Posted in To Do | music on September 21, 2011

Beirut @ Lollapalooza 2011 (more by Grant MacAllister)
Beirut

today in NYC
* Big Teriffic @ Cameo
* Girls @ Other Music
* Anton Batagov @ The Stone
* Vincent Royer @ The Stone
* Opeth, Katatonia @ Webster Hall
* The Shakes, Breezin, Seequill @ Cake Shop
* Sole & The Skyrider Band @ Knitting Factory
* Dan Deacon, Ed Schrader's Music Beat @ Maxwell's
* Beirut, Laetitia Sadier (of Stereolab) @ Terminal 5
* Rpllnt, Spaces, Phone Home, Elyrians @ The Delancey
* Mike Bones, Ken Griffin, Brian Kalkbrenner @ Zebulon
* Mount Eerie, Nicholas Krgovich, Ed Askew @ 285 Kent Ave
* Celestial Shore, Pet Lions, Phil & The Osophers @ Bruar Falls
* Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Washington @ Irving Plaza
* The Olivia Tremor Control, The Music Tapes @ Le Poisson Rouge
* Jeffrey Lewis, Lady Lamb The Beekeeper, Emperor X @ Maxwell's
* Endless Boogie, La Otracina, Rhyton (mems. Psychic Ills) @ Union Pool
* Frank Turner, Andrew Jackson Jihad, Into It. Over It. @ Bowery Ballroom
* Cymbals Eat Guitars, Hooray For Earth, Beige @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
* Mutwawa, Dubknowdub, Mincemeat Or Tenspeed, Shams, Flesh Control @ Death By Audio
* Alex Battles & The Whisky Rebellion, Thrift Store Cowboys, JP & The Gilberts @ Union Hall
* Zs, Burning Star Core, Mountains, Dinowalrus (Hipster Puppies Cassette Release Party) @ Public Assembly

Beirut's first of two shows at Terminal 5 is tonight (despite what I originally accidentally wrote in the "2 night stands" post).

Opeth play their first of two shows tonight too.

Why? were supposed to play two shows, both tonight, but they're cancelled.

Check out a video of the Horrors performing on KEXP, below...

What else?

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Tags: The Horrors

Comments (45)

i'm in line for RH at SNL

Posted by Anonymous | September 21, 2011 4:11 PM

HOMEBELLY GROOVE!

Posted by Anonymous | September 21, 2011 4:11 PM

wow, that dude from beirut is such a dork.

Posted by Anonymous | September 21, 2011 4:11 PM


Spin Doctors are playing Pocket Full of Kryptonite from start to finish at Brooklyn Bowl next month!!!! Can't wait!

Posted by Anonymous | September 21, 2011 4:18 PM

Anyone know the Opeth set times?

Posted by Anonymous | September 21, 2011 4:18 PM

opeth at 8:30 - not sure about katatonia (either 7 or 7:30)

Posted by Anonymous | September 21, 2011 4:22 PM

Beirut sucks compared to Spin Doctors. Spin Doctors reunion is where it's at.

Posted by Anonymous | September 21, 2011 4:37 PM

I believe the Spins are playing a secret show tonight... hmm? hmm??

Posted by Anonymous | September 21, 2011 4:39 PM

Every Spin Doctors show is a secret. LOL

Posted by Anonymous | September 21, 2011 4:49 PM

Why do you hate Beirut? Spin Doctors guy?

Posted by Anonymous | September 21, 2011 4:49 PM

Everything is garbage compared to Spin Doctors!

Posted by Anonymous | September 21, 2011 4:50 PM

PFOK=Please f..off kindly

Posted by donn | September 21, 2011 4:52 PM

Rhyton includes Dave from D Charles Speer and NNCK: this trio plays heavy free psyche instrumentals.

Posted by nygrump | September 21, 2011 5:31 PM

Hummus Doctors: Pocket full of baby carrots.

Posted by Anonymous | September 21, 2011 5:32 PM

Posted by knowYERbassGODZ | September 21, 2011 5:33 PM

I hope those cigarettes are gonna make you cough.

I hope you read this comment and it pissed you off.

Posted by Anonymous | September 21, 2011 5:54 PM

Spnnnnnnnnnn Doctors!

Posted by Anonymous | September 21, 2011 6:19 PM

5:54 RULES.

Posted by Anonymous | September 21, 2011 6:27 PM

Beruit> Herb Alpert for a new generation.
AND Tonight's show was great..
Thursday night crowd bring your A game bc Wednesday night crowd certainly did. used em up, turned em out.

Posted by Anonymous | September 21, 2011 11:45 PM

Spin Doctors album Pocket Full of Kryptonite is way better than this snooze fest.

Posted by Anonymous | September 22, 2011 12:10 AM

SD guy - no-one here thinks youre funny. seriously. go outside.

Posted by Anonymous | September 22, 2011 12:26 AM

Yo 4:18, "Refrigerator Car".

