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Big Apple Music Scene

November 15th, 2007

Ingrid Michaelson @ The Knitting Factory

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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November 7th, 2007

A Place to Bury Strangers

Touted as the “loudest band in New York” A Place to Bury Strangers is a band you should check out.
This rock/psychedelic/experimental threesome is generating a good deal of hype.  Even allmusic.com has taken notice.
Here’s what they have to say,
“The sonically overdriven sound they’ve accomplished is no clumsy accident, but a carefully cultivated and well-maintained entity […]

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November 3rd, 2007

Venue Review: Bowery Ballroom

Located at 6 Delancey Street in the southern borough of Manhattan is The Bowery Ballroom. The structure was built just before the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and stood vacant until the end of WWII, when it became a high-end retail store.
It wasn’t until 1997 that it was converted into a music venue. […]

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