Muchos gracias to the powers that be at PopMatters for their awesome review of ‘Bright Gray’, filled with awesome quotes like:

“Graveyard” gives us Unicorns like dissonance in its syncopated verses—the idea of death again peripherally revisited through a close family member.

and

Bright Gray hits those discarded notes of years past, the ones worth holding on to.

Read writer Joe Tacopino’s full-review here.

“I’ve heard people put out Elvis Costello, The Clash, Weezer,” says drummer Pat Given, 23. “I think we just have elements of everybody we’ve ever listened to. People seem to be coming for more than just support, they seem to actually like the music, which is great.”

Click here or the pic below to read the whole article (awesome photo credits to Steve Sachs).

The biggest rock station in the largest market in America just played Les Vinyl! We couldn’t be more proud!

PROOF:

This past Friday night, Les Vinyl, along with Paragraph, rocked Maxwell’s in Hoboken.

Don’t believe me? The great music journalist Emily Tan even gave them a write-up on Hoboken Patch:

The band’s carefree and fun attitude and music makes them so much fun to watch on stage. And Jost’s humor just adds to Les Vinyl’s charm as he continuously made Tiger Woods jokes and even did quirky covers of R. Kelly’s “I Believe I Can Fly” and “Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It” by Will Smith.

Rhythm guitarist Jenny Miller holds her own as she shows that girls know how to play just as well (or even better) than the boys can while bassist Mike Carlo adds a flavor to the Les Vinyl sound and rounds everything out. And when everyone thought Cymbals Eat Guitars are the only bright-eyed band of young musicians to come out of Staten Island, Les Vinyl prove that they’ve also got the musical chops.

She forgot to mention Pat on drums, but we’ll take it.

Read the whole article here.

Download Les Vinyl’s album, “Bright Gray.”

Local Journalist and music-beat reporter for the Staten Island Advance, Ben Johnson, recently wrote a nice sidebar to his main article on Ingrid Michaelson playing Snug Harbor March 6th (Les Vinyl will be the opening act). Buy your tickets here.

It’s safe to say the quartet, led by the humorous but far-from-sloppy Casey Jost, leans on some familiar indie rock ideas, like two-chord chorus hooks and danceable beats. But rhythm guitarist Jenny Miller, bassist Mike Carlo, and drummer Pat Given have something that might not be immediately noticed.

The songs themselves, perhaps best showcased in the cut “Far From New,” sound simple and open to the point of nearing naiveté, but are so well-crafted that you know they’re anything but. The tunes bounce and tumble, all under lyrics delivered effortlessly but remembered for the possibility of yet-un-plumbed depth.

Read the whole article here.

Upcoming Shows:

3/6 – Snug Harbor opening for Ingrid Michaelson in Staten Island, NY @ 7pm

3/8 – Village Lantern in Manhattan, NY @ 9:30pm (acoustic set)

3/11 – Fontana’s in Manhattan, NY @11pm

3/19 – Maxwell’s in Hoboken, NJ @ 10:30pm (with Paragraph)

3/20 – Pete’s Candy Store in Williamsburg, BK @ 9pm (with special guests Blurple)