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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
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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 Irishmen and women can
you put in one 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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Second Hand Serenade
Album Review
A Twist in My Story
There's an old joke
that goes "What do you get when
you cross the faux-symphonic over-the-toppery
of Coldplay with a hammering-the-letter-R-in-every-word
punk-pop vocal style and then throw
in that poem you wrote in high school
when your first girlfriend dumped you?"...(more) |
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East Village Radio
Music Festival
September 7, 2008
South Street Seaport
The
rains came and some performances were
cancelled, but East Village Radio Music
Festival persevered at South Street Seaport
and delivered a phenomenal line-up emceed
by KRS-One on Sunday...(more)
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Rob Mastrianni
/ Flamenco and Electric Sitar Guitarist
Mercury Lounge
August 25, 2008
I
first caught Rob Mastrianni performing
in the Grand Central shuttle pathway a
couple of days prior to his Mercury Lounge
performance...(more) |
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Ebony Bones, Titus
Andronicus and Yo La Tengo:
The Final JellyNYC Concert McCarren
Park Pool
August 24, 2008
It’s the end
to an era of entitlement at McCarren
Park Pool, and I think all of us who
had grown used to looking forward to
our summer Sundays enjoying the fruits
of the Herculean effort the folks at
JellyNYC made to stave off the preemptive
creep of Monday’s soul death can
rightfully say we’ve seen the
end of an era...(more) |
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Violens & The
Grand Archives
South Street Seaport
Friday August 22, 2008
The
impossible never threatens long in New
York City, or at least it never seems
to. In the first blush of the promise
of the month of May we Gothamites never
think the end of August is an achievable
goal...(more)
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All Points West Music
Festival
New Jersey’s Liberty State Park
August 8-10, 2008
The
West Coast has Coachella and Outside Lands.
The Midwest has Pitchfork and Lollapalooza.
The South has VooDoo Fest, Bonnaroo, Austin
City Limits, and South by Southwest
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Sam Pesin:
The Saviour of Liberty State Park
It's a bright,
clear, sunny day on the shores of the
Hudson River in New Jersey's Liberty State
Park. Facing inland, Metric is getting
ready to play this second day of the first
ever All Points West music and arts festival...(more) |
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Tall Firs/King Kahn
and the Shrines/Deerhunter/Black Lips
McCarren Pool
August 3, 2008
In
its clemency and breezy unobtrusiveness,
the weather welcomed and complemented
the first act on August third’s
JellyNYC McCarren Park Pool bill, the
Tall Firs...(more) |
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MGMT and Ting Tings
McCarren Park Pool
July 27, 2008
Who knew that the
MGMT show was going to be the one that
packed the place? I surely didn’t
expect it, but when I saw the line that
even I had to wait in, the line where
I was lucky enough to be on the press
list, it set in a little bit...(more) |
