Bonobo at Webster Hall, 11/8/2010

Average ticket price: $25

Bonobo serves as the stage name for UK musician, producer and DJ, Simon Green.  Making music under the Ninja Tune's label (which can do no wrong, much like DFA) since 1999, Bonobo's sound can be easily described as instrumental, downtempo music, with often heavy, complex basslines.  Bonobo marries elements of downtempo, jazz and hip-hop together and in three words, I'd call it 'ambient stoner music'.

Bonobo began performing with a full band in 2004, with Green leading from the center on bass.  Bonobo is made up of a singer, keyboardist, guitarist, saxophonist, string section, electronics and drummer.  The end result is a blend of melodic, pulsing instrumentation.  I was particularly blown away by the drummer, who was hitting some pretty insane break beats; going triple-quadruple time on the hi-hat with rapid, odd time snare kicks.  Considering there was no drum machine involved, I hadn't seen anything like it in my life.  Please do yourself a favor and go see Bonobo, if you ever get the chance.

Women at the Knitting Factory, 10/9/2010

Average ticket price: $10-12

I've been obsessed with Women for the past few months, so it's only right their show be the first installment of this project. Though there are no women in Women, Alberta, Canada quartet Patrick Flegel (vocals/guitar), Matt Flegel (bass/vocals), Chris Reimer (guitar/vocals), and Michael Wallace (drums) emerged in 2008 with their self-titled album and have since been generating a buzz within the lo-fi junkie community. Their sound is a marriage of dense experimental cacophony with delicate, melodic instrumentation. They kill. This explains why we're breaking our "no pictures of the band" rule for this round. This show was an experiment/dry run for my team and I, so we're off to a running start.

Playing at the Knitting Factory in Williamsburg, Brooklyn afforded this show plenty of intimacy and of course, what would a concert be without hipsters?

The Baberaham Lincoln three part reaction series:

After the show...

These gals were curious about our photographer, Dan's pictures, so we asked them to pose for us, to which they happily obliged.

This is Jesse. He's got some mustache. He was pretty uncomfortable with having his picture taken, so we cut his head off.

This is why I'll likely never be featured in any other pictures for this project. I'm not very photogenic with my long face. I just wanted a picture with Jesse's mustache.

Indie beards. They're something like a phenomenon.

When I first these two if I could photograph them, this young lady was suspicious about whether I worked for Vice Magazine. I told her if I did, they would be a "do." Who doesn't love a 80's throwback publicist and her snippy gay husband? I wanted to put them in my pocket.

If you see these two gossiping and giggling in the corner and you feel like they're laughing at you, that's probably because they are.