her complete Siren Festival preview – with more videos and more commentary – is available at her rock-n-roll blog, Hope For Yesterday. She’ll tell you which bands are worth looking out for, whereas you’ll find I’ll tell you which bands are easy targets for a sarcastic blogger.
The Siren Festival – the two-stage, all-day music rock-out organized by The Village Voice – will be this Saturday, July 17 in Coney Island. This is the day thousands of hippie kid North Brooklynites pretend to notice Coney Island and South Brooklyn for something other than the beach and the Cyclone. It’s also one of the few times South Brooklyn gets to enjoy bands playing original music that didn’t have their heyday in the 1970s (sorry, Aretha).
Matt & Kim take top billing on the Main Stage (W. 10th Street between the Cyclone and Luna Park). This Williamsburg keyboard-and-percussion duo is the band crush du jour of North Brooklyn’s Hipster class. And that’s not at all meant as an insult. (Yes, it is.) (No it’s not.) (Yes. Yes, it is.) But we can’t hate them because they’re the proud parents of a baby boy! girl! album!.. They made an album together and compared it to childbirth – oy vey!
I’ll take Lead & Bass Guitar for $1,000, Alex.
The Brooklyn Paper has a puff piece for The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, (5pm, Main Stage) hearlding the “shoegazy, 1980s-tinged pop” band from Greenpoint as The Next Big Thing.
Oh, boy. Look, I like shoegaze, and I like Greenpoint. But this rates a Meh, with a capital ‘M.’
OK. So I’m not impressed by the locals. They are Northies, after all. What did I expect? What about the Stillwell stage between the batting cages a giant empty lot and the mini golf course Coney Island’s whitest beer dispensery? Holy Fuck takes top billing there. Already, I like saying the name. Hmm, let’s see, what’s more fun to say… The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart? More angst than a teen vampire movie. Or Holy Fuck? No contest here.
Yes, there’s a band I’ll go and see. Electronic music, yes, but not at the expense of their groove.
There’s a lot more preview-y commentary and video (plus more coverage of the actual good bands) at Hope For Yesterday.
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