Tag Archives: Happy Birthday

My Favorite Albums of 2010

By New York Rockmarket | Published December 31, 2010

I almost didn’t make this list. I mean, come on. It’s New Year’s Eve. No one cares anymore. Everyone’s just getting psyched for Ariel Pink or Titus tonight (you should definitely go to one of those shows, by the way), and looking forward to the whole music cycle starting over again in 2011. I swear [...]

Posted in 2010 Favorites | Also tagged Abe Vigoda, Air Waves, Andrew Cedermark, Big Troubles, Cloud Nothings, Deerhunter, Dum Dum Girls, Dustin Wong, Future Islands, Harlem, Joanna Newsom, Lower Dens, Male Bonding, Marnie Stern, No Age, Pill Wonder, Prince Rama, Royal Baths, Sonny & The Sunsets, Strange Boys, The Fresh & Onlys, The National, The Tallest Man on Earth, Tim Fite, Titus Andronicus, Ty Segall, WAVVES, Weekend, Women, Woods, Yeasayer, Yellow Ostrich, Your Youth 4 Comments

My Favorite Songs of 2010: 10-1

By New York Rockmarket | Published December 22, 2010

Welcome to The New York Rockmarket’s end of the year list spectacular. This is when I talk about how lists are fun but ultimately meaningless, and apologize for not posting the last few days because I’ve been compiling my lists. This is also where I talk about favorites as opposed to best, like I did last [...]

Posted in 2010 Favorites | Also tagged Andrew Cedermark, Cloud Nothings, Eric Copeland, Eternal Summers, Future Islands, Let's Wrestle, Titus Andronicus, Ty Segall, Yellow Ostrich 2 Comments

Recommended Tuesday Show: CMJ Day #1

By New York Rockmarket | Published October 19, 2010

Welcome to day number one of CMJ. There’s obviously a lot of music going on this week, and if you do a bit of planning ahead, it will be quite good. While I feel that the quality of this year’s bands is a little bit thinner than in year’s past (more due to lack of [...]

Posted in Show Of The Day | Also tagged Dent May, Dom, Greatest Hits, La Sera, Screaming Females, Spectre Folk, Steve Gunn, Times New Viking, tonstartssbandht, Wild Nothing, Woodsman, Yo La Tengo Leave a comment

Photos: Thee Oh Sees, Sex Beet, Happy Birthday, and Fergus & Geronimo at Santos Party House

By New York Rock Market | Published September 23, 2010

John Dwyer does not fool around. His years and years-long career as a punk of all sorts gives him an unerring feel of authenticity and an unbeatable stage presence. Plus, the songs are outstanding. Hard and fast and relentless, just like rock music was always supposed to be. Thee Oh Sees’ performance was the decided [...]

Posted in Photos | Also tagged Fergus & Geronimo, Sex Beet, Thee Oh Sees Leave a comment

Recommended Tuesday Show: Thee Oh Sees, Sex Beet, Happy Birthday and Fergus & Geronimo at Santos Party House

By New York Rock Market | Published September 21, 2010

This is really SUCH a good show. First of all, Thee Oh Sees are coming out with a brand new album that I hear is fantastic, so now is a really wonderful time to see this California band. Fergus & Geronimo are from Denton, so they’re also not around that much, though they will be [...]

Posted in Show Of The Day | Also tagged Fergus & Geronimo, Sex Beet, Thee Oh Sees 1 Comment

Photos: Happy Birthday and Drink Up Buttercup at Glasslands

By New York Rock Market | Published May 24, 2010

I’ve spent some time on this blog disparaging Happy Birthday. It’s true. I was underwhelmed both times I caught them at SXSW and again at Mercury Lounge opening for Dum Dum Girls. Still, I went to Glasslands on Saturday night for the sole purpose of catching them again. Whether or not their live show failed [...]

Posted in Photos | Also tagged Drink Up Buttercup Leave a comment

SXSW 2010: A Few Extra Photos

By New York Rock Market | Published March 25, 2010

I had a few extra photos from SXSW. I thought I’d simply post them here, in no particular order. Plus, a few MP3s below. SXSW 2010: MP3: “Perverted Girl” – Happy Birthday MP3: “California Shakedown” – Pearl Harbor

Posted in Photos | Also tagged Alex Bleeker & The Freaks, Blair, Delorean, Family Portrait, Japandroids, Man/Miracle, Mountain Man, Pearl Harbor, Pill Wonder, Shannon and the Clams, Tanlines, Vivian Girls, We Are the World, Yellow Fever 5 Comments

SXSW 2010: Friday

By New York Rock Market | Published March 20, 2010

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 [...]

Posted in Miscellaneous, Photos | Also tagged Alex Bleeker & The Freaks, Beach Fossils, Bitters, Gun Outfit, Javelin, Le Loup, Mountain Man, Pearl Harbor, Small Black, Tearist, The Beets, Toro y Moi, Washed Out, Woods 1 Comment

SXSW 2010: Wednesday

By New York Rock Market | Published March 18, 2010

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 [...]

Posted in Miscellaneous, Photos | Also tagged Drink Up Buttercup, Fool's Gold, Hunx and His Punx, Japandroids, Shannon and the Clams, Suckers, The Morning Benders, The Rural Alberta Advantage, We Are the World, Yellow Fever 1 Comment

Recommended Friday Show: Woods, Real Estate, Happy Birthday, and Wild Nothing at Music Hall of Williamsburg

By New York Rock Market | Published March 12, 2010

The above photo is one I took of Real Estate from a Dead Herring show the first week in March of 2009. It’s nice to look back on that post and know that they DID get the experience they needed and they will go on to do exciting things with their career. The success of [...]

Posted in Show Of The Day | Also tagged Real Estate, Wild Nothing, Woods 1 Comment