Quiet Hooves in a Silent Barn

Friday night I found myself at the new rock venue Silent Barn in Bushwick (my future neighborhood if all goes well). The avant music space is located at 915 Wyckoff Avenue. The "barn" is actually a home that dedicates an entire floor to rock bands and their adoring (and very drunk) fans.

For $8 I was able to see five bands, guzzle a sixer of Budweiser, smoke cigarettes freely and have nostalgic thoughts of college basement parties but with much better bands now.

The bands were (in order):

Family of Love
Teeth Mountain
Quiet Hooves
Soiled Mattress and the Springs (winner: best band name)
O'Death

Got there late, of course, and missed the first two bands. I did get a chance to catch Quiet Hooves, an experimental rock band from Athens, Georgia. The feel good band is made up of brothers (Julian and Patrick Bozeman) and eight talented friends (Mercer West, Andy Pruett, David Specht, Javier Morales, Cameron Dye, Aaron Gentry, Christian Seklecki and Taylor Lee) having a great time playing smart songs with synthesizers and trumpets along to drunken sing-a-long tunes. I had the pleasure of sharing a smoke with Patrick outside and hearing about Athens' music scene, life south of the Mason Dixon Line and other southern comforts...

The band gave the dank air a liveliness that was much needed in the over 100 degree joint; I loved their sound and charismatic stage presence. Listen to their tunes at www.myspace.com/quiethooves. "Your Body" is already a favorite of mine. Oh, and Patrick - you'll be on the big bus one day!

Quiet Hooves Tour Dates are as follows:

May 29 @ Space 1026 in Philadelphia, PA
May 30 @ Silent Barn in Brooklyn, NY
June 1 @ The Depot in Baltimore, MD
June 2 @ RUMORS in Richmond, VA
June 3 @ Spazzatorium Galleria in Greenville, NC
June 4 @ Little Kings in Athens, GA

To get to Silent Barn simply take the L to Halsey or the M to Myrtle/Wyckoff. Look for future show dates at www.myspace.com/thesilentbarn and GO SEE LIVE MUSIC!