Seaport Music Festival

Boogarins made a live video (watch); North American tour includes dates w/ The Clean & Guided by Voices

Brazilian band Boogarins are headed up to North America for their a summer tour, including a NYC stop next weekend at the free Seaport Music Festival on August 15 with Jacco Gardner as well as a couple shows opening for Guided by Voices…

Torres & High Highs played the Seaport Music Festival (pics)

The free Seaport Music Festival continued this past Friday (7/25) at this year’s location on Fulton St. at Water St., headlined and with an opening set…

Protomartyr and Alvvays played Seaport Music Fest (pics)

Back up to a robust eight weeks of live music, the 2014 Seaport Music Festival kicked off this past Friday (7/11) with a strong, if disparate, double bill of Canadian guitar poppers Alvvays and Detroit’s fiery Protomartyr as headliners…

Unknown Mortal Orchestra and Bass Drum of Death played Seaport Music Festival (pics)

The 2013 Seaport Music Festival came to a close on Friday (6/28) with its biggest show (and crowd) of the season: Unknown Mortal Orchestra and Bass Drum of Death, who were making the penultimate stop on their tour together…

Fear of Men played Seaport Music Festival w/ Writer (pics)

UK indiepop quartet Fear of Men flew over to NYC just to play the Summer Solstice edition (6/21) of this year’s Seaport Music Festival. After two Fridays of dodgy weather, you coudn’t have asked for a nicer night, and Fear of Men’s gentle jangle was the perfect accompaniment…

White Fence playing Seaport on Friday with PAWS ++ two Northside shows and updated dates

White Fence in Berlin last year (photo by Alexandre Kurek via) With this weekend’s weather forecast looking slightly more hopeful than last’s, we should get our first proper Seaport Music Festival show at South Street Seaport‘s Pier 17 on Friday (6/14)…

Hanni El Khatib released new LP, touring w/ Bass Drum of Death (who are opening for UMO at the Seaport)

About a month ago San Francisco’s Hanni El Khatib released his second album, Head in the Dirt, on Innovative Leisure. The record was produced by the Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach and puts an enjoyably pop spin on garage-soul…

Seaport Music Festival announces more shows (Oblivians / Ex-Cult, Fear of Men), releasing Sandy relief benefit LP

The Oblivians @ Knitting Factory, 2010 (more by Andrew Friscano) The Seaport Music Festival already announced that Unknown Mortal Orchestra would be playing on June 28 and they’ve recently announced a couple more dates on the schedule…

Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Foxygen & Wampire played Bowery Ballroom (pics); UMO playing Seaport Music Festival

There must be something about having the word Foxy in the name of your band (see Foxy Shazam) that has a requirement of the lead singer acting completely nuts on stage…

South Street Seaport flooded, looted; Lower East Side venues not likely to have power till the weekend

Lower Manhattan got it pretty good by Sandy, South Street Seaport included. The area was under multiple feet of water. The Seaport Music Festival, who put on the free shows down there, still had their stage set up…
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