Pissed Jeans @ Market Hotel (more by Edwina Hay)

today in NYC
* DANCE
* Levon Helm @ Beacon Theater
* Reigning Sound @ Southpaw
* Gil Mantera's Party Dream @ Europa
* The Bird & The Bee @ the Bell House
* Wallpaper @ the studio @ Webster Hall
* Los Amigos Invisibles @ Bowery Ballroom
* Dropkick Murphys & H2O @ Roseland Ballroom
* Pissed Jeans, Arboretum & Coconuts @ Union Pool
* Pete and J, The XYZ Affair & Young Galaxy @ MHOW
* Tindersticks & Dawn Landes @ Brooklyn Masonic Temple
* Pentagram, Priestess & The Devil's Blood @ Webster Hall
* Handsome Furs, Iran & Hundred In The Hands @ Mercury Lounge
* Your Nature (formerly Frankpollis), Paper & Zazen Boys @ Cake Shop
* Dan Friel, Real Estate, Boogie Boarder, Frat Dad & Haunted Houses @ the Jackson

U2 played Fordham this morning. They play Letterman for the last time (this week) tonight.

The Physics of Meaning played Union Hall last night and a last minute second show has been added Saturday night at Rockwood Music Hall.

Reigning Sound are also playing Maxwell's Sunday.

Pissed Jeans are also playing Market Hotel on April 17th.

Arboretum is also playing Carnegie Hall on June 11th.

The Bird and the Bee are also playing Carnegie Hall on Saturday.

A new episode of Breakfast at Sulimays! Ann, Joe, and Bill review Animal Collective and Young Jeezy in the video below...

What else?

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by Andrew Frisicano

DOWNLOAD: The Physics of Meaning - "Why Can't We Fall in Love Forever? (Anything is Possible) (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: The Physics of Meaning - "Aeroplanes and Hurricanes (MP3)

The Physics of Meaning will visit Brooklyn's Union Hall on March 5th as part of a winter tour that started in the band's hometown of Chapel Hill, NC, exactly a month before. Also on the bill are locals The Brilliant Mistakes and The Antlers, the latter of which will be celebrating the release of their new LP, Hospice, at the show.

Fronted by violinist Daniel Hart, who also does time with John Vanderslice, St. Vincent, and Pattern is Movement, the chamber-pop Physics of Meaning played a series of CMJ shows last year, including an Oct 22nd CMJ party, put on by Gothamist at the Bell House, and a KEXP Live set, documented in the video below. As an aside, John Vanderslice is playing NYC on March 27th with The Mountain Goats. He'll be totally solo at that show though, unlike when he was here in April with Daniel as a member of his band.

This spring and beyond, The Physics of Meaning plans to record a follow-up to 2008's Snake Charmer and Destiny at the Stroke of Midnight (samples above, and streaming here). The band also recently waxed its second, forthcoming Daytrotter session(check out its first visit from June '08 here).

Video and all tour dates below...

Continue reading "The Physics of Meaning - 2009 Tour Dates, MP3's "

photos by Tim Griffin, words by Black Bubblegum

DOWNLOAD: Pattern Is Movement - "Right Away" (MP3)

Pattern is Movement were some busybodies during CMJ. Among other things, they rocked the Brooklyn Vegan Saturday day party at Knitting Factory, got a couple mentions in the New York Times, and played one day of the Gothamist CMJ party series with Bell at the Bell House (Oct 22nd). At that show the duo was joined on stage by Daniel Hart aka mastermind behind The Physics Of Meaning who played right before them, and who also plays violin on their album. You might also recognize Dan (pictures below) as a member of St Vincent's band and John Vanderslice's band.

Philly's Pattern is Movement return to NYC tonight, Tuesday November 18th to play the Knitting Factory. The show is part of a mini-trek with Zach Hill and the hiatus-ing Subtle who are both also on the bill.

More CMJ pictures, and all Pattern is Movement tour dates, below...

Continue reading "Pattern is Movement - 2008 Tour Dates (Zach Hill), CMJ pics w/ The Physics of Meaning (Daniel Hart)"