Yo La Tengo @ Maxwell's, Hanukkah 2007 (more by Daniel Arnold)

A letter from Yo La Tengo below...

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photos by Leia Jospe

Three days after they played Roseland with Of Montreal, Love is All shared a bill with Titus Andronicus and Abe Vigoda at Maxwell's in Hoboken (last night, October 13th). Next: Abe Vigoda and Love Is All (previously listed as secret guest) will share a bill AGAIN, this Wednesday in Brooklyn...

Wednesday October 15th @ MONSTER ISLAND BASEMENT aka AVANT FLOOR aka LLANO ESTACADO

:::: ABE VIGODA
:::::: Woods
:::::::: Knyfe Hyts

:: special guests ----- LOVE IS ALL

[ MONSTER ISLAND BASEMENT aka AVANT FLOOR aka LLANO ESTACADO ]
NE corner of Metropolitan Ave & River St | Williamsburg, Brooklyn
L-Bedford, G-Metropolitan, JM-Marcy | doors 9:15pm | $7 | all ages

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Photos by Kurt Christensen

Love is All complete their string of east coast dates with a show at Maxwell's in Hoboken tonight (Monday, October 13) with Titus Andronicus and Abe Vigoda. On Friday they opened for Of Montreal at Roseland Ballroom. In November they return to the US, but this time to the west coast to play the Part Time Punks Festival and a bunch of other shows with Vivian Girls. Those dates and more Roseland pics below...

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Boris @ South Street Seaport (more by Chris La Putt)

Boris returns to our area on November 9th. Tickets are now on sale for a show at Maxwell's. (thx Chris & Paul)

MSG pics by Chris La Putt, Maxwell's pics by Leia Jospe

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MSG

Maxwell's

Tokyo Police Club opened for Weezer at Madison Square Garden in NYC on Wednesday (9/24). One day later they headlined their own show at the much, much smaller Maxwell's across the river in Hoboken. The NJ show was a night off from the Weezer tour that continues through October. More pictures from both shows below...

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DOWNLOAD: The Schramms - Wild Innoncence (live @ Bowery) (MP3)

Melding pop, folk-rock, and alt-country sounds with quirky wit and a keen intelligence, the Schramms were the brainchild of gifted guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter Dave Schramm, who debuted the group in 1987. Schramm, who had previously played with Human Switchboard and Jon Klages, left Yo La Tengo in 1986, following the release of their debut album, Ride the Tiger, and he soon began working up material with fellow Human Switchboard alumnus Ron Metz and drums and bassist Terry Karydes, who had played in an embryonic version of Yo La Tengo. After Karydes' bass was stolen, she moved over to keyboards, and Mike Lewis, another former member of Yo La Tengo, took over on bass, with guitarist Todd Novak and sax player Pete Linzell filling out the lineup. [All Music]

The Vaselines @ Maxwell's, Hoboken, NJ - July 9, 2008 (Music Snobbery)

The Vaselines played Maxwell's last night.

With their setlist, you pretty much got what you came for, unless you wanted Teenage Superstar. Their set was about 45 minuteslong, focusing on their top songs. Their voices haven't aged at all, even though I'd like to meet the person who saw them back in the day and remembers how they played. I can't emphaisze more how unique and special the night was, and then having it be a tribute to the indie rock of 20 years ago. It seems like it could be made today and not feel dated. [Music Snobbery]

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a July 4th ticket (CRED)

As someone pointed out, The Feelies played Maxwell's last night (June 30, 2008) too...

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words by Nick Masi, photos by Leia Jospe

A day after their three day run opening for The Raconteurs at Terminal 5, Black Lips headlined the significantly smaller Maxwell's across the river in Hoboken, NJ (June 2, 2008). They played only a few new songs - the rest of the set consisted mostly of tracks from their older albums and covers, one dedicated to the late Bo Diddley and another by their friends (and sorta-labelmate) King Khan & BBQ....

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photos by Leia Jospe

Foals

Foals (from the UK) finished up their North American touring last week with shows at Maxwell's in Hoboken (May 7th) and Union Hall in Brooklyn (May 8th).

The band will probably acknowledge that tonight was not their best effort. They were caught in traffic, resulting in a short sound check from a tired band at the end of their tour. They even mentioned how frustrated they were with how they are sounding, but they enjoyed Maxwell's Pina Coladas. [Music Snobbery]

I'm not sure how to describe their sound, I guess I can say its easy listening. Lots of cool percussion and sounds. I like a few songs, well more like all of them. [Randomnights's Weblog]

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Celebrating 30 years of Maxwell's!

July 23 & July 24

Celebrating 30 years of Maxwell's!

July 1st & July 2nd (which both come before July 4th). (thx)

MusicSnobbery's 3rd Anniversary @ Maxwell's - April 11, 2008 (Abbey Braden)

Greg (DJ NF) wrote in,

I am pretty impressed with Moby at the moment. After watching him kill it as a dj in SXSW, I felt like he was pretty unstoppable. Then when he stepped in for the The Teeth last night, I thought wow this dude just really likes to play. Then he did a lot of fan requests and dedicated a song to a fan and her family who had recently passed. I kinda am beginning to believe that Moby is really just all about the music and the people. I mean the dude is unflappable.

The night included covers of The Boss, Joy Divison, a 40s do wop song, Mission of Burma and 'Walk on the Wild Side', we he said when he hears it "makes him want to go to the bus station and take drugs." He was backed by three singers, keys, drummer and a possibly wasted guitar player, but who can really tell cause everyone was having a really good time. Overall, it was an awesome night in Jerz and I think I might try to hire Moby to play at my wedding.

