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May 12, 2006
new venue: Greenpoint's McCarren Park Pool
AGORA @ MCCAREN POOL (via Tien who has more)
We've all been wondering what's the deal with the Bloc Party/Secret Machines/Mew show at McCarren Pool in Brooklyn this summer. NYU/NY Times has the answer....
The Parks Department estimates the cost of restoring the McCarren pool at upward of $40 million, and at the moment no one is willing to foot the bill.
That is where Ron Delsner Presents (Clear Channel) stepped in. Last summer, the company paid for a modest cleanup so the pool could accommodate an experimental dance performance by Agora, a troupe founded by the French-Canadian choreographer Noémie LaFrance. It was the first public event to grace the graffiti-covered space since it had closed. Because of the donation, Ron Delsner Presents received a contract to present 10 more events this summer.
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Misshapes & live Moby karaoke at the Whitney last night
MISSHAPES & MOBY | MAY 11, 2006
Klaus wrote in, "This is old news as it happened last night, but I attended the Whitney Museum ArtParty last night and was surprised by choice of entertainment. From 8:00pm - 11:00pm, MisShapes DJed during the Whitney's silent auction. Then, after 11:00pm, Arlenes Grocery's Rock n Roll Karaoke band performed and even had a little help from Moby on guitar and background vocals on Whole Lotta Love and Rebel Yell."
VANESSA CARLTON & MOBY | CHLOE SEVIGNEY & EVA MENDES
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NY Magazine picks the most Influential New Yorkers
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May 10, 2006
NYC Bicycle Film Festival | Parties & stuff about bikes
The Bicycle Film Festival is "a celebration of bicycles through film, art and music". It runs May 10-14, 2006 in NYC. The opening night party is tonight (May 10, 10PM) at Union Pool in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. 'Matt and Kim', Aa, and Home Video are all playing, and its free (donations accepted). Get all the festival info you need at their site.
AND there’s an after party every night following the screenings, as well as a Block Party on 2nd street and 2nd Avenue on Saturday from 1-7pm. All that info is below:
Thursday, May 11th
Afterparty @ Fat Baby, 112 Rivington
10pm-4am
Azu (Baby Fresh), Dirty Fingers (Black Label), Stacher (Black Label)
Friday, May 12th
Afterparty @ Fontanas, 105 Eldridge Street
10pm
Anthem Magazine presents
James F!@#$%^ Friedman & Ted Shred
Saturday, May 13th
Block Party @ Anthology Film Archives
1-7pm
Afterparty @ 168 Delancey St. (Flyer attached)
BIKEAGE
Bicycle Film festival in association w/ Tokion Magazine celebrates bike culture and the release party Peter Sutherlands new book Pedal. BIKEAGE is an over the top bike party hosted by Darryl-Dane Nau(Shit Hammered) and three of the deadliest Dj’s around. Black Label Bike Club’s own Dj Dirty Fingers, The one man army of Ted Shred and The Legendary Tommie Sunshine will be crankin’ out a mixed cluster of live mixes so be ready to tear up this sleazy decorated dance floor, watch projected bike videos, and throw back free Brahma beer from 9.30-10.30 There will be hundreds of Giveaways from Puma, Timbuk2 Messenger Bags, Smart water and cheap $3 dollar beer all night.
Sunday, May 14th
BFF Closing party @ LIT BAR
10pm-4am
Ted Shred
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Last year Blonde Redhead played their party.
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May 8, 2006
NY Magazine picks the most Influential New Yorkers
LEIGH LEZARK LICKING SARAH LEWITINN (via)
"The Influentials" include.....
Sarah Lewitinn, a.k.a. Ultragrrrl
Blogger
Like it or not, she has more power than any print music critic. Lewitinn, who recently made waves by calling My Chemical Romance “this generation’s Nirvana,” attracts thousands of MySpace-savvy readers to her Ultragrrrl blog each day. On the strength of that audience, she landed a book deal (The Pocket DJ) and her own indie-ish label (Stolen Transmission), courtesy of Island Records. Her reach goes well beyond New York: A recent party she hosted in Austin had wannabes waiting on block-long lines and scaling fences.
Clive Davis
Chairman and CEO, BMG U.S. Label Group
In an age when traditional A&R has been all but superseded by the Internet, Davis continues to pull off an improbable one-two punch as nurturer of talent old and new. On the one hand, he plucks teenage R&B crooner Mario from American Idol; on the other, he helps Barry Manilow to his first No. 1 album in almost 30 years. Next: a plump-up for Pearl Jam, which Davis coaxed over to J Records after twelve long years at Epic.
James Murphy
Musician, producer, co-founder of DFA Records
Nobody did more to engineer the dance-punk sound that has swept New York in recent years. Murphy, who just landed British indie-dance sensation Hot Chip, is a triple threat: There’s his Grammy-nominated band, LCD Soundsystem; his remix work for everyone from the Rapture to Gorillaz; and his label, DFA Records, which we’ll look back on as a time capsule of New York music in the ’00s.
John Moore
Booker, Bowery Ballroom
Local buzz-band We Are Scientists were recently asked for the “personal highlight” of their career. The answer? Selling out that “cornerstone of the New York scene”—the Bowery Ballroom. It’s owned by Michael Swier and Michael Winsch, but the impeccable taste of booker Moore makes the venue the final stamp of approval on any indie-rock passport.
Leigh Lezark
D.J., “MisShapes”
Equal parts Louise Brooks and Kate Moss, Lezark is a downtown “It” girl–cum– marketing phenomenon. Her vampy little-girl-lost look was made for the club-scene photos at Last-NightsParty.com, and thanks to a never-ending stream of celebrity D.J.’s—Madonna, Hilary Duff, Hedi Slimane—her weekly “MisShapes” party at Don Hill’s continues to draw L-train mods. And so the product-placers have descended, showering the 21-year-old with freebies in the hope that she’ll propel them to the head of the class. Because where one hipster goes, another inevitably follows.
Nick Denton
Publisher, Gawker Media
Made blogs a popular—and profitable—art form, partly by paying his bloggers intern-level wages. Denton and Gawker.com’s original editor, Elizabeth Spiers, both jockey for credit for pioneering the now-ubiquitous form: jokey headline; snide, quippy post; links; and a willingness to run suspect info (hey, the Internet hive mind auto-corrects!). New York’s other blog baron, Weblogs, Inc., founder Jason McCabe Calacanis, has already cashed out by selling to AOL, but Denton remains on his own, bringing the Gawker formula to, among others, sports nuts (Deadspin), shoppers (The Consumerist), and Silicon Valley (Valleywag).
THE REST OF 'THE INFLUENTIALS' @ NY MAGAZINE
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