Elephant Stone Play Mercury Lounge Tonight / The Horrors' Remix of "A Silent Moment" Posted As A Free Download

(Note: Track is a free download from Elephant Stone's website - link is below)

Yesterday, Elephant Stone commemorated the launch of their Eastern US tour by releasing The Horrors' Tom Furse Remix of "A Silent Moment". The transcontinental collaboration was born of a chance meeting at Coachella that quickly developed into Elephant Stone's Rishi Dhir and Furse's frequent work on one another's projects.

Recently, Elephant Stone premiered the third video from their self-titled sophomore record, "Love The Sinner, Hate The Sin" which was followed quickly by Dhir's appearance with Beck at Osheaga Music and Arts Festival, before the band began their US tour earlier this week in Burlington, VT and continue to support the powerful self-titled sophomore record, released earlier this year via Hidden Pony and The Reverberation Appreciation Society.



Tonight's show is an early show with doors at 6:30PM and Elephant Stone is going on first (at 6:30PM, according to Mercury Lounge's website). Also on the bill are jangle-rockers Desert Noises (set time at 7:30PM) and psych-rocker Morning Teleportation (8:30PM set time). Tickets are $10.

ELEPHANT STONE US TOUR DATES:
08 August - Burlington VT - Signal Kitchen
09 August - Philadelphia PA - Kung Fu Necktie
10 August - New York NY - The Mercury Lounge
11 August - Washington DC - Black Cat Backstage
13 August - Asheville NC - Broadways
14 August - Nashville TN - High Watt
15 August - Louisville KY - RYE on Market
16 August - Chicago IL - Beat Kitchen
17 August - Detroit MI - The Pike Room at the Crofoot

Links:
Elephant Stone

The Horrors - Strange House CD Review

I was going to end this review by mentioning that The Horrors were playing Irving Plaza (aka The Fillmore) tomorrow night but I just read that the show has been canceled. It is probably too late for anyone to make this show but the band is at Luna Lounge in Brooklyn tonight.

I have read a couple reviews of this CD and I haven't figured out why some reviewers like comparing this band to The Cramps. Aside for perhaps some visual similarities, the bands are nothing alike. To further this point, The Horrors' CD starts off with a cover of Screaming Lord Sutch's Jack the Ripper and the Cramps' sound is much more rockabilly (one of The Cramps' frequently played cover tunes was Ricky Nelson's Lonesome Town). A better point of comparison for The Horrors would be The Stranglers or The Mummies.

All-in-all, this is a fun CD. This is basically straight-forward garage punk that borrows liberally from the punk sounds of the last 30 years. Lead singer, Faris Badwan has a voice similar to Iggy Pop and musically, the band has a dark and claustrophobic sound mixing the sound of 80's bands like The Birthday Party with the garage rock sounds of the 60s.

Check out the MTV banned video for Sheena is a Parasite:


If you buy The Horror's new CD from Best Buy (currently on sale for $7.99), you will get a code which will allow you to download three exclusive tracks ("Gloves" (live), "Death at the Chapel" (live), and "Kicking Kay")

Links:
The Horror's MySpace page (link)