Tickets go on sale Tuesday for a March 6th Matt & Kim show at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple in Fort Greene. Matt & Kim are also returning to SXSW in Austin this year, and they're playing at least one show that looks like it will be amazing....

Saturday March 15th @ MOHAWK - Austin TX

:: TODD P / FREE AGENCY / SILENT BARN SHOWCASE

:: OUTSIDE STAGE
::
:: MATT AND KIM
:::: High Places
:::::: Abe Vigoda
:::::::: Ponytail
:::::::::: Pig Out
:::::::::::: Team Robespierre

:: INSIDE STAGE
::
:: DAN DEACON
:::: Ecstatic Sunshine
:::::: These are Powers
:::::::: Best Friends Forever
:::::::::: Woods
:::::::::::: Foreign Islands

:: mc VICE COOLER aka HAWNAY TROOF
:: djs & more buds tba

[ MOHAWK ]
912 Red River St @ E 9th St | Downtown - AUSTIN, TX
3 blocks North of Emo's | ALL AGES | 512.482.8404 | doors 6:30pm | $tba
--MYSPACE--> http://myspace.com/mohawkaustin
--MAP--> http://maps.google.com/maps?q=912+red+river,+78701

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Help Team Robespierre celebrate the release of their new record tonight at Death By Audio (Feb 1), show up early to the Foals show at Bowery Ballroom to see Team Robespierre, and get your tickets before they sell out for the Team Robespierre, Health, Crystal Castles and Apache Beat show at Mercury Lounge on March 26th. Stay tuned for a BrooklynVegan TR remix contest coming soon. All tour dates below....

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the 11th in a series where we asked comedians to tell us what was good this year....

Kurt Braunohler is one of the greatest, though sadly lesser-known, comedians in this city. His super-human comedic abilities cover everything from improv to stand-up to teaching to hosting to acting to being in videos. His first project was called Kurtbot which featured street comedy sketches and a website that delivered them to the masses. He then got involved in a street theater project called Chenguin. Following that, his work with Neutrino Video Projects got substantial acclaim and ended up traveling to the HBO US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, as well as to the Edinburgh Theater Festival in Scotland. These days he is better known as the co-host of the Hot Tub Variety Show with Kristen Schaal and co-star of the series Penelope Princess of Pets, also with Schaal. He also teaches classes at The Pit. And the stand-up I've seen him do lately is some of the funniest stuff I've seen in ages. Simply put, he's one of my favorite comedians around. Here's what he was into in '07 - Klaus

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Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? - A highlight of my summer was driving into Montreal for the first time ever blasting this album (I know they're from Georgia, but still.) Every song on this album, I love.

Tegan and Sara, The Con - This year, I spent some time in a city that demands you sit in a car for long periods of time every day (it rhymes with "Smell-A.") I would have murdered many more people if not for this album.

continued below...

Continue reading "Best of 2007 by Kurt Braunohler"

Kim @ Siren Fest 2007, Brooklyn, NY - July 21, 2007

Matt @ Siren Fest 2007, Brooklyn, NY - July 21, 2007

The spazzy, smiley, mosh-friendly Matt & Kim touring with the equally mosh pit-inducing Against Me! seems to make sense. Team Love singer-songwriter David Dondero on that bill doesn't make as much sense, but hey, why not....

Continue reading "David Dondero, Against Me! & Matt & Kim"

DOWNLOAD: Matt & Kim - Yea Yeah (Ocelot remix) (MP3)

crowd @ a Kalamazoo Matt & Kim show - June 15, 2007 (CRED)

Flosstradamus just so happen to be in town. Yea Yeah....

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DOWNLOAD: TheDeathSet - Intermission (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: TheDeathSet - Paranoia (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: TheDeathSet - Negative Thinking (James Stovall Remix)

TheDeathSet in Baltimore (CRED)

Now that I finally got the Best Fwends post out there, it's finally time for the one about one of their friends - another Todd-P-Baltimore-Wham-City-Dan Deacon-Spank-Rock-Punk band that I've been getting pretty excited about lately - THE DEATH SET.

TheDeathSet @ Glasslands Gallery, Brooklyn, NY - May 25, 2007 (CRED)

This is also my chance to finally bring up the water balloon incident...

Last Friday was a show at Glasslands put on by Bikes In The Kitchen. It was a pretty great line-up, with Pterodactyl, Team Robespierre, Best Fwends, and theDeathset. The show was a sweaty good time (very sweaty, perspiration was condensing on the metal roof and occasionally dripping down on the crowd), until a random tragedy hit right at the start of Deathset's set. Some girls thought it would be funny to throw water balloons down on the crowd from the balcony. And it was funny. Until one of them, for whatever possible reason, decided to start throwing them past the band at the back of the stage where all of the amps/speakers/cables/sound equipment was.....[Suckapants on May 28, 2007]

....Meanwhile "Fuck you you fucking fuck" girl decides instead of simply giving me her details it would be a better idea to call the police after first trying to fight me all the time me thinking how ridiculous it actually is that my first fight will be with a girl. Luckily peoples pull her off. So in summary, this girl is not only an imbecile and an idiot, she is also a narc, causing the party to end. The police come and side with me after they hear the story and I tell them I don't want her to be arrested and they advise me to get an attorney which I don't have the first clue about and obviously being in a touring band can not afford. [TheDeathSet - June 4, 2007]

Lightning Bolt - Above the Auto Parts Store, Brooklyn, NY - May 27, 2007 (CRED)

Tomorrow night TheDeathSet play in Brooklyn again - @ Don Pedro's w/ SSS-spectres, The Trucks, DD/MM/YYYY, and Team Robespierre. All tour dates below....

