November 29, 2006
Gothamist Band of the Week: Au Revoir Simone
Au Revoir Simone is: Heather D'Angelo, Erika Forster and Annie Hart.
Au Revoir Simone makes music that belongs on a soundtrack to an indie holiday flick. Something with Zooey Deschanel glaring off into the distance of a snow covered Tompkins Square park. It's chilly yet remarkably cheery music. These three girls, each on their own keyboard, magically hit the spot for that "I can't believe December is in 2 days already and it's like 60 degrees outside right now" time of the year.
You can check them out this Friday to kick off the holiday month, opening for The Stills at Bowery Ballroom. Have a listen on MySpace.
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that's awesome. No idea how good the band is, but anyone that names their band after a line from Pee Wee's Big Adventure is fine by me.
I saw Au Revoir Simone when they opened for We Are Scientists--not that impressed, nor was the crowd.
Their on stage presence was extremely un-energetic to the point that they seemed as if they didn't want to be there, despite their frequent explanations of how much they were glad to be there.
Maybe I'll give their tracks a listen again but I think I'll pass on seeing them live again.
they opened for We Are Scientists at Bowery Ballroom. the audience was not happy. they can't sing, and they're not talented.
Bryan and Jenn - obviously you guys saw a different Au Revoir Simone than I did. I thought they were great!
lovely band. just when i saw this post, "and sleep al mar" started to play on shuffle. wheee.
boring honky girl synth pop - how does this subpar 10th generation stereolab-lite shite get to see the light of day? - weren't there bands in colleges and high school that pulled it off better than this? guess being cute and knowing the right people has its pay off -
Sad, sad, sad.
Gothamist actually made ARS band of the week in, what, 2005.
It's kind of sad that your readers pay more attention to the job you're doing than you do.
Sad for them (me in this case).
Sad for you (Jeff, JenC and Jake).
Sad, sad, sad.
They give me a super hard boner, so why not, its like masturbating your ear...
I guess thats how their music get into all those mindless hispter's iPod...oh i forgot iPod is their brains...
so true, mamba.
I saw this hipster crap on vh1's bands you should know and googled it. lo and behold, they were on gothamist.
but then there will always be bands like this for the nerdy guy set. me? give me blonde bimbo with no brains each and every time. nothing wrong with them, no siree.
ARS are actually fairly good - and in this hipster's opinion - scorchingly hot - every one of them. Yet, this entry shows how sloppy the "best New York Blog" can be. If only they had said something like, "ARS are so good, we just had to make them Band of the Week twice," I wouldn't have even cared. It's the lack of self-knowledge, of care about what Ist does with it's growing audience that disappoints every time.
Check yourself before you wreck yourself.
Modernage/BrooklynVegan win again!
Well, Gothamist ran an interview with the band in June of 2005. About 7 months before we started doing the Band of the Week feature. I wasn't even writing for the site at that point.
Surely we are not the first news source to write two pieces about the same subject in an 18 month span without explicitly referencing the two?
Whatever, man. I know you didn't check because, if you had, you would have deepened your piece by providing a backlink to your own coverage.
In all fairness, that's where I first heard of ARS, and I thank Ist for that. But c'mon, if you want to act like a top content site, show some effort.
i just saw these girls tonight with the stills and thought i'd google them up... i wasn't so impressed at first, but the songs grew on me as the set came together, and i wanted to find out more about them.
in regards to their stage performance, one of those girls was one of the most energetic and fun performers i've ever seen! ...at least for a group with 3 people on keys. i think it was annie? i can tell you that she was the girl in black who didn't have bangs. she was dancing, jumping, rocking out on the keys and going nuts on the small hand instruments; i think most of the crowd was focused on her and was having a good time. it didn't seem packed at the bowery tonight, but ARS was well received by the crowd.
they're not what i usually listen to, (maybe my ipod isn't hipster enough) but i definitely had a fun time seeing them live.