The Goodnight Loving will be all over the tristate area this weekend
Thursday, June 17, the Silent Barn, 915 Wyckoff Ave., Ridgewood, 8:00
Friday, June 18, Bruar Falls, 245 Grand St., Williamsburg, $8, 8:00
Saturday, June 19, Cake Shop, 152 Ludlow St., Manhattan, $10, 8:00
Sunday, June 20, Maxwell’s, 1039 Washington St., Hoboken, $12-$14, 9:00
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Goodnight Loving, where have you been all our lives? We can’t believe we’re only just discovering this amazing Milwaukee band, which has been around since the early 2000s. All that time lost! Well, we’ve been catching up with such fine tunage as the frantic “Mad Is the Man,” the rollicking “Colin Attends a Party,” the acoustic shanty “Purple Death,” and the country-tinged “Dead Fish on the Banks” from such earlier records as THE GOODNIGHT LOVING (2008), CROOKED LAKE (2006), and CEMETERY TRAILS (2005) as well as the groovy “The Pan” from their latest, SUPPER CLUB (Dirtknap, July 2010). Fans of the Black Lips, Drink Up Buttercup, and the classic Nuggets collections will fall in love with the GL’s garage band psychedelia, girl-group harmonies, Brit-pop melodies, and 1960s ephemera. James, Ross, Paul, and Jerome are in the midst of a nonstop U.S. tour right now that brings them to the Silent Barn on June 17 with Big Troubles, Bright Lights, and Fire Season, Bruar Falls on June 18 with Bass Drum of Death, Ex Humans, DJ Daed Pizza, and free ice cream, Cake Shop on June 19 with Prince Rupert’s Drops, and Maxwell’s on June 20 with Reigning Sound, giving everyone a chance to party to their infectious party rock.