last night (April 17, 2008) in NYC....

More than a few special guests (and I don't mean the protesters) showed up to the opening party/benefit inside the John Varvatos store (aka CBGB) on the Bowery last night (April 17, 2008). All photos by Randy Haecker, and there's more where they came from at his Flickr.

A lot of these guys were in town to play a different benefit show the night before.

cool dudes

92.3 K-Rock's Return Of The Rock
Featuring Stone Temple Pilots
Filter & Ashes Divide
Saturday, May 31 - PNC Bank Arts Center - Holmdel, New Jersey

The Rock of New York is Back... and so is one of Rock's greatest bands, playing their first New York area show since 2002. 92.3 K-Rock presents The Return of the Rock featuring Stone Temple Pilots, Filter and Ashes Divide. Saturday, May 31st, at PNC Bank Arts Center.

Tickets go on sale Friday, April 4 at 10 a.m. but we're doing a special pre-sale on Thursday for you guys on The K-List...
Ticket Presale Info: Thursday April 4 from 9am - 9pm
password: PURPLE
Buy tickets at ticketmaster.com

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I never go to a show on New Years Eve, but all the options this year might finally change that. The latest worthwhile choice: Gogol Bordello at Terminal 5. Then again, tickets are $45, and I'm not sure if that includes anything besides a performace by GB.

Not necessarily worthwhile, but Velvet Revolver is playing Hammerstein Ballroom that night too (we New Yorkers are more forgiving than Japan). Tickets are like $100! Gogol Bordello suddenly looks like a bargain.

And speaking of gypsies, Devotchka signed to ANTI. Their new album will be released in March 2008, and now they're label-mates with Man Man. All tour dates below....

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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will play Nassau Colliseum in Uniondale, NY on March 10, 2008. Add that on to the other recently announced tour dates. Tickets go on sale January 19th @ 10am.

Red Hot Chili Peppers are suing Showtime which kind of makes sense since I always just assumed that Showtime must have paid them already to name their show "Californication". The Times of South Africa says that, like Bruce Springsteen's Magic, Californication was the Chili Peppers' big comeback album. Are they still back? I don't know.

Velvet Revolver were denied visas by Japan because "Japanese immigration officials appear to have taken exception to the backgrounds of various band members...." In related news, Scott Weiland is going to write a book just like Slash did. And speaking of Slash, he's holding a competition for guitar players.