YouTuber BPtequila69 recently uploaded a bunch of clips from a live show at CLUB ASIA. The show featured a lot of pretty cool bands. I've pasted in a few of my own favorites here, like this one from Plazticzooms. The sounds quality isn't super great, but the video is good.
Hit the jump for a couple more highlights.
Psysalia Psysalis Psyche
I like the Andy Warhol wig.
The Mirraz
Psysalia Psysalis Psyche is an arty, brooding grunge band formed around 2005, though simply calling them a grunge band is selling them woefully short. Like their alliterative name might suggest, they blend styles and sounds from all over the map with loud guitars and sloppily screamed lyrics just one set of paints on their palette. For every jangly song there is an equally soft and shoegazy counterpart, a slightly psychedelic swirl behind the driving rhythms.
While songs like "Take Me Out" and "Midunburi" seem haunted by Kobain's ghost, others like "Lonesome Valley" and the stunning "Narrow" show a much more modern, almost post-punk aesthetic. There are also more sparse and dreary moments like "Act I Scene II Tremolo," and it's follow-up "Tea For Two," both of which seem pulled from an angst-filled film soundtrack.
Whatever they attempt, Psysalia Psysalis Psyche manage to ride the fine-line between obsessive attention to detail and sloppy rage. They have enough coffee-house flair to grab the beard-wearing, iPhone obsessed art-students, while still waving a middle finger in the air. With only a few small releases and one solid album under their belts, it'll be interesting to see what course this young group chooses to blaze.
