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Dredg
Highline Ballroom
November 7, 2008
The energy around
the Highline Ballroom last Friday night
was ripe with youth, booze and vigor...(more) |
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Rumble
Strips
Bowery Ballroom
November 1, 2008
While
some may have still been shaking of post-Halloween
hangovers, British rockers the Rumble
Strips were bringing their soul-infused
ska sound to the Bowery Ballroom...(more) |
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Uh Huh Her at the
Fillmore at Irving Plaza
October 29, 2008
The excitement was
quite palpable in the crowd that had
gathered ahead of the Uh Huh Her show
at the Fillmore at Irving Plaza on the
evening of October 29...(more) |
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The
Crystal Method
Webster Hall
October 25th 2008
The Crystal Method,
electronic duo Ken Jordan and Scott
Kirkland, have been fixtures on the
dance music scene for more than a decade...(more)
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Voodoo Music Experience
October 24-26, 2008
New Orleans, LA
City Park
A
ritual is defined as an established or
prescribed procedure for a religious or
other rite. The three-day annual affair
of music and culture in New Orleans City
Park...(more) |
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Crystal Castles Perform
at
CMJ
Webster Hall
October 23, 2008
CMJ’s
annual Music Marathon is a showcase for
myriad genres of music across most of
lower Manhattan...(more) |
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CMJ
Music Festival:
Tobias Froberg, Theresa Andersson, and
Ane Brun
The Living Room
October 22, 2008
The Lower East Side
was positively Scandinavian Wednesday
night as Tobias Froberg, Theresa Andersson,
and Ane Brun made themselves comfortable
in the Living Room for the second night
of CMJ 2008...(more) |
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Alkaline Trio
Roseland Ballroom
October 14, 2008
Alkaline Trio filled
the Roseland Ballroom with fans as easily
as the imposing (frankly huge) vocalist
Matt Skiba fills a room...(more)
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Les Savy Fav
Music Hall of Williamsburg
October 12, 2008
The antics of Les
Savy Fav frontman Tim Harrington make
headlines, but seeing the band at the
Bowery Presents venue the Music Hall
of Williamsburg on Sunday, October 12
made me wonder if the rest of the band
wasn’t getting shorted on spazz
points...(more) |
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The Royal Chains:
A Candid Conversation
October 6, 2008
Last Wednesday, my
friend suggested we attend L Magazine’s
Battle of the Bands in Williamsburg
and I let out a yawn before saying,
"‘I guess."...(more) |
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Sam Champion at
the
Mercury Lounge
October 2, 2008
The Sam Champion band
consists of four youthful lads hailing
from Brooklyn. Their show at the Mercury
Lounge was something of a celebration,
as it served as the official coming
out party for Mr. Champion's latest
effort...(more) |
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Everlast and Lordz
Hiro Ballroom
371 W. 16th St.
September 30, 2008
"Just how many
working class Brooklyn Irish men and
women can you put in one bull pen,"
I asked myself as I attended the Everlast
Show (with opening by Brooklyn's Lordz)
on the night of Rosh Hoshanah? ...(more)
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Betty Buckley at Birdland
September 23rd, 2008
Betty
Buckley has one of the great voices of
our time and is one of the greatest Broadway
performers of the modern musical era,
although she has never had a show truly
cater to her talents—which is a
bloody shame...(more)
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Motorhead
With Opening Bands Year Long Disaster
and Valient Thorr
Roseland Ballroom
September 20,2008
Motorhead.
Enough said, really. If you have not heard
of them or the name Lemmy, or one of their
songs over the last thirty odd years,
then you most likely will not get it anyway...(more)
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Two Japanese Music
Festivals:
FujiRock
July 25 -27,2008
&
Summer Sonic
August 9 - 10, 2008
After three years
of J-pop, Avril Lavigne, and Coldplay,
when the chance to finally see good
music in Japan presented itself, I jumped
at the opportunity...(more)
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