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Global Festival returns as Global Citizen Festival, announces Central Park benefit w/ Stevie Wonder, Kings of Leon & more
A year after names like Neil Young, Foo Fighters, The Black Keys, and others took to Central Park, Global Festival (not to be confused with the Global Fest which hit Webster Hall last year) is back, this time rechristening itself Global Citizen Fest…
A.C. Newman, Ted Leo, Will Sheff, Doug Gillard and more playing Scott Miller tribute at Cake Shop
Game Theory and Loud Family frontman Scott Miller died back in April which hit a lot of fans hard. And he had a lot of fans, many of whom are musicians…
'Letters to Santa' streaming tonight (schedule includes Jeff Tweedy, Fred Armisen, Kim Deal, Bonnie Prince Billy, Glen Hansard & more)
It’s time for “Letters to Santa“! If you don’t have a ticket, stream the 24 hour Chicago event live from their website. More info and the full and updated schedule below…
Jeff Tweedy, Steve Albini with Nate Silver, Kim Deal & more @ The Second City's Letters to Santa Benefit
The Second City are gearing up for their annual Letters to Santa Benefit, which will be taking place at their home base from December 18-19…
Park Slope Armory still needs volunteers
I’ve tweeted a lot about this over the past two weeks, and mentioned it in some posts, but one easy place to help out for residents of Park Slope, Windsor Terrace and the surrounding areas is at the Park Slope Armory shelter (usually a YMCA) which is located on 15th Street between 7th & 8th (in Brooklyn, you can’t miss it)…
Jeff Mangum begins BAM run w/ the Music Tapes tonight, auctioning off art & tix to 1 show (info & updated tour dates)
Jeff Mangum kicks off his sold out three-night run at BAM with The Music Tapes tonight (1/19). The Brooklyn shows are part of a longer tour for the two Neutral Milk Hotel bandmates…
charity raffle @ Bowery Ballroom tonight
Like we did at the Anna Calvi show (pictured above), we’ll be raffling off a bunch of great stuff to raise money for Toys for Tots at the BrooklynVegan Holiday party at Bowery Ballroom tonight (12/17)…
Envy selling single on iTunes for earthquake relief
Envy’s single art
One of Japan’s greatest exports, Envy, are doing something to give a little back to their homeland.Japan’s legendary post-whatever powerhouse ENVY have recorded a brand new song specifically to benefit relief efforts for the devastating earthquake that struck Japan earlier this year…
Dean Ween hosting charity baseball game in New Hope Sunday w/ Josh Homme & more
They’re only really mentioning Dean, Gene (who will sing the National Anthem), Glenn McClelland (who will play organ) & Josh (who is not part of the reunited Kyuss), but I think that’s enough reason to go to this Ween hometown charity event on Sunday (10/2)…
Daft Punk dolls, Ed Droste's guitar & other stuff for charity
Estimated Value: Priceless
Item Number 128
Item Description
These are very rare, limited edition Daft Punk toy robots called “Daft Punk 1000% Kubricks” made by the legendary Japanese toy manufacturer Medicom in collaboration with the legendary Hong Kong based toy manufacturers, Silly Thing…
