Jim Carroll

Saturday’s NYC-area shows include Sea.Hear.Now, Run the Jewels, Desertfest NYC, Superchunk, Eagles, Steely Dan, Vinnie Caruana, and more.

Sunday’s NYC-area show options include Wilco, Vinnie Caruana, Aimee Mann, Gustaf, and more.

This year’s RSD Black Friday exclusives include ’The Life Aquatic’ soundtrack, The Wrens‘s ‘Secaucus,‘ classic Luaka Bop comp ’Beleza Tropical,’ the ‘Blue Velvet‘ soundtrack and lots more.

The album comes out two days before Crazy & the Brains’ tour with Leftover Crack and Negative Approach begins.

Listen to new songs by Cloud Nothings, Girlpool, The Bangles covering The Three O’Clock, Yoko Ono covering John Lennon, SASAMI, Deer Tick, The Free Nationals/Daniel Caesar/Unknown Mortal Orchestra, and more.

Morby has said that the album is specifically about New York, and you can definitely hear that with this song that pays homage to The Ramones and Jim Carroll.

“Throughout the evening, there was a striking contrast between frontmen Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley. Hood, who often leaped into the air mid-song, overflowed with emotion as he performed signature tunes like “Box of Spiders” and “Hell No, I Ain’t Happy…

“Basketball Diaries author Carroll’s slightly rough posthumous novel about a famous painter’s breakdown begins as painter Billy Wolfram has a psychotic episode, wanders about the Central Park petting zoo, threatens strangers, and is picked up and committed to a mental hospital for observation…

Jim Carroll, 60, a poet-turned-punk rocker whose book “The Basketball Diaries” chronicled his descent from elite high school basketball star to Times Square drug addict, thief and prostitute, died Sept…