The punk drummer, truck driver, deep-voiced experimental country crooner Daughn Gibson rolled through Brooklyn recently, playing an enigmatic set with a backing band at Glasslands. I saw him once before at Knitting Factory during CMJ last year, when he was just with his drum machines, samplers, and librarian-esque keyboard player. This time around he was
“Why, it’s hotter than a two peckered goat today!” Daughn Gibson’s observation was spot on as he kicked off the festival on the red stage. With his 6’5’’ frame, black tank top and black jeans with a black handkerchief hanging out his back pocket, Daughn would have looked right at home at the shitty dive
On Daughn Gibson’s new album, Me Moan, he is the tallest, darkest cowboy ever born along the highway side. Here, he takes his electronic country blues sound down new paths, reaching cosmic country soul levels. It’s throwback feel through modern ears, like uncovering ancient secrets and incorporating them into an avant-garde performance art installation in the
Thursday night of CMJ ended up being good for sweat and beer at Knitting Factory, but it didn’t start out that way. The first musician I caught there was Daughn Gibson. who paired some dark country croonin’ with electronic beats. He was joined by a librarian-esque keyboard player, who added an extra layer of dusty
The opposite in direction of that one festival that happened a couple months ago in Austin, TX – NXNE Festival takes place in Toronto June 11-17th, and seems like a similar deal: 650 bands in one week, but most likely even more unofficial shows, parties, after parties, random street parties, and general debauchery centered around
Emerging Brooklyn band The Echo Friendly is a name you may start hearing more often. They’ve gotten recent recognition for having their song “Same Mistakes” in the closing credits of the fourth Girls episode, but they also have a band and life philosophy more withstanding than that. In a conversation with band members Jake Rabinbach