Occupy Wall Street: New Year's Eve in Zuccotti Park (Scoboco)

today in NYC
* Questlove (DJ) @ SOBs
* Little Feat @ City Winery
* Gato Loco de Bajo @ The Stone
* Amy Correia @ Rockwood Music Hall
* Johnny Winter @ B.B. King Blues Club
* Lelia Broussard @ Rockwood Music Hall
* Uri Caine, Jim Black, Ralph Alessi @ The Stone
* The Jack Lords Orchestra, AM Low, Doe Paoro, Jareaux Jareaux @ Pianos
* Full Vinyl performs the Cars Greatest Hits w/ Greg Mayo, Patrick Firth, Zach Jones, Tony Maceli, Casey Shea, Martin Rivas, Emily Long, Ryan Vaughn, Chris Kuffner @ Rockwood Music Hall

Check out the new video for "Shady Love" by Scissor Sisters & Krystal Pepsy (aka Azealia Banks), below...

What else?

Continue reading "What's going on Tuesday?"

Below you'll find a preview of this year's New Yorker Festival schedule. Tickets will go on sale at 12 noon E.T. on Friday, September 9th.

Continue reading "New Yorker Festival 2011 schedule (St. Vincent, The National, Galifianakis, Aziz Ansari, Scissor Sisters & more)"

photos by Dana (Distortion) Yavin & Graeme Flegenheimer

Scissor Sisters

Bootsy

Eminem

BONNAROO 2012 PRE-SALE BEGINS FRIDAY, JUNE 17TH, 2011 AT 12:00 PM EASTERN.

Thanks to all who joined us for the tenth Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival! We had so much fun that we want to give you the opportunity to buy tickets to the 2012 festival!

Starting Friday, June 17 at 12:00 PM Eastern we will offer a limited number of specially priced general admission tickets for $209.50 plus service fees.

These pre-sale tickets will be available in a limited quantity through Friday, July 1, 2011 at 11:59 PM Eastern or while supplies last.

There is a limit of (10) general admission tickets per order.

Ticket fees are $23.35 per ticket, which includes a $6.00 facility fee, $3.00 contribution to Coffee County, $1.00 charity donation, and service fees.

Continue reading "Bonnaroo 2011 Day 3 in pics (Bootsy Collins, Black Keys, Eminem, Scissor Sisters & more) +++ Bonnaroo 2012 on sale!"

by Bill Pearis

The Joshua Light Show is back in town this weekend, doing their old-school psychedelic visuals -- which provided hallucinatory effects for The Who, Jimi Hendrix, The Grateful Dead and others -- for the first time in a 360-degree environment: the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History. The three-night performance, titled Fulldome, happens Friday - Sunday (June 3 -5) and tickets are still available.

Fulldome explores the concept of synesthesia, the blending of sensory experiences. (Or as a hippie might say "I can see the music, man!"). For a more scientific explanation of this, you can attend Brain: The Inside Story which precedes the Joshua Light Show performances.

"The light show will be performed live by Joshua White. Video projections will feature his current team of artists, including Ana Matronic of Scissor Sisters, Alyson Denny, Seth Kirby, Brock Monroe, Doug Pope, Bec Stupak, and noted illustrator Gary Panter."

"An original soundtrack [not live] features contributions from percussion artists Laraaji and Z'EV mixed with cosmic electronics by music director Nick Hallett and sound designer Jeff Cook, with additional music from Brooklyn's Oneida."

While lacking the live bands the Joshua Light Show usually performs with (like Oneida, Woods, and Dean Wareham last year) the planetarium envoirnment will no doubt be a much more immersive experience. You can watch a short feature/EPK on Fulldome below.

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Speaking of the AMNH, the next edition of "One Step Beyond", their monthly dance party in the museum, takes place on June 24th though no lineup has been announced yet. Dan Deacon played the last one.

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For a cheaper museum experience (and speaking of Oneida), members of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Oneida play with silent films at the Met this Friday. Free with museum admission. Glen Hansard recently played there.

Blitz the Ambassador and DJ Spinna appear at the Brooklyn Museum on Saturday. Free.