A full, detailed writeup of Thursday night's show is @ MusicSnobbery's site. More pics @ Flickr.

PREVIOUSLY: Moby took MusicSnobbery's offer! playing Maxwell's

Tickets are on sale for a mysterious "Bloomfield Vegan Presents t.b.a." show at Maxwell's in Hoboken on June 16th (thx anon). June 16th is suspiciously close to the start of Ted Leo's tour with Pearl Jam (that includes 2 nights @ MSG). Just sayin'.

Ted Leo and others were also recently announced to be playing free shows at Castle Clinton in NYC this summer.

Monday, April 07, 2008

ok, so on friday i saw a video link from musicsnobbery.com
Category: Parties and Nightlife

ok, so on friday i saw a video link from musicsnobbery.com
in said link mr. music snobbery. com admitted that he was having a party at maxwells and his
headliner had cancelled.
he then asked a few people(me being one of them)to play at his party.
so, as i spend way too much time on the aforementioned internet and i have free time on april 10th and i love to play if there's an audience and/or beer involved, saw his
request and i emailed him and said, 'i'd be happy to play at your party'.
then he wrote back and, to paraphrase, said, 'great'.
so i'm playing at his party.
at maxwells.
in new jersey.
if you want to come you can get tickets at here.....

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"I've known Nick over 30 years," Hitchcock said of his label mate, "and we live about two miles away from each other. Nick is a master of putting a lot into a very small space, but not making it sound crowded, and he's probably got better at it as time goes by. But unlike me, I think Nick has changed enormously over the years. Listening to something like 'So It Goes' or 'Heart of the City' and then listening to stuff off 'At My Age,' like 'Long Limbed Girl' and 'I Trained Her to Love Me' -- I'm not sure I'd even recognize him as the same vocalist.

"His stuff now to me sounds like some sort of sophisticated silver-age nightclub music from the late '50s, something from the smoke age, to be sure," Hitchcock continued, "whereas I think my stuff essentially always harks back to the Beatles of 1967 -- that's my bedrock year. Nick's just two or three years older than me, so I think his bedrock year might be a little bit earlier. I always imagine his music being cut at some old analog studio in Memphis or something. You expect this engineer to come out and show you some marvelous three-inch tape they've got or some seven-track desk that has been there since Doc Pomus was on hand." [San Francisco Chronicle]

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Chinatown, NYC, today (CRED)

Patton Oswalt at the Ratatoulie premiere

* Mellowdrone is @ Hiro Ballroom
* Alberta Cross is playing Living Room
* Ambulance LTD playing Union Hall
* Nada Surf and Frances are @ MHOW
* Amy Winehouse Will Not Go to the Grammys
* Spice Girls are playing Nassau Coliseum
* Girls Aloud Declare War Against Crap Indie Bands
* N.Y. Chinatown Celebrates Year Of Rat

What else?

photos by Leia Jospe

Holy F*ck opened for Super Furry Animals at Maxwell's last night (Jan 23, 2008), and they'll do it again. More of Leia's pictures below....

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photos by Leia Jospe

Super Furry Animals played their first of four NYC-area shows last night (Jan 23, 2008) @ Maxwell's in Hoboken....

It's been 9 years since the Welsh rock veterans Super Furry Animals have graced the Maxwell's stage. As Gruff Rhys recalls, he puked during the gig -- the only time he's done so. Nobody threw up tonight, unfortunately, but that doesn't mean the gig had it's share of strange moments. Maybe I'm not a hardcore or well-versed SFA fan, but I'm guessing the large helmet is part of the band's repertoire. it's like a cross between a Power Ranger and StrongBad. [Music Snobbery]

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night eight of eight, 2007...

More photos by Daniel Arnold, info, and setlist, below....

Continue reading "Yo La Tengo & Howard Kaylan (Turtles) @ Maxwells - pics ---- HANUKKAH is OVER"

DOWNLOAD: Times New Viking - (My Head)/R.I.P.Allegory (new MP3)
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Times New Viking @ Johnny Brenda's, Philly - Dec. 2, 2007 (CRED)

Times New Viking is opening the eighth of eight Yo La Tengo Hanukkah shows at Maxwell's in Hoboken tonight (Dec 11). Times New Viking also recently opened some shows for The Clean, and the Clean also opened a Hanukkah show for Yo La Tengo. One of those MP3s on the top of this post (which is two songs combined) will appear on "Rip It Off" - Times New Viking's new album that comes out on Matador on January 22, 2008.

The New Pornographers opened for Yo La Tengo last night. The play the Apple store tonight.

night four of Hanukkah @ Maxwell's....

Alex Chilton & Yo La Tengo - Dec 7, 2007

More photos & video below....

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The dB's @ Maxwell's, Hoboken, NJ - Dec 6, 2007 (CRED)

more below...

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Versus @ Maxwell's, NJ - Dec 4, 2007 (CRED)

Yo La Tengo @ Maxwell's, NJ - Dec 4, 2007 (CRED)

Jon Glaser & Jon Benjamin @ Maxwell's, NJ - Dec 4, 2007 (CRED)

Mark Arm from Mudhoney played with Yo La Tengo too. Mudhoney was in town to play three shows including one at the same venue a few days earlier (and one at Bowery Ballroom).

Money raised from the Hanukkah show went to Community Food Bank of New Jersey. Tonight's show (Hanukkah night 2) will benefit The Stone. Tonight's opener is rumored to be the Clean. Tomorrow is the dB's.

New Yo La Tengo tour dates below....

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