Skeletons @ Death By Audio, Jan 2, 2009 (thepiratehat)

Titus "Weezer" Andronicus @ Death By Audio, New Years Eve (thepiratehat)

today in NYC
* DANCE\
* One For The Team @ Cake Shop
* FOTP presents Yikes! @ Glasslands
* R. Stevie Moore & Chris Bolger @ Maxwell's
* Talibam! & Car Commercial @ Issue Project Room
* Regal Standard, Doug Gillard & Graham Smith @ Pianos

One For The Team are in town from Minneapolis to play Cake Shop on (coincedentally?) the same night one of their songs plays on MTV's The Real World Brooklyn... which premieres tonight.

Kenny Loggins was born today in 1948.

Tickets are on Am Ex presale for the Gaslight Anthem show at Webster Hall.

Downloads boost 2008 single sales.

"Apple said Tuesday that it would remove anticopying restrictions on all of the songs in its popular iTunes Store and allow record companies to set a range of prices for them."

Music Industry Ditches MP3-Snooping Security Firm.

RI judge hears arguments in music downloading case.

New Eminem and 50 Cent tracks are on the Internet.

Blitzen Trapper's new video for "Furr" below...

What else?

Continue reading "What's going on Wednesday?"

MTV isn't talking about where it will film the 21st season of its "Real World" reality show, but in Red Hook, everyone knows the real deal.

The hardscrabble home of Fairway and the hot new Ikea is clearly ready for its close up now that MTV has confirmed that it had abandoned the BellTel Lofts building Downtown.

As The Brooklyn Paper reported last Thursday, sluggish renovations of the luxury condo led MTV to seek a new spot, this one on Pier 41 at Van Dyke Street. Greg O'Connell who owns Pier 41 admitted that he had "signed some papers," but wouldn't say more.

Others in the neighborhood gave far juicier details.

"They came in to ask us to sign a waiver last night," said barista Claire Moore from the popular coffee hangout, Baked, on Van Brunt Street, adding that the producer was excited to find such a "cute" place to set a scene for laid-back Red Hook life...
[The Brooklyn Paper]

It's official: MTV's "The Real World" reality show is coming to the BellTel lofts building on Willoughby Street in Downtown Brooklyn. [The Brooklyn Paper]

Dandi Wind @ Knitting Factory, NYC - May 19, 2008 (sandranazz)

today in NYC
* 205 Tuesdays w/ Cosmo Vitelli
* Frightened Rabbit & Chief @ Pianos
* R. Stevie Moore residency @ Cake Shop
* Joe Lally & Glorytellers @ Knitting Factory
* The Jealous Girlfriends and Sea Wolf @ Mercury Lounge

More articles and rumors keep coming out about The Real World Brooklyn.

New Kids On the The Block are playing MSG on October 27th.

Gunshots Trouble Peaceful Atmosphere at Folklife Festival.

RIP, Jimmy McGriff.

What else?

Oh good Christ. The next season of The Real World, MTV's drunken, disease-riddled dinosaur of a reality series, (the 21st!) will be set in Brooklyn. The current season, which threw a bunch of damaged wannabe stars into a "green" sound studio in Hollywood, is getting annoyingly high ratings. So, the network has decided to sally forth with yet another installment, apparently continuing the smaller-part of an already done city trend, and will dump a bunch of yokels and rubes in our trendiest and irritatingest borough. Now, we don't know for sure which little enclave of Brooklyn the producers are thinking about, but we assume it's somewhere real and gritty, like off the Bedford L! Yes, it seems fairly inevitable that our broken Zelda Fitzgeralds will be plopped into some gorgeous crash pad in hipster Disneyland Williamsburg, but we have a better idea! Why, not the notorious Bushwick McKibbin dorms?? [Gawker]