Boston band will be embracing fans at pair of area shows (photo by twi-ny/mdr)
Sunday, November 8, Trash Bar, 256 Grand St., 8:00
Monday, November 9, Angels and Kings, 500 East Eleventh St., $5, 8:00
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A few weeks back, we picked the New Collisions as one of the ten bands to watch at the CMJ Music Marathon. We hope you took our advice, because the group — our favorite of the festival, along with Philly’s outrageous Drink Up Buttercup — lived up to its New England hype, putting on a great show at the Bowery Poetry Club. Barely together a year, TNC has quickly established a reputation in Boston clubs and on the road with the B-52s and Blondie. Led by its own platinum blonde, singer Sarah Guild, TNC let loose a groovin’ set of New Wave dance pop on the Bowery, with Scott Guild on guitar, Alex Stern on bass, Casey Gruttadauria on synth and keyboards, and Zak Kahn on drums. TNC was discovered by Cars keyboardist Greg Hawkes, who helped out on their thrilling debut disc, INVISIBLE EMBRACES (out November 17), and has joined them onstage for such numbers as the Cars classic “You Might Think.”
The New Collisions' debut disc is due out November 17
The band kicked off the Bowery Poetry Club show with the impossibly infectious “Parachutes on the Dance Floor,” which deserves to become a dance-hall standard, along with other tunes from the seven-song EP, including the beautiful “Beautiful and Numb,” the languid and bittersweet “Afterglow,” and the propulsive “No Free Ride,” in addition to, appropriately enough, a B-52s cover. The New Collisions will be at the Trash Bar in Williamsburg on November 8, playing with the Daily Pravda, Teen Fiction, and the Pretty Faces, then will perform a special acoustic set on November 9 at Angels and Kings.