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June 13, 2008
four upcoming Thurston Moore events (Other Music Saturday)
You won't be able to hear Thurston Moore discuss his new book at McNally Robinson until July (event #4), but you can hear him read from it tomorrow (event #2)...
THURSTON MOORE & BYRON COLEY BOOK RELEASE PARTYTickets were also just given out to the free show Sonic Youth is playing in Battery Park on July 4th (event #3)
Join us at the shop this Saturday for a reading, signing and release party with Thurston Moore and Byron Coley, celebrating the publication of their great new no wave primer "No Wave: Post-Punk. Underground. New York 1976-1980." Let's call this one the after-party for the Teenage Jesus & the Jerks/Information reunion gigs at the Knitting Factory the night before (event #1)... quite a weekend!SATURDAY, JUNE 14 @ 6:30PM - 8PM
OTHER MUSIC: 15 East 4th Street NYC
Free admission / Limited capacity
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May 23, 2008
3 music-related events happening at McNally Robinson
McNally Robinson is a bookstore on Prince St in NYC. Check out who they have visiting in May, June and July....
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May 15, 2008
John Darnielle, Black Sabbath, a book reading & stuff
by Black Bubblegum
John Darnielle knows his tunes. Not just his own, everyone else's too. I mean, how many people can blog away about Dionne Warwick, sing the praises of Con Funk Shun, AND review the Maryland Deathfest?
John also knows a thing or two about writing (check his blog or his column in Decibel) but it wasnt until recently that he decided to focus his energies into his first book, Master Of Reality. As #56 in the popular 33 1/3 series, Master Of Reality is a profile of the seminal Black Sabbath record which may or may not have laid the ground work for the entire stoner rock genre ("Sweet Leaf" anyone?).
Master Of Reality is out now and in celebration of his accomplishment, John Darnielle will be reading from Master Of Reality at Housing Works Used Book Cafe in NYC this Saturday, May 17th at 7PM.
But that's not the only thing Darnielle has going down this weekend..... The night before, his band The Mountain Goats will headline the AIDS Walk benefit at Brooklyn Masonic Temple with The Daily Show's John Oliver, Rock Plaza Central, and Dave Hill on the assist tip. Tickets are still available and it's for a great cause, so scoot on over and get'em while you can.
Black Sabbath Version 2.0, aka Heaven & Hell, are part of the Metal Masters Tour with Judas Priest, Motorhead & Testament. Tickets for those shows are still on sale too.
Popmatters was able to delve into why John Darnielle chose Master Of Reality and what he loves about metal.
Check out some of Darnielle's other favorite metal albums in a guest blog he did with Powell's. Darnielle profiles WASP's The Headless Children, Judas Priest's Sad Wings Of Destiny, Black Sabbath's Born Again (really? that one?), Guns N Roses's Appetite For Destruction, and Mercyful Fate's Don't Break The Oath.
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May 12, 2008
'Hidden gay life of macho hip hop stars' (new book)
DOWNLOAD: Estelle & Kanye West - American Boy (LAZRtag remix) (MP3)
Terrance Dean, a former executive at music channel MTV, has penned a memoir of his life and times in the hip hop industry as a gay man. It is an explosive exposé of a thriving gay subculture in an aggressively male business, where anti-gay lyrics and public homophobia are common.Perhaps not surprisingly, many in the industry are nervous about the book's publication this week, fearing that it will expose some of the top black names in music and Hollywood as secretly gay.
[The Guardian]
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April 16, 2008
new comic book printed with Tori Amos' blood...
Okay, so the blood part is just a rumor (that I just started)....
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March 28, 2008
Harry Potter bands playing Sidewalk Cafe tonight, headlining Bowery & Southpaw in June
The Sidewalk Cafe schedule reads, "Fri. March 28- Wizard Rock Night: (All the bands play songs influenced by the world of Harry Potter) 8-Catchlove, 9-The Moaning Myrtles, 10-The Whomping Willows, 11-The Malfoys". Also, tickets are on sale for June Harry & the Potters shows at Bowery Ballroom and Southpaw. Related video below...
