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A TASTE OF TASTE WITH...

The Hard Quartet

🍦 Orange Creamy ice cream from Sundaes and Cones, 🚲 Electric Citibikes, 🎵 The music of The Shadow Ring, and more.

October 9, 2024

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The Hard Quartet is a New York City-based supergroup composed of Stephen Malkmus (Pavement), Emmett Kelly (Bonnie Prince Billy / Ty Segall alum), Matt Sweeney (Chavez), and Jim White (Dirty Three). With a group this lush in indie rock luminaries, it comes as no surprise their debut would be this strong– this summer, The Hard Quartet put out their first single Earth Hater, a sick track accompanied by a great video directed by Eyedress. Last Friday, their self-titled debut album was released and this month, the band makes their live show debut in Los Angeles, New York and London; you can find your tickets here. Lucky for us, The Hard Quartet’s here to tell us what they’ve been into.

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Orange Creamy ice cream from Sundaes and Cones 95 East 10th Street NYC 10003

The block where DeKooning, Rothko & Kerouac made their names in the 1950’s features this decades-old Chinese ice cream parlor. A sugar cone with 2 scoops of their Orange Creamy ice cream will destroy any notions of comfort you ever had. Violently mellow flavors in a heavenly room.- Matt

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Listening to Lester Young play while Billie Holiday sings,

not big waves , but shit ,let’s go see/hear Mary Margaret Ohara , whats gonna happen with us ? dunno, alot,- Jim

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The music of The Shadow Ring

there is music and there not music and everything there is in between is sort of encased in the shadow ring like a beautifully broken piece of glass. - Emmett

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Limmy’s Show

comedy should absolutely work like a nightmare does. And preferably with scots accents. - Emmett

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Rai Rai Ken 218 East 10th Street NYC 10003

The OG little East village Japanese comfort food spot further east on 10th Street has been chilling there for 23 years or so. It’s the dependable cozy, kind, neighborhoody zone- delicious noodles, curry, katsu and trad Japanese snacks, ideal for the easy date or the solo chiller. Their cheesy veggie gyoza are def a f’n thing. - Matt

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This approach

Theres this approach I heard about where you treat your life like a dream in a psychoanalytic sense, then everything that happens is a symbol. Hold your reality a bit loosely. Music is a dream and so are memories.- Jim

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Swimming

Swimming - regardless of the climate, once submerged you are reoriented with the climate to swim in, flap wings, flip paddles etc. under water the breathing becomes denser, coarser, heart pounds harder. Returning to dry land takes a moment to regain balance. - Emmett

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electric citibikes

Another sick basic thing to do in NYC rip around on those electric citibikes.. to me it’s like an amusement park ride. - Stephen

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Music

it’s great and it’s not stuff , it’s experiential but it’s not like eating a meal , you don’t have to consume it literally.- Jim

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Walking

Walk away from a bad idea/feeling, walk into some other thoughts . Like Knut Hamsun- Jim

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Swimming in the ocean

Especially if there are waves, and you don’t have to take some bullshit home after.- Jim

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Grace Paley

Picked up Grace Paley’s book “Enormous Changes At The Last Minute” and it left me in a new place with a new set of eyes and ears. Busted my mind open about what it is to love and live in New York City. Specific universal graceful upsetting pitch-perfect uplifting knockout voice. How come nobody told me about Grace Paley?? - Matt

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Chinatown

I like to walk around Chinatown for food ...cuz my apartment is around that way- Stephen

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Robert Sietsema

Robert Sietsema who was in this cool band Mofungo haș some foodie posts on the internet . look his name up you can find some nice tips for chinatown grub. - Stephen

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Zafis coffee shop

Zafis coffee shop is a spot around my way. it’s that old dinette that serves watery Coffee. a shot of tropicana orange juice ....grill blasted omelets w/American cheese and green peppers.. grape jelly packets for yr rye toast .... no jam. In other words itsnot all tweaked for brunchers. - Stephen

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