Hello Brooklyn….
Billboard.com has Jay Z’s American Gangster at number one in the Billboard 200 for records with the greatest airplay.
The new album, American Gangster, is Jay Z’s 10th number 1 album - selling 425,000 copies in it’s first week. Only the Beatles have more number 1 albums…pretty crazy.
The album is Jay Z’s first concept album […]
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Since being discovered on Myspace, her music has been featured in an Old Navy commercial, she has had four tracks on a major television series (Grey’s Anatomy) and recently she was the first unsigned artist to be featured as VH1’s artists ‘You Oughta Know’.
Staten Island’s own folk rock princess, Ingrid Michaelson will folk rock a […]
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Dashboard is playing a sold out show tonight at the Blender Theatre at Gramercy.
Brooklyn Vegan had a go with this venue’s name change earlier this year.
Opening…
Augustana and Jon Ralston
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It’s not everyday that Dave Matthews is in the New York area.
Today he is.
Dave will be putting on a trance-like show tonight at the Continental Airlines Arena in the outskirts.
If you haven’t seen Dave live, you have to. If you have, you’re probably making up about 40% of the crowd tonight.
Well, here’s a primer…
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The Nirvana Unplugged DVD will be released in 7 days - nearly 14 years to the day is was originally recorded and filmed.
What a performance. One of the best of all time.
Nirvana’s Unplugged in New York was filmed on November 18, 1993 at Sony Music Studios.
The DVD will feature Nirvana’s entire unedited performance, five previously […]
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I like the rawness of the video Mistaken for Strangers by The National.
The Brooklyn New York band continues to do things they’re own way.
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Every month Rolling Stone magazine profiles a few key shows.
Sometimes I think they are truly special shows and other times I think they just say, “Yeah, Arcade Fire in Austin was probably cool, let’s profile it and get some quotes.”
I’ve become a bit jaded with RS the last few years, but still go back to […]
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Let’s start out with the fact that they’re from CORTLANDT MANOR, New York…sounds fancy.
Well fancy this, they’re the top Unsigned New York band on Myspace right now.
Making April has been around for a while - they’re 2006 release Runaway World is still getting wild hype….they’re track These Are The Nights has almost 2 million […]
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Big night tonight. The Cult will take over the Hammerstein Ballroom.
As they say, The Cult (and this show) is for Rockers, Ravers, Lovers and Sinners.
Band members Ian Astbury, Billy Duffy, Chris Wyse, John Tempesta and Mike Dimkich will add to the history of the Hammerstein with a no doubt killer show.
On October 2nd of […]
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Jimmy Eat World is back in town to play Terminal 5 tomorrow night. The Arizona based band is promoting their newest album Chase This Light…some nice big riffs and catchy melodies as evident in their single Big Casino.
After NY, the band is off to play The Electric Factory in Philadelphia the next night and Sonar […]
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