If you're in New York City, you should consider spending the first balmy night of July (Friday the 1st) at Fontana's Bar with thatwasthen. This LA-based band is embarking on their first East Coast tour promoting their self-titled album, released this past January. These guys put on a serious show--I know from personal experience (read my reviews of their past shows here and here). They're a great team, have a ton of fun on stage (which always gets a tentative crowd energized), and are talented musicians. They have a vintage rock sound with a lot of Zeppelin influences fused with a modern feel, thanks to a clarity of sound similar to Incubus. You're guaranteed a solid start to your weekend!
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Details:
Artists: Thatwasthen (9:00) with Blue Bird (Omaha) (8:00), 3D Mystery (10:00), Cinema Cinema (11:00), and You Bred Raptors? (Midnight)
Venue: Fontana's Bar, Manhattan, NYC
Date: Friday, July 1, 2011
Time: 8:00pm
Price: $8
Age Restrictions: 21+
Claire Gallagher is from Las Vegas, Nevada. She grew up under blinking signs for Girls, Girls, Girls! and she hummed to the clanky sounds of slot machines in casinos and grocery stores and airports. She now attends school at UCLA and is becoming very intimately acquainted with the kick-ass music scene Los Angeles so sweetly provides. When Claire is not on the back of a horse or playing with her pet snake, Skittles, she is listening to music, eating orange chicken, or spinning around in her rolly chair. She is fond of tyrannosaurus rexes, John Steinbeck, and the fleeting feeling of post-concert deafness. You can check her out on tumblr as well.
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