This pic below is not Acme Underground, but whatever happened to that place? Used to be one of the NYC key venues, but long closed I guess. Does that make me old. Should I tell people about shows at Coney Island High? Or going to Tramps NYC?
Anyway, we’ll be at Arlene’s Grocery on Friday, December 28th, 10pm sharp. More info to come soon.
And as for Acme Underground. Its been re-incarnated as a restaurant and cocktail bar! What the?!
Thanks to all those who came out on a damp Monday night to see us at Pianos. I know I would have struggled to be out on a Monday night like last night, with day job making me pay the price this morning, so we do appreciate the support. Anyway, more pictures and videos to come soon.
Set list for the show at Pianos on Monday, December 10th was as follows:
Supercooler
Bullet Time
The Thrill
Wait Again
Something Happening (video below)
Mi6
LA Dreaming
Photographs
See you later in the month.
Yeah I know I shouldn’t put up all the “works in progress”. And I’ve been advised otherwise. But I really like this one. Even if its the instrumental version without vocals.
[audio:http://www.stereooff.com/music/the-things-we-do.mp3|titles=The Things We Do (inst)|artists=stereo off]See you Monday. We’ve also now got another show confirmed for later in December.
Stereo Off on Monday, December the 10th at Pianos, with our good friend Cru the Dynamic and Special guests to be confirmed.
Looking forward to getting some new stuff that we’ve been working on in the set. We’ll be on at 10pm sharp. Cru will be on at 9pm.
Tickets are $8 at the door. Location details below….. See you there!
Hey, its been a while since we posted. Mainly due to the events last week, where some of us, and our close friends were disconnected, flooded, stranded with no transit or gas, and/or surrounded by things like this:
Hope you and everyone you know are ok. We had no choice but to postpone a couple of things, and even the area where we rehearse is a bit off limits at this point, but hopefully back on track soon.
Been a busy couple weeks, but here’s another clip from the last show (Photographs). Not sure if the static is from putting an iPhone clip on a PC, but that’s another story.
More to come soon including a handful of new tracks and shows in NY and elsewhere in the coming months.
For this week, another new track we’re working on is tentatively called “Bad Friday”, though likely to get a different name when we’ve tidied it up. Still, figured I’d keep putting these tracks up as we put them together. And yes, that’s a drum machine for now, but hopefully soon we’ll record it in the studio with everyone.
[audio:http://www.stereooff.com/music/bad-friday-demo-stereo-off.mp3|titles=Bad Friday (demo)|artists=stereo off]And this is opposed to the better Fridays’ that usually come act as a day off, or even the movie (was it a trilogy?). In a past life, the logo from Stereo Off had an acting career. Here’s one of the cameo appearances it made, sitting besides Ice Cube and Chris Tucker.
Yeah I went there.
Working on new tracks. Here’s an instrumental cut of one of the songs being put together this month.
Passports, Campari, Instrumental… – [audio:http://www.stereooff.com/music/studio/passports-instrumental.mp3|titles=Passports (instrumental demo)|artists=stereo off]
From switching the stereo off because we’re on stage, to perhaps having a “stereo off” of a duel with an arrogant car in the next lane, there’s plenty of ways to have your stereo. Anyway, the band name had me thinking, what are some of the other great “stereo’s”. So here’s a top 10 in no particular order.
1 – Pumping on Your Stereo by Supergrass – Classic Song.
2 – Stereo by Pavement – Classic band.
3 – Stereo Sanctity by Sonic South – A bit of one and two.
4 – Stereo MCs – Old school and still spinning.
5 – The Apples in Stereo – Reminders of vinyl, but of the mp3 era.
6 – Death by Stereo – Old movie quote from the 80’s classic Lost Boys, later a name of a hardcore band.
7 – Stereolab – London based band, electro indie before it was called it. Still playing today.
8 – Stereogum – Music blog around longer than the term “blog”, also covered a previous band I was in back in the days.
9 – Stereo by John Legend – Falls into the category of songs I never thought (or wanted to admit) I’d like, but I do (perhaps a separate top ten list).
10 – Stereo Off! – Yeah, ignore the title, its my list after all.
Any others we forgot? Let us know. But for now, that’s your ten!
Put that on your Letterman!
Good weekend with our first show at The Knitting Factory Brooklyn. As opposed to the rest of the band who have been on stage MUCH more recently with other projects (in one case yesterday!), it has been a bit longer for me. The nerves hit, but it all worked out in the end. Looking forward to the next show.
Some good stories too, some less show related than others, but do enjoy the multiple interpretations of the band name. Anyway, back to the original story, I realized that I still have t-shirts from bands past that I was in (and wasn’t in), and figured that our band needs one too.
Bit of a test run above, but perhaps we’ll be able to get these on site soon so that someone other than me can have one. Let us know what you think. I guess stickers are another early requirement for bands, though I don’t see that as much as I used to. Perhaps I’m outdated.
I still remember bands releasing albums and they would often hide a bonus track on the CD (when’s the last time you bought one of those?). But those hidden tracks were awesome, even if often a random outtake or B-side (there’s another old reference). Still, one these days can’t get a “hidden download” – oh look my mp3 player or computer opened a random file I didn’t download… and its a song! Or a virus. Or both. Damn, time for a new computer then.