[Night Out] Little May @ Mercury Lounge (10/20/2015)

Little May @ Mercury Lounge (10/20/2015) photo credit: @sproutdr

Still riding the fumes of my CMJ high, I proceeded to see how long I could make my at least one band a day streak last. Obviously CMJ had me at 5 straight days, that Sunday I went to see Good Morning play Rock Shop in Brooklyn sans-camera, and then I remembered that Sprout and I had Little May that Monday at Mercury Lounge! I went a full week! It was awesome. Not to mention that Little May are Australian too so I technically had a 3 day streak of Aussie kids to support, so that was great as well. Sprout and I had been super pumped to see them ever since we first heard, "Home" back in July. The trio certainly did not disappoint. With their debut full-length For The Company being just a couple of weeks old at that point, you couldn't tell by how much the rest of the crowd was into it. With the kind of energy they were able to harness inside Merc, I see big things for them on the horizon.

Make sure you check out their debut album For The Company if you haven't already.

Here are all of Sprout's snaps from the show:

#skoaradio 10/24/2015 liner notes

artist rendition of my convo with Alex from Kingswood after I shut the mic off post-interview.lol

Hey fam!

Things refuse to slow down in SKOA HQ, but I'm not complaining! I wrapped up CMJ with a day in Aussie Heaven where we interviewed KINGSWOOD prior to watching them totally kill it. I can't believe how much fun I had. Kinda wish it had never ended tbh. Oh well. Time to prep for Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival, which is coming up super fast. I've got a couple of new tracks on this week's show. As always would love to hear your thoughts so @ me bb if you liked what you heard!

See you next week!

<3

kibbe!

• Battle Tapes - "Valkyrie"
  • Debut album Polygon drops on November 20th!
• BOOTS - "Bombs Away"
  • New track "C.U.R.E." out now
  • Debut full length Aquaria drops November 23th!
  • BOOTS is playing Rough Trade for his release show! You've officially missed your chance to get tix :(
• Good Morning - "You"
  • Official writeup of my interview with them from last week's CMJ show coming soon!
• Car Seat Headrest - "Times To Die"
  • New album Teens of Style drops October 30th!
  • Shows coming up in the UK & US.
• Weaves - "Motorcycle"
  • Did you know that THE NEW YORK TIMES reviewed one of their CMJ shows!?! AMAZING!!
• Monarchy - "Black Widow"
  • These guys just wrapped up their final shows for 2015 (</3).
  • Have you picked up Abnocto or ReVision yet!?
• Sam Sparro - "Hands Up"
  • Sam's new EP Quantum Physical Vol 2 is out now! GO GET IT!
• Kenna - "Sleep When We Die"
  • Dude just finished up 35 days of traveling to shoot his "Sleep When We Die" video. The NYC Core got some hugs with him while he was here.
  • Go help fund Songs For Flight!
• JR JR - "Gone"
  • JR JR available now.
• Slum Sociable - "All Night"
  • Go grab TQ now
  • You can also see pitchas of these guys from my CMJ coverage. I may or may not have seen them three times :)
• Little May - "Boardwalks"
  • Caught these little darlings this week at Mercury Lounge. Show review coming soon!
  • Go grab their album For The Company asap okay
• Don Diablo & Matt Nash - "Starlight (Could You Be Mine)"
  • Don Diablo moved up like a gazillion slots to NUMBER 30 IN DJ MAG'S TOP 100 DJS LIST OMG YAYYYY!!
• Interpol - "All Fired Up"
  • If you don't have their latest record, El Pintor well then shame on you (this track is from Our Love To Admire tho)
• The Dead Weather - "I Feel Love(Every Million Miles)"
  • Dodge and Burn is good fam, you needs it.
• KINGSWOOD  Interview!
• KINGSWOOD - "Ohio"
  • Hope you enjoyed this interview. Don't worry, imma pull out the good bits to write up all official :)
• Mr. Hudson - "Dancing Thru It"
  • I'M. SO. HAPPY. HE'S. BACK!!!!!!!!!
  • Can't be too mad considering he was off working on the new Duran Duran album, which is great tbh.
  • Also the Souncloud page for this says MORE MUSIC COMING. YES YES YES YES YES.
• Magic Sword - "Battlefield"
  • Have you read the comic for this btw? Pretty cool stuff.
  • Official write up for this interview is coming soon too. :)
• Sami Switch - "Self Destruct"
  • This guy's story is so cool. You have to watch this mini docu about his trajectory in the past few years. He's gone from homeless to selling out shows in London. Good for him.
• Wrabel - "I Want You"
  • Still tryna figure out why "bae-bel" still hasn't upped this to iTunes/Spotify/Whatever yet. It's on YouTube and Soundcloud at least? And you can haz for $FREE.99
  • Anyway you can grab his first EP Sideways to show love. I think that's fair right?

THINGS I TALKED ABOUT ON THE SHOW THIS WEEK INCLUDE:

• Spotify pulled all of Victory Records catalog (oof).
• Not Convinced That Spotify Is A Music Discovery Platform? Check Out These Mercury Prize Streaming Bumps
• Apple has a third as many paying subscribers as Spotify

Sydney Rockers Little May Announce World Tour

Sydney trio Little May have revealed that they will be hitting the road starting in September on a world tour in support of their upcoming debut album, For The Company, which drops on October 9th courtesy of Dew Process and Capitol Records. Tickets for their US dates are on sale now which you can snag over on their website.  

If you haven't heard their debut single, "Home" yet you need to get on that ASAP. This is a great first taste of what's to come. The band was fortunate enough to have Aaron Brooking Dessner from The National produce the record and from the sounds of it he really made sure they stepped out with their best foot forward. 

Catch Little May On Tour In The US

10.20.15 - Mercury Lounge - New York, NY

10.21.15 - Baby's All Right - Brooklyn, NY

10.23.15 - MilkBoy - Philadelphia, PA

10.24.15 - DC9 - Washington, DC

10.26.15 - Schubas Tavern - Chicago, IL

10.27.15 - 7th Street Entry - Minneapolis, MN

10.29.15 - Barboza - Seattle, WA

10.30.15 - Mississippi Studios - Portland, OR

11.2.15 - The Independent - San Francisco, CA

11.3.15 - The Echo - Los Angeles, CA