Please note this in-store is on a Saturday, not the usual Friday.

Let’s say Antimagic “formed” in March 2008, though long time friends Marcia Cahill and Ted McGrath had certainly logged more than a few hours together in bands with worse names (if they were named at all) playing whatever and with whomever they could, wherever they could find a sympathetic venue or “DIY Space” (which sounds dirty out of context if you say the abbreviation, kinda) localized mostly in the greater NYC area though there was that one, strange trip to Vermont and the time they got all Mac-y about wanting to try to record in a beach house or something…Anyway, flash forward give or take 5 years to Fall 2007 and Ted, who had been drumming for These Are Powers, boogies out amicably in the name of spending more time on his illustration and design career. It didn’t really take. Being unable to make himself go to bed early or eat responsibly or not drum on dinner tables and desks etc, by the time Winter Proper rolls around, Ted goes back to working alone on a series of guitar and drum machine based songs that he’d started writing and recording before joining up with TAP in early 2006. Invited by their friends Miracles and Lo Moda to play at the Knitting Factory that spring, McGrath calls up Cahill to help him fill out the live show. Following positive reception to that performance, the duo retreat to their Brooklyn practice space to begin forging the 2 drum set, bass, and guitar line up that today constitutes Antimagic. This symmetrical set up gives the band a wide breadth of sounds and arrangements to play with in growing their songs from practice improvisations to more finished things, imbued with press-kit mentionable influences including but not limited to 50s/60s Girl Groups and Doo/Wop, 70s art rock, Neil Young at his scuzziest, the Beach Boys at their most experimental, Lee Perry at his furtherest out and James Brown at his most “i’m going to holler the arrangement at the band while we’re cutting the track” aggressive. Their debut full-length, “Trash Symmetry,” was self released on October 6, 2009.

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