Long Island
Amityville Music Hall benefit comp released w/ 28 Long Island bands (John Nolan, Oso Oso, more)
The Long Island Emo booking company put together this AMH benefit comp featuring John Nolan (Taking Back Sunday, Straylight Run), Sainthood Reps, Oso Oso, Somerset Thrower, Johnny Booth, Wreath of Tongues, and more…
John & Alice Coltrane's NY home named 'National Treasure' -- go visit!
Visiting the Coltrane home and graves in Long Island couldn’t be easier. Meanwhile, check out our new photos of both historical sites.
Billy Joel's name being added to a section of Route 107; Gene Ween covered him at Brooklyn Bowl (pics/video).
The Daily News reports:The Piano Man may soon have a road named after him.
The state Senate last week passed a bill to rename a section of state Route 107 in the Long Island town of Oyster Bay after native son Billy Joel…
Body Count cancels Long Island show (but touring Europe)
Ice-T’s only upcoming North American Body Count show was scheduled to happen with Suffocation this Sunday (5/31) at the Paramount in Long Island, BUT, like every version of Law & Order except SVU, the concert is “officially canceled…
Nassau Coliseum closing for renovations (after a Billy Joel concert which sold out really quickly)
Nassau Coliseum, don’t go changing, to try and please me. You never let me down before. I took the good times. I’ll take the bad times. I’ll take you just the way you are…
GRIND: Department of Correction & Budd Dwyer touring (Sea of Bones too), playing 2 NY shows with Mother Brain (dates)
Mother Brain at Saint Vitus in 2014 (more by Drew Gurian)
France’s Department of Correction achieved two grindcore rites of passage this year, releasing a split with mincers Agathocles and wiggling themselves onto a six-way split (Monsters…
The Hold Steady & Drive-By Truckers touring separately, playing NY & NJ shows TOGETHER (BrooklynVegan presale)
The Hold Steady @ BV SXSW 2014 (more by Tim Griffin)
The Hold Steady and Drive-By Truckers both just released new albums, and both will be on their own tours this summer…
Cherie Currie on tour, played NYC & Long Island, covered Lou Reed and David Bowie (pics, videos, setlist & Joan Jett)
Former Runaways singer Cherie Currie is seemingly getting closer to the release of her long-awaited solo album, but ahead of that she’s on a solo tour which began in NYC at Gramercy Theatre last week (11/6)…
PICS: Benefit For the John & Alice Coltrane Home (w/ Elvis Costello, Carlos Santana, Ravi Coltrane & many more)
The home was the place where Coltrane wrote A Love Supreme, one of the greatest jazz compositions ever. There was a studio in the basement that certainly heard some of the greatest music of the 20th century…
Long Island hardcore doc in production, seeking funding
Vision of Disorder (more by Kurt Christensen)
In other crowdfunding-related news, a pair of Long Island hardcore fans named Nick and Chris Lilli are raising money for a documentary on the region’s legendary DIY hardcore tradition, titled Something in the Water: A Film About the Long Island Hardcore Music Scene…
