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Aeroplane Pageant (Long Island, NY): Aeroplane Pageant write effortless, luminous songs, dense in layers of guitars, but without coming off noisy or overproduced. It's a sound that makes me wish summer had held on a little longer. Try "The Air Went Pink" on their MySpace page. Aeroplane Pageant play Rothko on November 8.
Empty Rooms (San Francisco, CA): Empty Rooms, what an appropriate name for this band. Echoes dominate their songs. Vast spaces reside between icicle guitar notes and Andy Beyer's sonorous vocals, but the voids are not hollow or lifeless. Instead they brim with dark elegance. Download "Try Again" (MP3).
Awesome New Republic (Miami, FL): ANR are John Hancock and Rob Robertson, two University of Miami School of Music graduates trying to "keep it real" in South Florida. Accessorized with some funked-up demonic bling, ANR have concocted an enlivening amalgamation of soul, R&B;, experimental electronics, and twisted wit. If they were from New York, they would probably be the talk of the town. Check out three songs on the ANR MySpace page.
Elsewhere:
Leaders are playing tonight at the Knitting Factory's Tap Bar, with Proton Proton and Hands and Thumbs. The show starts at 10 PM; tickets are $5.
Rogue Wave's splendid new record Descended Like Vultures is finally out and the band has announced a set of U.S. and Canada tour dates. Look for them in New York on December 2 at the Bowery Ballroom, with Mazarin. Tickets are not yet on sale.