In and Out :: Preview [4.2.08] I Love You Airlines @ Bowery Poetry Club

Tonight, for the first time in a hot minute, I Love You Airlines will be storming the coast of Manhattan and shaking The Bowery Poetry Club like they're one of those Peruvian earthquakes that levels cities and make people give money to the American Red Cross. Of course, any venue shaking will be purely metaphorical because its actual destruction would be at best inconvenient and at worst, possibly disastrous. The kind of shaking that will take place will be human and it will most certainly be happening in front of the stage. Over time, vibrations will spread from front to back like a comb through the greasy-hair and vacant-eyed hipsters who will decorate the audience like a far better-educated pointillist painting. And by the end, as I Love You Airlines finds their finishing kick and their drummer (also a sushi chef) is wailing on his kit like a piece of raw and poorly behaved tuna, you'll find yourself moving too. You'll find yourself wondering how this show is possibly free and how you haven't seen this band yet. You might even wonder if the floor is going to survive the 15.5 Richter onslaught. This isn't dance-rock and it ain't indie-rock, and it ain't even glam-rock; this is straight rock music and it's going to kick your ass. Check it in or check it out.

I Love You Airlines
10.30PM
Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery @ 1st
FREE (drink specials are rumored)

Preview: I Love You Airlines @ Studio B [1.12.08]

I Love You Airlines will be kicking down the doors and shaking the foundation of Greenpoint's Studio B this Saturday night. It's a fairly high-concept show bridging the gap between DJs spinning records and bands torching your ears. Or in this case one band, (I Love You Airlines) and a bunch of DJs (Verboten w/ Radeoclit and VNDLSM, Alexander Technique).

I Love You Airlines (ILYA) is the only live band of this bunch of performers and are not to be missed. This will be their first performance since they leveled The House of Yes Holiday Throwdown where they closed a night that featured fire-eating, sword swallowing, and (you really can't make this up) a guy stapling 20-dollar bills to his face. Any band who can hang and bang with people juggling flaming torches, surviving surging electric current, and taking a sledgehammer to the stomach is worth everyone's time.

I Love You Airlines play a brand of post-punk that can peel your eyelids back and force your feet to move like you've got a hive of angry bees in your pants. Sounding a little like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and a little like what would happen if a speeding 18-wheeler, driven by (a more fun) Chrissy Hynde crashed into the Ramones entire discography, ILYA plays one of the best live shows in New York. They've got two EPs you can pick up after their set, or, as always, bump the myspace in your office/dorm room/life until your friends ask you "who the fuck is that?" If this show and this band doesn't get you up to get down, I will personally refund your concert money and time spent on the L-Train. All refunds will sent via PayPal to your face via my fist.

Studio B (259 Banker St. Brooklyn, NY)
Saturday January 12, 2008
10PM
I Love You Airlines