The Forms @ Market Hotel (more by Leia Jospe)

today in NYC
* DANCE
* Foodteam @ The Stone
* Gil Scott Heron @ SOB's
* Wetnurse, Graf Orlock, Lewd Acts & 26 Beers @ the Charleston
* The Forms, Frances, Ford & Fitzroy & Arms @ The Bell House
* Cursive, Twin Thousands & McCarthy Trenching @ Union Hall
* We Are The Seahorses, Real Life Time Machines & No One & The Somebodies @ Cake Shop

Jim O'Rourke was born today in 1969.

Mystery Palace played the Stone on Saturday, and they perform in NYC again on Monday. I noticed the hole in their schedule when I posted the dates, but it was only just now that I realized Mystery Palace member Ryan Olcott is performing as Foodteam at the Stone today.

Today is Winnie The Pooh Day.

Tomorrow is Martin Luther King Day which is one day before Obama's inauguration (in case you hadn't heard).

Be careful with peanut butter.

Cursive (at Union Hall tonight) is posting videos from their current tour. The first one is from Minneapolis. You can watch it below...

what else?

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DOWNLOAD: Mystery Palace - Stepchild (MP3)

"We're Mystery Palace from Minneapolis, MN. We're a three-piece electronic group that employs two broken, (circuit bent) keyboards, bass, drums and voice. Typically, Circuit Bending is synonymous with noise art... However, we assure you.. We're a soft-pop group, and probably the one of the first groups of our kind. We've been doing our thing for about two years now and have a 12" single of our song "Stepchild" on one-sided yellow vinyl out on Minneapolis' own Totally Gross National Product. We also have just released "Flags Forward" the debut Mystery Palace LP on CD, digital media and limited 12" vinyl on Zod Records. I guess if we have to make a musical comparison.. we sound probably most similar to Shoegaze music minus the guitars... Kinda' like MBV meets Ellen Allien with a little Dub influence. Hope this helps and thanks for your time."

Mystery Palace (Ryan Olcott on keyboards & voice, James Buckley on bass, and Joey Van Phillips on drums) will appear at The Stone in NYC tonight, January 17th, and then again on Monday at Pianos (Martin Luther King Day / Obama-eve) with We Are Country Mice. All dates below...

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