Continue reading "THEDEATHSET - 2007 Tour Dates, MP3's, video & the water balloon incident (+tonight w/ Matt & Kim & Parts & Labor)"

Despite the July 21st date being set in stone for some time, it seemed a lot of people had their doubts that the annual, free Village Voice Siren Music Festival in Coney Island would even happen this year. Perhaps with the destruction of Astroland and what not, 2007 will indeed be the last year. Enjoy it while you can. The Village Voice just announced the following intiial list of bands:

New York Dolls
We Are Scientists
Matt And Kim
The Black Lips
Dr. Dog
Lavender Diamond
The Detroit Cobras
Elvis Perkins
The Twilight Sad
The Noisettes

Brooklyn's own Todd P will be in Austin too. Here's a list of the all-ages events he's throwing this year....

Continue reading "Todd P is throwing a lot of events @ SXSW"

NYC's free music magazine The Deli asked a bunch of people/parties to list the three emerging (not established) bands they think best represented NYC in 2006. Eighteen people/parites answered including myself, Oh My Rockness, Other Music, Ear Farm, NY Noise, Insound, Sound Fix, and Ultragrrl. Here are the combined results:

1. The Big Sleep
2. Professor Murder
3. Psychic Ills
4. Grizzly Bear
4. Jaymay
5. Valeze
7. O'Death
8. Beirut
8. Daylight's For The Birds
8. Dirty On Purpose
8. Matt and Kim
8. Goes Cube

The rest of the list below.....

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Yea Yeah (MP3) is one of my favorite tracks by Brooklyn duo, and Todd P regulars, Matt & Kim - I play it regularly on the "BrooklynVegan blog radio' show. Now the song has a video too - a video with a bunch of vegan and non-vegan food throwing, a moshing banana, and even some partial-nudity....

"Does it get any more adorable?" [YANP]

"Anyway, the reason I love the Matt and Kim version is the pure joy on the faces of Matt and (especially) Kim as they are splattered, and body slammed, with all sorts of foodstuffs." [without sound]

"And if you gag on their shrill, off-key, cutesy remedial nonsense, you can turn the volume off and watch people throw shit at them." [heartonastick]

MATT & KIM FANS (CRED)

Matt & Kim are currently out on tour. Dates below....

Continue reading "Matt & Kim | new video & Tour Dates"

Though I never post my weekly playlists anymore, I am still on Sirius Left of Center's Blog Radio every Tuesday night @ 10 pm EST. For what it's worth, it was announced yesterday that Blog Radio is up for a Plug Award in the "Specialty show of the year (commercial radio)" category. Feel free to vote. (full disclosure: I am one of the many people on the "Plug Advisory Board")

Here are the songs I played on the radio last night (November 14, 2006).....

1) Professor Murder - Free Stress Test (Harkin and Wolf remix) (get it)

Continue reading "Sirius Playlist - Week 22"

DOWNLOAD: Matt & Kim - Silver Tiles (MP3)

NYU Program Board presents Les Savy Fav with The Big Sleep and Matt and Kim.
Thursday November 9th. Doors: 7:30 p.m.
E&L Auditorium, 60 Washington Square South.
Nyu $6. General Public can buy tickets day of the show for $8.
Tickets available at ticket central: 60 washington Square South, 2nd floor.

Previously
Les Savy Fav MoMA on sale
Les Savy Fav playing MoMA AND NYU

====> SATURDAY 9/9 @ 339 SCHOLES ST, BROOKLYN, NY <====
"I (Todd P) am back in effect in the NYC and have a HUGE afternoon party to tell you about - it's my birthday party / back-2-school shindig / Summertime OUTDOOR AFTERNOON SHOW EXTRAVAGANZA"

11:00 : possible secret suprise guest
10:00 :: Dirty Projectors -- chill down set
9:15 :::: Growing
8:30 ::::: Comets on Fire
7:45 :::::: Ex Models
7:00 ::::::: Matt and Kim
6:15 :::::::: Excepter
5:30 ::::::::: BIG A little a -----> final show w/ Hank Shteamer
4:45 :::::::::: Talibam interlude
4:00 ::::::::::: Vaz
3:15 :::::::::::: Child Abuse
2:30 ::::::::::::: High Places
1:45 :::::::::::::: Stars Like Fleas
1:00 ::::::::::::::: Roxy Pain
12:30 ::::::::::::::: Artanker Convoy
12:00 :::::::::::::::: Talibam!

more info at Todd's site.

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:

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