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March 18, 2008
Dean Warehem's (Luna) new book & related tour dates
Black Postcards: A Rock & Roll Romance
In his grumpy but informative memoir, Wareham, the lead guitarist and vocalist for seminal independent rock bands Galaxie 500 and Luna, recounts the highs and lows of his life as a musician. While Wareham's narrative voice is not particularly warm, he is refreshingly frank (though quite defensive) about the personal conflicts that broke up Galaxie 500, as well as about his later, somewhat more conventional rock and roll antics, which included drug use and infidelity. For most readers, the heart of the book will come in the first hundred odd pages, which focus on the financially difficult but artistically fruitful run of Galaxie 500, featuring Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang, in the late 1980s and early '90s. The stories of nights spent on the floors of college radio station managers and recording classic albums in three days are the stuff of do-it-yourself legend, and at its best, the book serves as a clear narrative of the travails of independent musicians in the days before mp3s and Pitchfork Media (which gets a snarky shout-out). Wareham gets a lot of mileage out of frustration with booking agents, band mates and radio stations, and over the course of the book, one gets a prevailing sense of how truly difficult it can be for some great musicians to break through the mass media wall. [Publisher's Weekly - Amazon.com]Dean Warehem makes a free promotional book tour stop at Union Hall in Brooklyn tonight (March 18). All dates and stuff below....
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February 24, 2008
Times New Viking - 2008 Tour Dates, 'Perfect From Now On'
DOWNLOAD: Times New Viking - Drop-Out (MP3)
In addition to opening tonight (Feb 24) and tomorrow's Super Furry Animals shows at Bowery Ballroom, Times New Viking are playing a book release show in Brooklyn on March 1st. Check out the flyer above. Check out more tour dates, and more book parties, below....
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February 9, 2008
What's going on Saturday? (Punk Rock Book of Lists)
"We make to-do lists, shopping lists, wish lists...but somehow our lists just don't ROCK. The ones in this new book do....The Official Punk Rock Book of Lists is the handiwork of Handsome Dick Manitoba of the Dictators and Amy Wallace of the original Book of Lists. They're billing this book as "Essential bathroom reading!!!! " but we like it at the breakfast table, actually. We loved learning how about The Pogues got their name and what Mario Batali's favorite pizzas in the world are. (What does that have to do with punk rock? According to this tome, pizza is the MOST punk rock food of all.)" [beatrice]* Market Hotel opens
* Joakim plays Studio B
* Freak's Ball VIII @ Southpaw
* Gallows play Bowery Ballroom
* Kaiju Big Battel @ Webster Hall
* Early Man plays Knitting Factory
* RIP, Tony Silver, director of Style Wars
* Sick of It All is at Highline Ballroom
* No Age & Liars are playing Warsaw
* Godspeed You! Black Emperor (R.I.P)
* Siouxsie Sioux is at Irving Plaza
* NYC fans feels snubbed by Siouxsie Sioux
* Richards, Jagger throw stones at Winehouse
* Osbourne offers Winehouse post rehab sanctuary
* Visa Vetoed, Winehouse Goes to Grammy Satellite
* Should You Watch Sunday Night's Grammy Awards?
I have two copies of "The Official Punk Rock Book of Lists" to give away. E-mail BVCONTESTS@HOTMAIL.COM (subject: punk) if you want to win one. Two winners will be picked and contacted. What else?
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November 30, 2007
if I read more, I'd probably read..... The Replacements: All Over But the Shouting: An Oral History
DOWNLOAD: Jim Walsh talked about it on WNYC (MP3)
Their legend is entrenched in rock history: Three neighborhood friends form a band in a Minneapolis basement, recruit a 12-year-old brother to play bass, and become one of the most critically acclaimed rock acts of the 1980s. Along the way there's comedy, tragedy -- and a lot of beery folklore. Longtime Twin Cities music critic Jim Walsh joins us to share his oral history, "The Replacements: All Over But The Shouting." [WNYC]One day I will read more, and when I do, I would like to read this book by Jim Walsh. Download Jim Walsh's WNYC interview above. Check out four more related events, below...
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