▲ Amazing Baby ▲: 2008

December 30, 2008

Sound Bites list

The Sound Bites blog is the first source that brought Amazing Baby into my attention. The owner of the blog has compiled a personal list of albums of the year.
This is Amazing Baby's entry, at number 25. :

25. Amazing Baby - Infinite Fucking Cross EP (download EP) (Video + Video) Hated by Brooklynvegan commenters, loved by me. Harder, more-rocking Roxy Music? About as close to a good description as you can get with these pigeonhole-adverse Williamsburg residents.

MusicFile article

It's pretty much the same old story in this article... They are impressed, they make the obligatory drug reference, they want you to check out the EP and they predict 2009 will be a good year for Amazing Baby.

Hell, so do I.
So let's hope the year changes quickly so we can get some action.

Read the thoughts of the people
over at MusicFile.

December 22, 2008

2009's Red Pages: Hot 100 List

It is arranged in alphabetical order, so Amazing Baby is at the top four.
It says :

Amazing Baby - rock & pop

Although the Brooklyn duo formed in January 2008, they've already toured with MGMT and released an EP this summer.
Highly anticipated album expected 2009.

Link

Blog admin's note :
for future reference to all journalists,
there are 5 (FIVE) members in Amazing Baby.

An old review, but it's well worth reading

A review of the London show, which was on November 17th.
Some amusing highlights :

"Frontman Will Roan is deliciously sexy with his deliberate enticing stage presence, sporadically swinging his mic around like an ageing 70’s rocker, (Andrew VanWyngarden eat your heart out!) Alongside Will and the rotating cast of backing band players was guitarist Simon O’Connor, who played as though entranced by the music they were making from behind his long lank locks……or maybe that was just the acid?"

Read it at the For the Record Blog
(review courtesy of Francesca Strange)

December 19, 2008

Head Dress is on NME's top 50 tracks of the year list

"Amazing Baby - Head Dress. The opening track of the 'Invisible Fucking Cross' EP, 'Head Dress' spared with euphoric guitar riffs and heart-burstingly beautiful layers of noise. And it isn't going too far to point to the surge of thrilling music coming from New York as the icing on the 'We Heart USA' zeitgeist that peaked with the electing of Obama and promises so much for 2009"

So says NME.

December 18, 2008

The L.A. gig

EDIT :
Two photos from the show :

Check them out full size

at bbmcshane's Flickr

Cooking with Amazing Baby, courtesy of Fader

December 16, 2008

Head Dress video

Amazing Baby-Head Dress:
Lenny Tso [Director]
Vince Galvin (R.I.P.)[Producer]
Tim Hansberry [Editor]
Kevin Kim [GFX]
Sky Collective Inc [Production Company]
info@skycollective.com
(C) 2008

December 12, 2008

Pump Your Brakes live at Viva Studios

A great video from the sessions, recorded in August.

December 10, 2008

Last.fm statistics

Last.fm keeps track of songs that the users of this application listen to. The play count of Amazing Baby songs has been growing impressively fast since last summer.

The first tracks ('Narwhal 2.20.08' and 'Supreme Being 2.14.08') were scrobbled in February, when there was just one listener.
By June, the tracks had been listened to 959 times, with 'Head Dress' being the most popular song.

By July 10th, there had been
1 589 plays,
by 187 individual listeners.
Today, December 10th, there has been
15 335 plays,
by 1 711 individual listeners.

That's pretty damn well for an unsigned band.

December 5, 2008

Airplay

'Pump Your Brakes'
was played on THE LET OUT radio show
by THE FADER CREW

November 30, 2008

Spin again (not sure if I "dig" the "hpstr" term, though)

From the November issue of digital Spin.

November 29, 2008

Gig at Mercury Lounge, NYC

Timetable :

My Best Fiend 8:30
The Muggabears 9:30
Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson 10:30
Amazing Baby 11:30

Hosted by Despot
Tickets are $12
@
Mercury Lounge
217 E Houston St
New York, NY 10002,
United States

November 28, 2008

Gig at Mercury Lounge, NYC

Tickets are $12

For more info,
check out Brooklynvegan

EDIT :

Check out great shots from the gig at
Ben Rowland's website.

November 26, 2008

Airplay

'Invisible Palace'
was played today on Peer Pressure
by DAMIAN GENUARDI

November 25, 2008

Gigwise.com article on A.B. and Violens

"In Demand! Violens and Amazing Baby"
written by David Renshaw

November 23, 2008

Guardian article on Boy Crisis & "Brooklyn Buzz Bands". A.B. gets a mention.

The main article, written by (Paul Lester) on Boy Crisis is here,
while at the bottom of the page there's a list of
"Eight other Brooklyn bands worth checking out",
Amazing Baby is one :

November 22, 2008

Sucker Blues at Viva Sessions

Shot in August.
Listen to the show here.

November 21, 2008

First official video : Pump Your Brakes

Directed by Alex Goldberg & Ben Schechter

November 18, 2008

Amazing Baby's Will Roan Shows You His Greenpoint Apartment

Click photo to see video on the Village Voice website.

ps. Special thanks to vintageheartsxoxo
for making the video available again

November 17, 2008

Video of the whole Lexington (London) show

Set list :
1 sucker blues
2 bayonets
3 supreme being
4 invisible palace
5 head dress
6 kankra
7 pump your brakes
8 the narwhal

Note :
Don kicked a loudspeaker down from the stage during Bayonets,
which caused my camera holding hands to falter.

November 16, 2008

NME review of yesterday's SWN Festival show

"Amazing Baby are - Yes! - Amazing at Swn"
by Jamie Fullerton

November 15, 2008

Gig - Swn Festival

Headlining the NME stage

at
Barfly (Cardiff, Wales)
with support from
Broken Records + local bands
at 8 PM

EDIT :

3 photos from the show can be seen on Flickr

November 14, 2008

Amazing Baby @ La Cigale SFR (Festival des Inrocks)

With Ting Tings, Cajun Dance Party & Black Kids
at 8 PM
in Paris, France

EDIT :

Photos from the show can be seen
here
and
here.

November 13, 2008

Video : Amazing Baby + Violens + MGMT = Sweet Emotion

Posted on YouTube by coolfrog28
Filmed at the Machester Academy gig, two days ago.

London Calling warm up show - Amsterdam

With Friendly Fires and Wild Beasts

EDIT :

A few pictures from the show,
on Indindo1's Flickr

November 11, 2008

Gig at Manchester Academy

With MGMT

November 10, 2008

Gig at Birmingham Academy

With MGMT

November 9, 2008

Gig at Glasgow Barrowlands

With MGMT

November 8, 2008

Will Roan is on the NME Cool List

"Amazing Baby's Will Roan is a new entry on this year's Cool List. If MGMT ditched the neat synth hooks and indulged their prog-stoner instincts to the max, they'd sound like fellow Wesleyan Uni graduates Amazing Baby, whose frontman Will Roan is a tousle-haired VanWyngarden-in-waiting."

From here.