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August 21, 2004
Sondre Lerche playing Southpaw
Tickets are on sale for Sondre Lerche at Southpaw on October 19th. This one is sure to sell out.
Other notable shows coming up at Southpaw:
8/24 Brant Bjork (formerly of Kyuss)
9/10 Canderia
9/13 Sahara Hotnights
9/24 Madlib
10/7 Mountain Goats & John Vanderslice
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Sufjan, Joanna, Devendra, Vetiver
Listen to Sufjan Stevens Live on WNYC.
The Daily Californian reviews Sufjan and Joanna Newswom at The Great American.
Soundburner reviews Joanna Newsom in London.
Watch the Joanna Newsom video for "Sprout and Bean."
"The Golden Apples of the Sun," the limited edition 20-track compilation of contemporary new folk music curated by Devendra Banhart and released by Arthur's Bastet imprint, recently sold out of its initial pressing of 1,000 copies. A second pressing of 1,000 copies will be available starting from September 1, 2004. (Yes, second edition copies will be marked as such.) You can place an order for this CD, that features Joanna Newsom, White Magic, Vetiver, Hope Sandoval, Iron & Wine, and Antony, now.
Read an interview with Vetiver on Free Williamsburg.
Download Vetiver MP3s at Midheaven Mailorder.
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Sonic Youth at Webster Hall
Sonic Youth rocked Webster Hall last week.
TIP: For those seeing shows at Webster Hall. The bands really do go on at the times they post unlike Mercury Lounge where you can just add 30 minutes to the advertised time.
I got there right after White Magic finished. I was looking forward to seeing them. Oh well. Sonic Youth lived up to their legend status with a powerful set. I had a press pass, and got a lot of great pics.
Someone else posted pics too.
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Rilo Kiley & Bloc Party tix on sale
Tickets for Rilo Kiley at Bowery Ballroom are now on sale. (Thanks Central Village)
And while you're at Ticketweb, you can also now pick up tickets for Bloc Party at Knitting Factory.
Bloc Party is also supposed to play Filter 14 the night before (Sept. 29). I'm not sure if that's possible since Filter 14 closed a month ago.
If you haven't already, check out the Bloc Party video at NME.
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August 20, 2004
Burlesque against Bush
Here's a really great event happening this Thursday that I won't be able to go to:
Burlesque Against Bush! TWO FLOORS at the Knitting Factory
Mr. Murray Hill hosts the show in the Main Spacestarring
The World Famous Pontani Sisters
Dirty Martini
Miss Delirium Tremens
The Dazzle Dancers
Lukki, The Great Fire of Chicago
Tigger
Fritzi Collins
Little Brooklyn
Torchy Taboo
music by
Les Sans Culottes
Lex Grey and the Urban Pioneers
Yoke
and DJ Meat Mistress
and in the Tap Room:
Goddess Perlman presents Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad!
with music by The Booty Olympics
Thurs., August 26, 2004
Doors open at 7:30pm
$15 online
$20 at door
1 price gets you admission to both floors!
Location: Knitting Factory, Main Space
74 Leonard Street
New York, NY 10013
Link:
http://www.concertsforchange.org/kintera_show.php?id=12
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Killers Kiley, Franz Ferdinand, Scissor Sisters, Malin more
Thanks for bearing with me as I update this site from PMachine to Movable Type.
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Listen to the new Killers single and watch the new Killers video on this The Killers e-card.
The Killers join The Scissor Sisters, Secret Machines, Jesse Malin, and Franz Ferdinand on VH1's you oughta know.
You oughta know Rilo Kiley.
Northeastern Pennsylvania likes the new Rilo Kiley album. They like it more than Pitchfork, but not as much as Largehearted Boy.
E Online almost really really likes it, while Stereogum really really really likes it.
Pick up the CD at Amazon for $12.95 or download it for only $4.99.
Listen to some of it here.
See them here.
Franz Ferdinand are too sexy for their art.
Jesse Malin plays Bowery Ballroom in September.
Secret Machines on Carson Daly Monday.
If you weren't in Russia this past Saturday, well then you definitely missed the Scissor Sisters. They're the flambouyant act that got their start in NYC clubs, much like John Cameron Mitchell did with his own flambouyant act, Hedwig.
Now John Cameron Mitchell (with Moby's help) is making "a comedy with real live sex taking place on camera."
I thought someone already did that. Brown Bunny opens at Landmark Sunshine Cinema on August 27th. Those of you with tickets to see Vincent Gallo and Sean Lennon perform at Rothko on Wednesday, also have a ticket to that movie.
