Vampire Weekend/Budos Band@Angel Orensanz, Sept. 19
eMusic threw a party Wednesday night to celebrate the fact that they've started offering audiobooks on their site. Which sounds awesome in theory, but I have a giant stack of real page books to work through, so I don't think I'm going to be adding audiobooks to the mix anytime soon.
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Vampire Weekend opened up the show, and they were so much fun. I'd read a lot about them (actually, I'd read that they're the second coming of Paul Simon's "Graceland" in four or 500 publications), but I hadn't heard them before. They were awesome. And, I'm not sure who first brought up the "Graceland" connection, but now I'm starting to think it was the band itself. Their music is nothing if not an homage to the great masterpiece of world-fusion music. But the sound is fresh and fun, and the boys have a ton of energy. Decked out in button-downs and sweaters these cuties (who look fresh out of high school) rocked the house.
And may I say a word about the house: Angel Orensanz Foundation is beautiful. The synagogue-turned-arts-venue on the Lower East is a magnificent place to see a concert, and if you get the chance to, go.
After a brief intermission, funk/afrobeat outfit Budos Band took the stage. These guys are from Staten Island, I have since learned, so you should have plenty of opportunities to see them. And you should. These guys are awesome. Captivating funk instrumentals exploded from the stage. "You should be dancing right now; it's an open bar," one of the guys greeted the crowd. But, sadly, the crowd wasn't really as into it as they should have been. I think that the vast majority of the attendees were expecting more networking and less concert from their party experience, so they were treating the band like background noise. Which is a shame. The only thing I wrote down about Budos Band was, "Funktastic." It was an open bar; I was dancing.
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Ive seen Vampire Weekend before (when they played East River Park), and they are all right. However I like Dan Deacon and Deerhunter much better so far this year.