today in NYC
* Yale Strom @ Barbes
* Caspa @ Webster Hall
* The Present @ The Stone
* Matthew Avedon @ Zebulon
* Underground Horns @ Barbes
* Gilbert Gottfried @ Caroline's
* Roberto Carlos Lange @ The Stone
* No Bra & more @ Santos Party House
* Hungry March Band @ Brooklyn Bowl
* Mandatory Office Party @ Union Hall
* Chrisette Michele @ Best Buy Theater
* Yo La Tengo Hanukkah show @ Maxwell's
* Bernie Worrell Orchestra @ Bowery Electric
* Forever Ray: Whitley & The Hard Times Band @ City Winery
* Seth MacFarlane with Big Band conducted by Joel McNeely @ Blue Note
* Kurtis Blow, Cold Crush Brothers, The Sugarhill Gang, Rob Base, Joeski Love, Lovebug Starski @ B.B. King Blues Club
* A Very Capeshok Secret Santa Party w/ The Everymen, Moonmen On The Moon, Man, The Shipwrecks, Phone Home, Merry Christmas, Spa Castles, Crazy and The Brains @ Cake Shop
* The Skirts, Barkuna, Lost Boy?, Imaginary Weapons, My Summer, Twi the Humble Feather (solo), Universe, Bryce Hackford @ Glasslands

Check out a wintry new video for Jonsi & Cameron Crowe's "Gathering Stories" which appears in Cameron's new movie "We Bought a Zoo" (out this week), below...

What else?

Continue reading "What's going on Friday? (Hanukkah again)"

Here's the info:

'we bought a zoo' released
today, december 13th, sees the release of the soundtrack for the forthcoming movie 'we bought a zoo' - the soundtrack comprises of over 30 minutes of brand new music from jónsi; two new songs from jónsi: "ævin endar" (life ends) & "snærisendar" (end of a rope) as well as nine shorter "theme" pieces, plus reimagining's of songs from jónsi's debut solo album "go". the soundtrack also includes "hoppípolla" by sigur rós.

information about the album, tracklisting, ordering and preview streams are all available on jonsi.com

to celebrate this release, today (december 13th) in new york city there will be a live q&a session with jónsi & the movie's director cameron crowe. this event [at Barnes & Noble] starts at 7pm nyc time and will be streamed live

Continue reading "'We Bought a Zoo' soundtrack released; Jonsi & Cameron Crowe appearing in NYC (and online) today"

Canon Blue

Canon Blue, the solo project of Daniel James, released his sophomore LP, Rumspringa, today (8/16) via Temporary Residence Limited (and via Efterklang's label Rumraket in Scandinavia) (Rumtaket's last-ever non-Efterklang release). The album is the follow-up to 2007's Colonies, a collaboration with Chris Taylor of Grizzly Bear. It was recorded while he was on a European tour with Efterklang, who Daniel contributes to. Sigur Ros' string section Amiina provided string arrangements on the album (which they recorded in Iceland). Slaraffenland and Efterklang both also contribute to the album. Stream the track "A Native (Madison)" here and check out some video clips of album tracks below. Listen to the whole album at Spinner.

Canon Blue kicks off a tour in support of the album tonight (8/16) at Mercury Lounge. After a couple more East Coast dates, they'll play Glasslands on August 20 and then hit up other US and Canadian venues. Both NYC shows feature support from Atlantic/Pacific (ex-Texas is the Reason). Tickets are on sale now for the Mercury show and the Glasslands show. Canon Blue also tour in November supporting The Boxer Rebellion. Canon Blue are not listed as an opener when The Boxer Rebellion hit NYC on November 18 at Webster Hall but maybe that will change after Canon Blue's NYC shows this week. Tickets for the Webster Hall show are on sale now.

Speaking of Sigur Ros, they recently put a trailer video on their website for the film INNI, which will screen at the Venice Film Festival. The film was directed by Vincent Morisset, who also directed the Arcade Fire film Mirror Noir. Sigur Ros frontman Jonsi is also set to score Cameron Crowe's upcoming film We Bought a Zoo. Cameron and Sigur Ros last worked together when the band contributed music to his 2001 film Vanilla Sky.

All dates, videos, album art and tracklist below...

Continue reading "Sigur Ros doing film stuff, Canon Blue released an album & is playing shows (dates, songs & videos)"