Obits @ Santos Party House - December 2008 (more by Jonny Leather)

Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for the Cat Power show happening at Music Hall of Williamsburg. You can still get tickets to the Apollo shows too.

Tickets are still on sale for the John Vanderslice / Mountain Goats show happening at the Society for Ethical Culture.

Tickets are on sale for a February 22nd Matisyahu show at The Bell House in Brooklyn.

Obits are playing the Bell House on March 27th. Tickets are on sale.

The Whitest Kids You Know (comedy) are playing The Bell House on February 26th. Tickets are on sale.

Tickets are on sale for the Throbbing Gristle show at Brooklyn Masonic Temple.

Tickets are on sale for the Les Savy Fav show happening at Brooklyn Masonic Temple.

See some other things that went on sale Friday.

Video of Obits playing live in East River Park over the summer, below...

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by Klaus Kinski

SketchFest NYC 08 is fast approaching and this year's 28 act line-up (spread out over three nights) is absolutely nuts. The producers have really outdone themselves with the best of the best, culled from all corners of North Americawesome....

Twenty-eight different groups from around North America will converge on the UCB Theatre on June 12th, June 13th, and June 14th. Each night, New York audiences will experience the absolute best sketch comedy from Canada, Portland, Chicago, Austin, Seattle, Los Angeles, and New York City itself.

Highlights of the schedule include appearances by Kurt & Kristen, The Harvard Sailing Team, Elephant Larry, Rue Brutalia, God's Pottery, The Onion News Network LIVE, as well as Rock n' ROFL sponsor The Sound of Young America LIVE with special musical guest Dawn Landes. And one absolutely cannot miss the Closing Night Craptacular hosted by Rob Lathan (seen at the bottom of this post) and Adira Amram.

I'm definitely more of a stand-up guy when it comes to what makes me laugh. Good sketch isn't easy to pull off. Often times I have to see several sketch performances before one comes along that will crack me up. However, the line-up of this year's SketchFest is definitely going to deliver laughs from the first act to the closing ceremony. I really wish they could shoe-horn Brett Gelman's 1000 Cats performance into the schedule though. Anyhow, TICKETS: $10, Individual Tickets; $40, Nightly Passes; $100, Full Festival Passes; available at ucbtheatre.com, 212-366-9176, or at the door. Full schedule below....

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WKYK @ Obama Benefit, Knitting Factory - Jan 29, 2008 (Anya Garrett)

* Santa Dads @ Cake Shop
* Joanna Newsom is at BAM
* Treasure Fingers DJs HUGS
* The Shackletons are at Midway
* Plaid is playing Knitting Factory
* Spank Rock & GZA are at Studio B
* Takka Takka play Cake Shop w/ Bell
* Supersuckers are playing Blender Theater
* Baby Dee & Sxip Shirey are playing Joe's Pub
* James Blackshaw is playing Issue Project Room
* Team Robespierre & NinjaSonik play Death By Audio
* The Felice Brothers & AA Bondy are playing Mercury Lounge
* World/Inferno Friendship Society & Gutbucket @ Bowery Ballroom
* The Whigs, The Spinto Band, and Plants and Animals @ Music Hall

Back, and front. What else?

WKYK @ Obama Benefit, Knitting Factory - Jan 29, 2008 (Anya Garrett)

* The Thermals @ Studio B
* Benevento @ Sullivan Room
* The Teenagers play Hiro Ballroom
* Toumani Diabate @ Bowery Ballroom
* Joanna Newsom & an orchestra do BAM
* Ambulance LTD & Violens @ Union Hall
* The Olsen Twins are Violens fans?
* Zombieville @ Knitting Factory
* Dub Trio, Foreign Islands & Goes Cube @ Luna Lounge
* Spanish Prisoners, The Lisps & Antlers @ Knitting Factory

Things are still kind of a mess around here. sorry.

I'm being told that $20 tickets, NY Mag subscription included, will be available at the door of Thermals karaoke tonight. The Whitest Kids You Know do comedy before The Thermals. Whitest Kids also performed Tuesday night at Knitting Factory (see picture above). What else?