WXDU will be hosting a live on-air performance from Des Ark Sunday at 4 p.m. Per the blog (albeit edited a bit), Aimee Argote has been writing a ton of new songs:
…but now i got a pile of new songs, and these new ones, they’re nothing like those two old ones. they’re f–ing sad, & so i’m just writing to let you know that everything is going to be ok, that everything is back to normal. i’m done wasting your time with that sappy happy crap, kicked the bug from my system. i’m playing real songs again. it is time to f–ing cry, y’all!
You can listen here. And in an other bit of Des Ark news, we just unearthed this video of Argote playing solo from the Midtown Dickens release party in April. Remember when she was going to bring everyone outside and play under a tree? That show. Enjoy.
Our beloved Midtown Dickens will be playing a show with Humble Tripe and Malcolm Rollick at the Nightlight next Saturday, Jan. 9. It’s kind of like round two of Humble Tripe’s December release party at the Coffeehouse. The show starts at 10 p.m. and tickets are $5. Should be a grand old time.
AND check out some old footage of Midtown from their August CD release party at the Coffehouse (with two-thirds of Megafaun and some select other musicians) here and here, and from a house show here.
After the Yo La Tengo show last night, Midtown Dickens played an intimate house show in Durham with Box Elders that was, per the usual, delightful. Check out the videos below for a glimpse of what you missed (or didn’t if you were lucky enough to be there).
In what might be one of the cutest moments ever captured on film, Midtown Dickens covered the Sonny & Cher anthem “I Got You Babe,” with Kym Register and Catherine Edgerton serenading one another and a delighted audience. Watch the video below, and click here for more video of their packed, sweaty Friday night performance at the Duke Coffeehouse. The only appropriate reaction to this video is “Aww.” Enjoy.
Midtown Dickens celebrated the release of their second LP, Lanterns, Friday at the Duke Coffeehouse. The band–augmented by a quartet of horns and Megafaun’s Brad and Phil Cook–spent the time between songs thanking all their friends and those who enabled the album–it was like a bearable Oscars acceptance speech with great metaphors about babies. But a grateful Midtown Dickens was matched by an audience even more grateful for the energetic, joyful performance. Check out the three videos below of Midtown Dickens performing some of the tracks from Lanterns. (And if you are wondering about the head that occasionally pops on screen–that’s Kym Registers mom standing front row-center.)