New York's "Biggest Block Party", the annual Museum Mile Festival happens June 14th from 6pm - 9pm. "One day a year, for the past 32 years, nine of the country's finest museums, all ones that call Fifth Avenue home, collectively open their doors from 6pm - 9pm for free to New Yorkers and visitors for a mile-long block party and visual art celebration. This traffic-free, music- and art-filled celebration fills the street and sidewalks of Fifth Avenue from 82nd to 105th street, the mile now officially designated as Museum Mile. Over 50,000 visitors attend the festival annually."

Continue reading "Joshua Light Show presents 'Fulldome' the Museum of Natural History (and other museum stuff)"

photos by Dana (distortion) Yavin

"The downtown music scene will get an extra dose of glam this spring at a reading of a new musical written by the actress and comedian Sandra Bernhard, the downtown drag artist Justin Bond, and the Scissor Sisters lead singer Jake Shears.

The musical, called "Arts and Crafts," has a book by Ms. Bernhard and Mr. Bond, and music by Mr. Bond, Ms. Bernhard, Lance Horne and Mr. Shears, who is also one of the authors of the new musical adaptation of Armistead Maupin's "Tales of the City" books, which opens in San Francisco in May.

Gordon Greenberg will direct two performances of "Arts and Crafts" on March 7 at Joe's Pub." [NY Times]

Scissor Sisters, who are playing Bonnaroo (which went on sale today), and who recently DJ'd the Museum of Natural History, and who kick off a tour with Lady Gaga in Atlantic City tonight, played Wellmont Theater in Montclair, NJ last night (2/18). A set of pictures from that show continues below...

Continue reading "Scissor Sisters played Wellmont Theater (pics), Jake Shears working on musical w/ Bernhard & Bond (Joe's Pub on sale)"

Bonnaroo (June 9-12 in Manchester Tennessee) has announced the 2011 lineup (slightly early), and like the rumored Lollapalooza lineup, Eminem is among the headliners. Bonnaroo also has Grammy winners Arcade Fire and the Black Keys, in addition to Lil Wayne, Mumford & Sons, the Strokes, The Decemberists, Florence & the Machine, Girl Talk, Beirut (haven't seen them in a while), and many more. Full list below...

Continue reading "Bonnaroo 2011 lineup is here"

photos by Winnie Cheung

"Hanging out with the Scissor Sisters in the planetarium" - Tom Sutch

"scissor sisters spun deep house acid house chicago 90ies ultimate dance at amnh tonight. so fun ;)" - music fiend

Scissor Sisters, along with Lauren Flax and Activaire, were the DJs at One Step Beyond at The American Museum of Natural History on Friday night (2/4). Scissor Sisters play live at Wellmont Theater on 2/18 (tickets still available), a few days before they hit MSG at part of their tour with Lady Gaga.

The next One Step Beyond dates are Mar 11, April 22, May 20 & June 24 (lineups TBA).

More pictures from Friday night at the museum below...

Continue reading "Scissor Sisters spun @ the Museum of Natural History (pics)"

Klaxons

After an appearance at SXSW in Austin followed by the Ultra Music Festival in Miami (full lineup belolw), the Klaxons will play shows on their way to the sold-out Coachella Festival in California. It looks like a full tour is still TBA, but (UPDATE: full tour now announced and) the dates will include a NYC show at Webster Hall on March 29th with Brooklyn's A Million Years (who also play Mercury Lounge on 2/11) and Brooklyn's Creep. Tickets for the Manhattan gig go on AMEX presale Wednesday at noon (2/2) and regular sale 48 hours later. All dates are listed below.

Creep is a duo comprised of Lauren Dillard and house DJ and producer Lauren Flax. Flax is also Fischerspooner's touring DJ. Creep recently dropped a video for "Days" directed by Fischerspooner Warren Fischer. The song features vocals from Romy Madley Croft of The xx. Check out that video below and look for Creep's debut LP later this year. Meanwhile they also have other collaborative singles planned with Reggaeton-R&B twins Nina Sky, Nomi Ruiz and Planning to Rock.

Speaking of Nomi Ruiz (who is best known for her role in Hercules & Love Affair), Nomi's current project Jessica 6 recently announced a March 1st Mercury Lounge show. That gig takes place not long after the band gets back from a European tour. All dates below.

