Sasha Frere-Jones
Sasha Frere-Jones leaving New Yorker to join [Rap] Genius (whose offices are inside 184 Kent)
Sasha Frere-Jones, the longtime pop music critic for The New Yorker, has left the magazine to join Genius, a website mounting an ambitious expansion after starting as a forum for annotated rap lyrics online…
John Cleese, Herbie Hancock, Lena Dunham & more appearing at BAM's "Unbound" literary series
A new literary series called “Unbound” will bring “today’s most renowned authors to Brooklyn for the exclusive national launch of their latest works” to BAM from September 21 – November 4…
Peter Hook adds second book talk in NYC
As mentioned, Joy Division/New Order bassist Peter Hook is giving his book, Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division, a North American release on January 29 and is promoting it with a book launch in NYC at DUMBO art space/bookstore Powerhouse Arena on January 28, where he’ll be in conversation with PItchfork’s Brandon …
New Yorker Festival 2011 schedule (St. Vincent, The National, Galifianakis, Aziz Ansari, Scissor Sisters & more)
Below you’ll find a preview of this year’s New Yorker Festival schedule. Tickets will go on sale at 12 noon E.T. on Friday, September 9th…
What's going on Tuesday?
PiL @ Coachella 2010 (more by Rachel Carr)
tonight in NYC
* UI & Dan Friel @ the Bell House
* Local H, Kinch @ Gramercy Theater
* Public Image Ltd @ Terminal 5
* Neil Halstead, J…
New Yorker Festival tickets on sale @ noon
Tickets for 2009 New Yorker Festival events go on sale at noon. That includes the Dirty Projectors, House of Ladosha, Jubilee, and Liturgy show happening at the Bell House on Friday, October 16th…
New Yorker Fest will feature Bon Iver, Neko Case, Dirty Projectors, Liturgy, Steve Earle, Loudon Wainwright & more
Neko Case @ the 2009 Newport Folk Festival (more by Jim Brueckner)”During the weekend of October 16th through October 18th, The New Yorker will present its tenth annual Festival, a three-day series of events that brings together some of the world’s most talented and distinguished people in the fields of literature, art, film, music, humor, business, food, politics, design, and science…
Lissy Trullie, Morgan Murphy, Medications, Screaming Females --- shows tonight & other stuff
Enrique Cardenas: Is the legend of the guitar god dead? Are there any young guitarists that will make an impact in 2009?
Sasha Frere-Jones: The last three “guitar heroes” I saw were women: Marnie Stern, Kaki King, and Marissa Paternoster of the the Screaming Females…
new Grizzly Bear album in May, New Yorker Speakeasy tix
Grizzly Bear‘s new album will be released by Warp Records in May. There’s no title or tracklist or much else known about it yet, but Nico Muhly did some arrangements for the Brooklyn Youth Chorus and a string quartet, all of whom are credited as contributors on the new record…
What's going on Sunday?
today in NYC & NJ
* ASSSSCAT 3000 @ UCB Theatre
* The Musical Box @ Nokia Theater
* The Bad Plus @ Village Vanguard
* Vivian Girls & Screaming Females @ Court Tavern in NJ
* Uninhabitable Mansions, Joe & the Flying Spoons, Purse Snatchers @ Cake Shop
Sound Fix is also hosting a mixtape exchange…
