Multitudes @ Cameo
→ 2012-05-25 
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The end of ‘Tiger’ from our set last Saturday at a basement show. Killer crowd.
More from Multitudes.
→ 2012-05-10
New Multitudes video by David Feinberg for “Horse”, off our album Twelve Branches (download the album $free).
→ 2012-04-01
MULTITUDES w/ Erostratus, Cathy, Sun Ladders
we’re playing tonight at Lulu’s, in Greenpoint, $free, starts at 9
→ 2012-02-10
I’m humbled that Multitudes’ Twelves Branches makes an appearance on Hank Shteamer’s awesome blog, Dark Forces Swing Blind Punches. It’s a nice feeling when someone gets what youre trying to do and thinks you made it at least some of the way there (see last post). Oh, and let’s not forget that STATS totally kills.
→ 2011-11-14
Multitudes w/ STATS, Noxious Foxes, Zvoov
Union Pool, Brooklyn
album release show for Multitudes’ Twelve Branches
→ 2011-11-13
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This is Dragon, from Multitudes’ new album Twelve Branches, featuring bass by yours truly.
Im happiest with the bass sound on this of all our releases. I exclusively play fingerstyle, so getting the attack / high end to sound right when playing hardcore-inspired music is sometimes a trick. But I think it’s essential to the jazz-elements in our style — I think we got it to work on this album.
On this track, however, I use a Freeze pedal to simulate arco (and some crazy switching to get the instant feedback).
→ 2011-10-21
I am pleased to announce the digital release of the new album from Multitudes (that’s me on bass, Pat Foley on guitar, and Alex Lambert drumming), entitled Twelve Branches. This is the cover art by Jacob Feige with design by Greg Mihalko.
The concept was to keep it short and high energy, our broken take on SST-esque hardcore. Im really psyched about the results. It’s either 12 quick tracks, each with the character of a zodiac animal, or a 30-min progressive freakout, depending on how you listen to it. Recorded live with the inimitable Colin Marston, no overdubs, minor editing.
Listen to it here.
→ 2011-10-19
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Recording the new Multitudes album on Queens 2” tape
→ 2011-07-09
MULTITUDES: RENEGADE
As a kid, I watched Atlantis launch at night on the beach in Florida, with my grandmother, following the flame of the engines as it rose beyond view. I took it as a matter of course that awe would always play a real role in my life. Awe pulled me forward; the rumble of earth-defying engines through the sand made made intellectual and aesthetic exploration a visceral thing.
Back then, I figured that at about this time in my life Id be in a good position to go to Mars. Instead, today is Atlantis’ final flight. I get the reasons, but ultimately there’s no real economic justification for exchanging humanity-magnifying shit for the siphon of foreign wars and bailouts. It remains a profound disappointment that there isnt at least a successor program to STS — Virgin Galactic isnt quite it.
Astronauts are undeniably cool, because not only do you get rockets, you get them for the sake of science. You get fame for merit, media exposure that broadens horizons, real risk for knowledge and exploration, competition without warfare. I hope my (potential) kids get something worthy to idolize, because there are few public figures now of much value; I like my heroes trained for the job, preferably in one of those spinning centripetal force torture thingys, or at least calculus class.
But at least us kids of the 80s can have our myths in the footage we’ve got, the amazing detritus of the space program that can still evoke that awe, even if it cant push it forward.
David has a healthy fascination with this that comes up in a lot of his work (including his recent and excellent video on the photographer Vincent Fournier, also obsessed with space travel.
But I cant help but repost this, the best video ever, a collaboration between David and my band Multitudes using found NASA footage — an ode of sorts to the solid rocket booster. Punk rock expresses what words cannot. Long live STS.
→ 2011-07-08
Multitudes w/ 2’s and 4’s
Coco 66, Brooklyn
→ 2011-04-19
Multitudes w/ This City Defects, Noxious Foxes, Inzinzac
Death by Audio, Brooklyn
→ 2011-04-05
Multitudes w/ Inzinzac, Ugh God, PAK
Kung Fu Necktie, Philadelphia
→ 2011-02-06
Multitudes w/ Tiberius, Cavallo, Wolff, Post Magic
Glasslands, Brooklyn
→ 2010-07-03
