Hoboken Arts & Music Festival
Sunday, May 6, 2012
11am to 6pm

takes place on Washington St. between Observer Highway to 7th St.

Over 300 Artists, Crafters, Photographers, Sculptors, Local Businesses, Restaurants, Food Vendors, local non-profits & more
Rain or shine - Admission is Free

Continue reading "2012 Hoboken Arts & Music Festival is Sunday (schedule)"

The Hold Steady @ Rothbury 2009 (more by Graeme Flegenheimer)

tonight in NYC
* Gwar's Crack-a-thon
* Gui Boratto @ Love
* Freedy Johnston @ Southpaw
* Culture Shock @ SUNY Purchase
* Todd Barry & Eugene Mirman @ Maxwell's
* Yacht Rock w/ Ambrosia @ The Bell House
* The Appleseed Cast @ Gramercy Theatre
* VHS or BETA (DJ) (late) @ Brooklyn Bowl
* Trans Am, Nice Nice @ Santos Party House
* Richard Buckner, Willy Vlautin @ Union Hall
* Future Rock, Telepath (early) @ Brooklyn Bowl
* Aloha, Pomegranates @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
* Spring Standards, Via Audio @ (le) Poisson Rouge
* Surprise Me Mr. Davis, Yellowbirds @ Mercury Lounge
* Electric Tickle Machine, Shark?, Andy T @ Bruar Falls
* The Drums, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart @ Other Music
* Deceased, Crucifist, The Villains, Superchrist @ Union Pool
* See Green, Emily Long, Vulture Whale, United States @ Pianos
* Natural Child, Sisters, Boogie Boarder, Regal Degal @ Death By Audio
* The Hold Steady, The Oranges Band (late) @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
* The Hold Steady, J-Roddy Walston & The Business (early) @ Bowery Ballroom
* Crazy Dreams Band, Jooklo Duo, Tom Carter, Arrington De Dionyso @ Cake Shop
* Beets, Eternal Summers, Maine Coons, Family Trees, German Measles @Glasslands
* Gospel, Cleanteeth, Psychic Limb, Rats In The Walls & Black Kites at Public Assembly
* Pure Ecstasy, Twin Sister, Weed Hounds, DJ Rezound @ Tortilleria Mexicana Los Hermanos
* The Flaming Lips, Stardeath And White Dwarfs, The Hood Internet @ Mid-Hudson Civic Center

How is your Record Store Day going?!

Tonight's Los Campesinos! / Cymbals Eat Guitars show at Maxwell's has been postponed due to volcano.

Los Campesinos! were also supposed to play Culture Shock which is on its second day today.

The volcano is also affecting Coachella which is happening for the second day in a row today too. Check out pics from day one.

Stream Coachella from your computer or phone.

The Roadburn Festival, also hit by the volcano, continues today too overseas.

Flaming Lips play a public Vassar-sponsored show in NY tonight. They're in NJ on Monday.

Ambrosia appears with Yacht Rock at the Bell House tonight. Video below...

Freedy Johnston is at Southpaw tonight. Also catch him at the Hoboken Arts & Music Festival in May.

Beach Fossils played Knitting Factory on March 29th. A video below...

What else?

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Alex Chilton @ Hoboken Arts & Music Fest 2009

This year's Hoboken Arts & Music Festival will happen on Sunday, May 2nd, 11am to 6pm, on Washington Street (b/w Observer Highway and 7th St). The musical offerings include pop-rock hit-makers Fountains of Wayne (who play a sold-out show at Maxwell's the night before), songwriter Freedy Johnston, NJ roadhouse blues The Doughboys and others plus "over 300 artists, sculptors, photographers and craftspeople."

Last year's fest featured members of The Feelies (who are playing July 4th weekend shows in Hoboken) and '60s group The Box Tops (Alex Chilton RIP).

More info with the current music lineup, and videos from last year, below...

Continue reading "Hoboken Arts & Music Fest 2010 lineup includes Fountains of Wayne & Freedy Johnston (the Box Tops played last year)"

John Wesley Harding @ City Winery Haiti benefit Jan. 20th (more by Tim Griffin)

Songwriter and author John Wesley Harding has a number of different events coming up. He joins his band the English U.K. for three shows this weekend (two of which are in the NYC-area). They play Joe's Pub on Saturday, February 13th. (tickets), then they're at Maxwell's with Freedy Johnston on February 14th (tickets).

JWH, real name & pen name Wesley Stace, will be doing a reading/musical performance at Brooklyn's Greenlight Bookstore (686 Fulton Street) on Febraury 25th. He'll be joined by another author/musician, Rick Moody (who plays as part of the Wingdale Community Singers). Stace's third book is due to come out in 2010.

John Wesley Harding's Cabinet of Wonders variety show will return to (Le) Poisson Rouge for shows in March, April and May. Tickets are TBA. Dates for those and all shows/readings are below...

Continue reading "John Wesley Harding tour dates (shows this weekend, Freedy Johnston, readings, more Cabinets of Wonder...)"

The Dream Syndicate

Tickets are still on sale for this show tonight:

Jul 25, 2008 at 7:30 PM EDT
Freedy Johnston performing "Can You Fly" plus
Steve Wynn & The Miracle 3 performing The Dream Syndicate's "Days Of Wine & Roses"
at Maxwell's - Hoboken, NJ, $15.00

Continue reading "Steve Wynn releasing an album, playing one tonight, video"