Week in Rock: Summer Love Edition
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<strong>PATTERN IS MOVEMENT PLAYED UNION HALL</strong><p>The bearded duo from Philly, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Actor-Amazon-Exclusive/dp/B0025YTBHW">Pattern is Movement</a>, have been on a long tour with current indie rock android goddess St. Vincent. She may have been the headliner, somehow charming everyone from David Byrne <a href="http://videogum.com/archives/music-related-content/st-vincent-on-david-letterman_075952.html">to Ted Leo</a>, but we haven't yet fallen under her spell. So far, it all sounds exactly like what <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Actor-Amazon-Exclusive/dp/B0025YTBHW">this airbrushed A.I.-esque album cover</a> looks like. <em>Boring.</em> So luckily for us, as the tour came to an end Pattern is Movement and St. Vincent split up in Brooklyn for a night. The latter playing at Bell House and the former at Union Hall (where even Zach Condon of Beirut showed up). The band played an energetic set that included a slew of new songs, Beyonce and d'Angelo covers, and some 'ol favorites like <a href="http://www.myspace.com/patternismovement"><em>Jenny Ono</em></a>. The only downside came once the music ended, when sadly we were informed they were fresh out of <a href="http://patternismovement.tumblr.com/post/109365712/a-sneak-peek-at-some-of-our-upcoming-merch-table">their double-amazing bearderific tote bags</a>, so let's hope they return soon with some more.</p>
<strong>THE "POOL" IS OPENING SOON</strong><p><a href="http://gothamist.com/2009/06/26/paper_thinks_mccarren_pool_parties.php">Yesterday</a> amNewYork recommended readers head to McCarren Pool for their summer concert series, but woops, that venue closed after last year for a makeover. So let's take a look at what's <em>really</em> going on with <a href="http://www.thepoolparties.com/">the Pool Parties</a> this summer. The free Sunday shows are keeping their name despite no longer having a pool, and moving over to the Williamsburg Waterfront. No official lineup announcement has been made yet, but <a href="http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2009/06/2009_the_willia.html">BrooklynVegan</a> posted a list earlier this month that is fairly accurate.</p><ul><li>Sunday, July 12 - Mission of Burma, Fucked Up & Ponytail</li><li>Sunday, July 19 - Magnolia Electric Co. AND Dirty Projectors and White Denim</li><li>Sunday, July 26 - Health & Grupo Fantasma</li><li>Sunday, Aug 02 - Dan Deacon, No Age & Deerhunter</li><li>Sunday, Aug 09 - Simian Mobile Disco DJ set & Fiery Furnaces & Dark Meat & Finger on the Pulse</li><li>Sunday, Aug 16 - Del the Funky Homosapien??? & ????</li><li>Sunday, Aug 23 - Girl Talk, Max Tundra and Wiz Khalifa</li><li>Sunday, Aug 30 - Grizzly Bear and Beach House</li></ul>With Dirty Projectors, Grizzly Bear, Beach House, Deerhunter... dare we say this is the best summer lineup yet?
<strong>LIVE FROM GREEN-WOOD CEMETARY</strong><p>Pitchfork has announced a new series that we're totally down, like 6-feet-under down, with. They tell us the new original performance series, Cemetary Gates, "takes place in the Historic Chapel of the Green-Wood Cemetary in Brooklyn. The chapel, which dates back to 1911, will play host to several installments of the intimate performance series in the upcoming months." The debut episode features, <em>who else</em>, St. Vincent, and can be seen <a href="http://pitchfork.com/tv/">on their site</a> as of this week. Upcoming performances will include Andrew Bird, Ra Ra Riot, Grizzly Bear, and Camera Obscura. So how do we get invited?</p>