Eric Davidson

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The show benefits New York Cares and features Walter Schreifels, Mick Collins, and members of Beyond, Radio 4, New Bomb Turks, SAVAK, and more…

The “Flip These Houses” protest benefit also features Nicole Atkins, Lenny Kaye, Matthew Caws (Nada Surf), Shilpa Ray, Mac McCaughan (Superchunk), Hamilton Leithauser and lots more.

The event is called “Flip These Houses” that celebrates “Protest Songs, Political Music, and Unity through Song” and the lineup also includes Hamilton Leithauser, The Wrens’ Charles Bissell, Nicole Atkins, Ted Leo, Syd Straw, and many more.

OBN IIIs at Emo’s (more by Tim Griffin) Garage-punks OBN IIIs are simply too good to be contained in just the Austin area. Consequently, the band, who recently put out a single on Matador, will hit the road for their first tour which hits Canada and the east coast with a stop in NYC for a pair of shows with Denver’s Thee Omens…

West Village record store Generation Records celebrated Record Store Day 2011 by releasing two new records (Off! and Bouncing Souls, both “Live At Generation Records”), and with a day full of in-store performances, I Hate Our Freedom, The Jay Vons, and Spa Castles…

words & Eric Davidson of New Bomb Turks, mid-flight Two great rock bands, the New Bomb Turks and Live Fast Die, reunited Saturday night (6/26) at the Bellhouse to help promote New Bomb Turks singer Eric Davidson’s new book, We Never Learn: the Gunk Punk Undergut, 1988-2001…