Zelda the Turkey in Battery Park - July 4, 2008 (more by Jason Bergman)

today in NYC
* free stuff
* The Gits movie premiere party
* A tribute to the Band @ Living Room
* Crystal Antlers @ Other Music
* The Chapin Sisters @ Pete's Candy Store

Osbournes to make a variety show.

"GONZO: THE LIFE AND WORK OF DR. HUNTER S. THOMPSON" is playing at Angelika.

Noah & The Whale cancels NYC shows.

Radiohead ballet.

Video of Sonic Youth playing Battery Park (including the part where Thurston went nuts on the photographers) below...

What else?

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On July 4th, 2005, NYC & Matador Records gave us a free Laura Cantrell, Stephen Malkmus (Pavement), & Yo La Tengo concert in Battery Park in Lower Manhattan.

By the time I got there, Malkmus was half way through his set (he played second). The line was huge. You could hear outside the gated area, but people were crammed into every available spot. Even when headliner Yo La Tengo finished their fourth song, the line to get strip searched and OK'd for entry was still massive. After listening for a bit from across the street, and taking pictures of a turkey that was chillin' in a tree near the entrance, I took off. I had a rooftop to get to anyway.

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