The Monkey Blog by WRBC » Brooklyn http://wrbcradio.com/blog The Journalism Wing of Radio Bates College in Lewiston, Maine Thu, 05 Apr 2012 00:58:09 +0000 en hourly 1 WRBC and CHC present Matt and Kim http://wrbcradio.com/blog/2009/09/matt-and-kim/ http://wrbcradio.com/blog/2009/09/matt-and-kim/#comments Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:59:04 +0000 WRBC http://wrbcradio.wordpress.com/?p=20 WRBC, Bates College Radio, and the Chase Hall Committee, the principal campus programming board, will present Brooklyn, New York Band ‘Matt and Kim’   (www.mattandkimmusic.com/), at Bates College in Lewiston in Chase Hall on September 18th, 2009. Doors will open at 9:30; the concert costs $3 for Bates Students and $8 for the general public. Tickets go on sale on www.batestickets.com on September 1st.

Matt and Kim are an electronic pop duo consisting of Matt Johnson and Kim Schifino. Noted for their simple dance melodies, they have been featured in festivals such as the Siren Music Festival in Brooklyn, Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago, and the KahBang Indie Music and Art Festival in Bangor. Their most recent release Grand, which reached #170 on the Billboard Top 100, includes the Singles “Daylight,” which was recently featured in a commercial for Bacardi, and “Lessons Learned,” the video of which has been nominated for an MTV Video Music Award.

Matt and Kim are one of the premier bands in the rapidly expanding Brooklyn-based independent music scene. This show promises to be one of the best electronic shows in the state of Maine this year.

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This is a video I shot of the song “Through the Backyards of our Neighbors” by Au Revoir Simone. It appears on their first album, “Verses Of Comfort, Assurance, and Salvation”

From their concert at the Bowery Ballroom in New York City on 27 June 2009

-Doug Ray

Doug Ray is the co-host of Saltimbocca & Escargot, Sundays at 8-10 PM Eastern Time on WRBC.

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