RCRD LBL

As much as we like candlelit spaghetti, we spent Thursday night with our best palentines, Dirty On Purpose and Band Of Horses. They took us to the Brooklyn Masonic Temple, an echo heavy bread box with a great poster collection, where they serenaded us all night with gentle love songs.

Now I gotta switch over to "me," because I haven't been as up on DOP as my RCRD LBL brethren. Got seduced by them once in a sidebar at SXSW about four years ago, but quickly lost track after that. And whaddya know? Totally new band. Paranoia and reluctance have given way to full on swagger. They've taken big sonic steps toward Nashville and California without ever taking their eyes off their shoes. Twangy, beachy and mopey, all at once. Call it shoehaze? Sure. Anyway, very pleasant surprise to find them blossomed into a real deal band with a wallop of a sound. Consider me re-seduced.

And then there's Band Of Horses, who recently told The Fader, "we should be the biggest band in the fucking world." And as bad a look as that may be, gotta tellya, standing there with my elbows on the stage (got real lucky that way), it sorta felt like Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Not so much musically, but the feeling... you know? Total daydream. As that Village Voice blog bumout says, BOH isn't rocket science, but it is a good ol' time. Definitely lobbying hard for heavy airplay on our kids' classic rock radios. Man... that'll be weird, won't it? Here, have some music.

DOWNLOAD: Band Of Horses - No One's Gonna Love You

DOWNLOAD: Dirty On Purpose - Leaving, Hard To Tell You and more...

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