Indie love or hipster loathe them, Matt And Kim have burst onto the scene with a Manifest Destiny Style whirlwind of a romance, not only musically, but with each other. If you aren’t already schooled on the sexy pop two-piece, here’s a little run down. The two met in Brooklyn around 2004, and under pressure to help out a friend who was programming acts for a burgeoning art/music space, they rustled up some instruments and started putting a few tunes together.
Matt Johnson got behind a mic and keyboard, and Kim Schifino fashioned a drum kit out of some second hand pieces that were laying around. Though they started out informally, the two caught the attention of area indie rock fans, and their now well known buoyant rise to success as of late is prolifically documented in the mainstream today. Here the happy couple is, 6 years later and they’re hitting Europe on tour to support the release of their pop confection LP, “Sidewalks”.
What’s more, M&K have been inseparable since meeting; they went 5 years sharing a cell phone because they were simply never apart from each other long enough to warrant a phone call. They seem terribly in love, in a Kim Gordon/ Thurston Moore kind of way, and their obvious chemistry is refreshing in a world where pre-fab rock acts are a regular, however stale, offering from major labels looking for the next quick cash cow.
Furthermore, the duo is spreading the indie love they’ve been showered with by bringing one of my favorite bands of all time, The Thermals, to open for a leg of their upcoming US tour. That’s what I call a MUST SEE. Did you hear me? GO SEE THAT SHOW! If you don’t go I’m going to have to be forced to do things you don’t want me to do.( I know, I get rough with you sometimes but it’s for your own good.)
As part of New York’s WRXP 101.9 FM’s Anniversary Celebration this year, the adorable duo bring their light, sweet, sticky synth-n-drums candy cotton pop (hey if you have trouble admitting you like sugar, go put on a NIN album and leave those of us who frequent the Matt & Kim candy shop in peace) to Asbury Park. They’ll be performing at The Stone Pony, one of my perennial favorites in the venue circuit in the Tri-State area, on Sunday, May 20th.
So put your tounge in your cheek and pull on your best pair of your boyfriend’s or girlfriend’s jeans ( if you’re unlucky enough to have been born hetero) and come on down! It’s going to be a sugar rush the likes of which you haven’t seen since that one night when you got home drunk and ‘accidentally’ blew the pixi stix dust I spilled on the coffee table. Sucker. 😛
XOXO
Ang
