By Matt Kiernan
Café Nine in New Haven is welcoming an assortment of lo-fi pop bands that include the Beets, Christmas Island, Beach Fossils and the Procedure Club.
The bands will be performing this Wednesday at 9 p.m. in a concert that was put together by Manic Productions for those who are 21 years old and older.
New York City’s the Beets received high praise last year when NYC’s L Magazine listed them in their “8 NYC Bands You Need to Hear: 2009.”
The band formed less than two years ago, and released their debut album Spit in the Face of People Who Don’t Want to Be Cool on the label Captured Tracks.
San Diego’s Christmas Island recently released their debut album, Blackout Summer, on Los Angeles’s In the Red records. The band has previously released singles and 7”s on labels such as Woodsist and Captured Tracks.
Beach Fossils of Brooklyn has a 7” out entitled, “Daydream,” which has caught the eye of the music news website pitchfork.com.
New Haven’s own Procedure Club have released an album on Series Two records entitled “Music for the Leisure Time,” which can be purchased on insound.com, with a limited 300 copies available. Procedure Club has also recently signed to Captured Tracks.
Like record labels such as Woodsist, Captured Tracks focuses on releasing noisier, more lo-fi recordings.
The Beets, Christmas Island and Beach Fossils will be touring together until Feb. 20, ending in Williamsburg, N.Y., and then going their separate ways to continue their tours.
Tickets can be purchased on cafenine.com for $6.
