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Posted in To Do | music | video on January 10, 2009
What's going on Saturday? (besides snow)
Crystal Stilts @ Less Artists More Condos (more by Gabi Porter)
Popcorn Youth: What led to the formation of Crystal Stilts?today in NYCJB Townsend: Brad [Hargett], the singer, and I had just been playing around for about a year before we really started playing out around 2002. We met in Florida, before we moved to [Brooklyn], and we both wanted to get out of there. We really didn't take it too seriously -- we were just playing for fun. But then we ended up able to record at a space in Greenpoint called Junkyard, which was used by a lot of bands on the Social Registry label. We started recording and released a 7". Someone sent it out to college radio, and it did ok. We were really surprised; we had absolutely no expectations whatsoever. And that was a big encouragement to take it all a little bit more seriously.
* DANCE
* NO Pants event
* Aziz Ansari @ Comix
* The Lisps @ Zipper Theater
* Patti Smith @ 92YTribeca
* Dengue Fever @ Maxwell's
* Marco Benevento Trio @ Sullivan Hall
* Street Meat (comedy) @ Cake Shop (free)
* Freaks Ball IX @ Southpaw w/ Rana
* Takka Takka & Tamar Eisenman @ BAM Cafe
* Camper Van Beethoven & Wormburner @ Bowery Ballroom
* Holy Ghost!, Trouble & Bass & Lemonade @ Studio B
* Great Lake Swimmers & A Hawk and a Hacksaw @ Mercury Lounge
* John Doe, Exene Cervenka & Justin Townes Earle @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
* Crystal Stilts, Tyvek, Box Elders, Medication & Kid Romance @ Market Hotel
* Tony Conrad & Genesis P Orridge @ Issue Project Room
* Hey Willpower, Hot Lava, Math the Band, Mixel Pixel & Hologram @ Death By Audio
* Golden Triangle, K-Holes, Suckers, Ian Svenonius (DJ Set) & Jonathan Toubin (DJ Set) @ Glasslands
* Elevated Entity w John Medeski, Vernon Reid, Amayo & others @ Hiro Ballroom
Marco Benevento at Sullivan Hall, Freaks Ball at Southpaw, and John Medeski at Hiro Ballroom - all in one night. That doesn't seem like very good planning.
Donald Fagen of Steely Dan was born today in 1948.
Howlin' Wolf died today in 1976.
Tickets are now on regular sale for both of the upcoming Levon Helm shows at Beacon Theatre.
Taylor Swift is playing Saturday Night Live tonight and Fleet Foxes are playing it next week.
The end of Zune?
Lillo Brancato sentenced to 10 years in jail.
Okkervil River recently played The Bell House in Brooklyn. They were in town to play Letterman. Video from that TV performance below...
What else?
Okkervil River - Pop Lie (on David Letterman)
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Posted on January 10, 2009 3:36 PM
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Comments (10)
ivy league at donhills
Posted by Anonymous | January 10, 2009 4:06 PM
futurity! lisps musical!
Posted by Anonymous | January 10, 2009 4:28 PM
andrew thompson & othrs @ bell house
www.myspace.com/whatsuprobot
Posted by Anonymous | January 10, 2009 4:32 PM
is the snow gonna lead to a market hotel cancelation?
i hope not, its a sick lineup
Posted by Anonymous | January 10, 2009 4:52 PM
genesis and tony conrad at issue project room!
Posted by Anonymous | January 10, 2009 4:56 PM
The Cake Shop show has $1 rolling rocks from 8-9 and it starts at 8!
http://www.going.com/smeat2year
With Kristen Schaal from Flight of the Conchords and mc chris from Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Posted by Anonymous | January 10, 2009 5:08 PM
hey champ!, old money, boy boy, vdrk and bradley d at europa. 10pm.
Posted by THE CULTURE OF ME | January 10, 2009 7:16 PM
E*Vax of RATATAT and Despot of Def Jux are djing at Daddy's
Posted by Anonymous | January 10, 2009 8:19 PM
Descender at trashbar: 11pm
Posted by Eric | January 10, 2009 9:35 PM
box elders and crystal stilts were both excellent last night
Posted by Anonymous | January 11, 2009 11:46 AM