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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) |
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Crystal Stilts and
Atlas Sound
South Street Seaport
July 25, 2008
The
weather Friday night was perfect for the
summertime show at South Street Seaport
where Bradford Cox would be sharing music
from his solo project, Atlas Sound...(more) |
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George
Michael Concert
Madison Square Garden
July 21, 2008
"Say
ladies and gents…What were you
doing in 1990?"
Well, if you were
out looking for some affirmation, then
you were no doubt among the star people
who made their way into the night at
George Michael's July 21st Madison Square
Garden Show...(more) |
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Liars : Fuck Buttons
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Team Robespierre
McCarren Park Pool
July 20, 2008
McCarren Park pool
was a bed of embers in Sunday’s
sun. Anywhere not shaded (nowhere was
really shaded) people were sporting
the slow, wobbly walk you walk when
you’re heat-stroke chokin’
down beers and whiskies and the air
is nuclear fire...(more) |
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Amos Lee with
Lucy Wainwright Roche
Highline Ballroom
431 W 16th St
July 14, 2008
Who says nerdy guys
don't get girls? World class nerd musician
Amos Lee played New York City's Highline
Ballroom on Monday, July 14, 2008 to
a standing-room-only audience...(more) |
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The Breeders with
Matt & Kim & The Whip
Jelly NYC at McCarren Park Pool Brooklyn
July 13, 2008
Another Sunday in
July. At least this weekend the heat
and humidity isn’t so brutal.
Another Jelly NYC pool party, this time
featuring the Breeders with supporting
acts The Whip and Matt and Kim...(more) |
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Lesser Gonzalez
Alvarez, Ralph White, and Amy Annelle
Knitting Factory
July 12, 2008
Just another Saturday
night at the Knitting Factory featuring
Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez, Ralph White,
and Amy Annelle...(more)
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Kings of Scene:
Abe Vigoda, Telepathe,
No Age at South Street Seaport
July 11, 2008
In
reverse order, there were three bands
on the bill of last Friday’s free
River to River Festival Seaport show:
No Age (L.A.); Telepathe (BK); and Abe
Vigoda (L.A.)...(more) |
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Ronnie Spector
with
The Rabbit Factory Soul Review
Jelly NYC/McCarren Park Pool
July 6, 2008
Let’s face it.
Jelly NYC knows how to throw a party.
At least when it comes to the string
of shows held at Mccarren Park Pool
both this and last summer...(more)
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Latin American Music
Conference
July 4-10, 2008
New York City
It’s
been awhile since I’ve been to a
music conference, and I have to admit
I’m a bit rusty. Every time I was
approached by a musician telling me how
great his/her MySpace page....(more)
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Feelies open for
Sonic Youth
River to River Fest at Battery Park
July 4, 2008
Once upon a time,
a bunch of learned property owning dudes
gathered in Philadelphia. They declared
that the country would no longer suffer
the indignities and abuses of a far
away monarch...(more) |