Flax can also be found at One Step Beyond at The American Museum of Natural History this Friday (2/4), where she'll DJ alongside Scissor Sisters (who are also DJing) and Activaire. Tickets are still available. Scissor Sisters play live at Wellmont Theater on 2/18 (tickets available), a few days before they hit MSG at part of their tour with Lady Gaga.

Check out the video for Creep's "Days" (with Romy Madley Croft), and all tour dates, and the complete Ultra Music Festival lineup, below.

Continue reading "Klaxons dates, a Scissor Sisters DJ gig, Creep, xx, Jessica 6 (and the complete Ultra Music Festival Lineup)"

Scissor Sisters at Terminal 5 (more by Diana Wong)

Scissor Sisters visited NYC's Terminal 5 twice in late August in support of their new album Night Work, and are set to kick off a tour with fellow New Yorker Lady Gaga in February which will have them performing two more times in their hometown (2/21 & 2/22), but at the much larger Madison Square Garden and as the opener. Both MSG shows are sold out, as are probably most of the dates along the six week long trek that ends with a string of California shows at the end of March.

And now the band have announced a series of headlining shows that will take place before, during and after the Gaga tour including a gig at Montclair, NJ's Wellmont Theater on February 18th. Tickets for that one go on sale Friday (11/18) at noon.

Scissor Sisters are currently gearing up to play Santiago, Chile as part of a trio of South American dates that precede a UK tour. All dates (including on sale date for all new shows) and some videos below.

Continue reading "Scissor Sisters touring w/ Lady Gaga & headlining shows too"

photos by Diana Wong

"The Scissor Sisters, a home town band born in NYC's gay dance clubs, proved Tuesday that you can't be too campy.

At the first night of two performances at Terminal 5, the Sisters -- featuring him-and-her lead vocalists Jake Shears and Ana Matronic in leather and Lycra -- played a powerhouse 100-minute set that seemed to release all of the band's pent-up energy after a four-year stage and recording hiatus.

The colorful, burlesque-inspired show combined fashion, frantic dance moves and falsetto vocal harmonies that would have made the Bee Gees jealous. The Scissor Sisters also projected a B-52's-like knack for call-and- response party anthems." -[NY Post]

More pics from Wednesday with the setlist, some videos and lots more tour dates (which they're playing in support of a new album), and the new video for "Any Which Way", below...

Continue reading "Scissor Sisters played 2 nights @ Terminal 5 -- pics, setlist, videos & updated tour dates "

cake (mooving photography)

Though there are still tickets left for their August 24th show at Terminal 5 at the moment, Scissor Sisters have added a 2nd show at the same venue. Tickets for the new August 25th show go on AmEx presale Wednesday at 11am. General sale begins Friday at noon. Their DJ, Sammy Jo, opens both dates.

Meanwhile, Bloc Party frontman gone solo, Kele's August 3rd show at Webster Hall has been rescheduled for September 8th (All tickets will be honored. Refunds available at point of purchase.) Jessica 6 opens that one.

Updated SS and Kele dates below....

Continue reading "Scissor Sisters add 2nd show, Kele postpones a bunch"

Scissor Sisters @ Stubb's SXSW 2010 (more by Bryan Bruchman)

After two albums that dominated the charts overseas, and barely grazed them here, the American pop scene has lately swung back in the Sisters' direction.

Dance music now dominates commercial U.S. radio for the first time since the late '90s, thanks to the kicked up heels of The Black Eyed Peas, David Guetta, Lady Gaga, Ke, and Taio Cruz. For a group like the Scissor Sisters - who sound like a cross between the Bee Gees and a bunch of Lower East Side club kids in a Human League tribute band - that's great news.
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Unlike their two previous CDs, which balanced foofy ballads with frilly club pieces, "Night Work" keeps the beats pumping and the subject mater, shall-we-say, nocturnal. Lead singer Jake Shears says he received inspiration for the CD during a peak moment in a Berlin night club. The resulting music sounds just as twitchy, erotic, and mad as that setting suggests. [Daily News]

Their video for single "Fire with Fire," a recent live clip, the butt-cheek filled "Night Work" cover art, and all tour dates are below...

