[Idioteque] IS THE FIRST SINGLE FROM MY FORTHCOMING ALBUM OF RADIOHEAD COVERS, PERFORMED ON MY MAGICAL UKULELE.

WHAT MAKES MY UKULELE SO *MAGIC*?
YOU'LL HAVE TO *LISTEN* TO FIND OUT!!!

THE ALBUM (WHICH WILL BE AVAILABLE HERE ON BANDCAMP IN LATE JULY) WAS RECORDED IN FULL STEREO, AND WAS MAGICALLY FORMATTED FOR USE ON "THE INTERNET"...

FYI, THE MINIMUM REQUIRED DONATION FOR THIS TRACK IS 40¢ BECAUSE 9¢ GOES TO RADIOHEAD (FOR LETTING ME PLAY THEIR SONG) AND THE REMAINDER GOES TO PAYPAL (TO COVER THEIR TRANSACTION FEES). SHOULD YOU WISH TO DONATE MORE THAN THAT, IT WILL COME DIRECTLY TO ME - NO LABEL, NO MIDDLEMAN!

PLEASE BE SURE TO FOLLOW MY NEWS PAGE ON TWITTER AT TWITTER.COM/AFPwire AND SIGN UP FOR THE MAILING LIST AT BIT.LY/AFPemail SO THAT YOU GET ADDITIONAL INFO REGARDING THIS PROJECT BEFORE ANYBODY ELSE.

LOVE,
AMANDA FUCKING PALMER

DOWNLOAD: Neutral Uke Hotel - King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 1 (MP3)

Singer & guitarist/ukuleleist Shawn Fogel of the band Golden Bloom is Neutral Uke Hotel, a ukulele-based project that covers Neutral Milk Hotel's In The Aeroplane Over the Sea in its entirety. He has a short tour lined up for the end of June with stops in NYC, NXNE in Toronto, upstate NY and a few other North East cities. He plays Mercury Lounge with The Handsome Family on Tuesday, June 15th where he writes, "We've got at least one special guest joining us for a song." Tickets are still on sale.

Fogel previously participated in "Beatles Complete on Ukulele" project, which performed at SXSW earlier this year.

Jeff Mangum played some of his Neutral Milk Hotel songs earlier this year at a benefit for Chris Knox.

Download "King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 1," the uke & melodica cover which is posted above. Videos of the NMH cover and all tour dates are below...

Continue reading "Neutral Uke Hotel is coming (2010 dates) "

Ted Leo @ CMJ 2009 (more by Tim Griffin)

today in NYC
* Butch Walker @ Joe's Pub
* Rebecca Schiffman @ Zebulon
* Jimmy Gnecco (Of Ours) @ Maxwell's
* Twisted Sister Christmas @ Nokia Theatre
* David Gray, Pete Yorn @ Hammerstein Ballroom
* The Beatles Complete On Ukulele @ Brooklyn Bowl
* Skeletons Big Band, Capillary Action @ The Stone
* Outernational, Japanther, R-Tronika @ Highline Ballroom
* The Besties, Bunnygrunt, The Specific Heats @ Bruar Falls
* Free Blood, Preacher & The Knife, Esque, Deleted Scenes @ Mercury Lounge
* Ted Leo & The Pharmacists, JEFF The Brotherhood, Stupid Party @ Bowery Ballroom

Today is the Bust Holiday Craftacular.

Deadly Squire is having a sale at Bird in Williamsburg.

There's also a Winter Market at Public Assembly and the Bizarre Bazaar at Brooklyn Fireproof.

JEFF the Brotherhood opens for Ted Leo tonight then headlines their own show at Mercury Lounge on Monday. New Ted Leo song HERE.

We announced the Blip Festival schedule on Friday.

Check out the full schedule of who is playing at The Stone this month.

Check out the full schedule of today's 12-hour Beatles Ukulele Festival at Brooklyn Bowl, below...

Continue reading "What's going on Sunday?"

2ND ANNUAL BEATLES COMPLETE ON UKULELE FESTIVAL RETURNS TO BROOKLYN
Two-Day Benefit for Yoko Ono to Take Place
December 5 & 6 at Williamsburg's N8

16 Hours. 185 Songs. 60 Singers. 40 Musicians. 16 Yokos.

Ukulele aficionados Roger Greenawalt and David Barratt couldn't be more serious about their ambitious marathon-like Beatles festival: two days, performing the entire Beatles catalog - 185 songs - with over 60 singers, 40 musicians and 16 Yoko Ono impersonators. Greenawalt - who is a music producer by day - will sit in with each artist providing the required ukulele accompaniment.

Continue reading "every Beatles song to be performed on ukulele in Brooklyn"

photos & words by Chris La Putt

Nellie McKay played two shows at Joe's Pub in NYC yesterday (April 1, 2008) (and another NYC show the day before that) (and she has even more coming up). I had tickets to the late show, but almost didn't go due to the freak rain storm. I don't know why I was so hesitant on going. I always enjoy myself at a Nellie shows, and last night ended up being no different. I got to the show around the start time of 11:30 thinking that she would be on time for once. No dice. She was half an hour late for the 9:30 show, so we got pushed back to midnight, but it wasn't that much of a hassle. We were finally let in as the audience from earlier show (David Byrne included) were letting out.

The show started and I saw two video cameras filming. I discovered later that they were a team of Canadian film makers doing a documentary on the ukulele, and that they decided to film Nellie playing one. I thought it was an April Fools joke at first, but it wasn't, and she ended up playing more songs than usual on the little instrument. She was quirky as usual, and the audience loved it. For the crowd favorite "Zombie," she brought in a couple of her friends (pictured) to act while she sang. That was definitely the highlight of the evening for me. More photos below.....

Continue reading "Nellie McKay @ Joe's Pub (late show), NYC - pics"