Posted by you are a lovely person | September 22, 2011 2:41 AM

You trapped the shrimp, the gallows mourn under water badges.

Posted by Anonymous | September 22, 2011 2:55 AM

What time did Beirut go on?

Posted by Anon | September 22, 2011 7:57 AM

Beruit is the drinking game where you throw the ping-pong ball into the cup and the opposing team must drink that cup.

Posted by Anonymous | September 22, 2011 8:54 AM

“Used to be known” as the paris of the middle east !!!!! It was. What changed it? Israel was born in 1948. Beirut remained as Paris of the Middle East til 1972 when Arafat was thrown out of Jordan and he took his “fighters” to that beautiful city, set up military posts, rocket launchers, amunition depot in the center of the population (as does Hamas in Gaza), and the rest is history. So why Beirut was so peaceful before 1972? you can’t blame Israelis for this “used to be known” stuff. In 1980 came Hezbolah, founded, trained, financed and supported by Iran, which now controls Beirut. So that beautiful “used to be known” city…. and as long as Hezbolah and other radicals backed by Iran and Syria remain there and meddle in their county’s business and shoot rockets into civilian populations of the northern israel, the once beautiful city of Beirut will remain as the “used to be known” city.

Posted by Anonymous | September 22, 2011 8:57 AM

Sprawled on the hills that roll down towards the Mediterranean, Beirut was once known as the "Paris of the Middle East".
Beirut during the civil war (photo from 7 May 1976)
The 20-year civil war destroyed much of beautiful Beirut

Over the years, the city's sophisticated charm, its winding streets and the mixture of French colonial and Ottoman architecture had captured the imagination - and hearts - of countless visitors.

But from the mid-1970s onward, as Lebanon descended into a two-decade-long civil war, much of Beirut was reduced to rubble.

The war also changed the demographics of the city, Beirut's once mixed religious and ethnic neighbourhoods became increasingly divided and hundreds of thousands of people left the country.

Today, the legacy of the civil war still mars Lebanon's divisive and turbulent politics but the city itself, it seems, has moved on.

Beirut's skyline is dotted with cranes and the skeletons of half-finished high rises. On every corner, it seems, there is a construction site.

For plenty of people, this building boom which is turning Beirut into a chaotic glitzy metropolis is a sign of better times. For others, it is a disaster.

Posted by Anonymous | September 22, 2011 8:58 AM

sounds like their problems could be easily solved with a performance in full of "Pocket Full of Kryptonie"

Posted by Anonymous | September 22, 2011 9:06 AM

^ epic meme fail. you lose!

Posted by Anonymous | September 22, 2011 9:12 AM

speak english bro

Posted by Anonymous | September 22, 2011 9:24 AM

WILCO TONIGHT

Posted by Anonymous | September 22, 2011 9:35 AM

^ That's about as logical as the screams of pleasure that I gave your mom last night as I stabbed her from behind. I'm surprised that you didn't notice the bump on her forehead this morning while you ate your bowl of cereal before you left for school - her head just kept bumping that wall but she didn't care.

Posted by Anonymous | September 22, 2011 9:36 AM

Anyone else disappointed with the Opeth setlist/show last night?

Posted by Anonymous | September 22, 2011 9:38 AM

yeah - very odd show, mellow setlist. maybe tonight will be better

Posted by Anonymous | September 22, 2011 9:51 AM

I might not even go tonight (hopefully not the same setlist), since it's also sold out. I dunno. maybe.

Posted by Anonymous | September 22, 2011 9:57 AM

weather looks like cock for tonight

Posted by Anonymous | September 22, 2011 10:19 AM

Weather looks like cock for the next few days. I hope the weathermen are wrong.

Posted by Anonymous | September 22, 2011 10:21 AM

I just saw an autographed copy of Spin Doctors legendary album Pocket Full of Kryptonite on amazon. This will surely break the all-time record for highest selling price ever. It takes The Spins to achieve greatness!

Posted by Anonymous | September 22, 2011 10:23 AM

wilco for tonight back onsale

Posted by Anonymous | September 22, 2011 10:34 AM

I finally got around to listening to Spin Doctors "Pocket" for the first time....after 10 secs, I said to myself, "Wow, this guy on BV is really dumbass."

Have fun at the show with your mom!

Posted by Anonymous | September 22, 2011 10:53 AM

I have an extra for opeth tonight if anyone needs one. face

Posted by Anonymous | September 22, 2011 11:03 AM

how do we reach you, anonymous_bv@aol.com?

Posted by Anonymous | September 22, 2011 11:23 AM

I'll be on the movie theater corner (11th @ 3rd) at 6:30

Posted by Leo | September 22, 2011 11:54 AM

Girls is so so SO overrated.

Posted by Anonymous | September 22, 2011 1:06 PM

You know what's not overrated? Spin Doctors!

Posted by Anonymous | September 22, 2011 1:24 PM

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