Continue reading "Scissor Sisters released a new album, annnounced tour dates"

photos by Bryan Bruchman

As previously discussed, Scissor Sisters performed at Stubb's during SXSW. Pictures from their set there, including one of the setlist, below...

Continue reading "Scissor Sisters @ Stubb's (SXSW) - pics & setlist"

photos by Kevin Tachman

Pop/rock band the SCISSOR SISTERS surprised fans in New York on Wednesday night (17Mar10) when they introduced comedian SANDRA BERNHARD to the stage for a special collaboration.

The I Don't Feel Like Dancin' hitmakers played their first show of the year at the city's Bowery Ballroom, with rocker Lou Reed and actor Alan Cumming among the fans in the packed audience, reports Spinner.com.

The quintet entertained the crowd with songs new and old and even performed a cover of Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb.

But the highlight of the night came when frontman Jake Shears and singer Ana Matronic brought out Bernhard to share the vocals for their song T**s on the Radio from their self-titled debut album. [Daily Star]

Continue reading "Scissor Sisters were joined by Sandra Bernhard @ Bowery Ballroom in NYC, then headed to SXSW - pics & video "

'It's amazing what these sick f#%ks will do right out in the open' - Dave Hill

Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for the two Scissor Sisters shows coming to Bowery Ballroom.

Lupe Fiasco is playing Irving Plaza on April 10th. Tickets are on sale.

Tickets are on sale for the show Gogol Bordello are playing at Irving Plaza on March 9th.

Tickets are on sale for the Dead Meadow & Imaad Wasif show at Bowery Ballroom.

Dave Hill brings his "Big in Japan" show back to the UCB Theatre in NYC tonight (3/1) and March 11th.

After Dave Hill's show you can stick around UCB for Whiplash. Tonight's guests include Hannibal Buress (SNL), Kumail Nanjiani, Sheng Wang & guest host Sean Patton.

For more shows happening tonight, check out "What's Going on Monday".

Tickets for the NYC shows are already on presale. password?

Other bands scheduled to play Stubb's in Austin on the evening of Saturday, March 20th include The Drums, The Like, Circa Survive (who are touring with Torche and Coheed & Cambria), and Minus The Bear.

Muse are rumored to be playing Stubb's during SXSW too, but that's looking like it would happen Friday, one night earlier.

SS dates re-listed below...

Continue reading "Scissor Sisters playing SXSW & 2 NYC shows (on presale)"

photos by Kevin Mazur/ Wire Image

"Yoko Ono, Paul Simon, Eric Clapton, Bette midler, freaking amazing!" - nico843

Yoko's Plastic Ono Band will be playing a special show at BAM's Gilman Opera House on Tuesday, February 16th. The show includes guest spots from original/former Plastic Ono band members Eric Clapton, bassist Klaus Voormann and drummer Jim Keltner. Other guests include Justin Bond, Kim Gordon, Bette Midler, Thurston Moore, Mark Ronson, Scissor Sisters, Martha Wainwright, Haruomi Hosono, Paul Simon and son Harper Simon, and current Ono Band members Cornelius, Yuka Honda and Sean Lennon.

Continue reading "Yoko's Plastic Ono Band played BAM w/ Eric Clapton, Paul Simon, Bette Midler, Scissor Sisters & more (pics)"

Yoko's Plastic Ono Band will be playing a special show at BAM's Gilman Opera House on Tuesday, February 16th. The show includes guest spots from original/former Plastic Ono band members Eric Clapton, bassist Klaus Voormann and drummer Jim Keltner (one former "member," Ringo Star, isn't scheduled to be there, though he is in NYC on Jan 14th). Other guests include Justin Bond, Kim Gordon, Bette Midler, Thurston Moore, Mark Ronson, Scissor Sisters, Martha Wainwright, Haruomi Hosono, Paul Simon and son Harper Simon, and current Ono Band members Cornelius, Yuka Honda and Sean Lennon. Tickets are on sale.

Plastic Ono Band (sans guests) will also be at this year's Noise Pop Festival in San Fran on Febraury 23rd. The group's new sprawling record, Between My Head And The Sky, the first 'Ono Band' record since the '70s, came out last September. A flyer for the show is below...

