Times Square

Not too much has changed on the CBGB Festival schedule since we last spoke, but we found out and have confirmed that the multi-day (July 5-8), multi-venue, multi-genre NYC festival will host a free, multi-stage event in Times Square on Saturday, July 7th…

Twin Shadow at BAM earlier this month (more by David Andrako) As mentioned, Twin Shadow will release his sophomore LP, Confess, on July 10 via 4AD…

Earth Day is being celebrated today. In NYC that means official festivities at Grand Central today (4/20) and tomorrow, and today in Times Square…

As promised, Don Cornelius fans, many donning afros, took to the streets of NYC on Saturday afternoon to honor the recently deceased Soul Train creator with a Times Square Soul Train line dance…

In honor of Don Cornelius, people are planning a double soul train in Times Square at 4pm today (Saturday, 2/4). Details at Facebook. Similar festivities went down in Chicago where Don Cornelius was from…

On Dec 2nd at 6pm, hundreds of performers and artists will occupy a privately owned public space in Times Square with 24 hours of non-stop free performances…

computer rendering of Best Buy Theater marquee (via NY Times) For whatever reason, I prefer “Nokia Theater” – it almost doesn’t sound like a sponsored name or I just got used to it…

Okkervil River are Roky Erickson‘s band at Webster Hall tonight (5/25).

“bomb scare outside killfest 2010 at nokia theater in times square.. mayhem inside and out” – John The Nissan Pathfinder that prompted police to close off parts of New York’s Times Square contained bomb-making materials, the city’s mayor said…

Grace Potter played a short 15 minute set in an even shorter shiny purple dress in the middle of Times Square in honor of Earth Day this morning (they went on around 11:30am)…