Patton Oswalt

Holy smokes dudes. Lookit, I don’t really go for the whole ‘festival’ scene, nor do I have the scratch or the resources to get my ass on a plane to go to some far off place and put myself up in a hotel in order to endure a few days of music and drunk idiots and awful tattoos and dudes in short-shorts prancing around like the world around them isn’t basically in the worst shape it has ever been and stuff…

Finally, a Kickstarter campaign that gets the coveted Klaus Kinski Seal Of Total Approval and Gold Pass! Photographer Seth Olenick has been on the NYC comedy and music scene since 1997 and has amassed a gigantic and truly astounding portfolio of images of comedians, bands, and famous people…

Dale Crover w/ Melvins Lite in October (more by Dana (distortion) Yavin) Dinosaur Jr. just keep adding more alternative rock royalty to their upcoming You’re Living All Over Me 25th anniversary show, which happens in NYC at Terminal 5 on December 1…

“Whoever said sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, is a fucking idiot. Not only that, it stops me killing people” – Ricky Gervais last night at NYCF (via @newyorkcomedyfest) John Hodgman and Ricky Gervais @ NYCF 11/07/2012 (via @yarp4cornetto) The New York Comedy Festival got underway last night with Ricky Gervais shooting the breeze with John Hodgman at Town Hall…

We already mentioned that Rob Delaney will be playing the New York Comedy Festval and now here’s the whole 2012 line-up which goes down November 7 – 11…

Unlike Chris (who took these pictures), I didn’t get to the Nethermead until 5pm, but what I saw was consistent with reports that the second day of GoogaMooga was free of a lot of the kinks experienced on Saturday…

For those of us prone to agoraphobia, Comedy Central really brought the stank on Saturday April 21st when they premiered not one but TWO epic specials…

We still have a few more days before we find out the entire music lineup of the Great GoogaMooga, but the new Prospect Park festival announced the May 19th & 20th schedule, and almost-full lineup, of “ExtraMooga”, the part of the fest that requires you to pay extra money…

Mastodon fans (more by Greg Cristman) Bon Iver was nominated for four high profile Grammys (though not “Album of the Year” which is what Arcade Fire won)…

Tom Morello @ Newport Folk Fest 2009 (more by Jim Brueckner)Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello has announced plans to perform at the Occupy Wall Street protest at noon in Manhattan…