Ryan Muir
Lucky Dragons @ the Whitney Museum (Biennial), NYC - pics
DOWNLOAD: Lucky Dragons – Fake is Forever (MP3)
It’s not easy to get people to interact with each other at shows. But Luke Fischbeck and Sarah Rara of L…
DeVotchKa @ Terminal 5, NYC - pics
DeVotchKa are the true gypsies of rock n’ roll, taking big hunks of everything, notably Mexican and Russian sounds, and putting it together for both thunderous and symphonic purposes…
MSTRKRFT & crowd @ Webster Hall (GBH party), NYC - pics
Alex English, James Murphy, LA Riots, Does It Offend You Yeah? and even Grandmaster Flash deejayed the party at Webster Hall on Friday night (May 16, 2008), but people didn’t start going completely nuts until MSTRKRFT took the stage…
Stars Like Fleas @ Music Hall of Williamsburg, NYC - pics
DOWNLOAD: Stars Like Fleas – I Was Only Dancing (MP3)
Stars Like Fleas opened for Beirut at Music Hall of Williamsburg last night (May 18, 2008)…
Beirut @ Music Hall of Williamsburg, NYC - pics & setlist
It was almost two years ago that Beirut played in the venue that occupied the same space that they played last night (May 18, 2008). I don’t know what my point is…
Hercules & Love Affair @ Studio B, NYC (pics) & Tour Dates
Kim ()Their record company describes them as “a pan-sexual mix for our troubled times”. That is one way of saying that Hercules and Love Affair are the kind of band in which guest vocalist Antony Hegarty – the Mercury prize-winning torch singer and radical gay performance artist, with a strong interest in gender reassignment – is the Charlie Watts figure: integral, but a bit stolid and suburban by contrast with his flamboyant bandmates…
Grandmaster Flash @ Webster Hall (GBH party), NYC - pics
A laptop, a vinyl record & DJ GRANDMASTER FLASH
GRANDMASTER FLASH & audience
Even Grandmater Flash, the “first dj to play the turntables as a musical instrument”, uses a laptop now…
Bloc Party tickets on sale ++ Does it Offend You, Yeah? pics
DIOYY @ Coachella 2008
Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for the upcoming Bloc Party shows at Webster Hall.
Does it Offend You, Yeah? is opening for Bloc Party on all non-festival U…
I'm From Barcelona played Brooklyn & Coachella (pics)
I’m From Barcelona (who are actually from Sweden) went from Hoboken to California to play Coachella (and 2 other shows) and then back to the east coast to play a show at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple in (duh) Brooklyn last night (May 1, 2008)…
Gogol Bordello @ Coachella 2008, Indio, CA - pics
Coachella holds many, many thousand. Well imagine Gogol Bordello‘s normally explosive energy amplified by hundreds. Stifling heat, a relatively meager Sunday turnout, daylight and what seemed like about 10 intrusive video cameras did not slow down Eug…