Bowery Poetry Club

Doug Gillard is doing stuff (Captain Beefheart show w/ Gary Lucas, Beatles band, Tommy Keene tour, Nada Surf LP)

Doug Gillard @ Irving Plaza NYE (more by Chris Gersbeck) I got heavily obsessed with Guided By Voices after the demise of the “classic ’93 – ’96 line-up” which featured Robert Pollard, Tobin Sprout, Mitch Mitchell, Kevin Fennell, and Greg Demos (a line-up that reunited in 2010 and has been blazing a sweaty, beer soaked trail across the US since) (this past weekend’s Sasquatch Festival included)…

The Maze is happening (pics) - continues w/ K Records crew ++ Calvin Johnson, Arrington de Dionyso & City Center dates

You Are Here (The Maze) is underway at Death By Audio. Last Friday (9/11) featured music from A Place to Bury Strangers, The Sian Alice Group, Nine 11 Thesaurus (pictured above and below), Experimental Dental School and Reading Rainbow…

Mike Watt w / Black Fag, Bowery Poetry, Summerstage Saturday, Nels Cline & a very pregnant Jenny Scheinman

Mike Watt is a musician seemingly without ego. He’ll share a stage with anyone, and does – his upcoming dates have the bassist in no less than half a dozen settings…

Dinosaur Jr. album out, touring w/ Lou Barlow & the Missingmen (dates) sans Mike Watt who is plenty busy

Dinosaur Jr. @ ATP NY 2008 (more by Abbey Braden) Dinosaur Jr.‘s ninth LP, Farm, is out today (as is the new record by their Jagjaguwar label-mates Sunset Rubdown)…

Howl Festival Punk Panel 2008 (60 minute Punkcast video)

As part of the 2008 Howl Festival in NYC’s East Village, a panel discussion on the topic ‘Unrest in the 70s – US vs UK’ at Bowery Poetry Club, directly opposite the old CBGB premises, brought together a number of punk veterans from both sides of the pond…