I recently went to the opening of The Museum of Contemporary Art in Tucson, AZ and was able to catch a surprise set by every blogs favorite Harlem. It’s not fair to judge them on a short set (they played about 5-6 songs) in a venue that wasn’t built for musical acts, with an odd mismash of people; but Harlem performed surprisingly well for such conditions.

Perhaps their classic garage rock sound lent itself nicely to the monitors turned up way too loud and the reverberations of the large open space. Or maybe it was the giant gold chain and fake fur coat that the lead singer was wearing that gave him special powers to overcome adversity? Whatever it was, they were able to get the art crowd to form a nice little hipster-ey moshpit. Be sure, Harlem are an up and coming band that people who like good music should be paying attention to (especially since their LP ‘Hippies’ will be dropping April 6th).

Below is “Friendly Ghost” which is on the aforementioned upcoming LP. I can’t wait for summer.

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DOWNLOAD: Harlem – Friendly Ghost