What are you doing this Saturday? Here's an idea from Ticketweb. Bring Teddy & your toothbrush, sleepwear, pajamas, undies, thongs, naked, lingerie, boxers, silk etc. (Bring naked?)
You can stop looking now. Paris found her dog.
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August 18, 2004
The Fall of the Republicans - The Vomitorium
Vomitorium 2004 was a huge success. Hundreds of people, including many random passerbys, lined up along 2nd avenue in front of the St Marks Church to watch the Roman style bachelor party. The performance took place outside in front of the church - on the steps, and part of the large sidewalked area in front of them. There were Roman republicans partying it up orgy style, while all the time touting the benefits of war, controlling the people, and keeping the peasants poor, ignorant, and in fear. It was a left-wing event if there ever was one.
It wasn't the politics that got people cheering though. It was the naked people, body painted and acting like statues, the hookers, the fire twirlers, the gluttony, and most of all the loud, puking Romans (rich Republicans). The Roman actors gorged themselves with food (donated by various local restaurants like Kate's Joint and Sanctuary), and puked, and ate some more, and puked, and downed large amounts of alcohol and puked and puked...all before your very eyes. The larger the puke, the louder the cheer.
I didn't think I was going to be able to handle it, but went anyway because one of my friends was a puker. It ended up being a lot better than I thought. Actually, it was fun. For a while I had the front-row center position, which proved extremely dangerous when the giant container of puke almost spilled over into the crowd. Standing about a foot away from the the fire-lit hula hooper wasn't the smartest thing I ever did either.
The point of it all? Mainly to compare current American society with the fall of the Romans, and to mix it up a little before the RNC.
Vomitorium2004 was also the official kick-off of the East Village Howl Festival. I think they said they've got over 400 events scheduled for the next week, including The Three Terrors.
Check out their site for more info.
And for more on the history of the Vomitorium, read Kate Moss' History of Vomitorium Crockery.
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Quickies
Pure Volume has a new Motion City Soundtrack track from their upcoming split with Matchbook Romance. If you haven't heard them before, check out the five songs from their older albums too.
BODY COUNT guitarist D-Roc (real name Dennis Miles) passed away Tuesday morning (August 17) at the City of Hope Cancer Center in Duarte, California after a battle with mycosis fungolis, which attacks the lymph nodes and the skin. The band will reportedly go ahead with their previously announced appearances in Boston and New York with substitute guitarist Bendrix Williams (MACY GRAY, PITCH BLACK).
The Decemberists are recording "Lady Waters and the Hooded One" for an upcoming Robyn Hitchcock tribute album.
Tickets go on sale Friday for Brian Wilson (from the Beach Boys) performing Smile at Carnegie Hall on October 12th and 13th.
Tickets for both of Guided by Voices' last NY shows ever at Irving Plaza go on sale Saturday. You can also catch them for free with Ambulance Ltd tomorrow night at Pier 54.
Have you seen Paris' Chihuahua?
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August 17, 2004
Quickies
MTV reviews The Killers at Bowery Ballroom.
The side project of Kenny and Johnny from Brooklyn's own Type O Negative - a rock three piece with Rob from Dust to Dust has dropped the name Skynd and will be using Black Water Rising. stay tuned for song samples in the upcoming weeks and a band website at blackwaterrising.com (not active yet).
Life of Agony (also from Brooklyn) has "compiled a Quicktime Video clip of some funny moments on our recent European Summer Tour set to Green Day's 'Time of Your Life' "
Speaking of Green Day, they'll be playing Irving Plaza on Sept. 21st. Tickets are not on sale yet.
Also coming up at Irving Plaza is Les Savy Fav with Smoke and Smoke and Detachment Kit on September 7th. Tickets are still on sale. Stay tuned to the French Kiss Records site for details of the afterparty.
Smoke and Smoke has got some songs to download, and so does Detachment Kit.
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Watch people vomit for free tonight
Vomitorium 2004 Make Room For More
A response to the New and Improved American Empire Vomitorium2004 is a theatrical performance, modeled after the opulent parties of the Roman Empire, where guests will engage in consuming astounding amounts of food, and when stuffed to the limit, vomit so that they may gorge themselves again and again. For one evening we will transport the participants and audience to those long-gone days in order to reflect on the fate that eventually befell the Roman Empire, and heed the warning signs of history repeating in the current decline of the American Republic.
