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Monthly Archives: November 2010
Recommended Wednesday Show: Tennis, Family Portrait, Miracles of Modern Science, and La Big Vic at Mercury Lounge
Welcome back from Thanksgiving! I don’t know about you, but I just ate a TON of food. I was in New Jersey in a cheese/mashed potato coma, so forgive me for the lack of posting. There were some great shows over the weekend, but we’ve now entered the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas when the [...]
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Tagged Family Portrait, La Big Vic, Miracles of Modern Science, Tennis
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NYRM Literary Society: Tolstoy and Bejar
War & Peace. Long. Really long. It’s not easy to find one song to go with a 1,200 page novel (not even really a novel- Tolstoy insisted it was something entirely different than a novel) about Russian aristocracy, love, and historical philosophy during the Napoleonic Wars. My first instinct was to pick a really long [...]
Recommended Saturday Show: Black Dice, Blues Control, McDonalds, and Avey Tare DJ Set at The Schoolhouse
I complain a lot about my distaste for many electronic/noise bands on this site. It’s true- I’m bad at liking that kind of music and I feel like a critical failure. But Black Dice and Blues Control? These are two absolutely fantastic electronic noise outfits. Black Dice use all kinds of warped noises and twisted [...]
Recommended Friday Show: The Beets, Total Slacker, The Babies, Eternal Summers, and Night Manager at 285 Kent
This show is a greatest hits parade of all my favorite Brooklyn bands that I’ve seen way too many times. For example, basically any show you go to in a small venue in New York is going to have The Beets, some form of Total Slacker, some form The Babies, or Night Manager on the [...]
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Recommended Thursday Show: Morning Benders, Twin Sisters, and Cults at Webster Hall
This show is going to be so, so pleasant. Cults? Pleasant. Twin Sister? Pleasant. Morning Benders? Super pleasant. Three good bands, all of them easy to listen to. This show won’t necessarily challenge your music instincts (wait until Saturday’s Black Dice show for that), but it’s definitely going to be fun. Plus, Morning Benders really [...]
Sweet New MP3: Tonstartssbandht’s “Preston ‘Great Ass’ Imfat”
This song has been kicking around since mid-October, and I’ve been meaning to post about since, especially after catching Tonstartssbandht at Bruar Falls. I’ve been pretty down on music lately. Everything seems so safe to me, either a retreading of trends from the past two years or a retreading of 80s mall music. But this [...]
Photos: 42nd Street Showpaper Gallery
If Todd P. and Babycastles rent a space on 42nd Street just past 3rd Avenue and set up a video arcade and a free, all ages DIY venue, it’s going to be exactly like Monster Island and Market Hotel and Ms. Bea’s, just…in Manhattan. Right? I was pretty surprised on Friday night to find out [...]
Recommended Saturday Show: The Coathangers, So So Glos, and The Ex Humans at Death By Audio
The cool kids are going to get allll split up this Saturday night. You’ve got Magic Kids playing at Silent Barn and a Chocolate Bobka showcase with Velvet Davenport and Big Troubles at Shea Stadium. Not to mention some might opt for Ariel Pink at Webster Hall. Personally, when I saw Velvet Davenport at Monster [...]
Recommended Friday Show: Quiet Hooves at Showpaper Gallery
I posted about Showpaper’s 42nd Street Gallery about two weeks ago, but it’s definitely worth mentioning again. If you haven’t been yet, you should definitely go test out all the video games and check out the really neat art. Plus, Athens, Georgia’s Quiet Hooves are playing their second of two New York shows this week. [...]
Recommended Thursday Show: Patti Smith, Lenny Kaye, and Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers at Southpaw
There’s a lot of really great things about this show, but the bottom line is that you’ll get to see Patti Smith perform in a fairly intimate venue for $20. That is some serious bang for your buck, especially if you’ve never seen Patti Smith before (I mean, look at that picture, the woman is [...]
