TONIGHT'S Recommended Show: Savoir Adore @ Cameo Gallery

This one's for the New Yorkers -- if I was in the city tonight I'd be at Savoir Adore's album release party for In The Wooded Forest. It's the band's debut on Cantora Records (also home to MGMT), and it comes hot on the heels of the 3-song Machines EP that dropped back in May.

The show is at Cameo Gallery in Brooklyn, and you get a free copy of the album with $10 admission.

Check out this video for "Sarah's Secret," my personal favorite from In The Wooded Forest:

Savoir Adore // "Sarah's Secret" Studio Session from Cantora Records on Vimeo.

Savoir Adore - Machines EP

Brooklyn indie rockers Savoir Adore have been on my mind for the past few days, since their new Machines EP dropped on Sunday -- it's a 3-song EP, and they're giving it away on their website for free download. Check it out!

If you live in New York you might've heard of them already, as they were just chosen as one of the L Magazine's "8 NYC Bands You Need To Hear In 2009," and they also had a stint at this year's SXSW Festival. Deidre Muro and Paul Hammer are the original mama and papa of the operation, coming from singer-songwriter backgrounds until they decided to hole up one weekend in Hammer's upstate New York recording studio. The outcome was a mouthful of a 4-song concept EP, The Adventures of Professor Pumpernickel and the Girl with Animals in Her Throat. Machines is their first release since then, and a precursor to their full-length that'll be out later this year on Cantora Records (also home to Rumspringa and MGMT).

Savoir Adore's frenetic and lo-fi "Les Grenouilles" is a staple of my workout playlist, but check out their more tame, beautiful side on "The Garden"...then go download the rest of the Machines EP.

Les Grenouilles
The Garden

WIN FREE CONCERT TICKETS! BOWERY BALLROOM NYC - FEB 5!!!

I'm very pleased to announce our first ever contest here at Guilt Free Pleasures!!! The prize is 2 tickets to see Francis and The Lights, Savoir Adore, and The Bloodsugars at Bowery Ballroom on February 5th. The show is to celebrate the release for Guilt By Association, Volume 2 - a compilation CD of the hippest current indie bands doing covers of classics like "In the Air Tonight" or "We Didn't Start the Fire".

So here is the contest - the first person to email me and answer the following question wins: Which of the three bands performing at the show on February 5th are not from Brooklyn (hint: check their myspaces)?

The Top [mp3] - Francis and the Lights (iTunes)