{"id":692,"date":"2015-04-18T16:51:06","date_gmt":"2015-04-18T23:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/wolfjournal\/?p=110"},"modified":"2015-04-18T16:51:06","modified_gmt":"2015-04-18T23:51:06","slug":"concert-at-the-el-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/musicalcities\/concert-at-the-el-bar\/","title":{"rendered":"Concert at the El Bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The El Bar and venue is located under the Light Rail less than a mile from my house. It&#8217;s considered a local &#8220;Dive&#8221; spot. The El shows music almost overnight.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/wolfjournal\/files\/2015\/04\/The-El-Bar-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-111 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/wolfjournal\/files\/2015\/04\/The-El-Bar--300x199.jpg\" alt=\"The-El-Bar-\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On April 11th, they featured a Four Local Philadelphia bands, Harsh Vibes, Ttotals, Natural Velvet, and Dulls.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is the first band that played, Harsh Vibes.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nJ1IVlF5q34?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I was unable to talk to any of the members of Harsh Vibes, and I have been unable to find much information about the band. However, I enjoyed their music. They were a mix between Shoe Gaze, Psycadelic, and Indie Rock.<\/p>\n<p>The second band, Ttotals, are a national contempory blues\/rock band from Nashville, Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/wolfjournal\/files\/2015\/04\/Ttoals.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-112 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/wolfjournal\/files\/2015\/04\/Ttoals-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Exif_JPEG_PICTURE\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They are signed to Twin Lakes records. Here is what Twin Lakes records had to say about the Ttotals sound&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nashville\u2019s outer blues duo Ttotals are back, creating dark, brooding twisters of sound, downing power lines with leagues-deep drums and haunting vocals, scorched-earth guitars, and flashes of sampled electronics&#8230;a careening vortex performing a muddy dance stomp along the Mississippi Delta as it flings the blues up to the heavens. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here is an example of their music:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QbfwITrzSMw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The third band called themselves, &#8220;Natural Velvet.&#8221; They are from Baltimore Maryland<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/wolfjournal\/files\/2015\/04\/Natural-Velvet-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-113 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/wolfjournal\/files\/2015\/04\/Natural-Velvet-2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Natural Velvet #2\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They sounded like a punk rock band that decided to play indie music instead. According to their Bandcamp site, they identify with a &#8220;Dazed Post Punk band.<br \/>\nDuring their perfomance, a lot of people left the stage area to use the restroom, buy a beer or smoke outside. Their crowd response wasn&#8217;t that great. Although they didn&#8217;t appeal to the Fishtown crowd, they played a song titled &#8220;Salome.&#8221; The following is a DIY video with the comment underneath,&#8221;&#8221;Salome&#8221; video from the EP &#8220;Salome With The Head of John The Baptist&#8221; by Natural Velvet.&#8221; It became apparent that they were influenced by music of the second Vienese School. Here is the Video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IseB3bJfkoI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The last band to play were called &#8220;Dulls.&#8221; I have researched high and low for information about this band and I can&#8217;t find a single thing about them. They were a really intense punk rock band that received the biggest crowd response. Not a single person stood at the bar. Everyone was on the main floor moshing, jumping on and off the stage, and dancing. I wish that I could find something about the band because I enjoyed their performance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The El Bar and venue is located under the Light Rail less than a mile from my house. It&rsquo;s considered a local &ldquo;Dive&rdquo; spot. The El shows music almost overnight. On April 11th, they featured a Four Local Philadelphia bands, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/wolfjournal\/2015\/04\/18\/concert-at-the-el-bar\/\">Continue reading <span>&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1066,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[],"tags":[99],"geo":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/musicalcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/musicalcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/musicalcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/musicalcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1066"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/musicalcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/musicalcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/musicalcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/musicalcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/musicalcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}