Ira Kaplan

Delicate Steve added to final night at Maxwell's and tickets on sale now; Single Dynamite (feat Ira Kaplan & Janet Weiss) opened for Lee Ranaldo

This is it, the last day for iconic Hoboken rock club, Maxwell’s which is shutting it’s doors tonight (or the wee hours of Thursday) after 35 years…

The Remains & The A-Bones @ The Bell House (pics, setlists)

’60s Boston garage rockers The Remains came to NYC for a show at the Bell House on Friday (6/7) with ’80s/’90s NYC garage rockers The A-Bones (who featured Ira Kaplan of Yo La Tengo and the owners of Norton Records)…

Titus Andronicus, Devendra Banhart, Andrew Bird, Jon Benjamin and Jon Glaser helped Yo La Tengo celebrate Hanukkah night 7 at Maxwells (pics, setlist)

Titus Andronicus opened the night with a roar — I always read about them as being a punk-rock group, and maybe they are in the old-fashioned (and my favorite) definition of that term as “indescribable…

Yo La Tengo Hanukkah shows to go on despite Ira's "pretty serious health scare"

Ira @ Maxwell’s for Hanukkah 2008 (more by Natasha Ryan) Ira posted the following to Yo La Tengo‘s website on Saturday:Hi everybody, especially those of you with tickets to next week’s shows, We strive to make our Hanukkah shows unpredictable, and in one unfortunate regard we’ve outdone ourselves this year…

Norton Records @ 25 -- the conclusion w/ the Sonics, Tandoori Knights aka King Khan & Bloodshot Bill & more (pics & review)

words & I started the night, the fourth and final night of the the Norton Records 25th Anniversary celebration at the Bell House, watching Andy Shernoff from the Dictators playing an acoustic set in the front room…

Danny Amis recovering from cancer procedure, benefit shows planned (and Los Straitjackets is touring too)

A message from Danny AmisDear Friends… I can’t thank you enough for your generosity. Thanks to your help, and the upcoming benefit shows, I no longer need to stress out over my medical bills…

the Baseball Project is here (Craig Finn will join them), Hoboken Arts Fest this weekend (they play that too)

Like he recently did with the Mountain Goats, Twins fan Craig Finn will reportedly make a guest appearance with The Baseball Project at the Bell House in Brooklyn tonight (4/29)…

Marshall Crenshaw celebrating 30 years, playing 'Marshall Crenshaw' 3 nights @ City Winery w/ Ira Kaplan

“Three rocking 30th Anniversary shows, featuring a special live performance of Marshall‘s critically acclaimed self-titled debut album “Marshall Crenshaw” performed in its entirety…

Tift Merritt covered Big Star w/ Norman Blake, Michael Stipe & more (MP3 & belated pics), touring (playing free NYC show)

& Ted Barron DOWNLOAD: Tift Merritt & Norman Blake – Thirteen (Big Star) (MP3) Tift Merritt‘s is now on tour with Stephen Kellogg, and though tickets are unfotunately sold-out for their show at City Winery (May 6th), she has added another NYC show and this time it’s FREE…

Generation Records celebrated Record Store Day w/ Obits, Yo La Tengo, The Jay Vons, Spa Castles & more (pics)

West Village record store Generation Records celebrated Record Store Day 2011 by releasing two new records (Off! and Bouncing Souls, both “Live At Generation Records”), and with a day full of in-store performances, I Hate Our Freedom, The Jay Vons, and Spa Castles…
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