Mountain Man Fest is a brand new DIY festival slated to take place on Saturday, July 24th in upstate New York, right near Skidmore- about a three hour drive from the city. Some of NYRM’s favorite bands will be on the bill including Islands, Real Estate, Woods, Pill Wonder, Family Portrait, Julian Lynch, Cults, and [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Miscellaneous’
April 15, 2010
Recommended Friday Show: Beach Fossils, Total Slacker, Air Waves, Eternal Summers, Beachniks
This is a ridiculous show. The entire line-up is full of my favorite up-and-coming bands. What makes it even crazier is the Real Estate/Family Portrait/Liam the Younger/Big Troubles show happening simultaneously just down the street. So why does this one get my pick? Beachniks are unpracticed but cute. Total Slacker’s Tucker is a rocking guitar [...]
March 25, 2010
SXSW 2010: Top Ten Favorite Performances
There’s so much going on at sxsw that it’s impossible to see even a sliver of what the week has to offer. That’s why doing a top ten performances of the week list is sort of silly. On the other hand, I saw some excellent new bands that I’d like to draw a little extra [...]
March 22, 2010
SXSW: Saturday
I know it’s Monday and that all of these performances happened on Saturday, but I never went to sleep that night, so it’s as if this post isn’t late. Saturday brought freezing cold weather and drizzly rain to Austin, and it admittedly put a damper on everything. After a miserable morning, I managed to obtain [...]
March 20, 2010
SXSW 2010: Friday
I keep trying to find a moral in SXSW. The point is to be in a band, and the rest of us are just plebeian followers. Go home and practice your instrument until you can do it yourself. Go home and practice your writing until you become a better critic. Go home and give up [...]
March 19, 2010
SXSW 2010: Thursday
Yesterday was a complete SXSW day. Downtown at noon and not home again until 3AM. Since it was such a late night I didn’t get a chance to blog before I started falling asleep sitting up at my computer, so this post will be a bit abbreviated for the time being (gotta get back downtown [...]
March 18, 2010
SXSW 2010: Wednesday
Maximization. It’s very easy to let SXSW become about maximization. Half of your energy is spent figuring out where to go and when in order to see as many bands as possible while schmoozing the people you want to schmooze. This really is a crummy way to see music. My goal for the day was [...]
March 17, 2010
SXSW 2010: Tuesday
Whew. Arrived in Austin around 8, met my wonderful hosts, and took a bus to downtown. My first use of Austin public transportation. After eating some seriously-needed tacos, I headed over to Cheer Up Charlie’s, which was called Ms. Bea’s last year. It’s Todd P’s SXSW venue, and he was definitely a presence there this [...]
March 16, 2010
SXSW 2010: Here We Go!
After a night of over-packing, throwing away everything in my refrigerator, and deciding if taking a second book was worth the extra weight (it was), the time has finally come! In four hours I’ll be boarding the plane that will take me to the plane that will take me to Austin. Despite my insane and [...]
March 7, 2010
Recommended Monday Show: The Morning Benders, Dinowalrus and Royal Chord at Cameo
I am recommending this show simply because the next time Morning Benders play, it’s going to be somewhere like Music Hall of Williamsburg or Bowery Ballroom. Their song “Excuses” has been generating an incredible amount of buzz, and it’s one of those instances where the song is actually just quite good. I haven’t seen Dinowalrus [...]
