Bao Nguyen

As a person who gets pretty agitated when a schedule starts to fall apart before my very eyes, the fact that the Channel 101 show was running 45 minutes behind schedule had me wound pretty tight…

My comedy dream came true last night at Pianos (May 5, 2008). Klaus and I hosted our third music & comedy show called Rock n ROFL. The early show (the Channel 101 thing) ran way late, so we had to start an hour later than we thought we could start…

I tried to like Yelle by staying up late to watch her streaming Coachella performance (she was on after Portishead). Maybe it was just that I was missing Prince at the time, but watching her play only made it worse…

Feist played her first of two shows at the very large Hammerstein Ballroom in NYC last night (April 29, 2008). At one point Feist asked the crowd, “I thought i was suppose to play two nights at the Living Room…

words & Ambulance LTD‘s failure to launch has always perplexed me. The band formed in the early part of this decade in the midst of the developing New York rock scene yet never had the breakout success of their contemporaries…

DOWNLOAD: Gossip – Standing In The Way Of Control (MP3) As a friend said right after the show, “I’m not sure how anyone can hate on that band”…

No, that’s not Matthew Dear crying into his arm after discovering his hard drive was stolen at Galapagos the other night. It’s a picture of him performing (with his Apple laptop and ‘Big Hands’ band) at Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn last night (April 8, 2008)…

DOWNLOAD: Hot Chip – Sexual Chocolate (MP3) Hot Chip played a show at Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn last night (April 8, 2008). The show was a late addition to their North American tour that also includes a show at Terminal 5 in NYC this Saturday (April 12th)…

photo Steven Bernstein leads an all-star jazz band this afternoon at Masonic Temple as her teaches a new generation to swing! Today’s concert features Dap Kings dame Sharon Jones bringing her hard driving blues funk to all you kids out there…

more photos from the show (Apr 3, 2008) below……