Serious Business Rock and Roll Revue III with Higgins + Benji Cossa + The Unsacred Hearts + Rocketship Park.

TimeOut NY says, “Serious Business, a local label devoted to the dying art of unpretentious guitar pop and other handmade styles, stages a family-style revue featuring mix-and-match personnel, lovingly chosen cover tunes and more. (Look out for wistful, psych-leaning indie-pop crew Higgins, supporting a new SB full-length, Straight A’s.)”

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THE SERIOUS BUSINESS ROCK AND ROLL REVUE III: NYC

SAT MAY 26 2012 @ LITTLEFIELD
starring
BENJI COSSA, HIGGINS, ROCKETSHIP PARK, THE UNSACRED HEARTS plus special guests.
Get tickets.

At Littlefield on May 26, 2012, the collective of songwriters and musicians who rally under the proud banner of SERIOUS BUSINESS RECORDS will mount the third in a series of themed rock and roll revues, with this installment billed as celebration of the music of and about our fair metropolis, New York City, from the Brill Building to the Bowery, from the lights on Broadway to Rockaway Beach.

The program of entertainment for will draw from both the vast original catalogs of Benji Cossa, Higgins, Rocketship Park and The Unsacred Hearts and a meticulously curated syllabus of NYC classics spanning a century. Contributing extra spice to the gothamized brew of rock and pop will be a special coterie of musical guests and a post-revue NY dance party. Brooklyn artist Kara Smith will ovesee the visuals.

THE UNSACRED HEARTS:Five Believers EP (2006/SBR09) 

SPOTIFY EMBED booya! 

Five Believers collects five recordings from the Unsacred Hearts’ vault circa ‘04-‘05. Included are two Man In Gray covers and three In Defense of Fort Useless outtakes.

Five believers
All dressed like men
Tell yo’ mama not to worry because
They’re just my friends
- B. Dylan

And oh! Good friends they are. No cold eyes nor crooked hearts.
Count em mama - 5 of the old guard stand tall before the whiplash rain, the crossed arm immobility, the slings and arrows of the next big thing.
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5 Believers!

2 tunes, borne of surprise birthday projects, labors of love and kinship of the 6 string.
3 tunes left like scraps on the studio killing floor (I shoulda quit you a long time ago)
the rag and bone shop of the unsacred heart.
Dark, rumbling paeans to wallflowers, motels and Courtney Love.
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5 Believers!

Brakelights
But Ms Love
All New Rebel Yell
Gotta Gotta Shake It
Hoboken
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5 Believers!

THE UNSACRED HEARTS (classic lineup): “1978” (get it)

December 2008, The Studio at Webster Hall NYC

okgoat:

Okay, I show you this for 3 reasons.

1. I love this damn song.
2. Andy on bass is super badass.
3. …Seriously, Andy on bass, you guys. Do I need to say it twice?

Boss Talk: A Panel Discussion Of Bruce Springsteen’s Wrecking Ball - Serious Business on BTR [ep69] - Serious Business on BTR on Blip. Whoops!

seriousbusinessmusic:

Last night. Me and Dave. Jams were ripped.

the unsacred hearts (feat. jaymay) Don’t Disappear from The Honor Bar

Travis Harrison and Brian Kantor double drumming at the last Serious Business Rock and Roll Revue. (thanks Pascal for the photo!)

HOT PIXX from the Serious Business Rock and Roll Revue at Littlefield on Saturday Night.

HUGE THANKS to Bryan for these fantastic shots.

Here’s the SetList we rocked…

SET1

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jdkaufman:

“Sat Jan 28, Littlefield, Brooklyn, NY You will see Wilbury Night emerge, one time only, as a party thrown by people who believe in the Wilbury spirit, who prefer to play music together rather than separately, and who want you to join in. The January air is cold. Be at Littlefield in Brooklyn, together with your best friends and your coolest family members on this one night, conveniently a Saturday, the 28th of January to be exact, as we peer through the Wilbury prism into the heart of our loves for rock and roll music. Expect Benji Cossa, Higgins, Rocketship Park and the Unsacred Hearts to present a rich program built from their own reputable original catalogs and from the deep career catalogs of Lucky, Lefty, Otis, Nelson and Charlie T. Jr. This night will be warm and full of true love.”

Don’t drink alone. This Saturday night, come to the Serious Business Rock & Roll Revue at Littlefield in Brooklyn.

the unsacred hearts / i would never let you drink alone / the honor bar

Sat Jan 28. Wilbury Night

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Tim caught the first of two epic 90 minute sets at the recent Serious Business Rock and Roll Revue at the Rock Shop in Brooklyn. He wrote some nice stuff about it. He’s a very nice person.

“…So while I don’t necessarily remember everything as it went down, I do remember that I was wildly impressed by all of the artists. I have seen some of these acts in one form or another over the years. Usually it was more stripped down and acoustic, which is nice, but seeing the Serious Business Records roster at full strength like this really took me back. I wasn’t expecting the power and wall of sound that was the Rock & Roll Revue.

The whole line up was on stage or surrounding the stage, everyone contributing and adding pinches of flavor. The night was broken into two sets and in the interest of full disclosure I only stayed for the first set which ran about an hour and a half. It was a very quick hour and a half. They managed to keep it moving, every act playing 5 or song songs and rotating in and out of each others sets.

Rocketship Park set the table with their unique brand of quirky folk pop, that leaves you feeling shower fresh.

 Next up was Unsacred Hearts who tore shit up with Bukowski meets Van Morrison style, sort of spoke, sort of sung, sort of broken.

Higgins hit the stage next bringing the full sound of their 70ish power pop funk that sounds like its fingering 90s indie rock in a set that featured Kevin Fish being just as dreamy as you can be in khakis.

Finally the set ended with some stripped down Benji Cossa with a set that was so impressive that it caused me to run home and download his albums.

Apparently the second set involved satanic ritual sacrifice and Korean War reenactments. Sorry I didn’t stay longer.

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THE UNSACRED HEARTS: THE HONOR BAR

holy shit the unsacred hearts are back.

THE UNSACRED HEARTS - Fake Kisses by seriousbusiness

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