Midnight Magic

Vancouver’s Blood Diamonds (aka Michael Diamond aka Mike Tucker) is slated to begin a European tour in November. Right after that tour wraps up– on November 22 in London, UK– Tucker will make his way to Chicago to play Lincoln Hall on November 24 with Midnight Magic…

Chicago footwork producer DJ Rashad released the excellent TEKLIFE Vol. 1: Welcome to the Chi album earlier this year, and played a Brooklyn show at 285 Kent soon after with Total Freedom and J-Cush…

Attendees at the third day (9/15) of the Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival were able to triple their fun with three shows across two venues. The matinee show, which took place at Union Hall, was called “Uh Oh: Dangerous, Inappropriate Comedy For Teenagers” and featured performances from Tom Shillue, James Patterson, Ben Kronberg, Jaqueline Novak, Brendon Small, and Craig Baldo…

JD Samson in MEN @ Webster Hall (more by Amanda Hatfield) Occupy Wall Street reports:Occupy Wall Street is excited to announce that on May Day, ‘JD Samson & Men‘ will join the likes of Tom Morello, Das Racist, Dan Deacon, Immortal Technique, Bobby Sanabria and others by performing at events throughout the city marking this national day of protest…

“An amazing HUGE thank you to everybody who came out last night! We hope you’re all as hungover as we are. Thank you thank you thank you!” – Learning Secrets Midnight Magic @ Beauty Bar – 1/28/2012What’s cool is that Learning Secrets parties are rather unpretentious considering the crowd drawn and the talent booked…

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The three-night Brooklyn Night Bazaar kicked off last night in its warehouse location on Kent between North 5th & 6th. Entrance to the food and shopping and portapotties is free, but you’ll need to pay to see the music in the big back room…

As Bill just pointed out, BrooklynVegan is handling the Fucked Up Friday night show at the new Williamsburg version of the Brooklyn Night Bazaar (holiday shopping, eating and music), but I figured the fact that The Hold Steady, Titus Andronicus and James Murphy and Midnight Magic were playing the other nights deserved its own headline too…

YACHT recently played Fun Fun Fun Fest and went on a tour with Yo Gabba Gabba. We’ve got another set of pictures from their set at FFF Fest in this post…

Escort at MHOW in February (more by Chris Gersbeck) Brooklyn’s 17-piece disco orchestra Escort are releasing their self titled debut full length on November 15 on their own Escort Records…