Continue reading "Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band playing BAM w/ lots of special guests (Eric Clapton, Paul Simon, Bette Midler) (tix on sale)"

The Hidden Cameras have just announced a massive North American tour in support of their fourth full-length, Origin:Orphan....Fans will have the opportunity to purchase tickets for all of the newly announced shows except in Brooklyn and San Francisco, before they go on sale to the general public... As a bonus and in anticipation of the new album and tour, fans will immediately receive a free digital download of the newly released 5-track In The NA EP with any The Hidden Cameras pre-sale ticket purchase.

Tickets for band's other area show, November 6th at Brooklyn's Union Hall, aren't on sale yet are on presale. Sometimes Camera member and fellow Canadian, Gentleman Reg will join them on all dates.

Quick flashback: In 2004 the Hidden Cameras were supposed to headline Bowery Ballroom, but their opener got too big so they switched the order before the show happened.

The EP mentioned above includes the song "In the NA," the first single off the band's new full-length. Check out the video for it, with tracklists and all tour dates, below...

Continue reading "Hidden Cameras & Gentleman Reg - 2009 tour dates, presale"

'War Child: Heroes' is an unprecedented collaboration between music's most heralded legends and the finest current artists.

We asked 15 ultimate icons to select a favourite song from their classic back catalogue and to nominate the new act they most trust to create a unique interpretation of that hand-picked track.

This album is the result: 15 exclusive and breath-taking cover versions.

Beck (Bob Dylan - "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat")
The Kooks (The Kinks - "Victoria")
The Hold Steady (Bruce Springsteen - "Atlantic City")
Hot Chip (Joy Division - "Transmission")
Lily Allen feat. Mick Jones (The Clash - "Straight To Hell")
Yeah Yeah Yeahs (The Ramones - "Sheena Is A Punk Rocker")
Franz Ferdinand (Blondie - "Call Me")
Duffy (Paul McCartney - "Live And Let Die")
Estelle (Stevie Wonder - "Superstition")
Rufus Wainwright (Brian Wilson -" Wonderful & Song For Children")
Scissor Sisters (Roxy Music - "Do The Strand")
Peaches (Iggy Pop - "Search And Destroy")
Adam Cohen (Leonard Cohen - "Take This Waltz")
Elbow (U2 - "Running To Stand Still")
The Like (Elvis Costello - "You Belong To Me")
TV On The Radio (David Bowie - "Heroes")

"Dark Was The Night" on the other hand, is out now everywhere. Full tracklist HERE. Rumor of an upcoming show at Radio City Music Hall HERE.

Listen to Lily Allen and Mick Jones cover the Clash, and other videos, below...

Continue reading "War Child: Heroes vs. Dark Was The Night (get both now!)"

Photos by Kevin Tachman

Scissor Sisters played their second of two secret shows this week at Mercury Lounge last night. On Monday they were Queef Latina. Last night (10/14) they played as Debbie's Harry. Like they did in the past, they played these shows to test out new material. According to a statement on their website, they are hard at work on their new record, and they have amicably parted ways with original SS drummer Paddy Boom. The new drummer played these shows. More pictures from last night, and both setlists, below...

Continue reading "Debbies Harry (Scissor Sisters) @ Merc. Lounge - pics, setlist"

Queef Latina @ Mercury Lounge - Oct 13, 2008 (Oct 13, 2008)

Debbie's Harry play tonight (Tuesday).

There are also mysterious listings on Ticketmaster for both shows (thx Tim).

Kinda reminds me of Bridget Jones' Diarrhea aka Megapussi aka Portion Control.

Jake Shears & Dolly Parton

She postponed the tour. New dates below...

Continue reading "Dolly Parton - rescheduled 2008 Tour Dates"

SCISSOR SISTERS WON A BAMBI (CRED) (INFO)

"The massive trip begins with a show in Hong Kong harbor, moving next to Mumbai's Andheri Sports Complex, both shows alongside Black Eyed Peas. Nelly Furtado will be on the Mumbai bill as well. Next up is Berlin, where the Sisters will be playing near the famed Brandenberg Gate, with the final stop being New York City." [SPIN]

The whole thing is sponsored by Nokia.

George Bush doesn't care about Scissor Sisters.