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Archive for March 2008

March 17th, 2008

Junior Revolution at Cake Shop

Awesome Ohioans Junior Revolution will be playing a show at Cake Shop tomorrow night with Stages and Stereos, promoting thir latest album, It’s A Process. They remain in the Tri-State area for a few days after, playing shows in Ithaca and Jersey before heading south. See their complete tour schedule below:

Mar 18 2008
9:00P

The Cake […]

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March 17th, 2008

Blonde Acid Cult Has New Video, Some Shows

NYC-band Blonde Acid Cult have a new video for “Shake It Loose”, directed by Lance Drake. Click here to see it. Also you can see them live coming up:
3.28 SCOPE ART N.Y V.I.P PARTY @ THE TRIBECA GRAND HOTEL, MADHATTAN, New York
4.1 THROWED WITH E-MARCE AND CHRIS DEVLIN OF SPANK ROCK, BOSTON, Massachusetts
4.4 […]

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March 14th, 2008

Music From Vintage Disney Films Live at St. Ann’s Warehouse

From St. Ann’s website:
St. Ann’s Warehouse Gala Benefit
Hal Willner’s
Stay Awake Live
The 20th Anniversary Concert
Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films
Featuring from the Original Cast Album
Terry Adams of NRBQ
Marshall Allen of Sun Ra Arkestra
Maud and Garth Hudson
Natalie Merchant
Suzanne Vega
and the Voice of Ken Nordine
also featuring
Steve Buscemi
David Byrne
Gavin Friday
Beth Orton
Richard Strange
Martha Wainwright

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March 13th, 2008

Charles Bissell Joins Okkervil River Who Are Touring With New Pornographers

Awesome band The Wrens (who really need to come out with a follow-up to 2003’s The Meadowlands) are donating their lead guitarist Charles Bissell to other awesome band Okkervil River. See, Brian Cassidy is having a baby and so will not be touring withe band anymore. That leaves Bissell to fill in on the band’s […]

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March 12th, 2008

Black Lips Played Bowery, Music Hall of Williamsburg

Atlanta’s Black Lips were in town to play a couple shows, including a free show at Other Music on Monday, along with the Bowery Ballroom later that night, and then they were at the Music Hall of Williamsburg last night, where I was in attendance.
They played with Quintron & Miss Pussycat who are highly entertaining. […]

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March 11th, 2008

J. Mascis’ Witch Coming to NYC

There’s Dinosaur Jr. and J. Mascis and the Fog, but there is also Witch, J. Mascis’ gloomier and doomier newer band. Their new album Paralyzed is coming our March 18 and they’ll be in Brooklyn on March 19 at Luna Lounge with Graveyard, a Swedish 70s throwback band. You can get tickets here.
Tags: Dinosaur Jr., […]

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March 10th, 2008

NY Times Reports on Brooklyn Scene

Following in MTV’s footsteps, The New York Times had a piece yesterday about the Brooklyn music scene. Check it out in full here, but here are some highlights:
A nice little recap of why music out of Brooklyn is cool:
“For rock bands this is a great time to be weird and independent in Brooklyn. After years […]

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March 10th, 2008

Bjork’s “Wanderlust” Screening at Deitch

The amazing video for Bjork’s latest single “Wanderlust,” directed by Encyclopedia Pictura, will be screened at the Deitch Projects in 3-D. Also shown will be a behind-the-scenes on how the video was created. Large scale mechanical puppets, detailed costumes, original concept paintings and sculptures, and behind the scenes 3-D photography will also be […]

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March 7th, 2008

Plug Awards Were Last Night

Last night I headed out west to Terminal 5 to check out the Plug Awards for independent music and media. Arcade Fire’s Neon Bible won album of the year, Radiohead won artist of the year, French DJ duo Justice won best new artist as well as best electronic/dance album of the year, which they accepted […]

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March 6th, 2008

Snoop Dogg in NYC Very Soon

Photo from www.buzzphoto.com 
Snoop Dogg is playing a show next Tuesday, March 11 at the Blender/Gramercy Theater. Tickets go on presale tonight at 5 p.m. and then on sale on Saturday at 10 a.m.
Snoop will also be signing autographs at Best Buy on 44th St. and 5th Ave. at 7 p.m. on March 12 to […]

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