Active Child @ Mercury Lounge in June (more by Kyle Dean Reinford)

today in NYC
* Steve Swell @ Roulette
* Oval @ Issue Project Room
* Josh Rouse @ the Rock Shop
* Christian Wolff @ The Stone
* Dan Black, Class Actress @ Bowery Ballroom
* Hallux, Malkuth, Bad Girlfriend @ Union Pool
* Liquor Store, Thomas Function, Bad Cop @ Lit
* The Juliana Theory @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
* Balmorhea, Noveller, Julianna Barwick @ Littlefield
* School of Seven Bells, Active Child @ Brooklyn Bowl
* Natur, Mutant Supremacy, Nightlore, Pilgrim @ Cake Shop
* Autre Ne Veut, Gatekeeper, Laurel Halo, Airbird @ Zebulon
* Illinois, Whale Belly, The House Floor, Jerry Fuentes @ Glasslands
* Dirty Fences, Strange Shapes, Beauty Feast, Past Planes @ Bruar Falls
* Paul Baribeau, Emilyn Brodsky, Phillip Seymour Hoffman @ Death By Audio
* Total Slacker, Christmas, Dutch Treat, Diehard, Widow's Peak @ Shea Stadium
* Thank God, Beauty Apes, Descender, Trophy Wife, Child Abuse @ The Acheron
* Team Genius, Deadbeat Darling, Tenderbox, Blip Blip Bleep @ Mercury Lounge
* Cal Folger Day, Mark Geary, Jason Anderson, Erin Rauch-Sasseen @ Pete's Candy Store
* Max Silvestri, Joe Mande, Gabe Liedman, John Mulaney, Jon Glaser & other comedians @ The Bell House (free)

Some BrooklynVegan photographers (Samantha Marble included) are featured in a photo show happening today at Macri Park in Brooklyn (462 Union Avenue @ Metropolitan) from 7-10pm.

It's fashion week. Leave any party tips in the comments. I just heard that Sleigh Bells played a Lacoste party last night.

The Juliana Theory show at Music Hall of Williamsburg is their final farewell show and they are performing Emotion Is Dead in its entirety plus a second set of 'fan favorites'.

The Glasslands show is the first Illinois show in Brooklyn in over a year and it is also Whale Belly's album release show for their new album The Smile At The End Of The Slope.

Interpol played Jimmy Kimmel. Video below...

What else?

Continue reading "What's going on Thursday? (Rosh Hashanah) "

Tickets went back on sale for tonight's Demetri Martin show at Bowery Ballroom (2/19), and for tomorrow's at Music Hall of Williamsburg (2/20).

The Appleseed Cast added a 2nd NYC show at Mercury Lounge. Now they're playing twice, early and late, at the same venue on April 18th. Tickets are now on sale for both. More dates HERE.

Tickets are on Am Ex presale for a May 14th Thao and the Get Down Stay Down show at Bowery Ballroom

Kevin Devine is playing Bowery Ballroom on April 24th. Tickets are on sale.

Illinois is playing Mercury lounge on May 5th. Tickets are on sale.

Drink Up Buttercup @ MHOW (by Maryanne Ventrice)

The War On Drugs and Drink Up Buttercup have at least two things in common. They are both bands from Philly and they are both playing Union Hall in Brooklyn tonight/Sunday, December 14, 2008. TAB The Band is also on that bill. The War on Drugs is also playing with School of Seven Bells at Mercury Lounge on Monday. Drink Up Buttercup is also playing with Illinois (another Pennsylvania band) at all of their January multi-city residency shows including the one on the 14th at Rehab in NYC. All dates below...

Continue reading "The War on Drugs & Drink Up Buttercup - upcoming shows"

It's taking me too long to figure out what the heck is going on with the band Illinois and their new "The Adventures of Kid Catastrophe" "webisodes", so just know that chapter one premiered at Spin, chapter two premiered at Blender, and the band is playing a show in multiple cities (residencies) every time a new chapter is released and the NYC show for chapter two is tonight/Wednesday at Rehab. All tour dates and the series trailer below...

Continue reading "Illinois - 2008 Tour Dates, residencies, webisodes, something"

Reggie Watts @ Pianos (more by Ryan Muir)

What does tonight's Zombieville show at Soutpaw (May 9) have in common with the Saturday night show at the Lucky Cat?...

Continue reading "Zombieville Friday (tonight), Tippy Toes play again Saturday"

Melt Banana

Melt-Banana is hugely responsible for the reputation that Japanese bands have for their live shows going way over the top. After seeing this group in concert, it becomes difficult to accept anything less than total hair-raising insanity from anybody else onstage. While these noise punks have been together and steadily releasing albums, cassettes, and seven-inches since 1992, their legend was built on nonstop touring. [Clevelend Scene]

Nov 09 - Josh Ritter @ Webster Hall
Nov 10 - Illinois & Menomena @ Webster Hall
Nov 11 - Melt Banana, Vaz & The Netherlands @ Europa
Nov 13 - Dillinger Escape Plan CD release party @ Europa

Continue reading "MELT BANANA tour dates & some more TICKET CONTESTS ................................ (Josh Ritter, Illinois, Menomena...)"

DOWNLOAD: The Misfits - Halloween (MP3)

All Good Naysayers provides all the info you need to create your very own Sufjan Stevens-themed Halloween costume to go with your Sufjan Stevens pumpkin. And since the city was filled with people dressed up for Halloween this weekend (4-5 days before Halloween), it probably wouldn't be against the rules for you to wear your costume again 1-3 days after Halloween.

Just today I posted about the free show The Hold Steady are playing at Prospect Park, and another one at a Barnes & Noble. Nick Lowe recently played a charity show at Housing Works. The Old 97's are playing two shows on a boat this week (July 27), and as previously posted - M. Ward is scheduled to play a show in NYC on September 18th. What do all these things have to do with each other? This is what:

Three extraordinary evenings, nine exciting artists and it's FREE at 7 World Trade Center Park, Greenwich and Vesey Streets.

9/17: The Hold Steady, Old 97’s & Illinois
9/18: M. Ward, Victoria Williams & McCarthy Trenching
9/19: Nick Lowe, Holmes Brothers & Ollabelle

Presented by Wall Street Rising and produced by Michael Dorf

Continue reading "Hold Steady, Old 97's, Nick Lowe & M Ward - free shows @ the World Trade Center, a boat & other TOUR DATES"

It's been exactly one week since Menomena played a free show @ South Street Seaport, and now they're back with a tour announcement that includes a November 10th show at Webster Hall. All tour dates below....

Continue reading "Menomena & Illinois - 2007 Tour Dates"

Illinois, Dengue Fever, What Cheer Brigade, and Man Man played the free show at McCarren Pool in Brooklyn on Sunday...

Man Man @ McCarren Pool - July 1, 2007 (CRED)

In a rare move by me these days, I actually left NYC to be in the wilderness this weekend - SO, I wasn't there. To learn more about what I missed, I have since scoured through countless photosets created by those who WERE in attendance. I have learned that - it was sunny out, people were playing dodgeball and slip 'n slide, there were more people in the audience than the first week's show, bands played, people were having fun, but most of all I learned......that there was one very special dude that was definitely THERE....

Continue reading "Man @ Man Man @ McCarren Pool on Sunday"