August 17th, 2004 @ 7pm
Location:St. Marks Church in the Bowery (2nd Ave between 10th & 11th St.), FREE to the Public
Vomitorium2004 is the Opening Night Kick Off Event for HOWL Festival AVANT GARDEN Series
This is not a joke or an act. Real people (including one of my 'crazy' friends) will be vomiting before your very eyes. Expect some nudity too.
More info:
http://www.vomitorium2004.org/
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August 16, 2004
Quickies
Coming soon to a bookstore near you. Tommyland by Tommy Lee. You can put it on your shelf right next to Star by Pamela Anderson and Kid Rock (guitar tabs) by Kid Rock.
Speaking of Tommy Lee, he'll be rejoining Motley Crue for one more tour.
Why didn't anyone tell me that Keane was playing a free show at Roseland tonight? :(
Look at pictures from Little Steven's Underground Garage Festival.
Listen to Destroyer on CBCRadio3.com.
Miller Beer's '50th Anniversary Of Rock' Missing One Thing: Black Artists.
And Finally. You can sleep with Elvis.
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Queens animal shelter saved!
The Queens animal shelter, that was about to closed for good this week, is back thanks to generous donations and a lot of press.
"Concerned animal lovers have already pitched in $10,000 to save the 13-year-old shelter.
Verizon has also agreed to let the shelter pay its delinquent bills over time, allowing the pet haven to remain open. "
Story Here:
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/28949.htm
Adopt a pet of your own:
http://www.petfinder.com
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Izzy RIP
My brother's 2 year old Pug, Izzy, was struck by a car last week. :-( Izzy, we'll miss you.
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Bjork's style, Secret Machines' label, & a Garage Festival review
Three from the NY Times:
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August 15, 2004
Reid Paley opening
Reid Paley is opeing for the Pixies at, at least, two of their six NYC shows in December. Who exactly is Reid Paley and what is he doing opening for the Pixies?
Reid Paley is something of a legend in the Pittsburgh punk scene. In the 1980?s he fronted a band called The Five. After relocating to Boston, The Five found themselves in a burgeoning Alternative music scene. Bands like The Pixies and Throwing Muses used to open for them.The Seattle Weekly:
Right now, my favorite drinking album is Revival (on emusic), the second full-length by Reid Paley. The gruff Brooklyn bourbon-drinker sounds far from shocked by this disclosure.Frank Black, who produced Paley's first solo album, weighs in on the subject:This self-described "grizzled old gunslinger" started his career in Pittsburgh in the early '80s. He relocated to Boston, where his old band the Five shared bills with the Pixies; it was his buddy Frank Black who finally kicked Paley's ass back into the saddle after a long sabbatical
Years ago Reid Paley and I were neighbors, both struggling but not starving musicians (let me say straight out Reid is a fine cook) in a city called Boston.But is Reid as good a musician as he is a cook?
Not according to triptronix.net (who saw Reid open for Frank Black):
they were better than the losers of the second opening band, the Reid Paley Trio. We at Bleahh respect Frank Black and believe him when he says that Reid Paley is a great guy. And he may be a great performer, but if so he sent his understudy last night, who is not a great performer. His understudy is a guy who doesn?t know when to shut up between songs, who?s been on the road too long acting the Brooklyn Guy and forgets when he plays Brooklyn that people don?t necessarily dig the caricature
Ouch. Luckily, other critics have much nicer things to say about him. You can read those reviews, listen to samples, and buy his albums at CD Baby, and make sure to catch him live at Hammerstein Ballroom this December.
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Don't Buy the Turtles
Anyone who's walked through Chinatown at least once, has probably noticed the buckets of miniature, baby turtles for sale. This cruel practice of shoving too many (soon to be dead) turtles in a bucket is not only disgusting, it's illegal. Don't support the turtle sellers. Leave the turtles there.
If you really want a turtle, you can adopt one who actually lived long enough to be abandoned.
The Chicago Sun Times reported today:
"Rescue groups say that, along with New York's Chinatown, Myrtle Beach is one of the largest sources for illegal turtles sold on the East Coast.Story Link:Myrtle Beach police recently raided five beachwear stores and seized 200 red-eared sliders, which found a new home at Alligator Adventure in North Myrtle Beach.
Federal law prohibits the sale of any turtle with a shell smaller than 4 inches. The law was written to prevent the spread of salmonella to small children but conservationists say it also protects the turtles."
Groups urge restraint in buying illegal turtles
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