Show Date: May 5, 2008
As long as I’ve been going to shows and being a music fan, I’ve been a Northern State fan. When their debut EP Dying In Stereo was released, I listened to it repeatedly and incessantly. I was starting to write for a feminist rock magazine and at that point I liked (and still do) their […]
Show Date: December 3, 2007
Picture a mix of Team Gina +1, a significantly less raunchy Peaches, and the Beastie Boys on mad estrogen, and you have the makings of Brooklyn band Northern State. Named after the very parkway located on Long Island (as my NY indigenous buddy recounted), the rappy three piece ("Spero,” “Sprout,” and “Hesta Prynn”) hopped, paced, […]
Has anyone heard the new Northern State album (Can I Keep This Pen? was finally released today on Ipecac)? I haven't had a chance to pick it up… so for the time being, I'll keep watching a video for a song (“Better Already”) from the new album. Um… awesome! Tangent — does it remind you […]
So much good news for fans of Tegan and Sara (as all three imaginary girls are)! Not only does the band have a new record coming out later this month (7/24), entitled The Con, but they also have TWO shows at the Triple Door on July 18th and 19th. Rejoice! Can't wait to hear something […]
As alluded to at their SXSW Showcase, Northern State are finishing up their third full length album (with Adrock!) and, keeping it old school, have readied a 12" record titled Better Already for us to enjoy while we wait for them to finish their next proper release. They've picked two songs from the full length […]
Show Date: March 15, 2007
With Dark Meat, The Zebras, the Manhattan Love Suicides, Okkervil River, BOAT, Tullycraft, The Faintest Ideas, The Pipettes, Palomar, Cut Off Your Hands, Get Cape Wear Cape Fly, The Cassettes, Kate Havnevik, Rocky Votolato, Mika, Northern State, The Fratellis, Straylight Run, Fair to Midland, and Amy Winehouse Thursday, March 15th, started with big-time excitement: today […]
