John Dwyer got a little hungry at the 2009 Siren Festival (photo by twi-ny/mdr)
River to River Festival
South Street Seaport, Pier 17
Friday, July 16, free, 6:00
www.seaportmusicfestival.com
www.myspace.com/ohsees
Veterans of the 2009 Siren Festival, John Dwyer, Brigid Dawson, Petey Dammit, and Mike Shoun are back in New York City, bringing with them lots of WARM SLIME (In the Red, May 2010), the San Fran band’s frantic, frenetic, kickass new disc. “All you need is the summertime,” they declare on the epic title-track freakout, which goes on for more than thirteen minutes, a great introduction to a free summer show July 16 at the South Street Seaport. The seven guitar-heavy songs on WARM SLIME sound like an amphetamine-addled Duane Eddy crashing down the Autobahn, from the dirty, foot-stomping “Everything Went Black” to the mega-awesome “Mega-feast” to the explosive “I Was Denied.” Onstage, Dwyer virtually makes love to his guitar, caressing it, hugging it to his body, and holding it in unusual ways while also wrapping his lips and mouth around the microphone. “Yeah, I think we are good,” they proclaim on the garage rave-up “Castiatic Tackle.” (We don’t know what it means either.) Well, they’re good, all right. Thee Oh Sees will be at the Seaport Music Festival on July 16 with Brooklyn psychedelic popsters Golden Triangle and quirky Irish rockers So Cow.