10.20 Sonar Lounge Baltimore, MD
10.21 Starlight Lounge Philadelphia, PA
The Return to Cookie Mountain will be released in the United States on September 12th.
played two NYC shows in one day last week (Aug 3, 2006). That meant I got to hear them play the spectacular " " song three times. First they played it during their kick-ass (and packed) performance at Mercury Lounge.
Good thing it was kick-ass too because MTV's " " got it all on tape.
Later that night they played a free drunken afterparty-show at Pianos. I found out about the second show right before I got to Mercury Lounge where they also announced it to everyone.
It was at Pianos that I heard the song that made them famous again.
The third time I heard "Kissing Families" was later in the same Pianos set when Lexi Valentine from joined them on stage for an even more drunk, duet-version of the same song. Magneta Lane at Mercury Lounge earlier in the night.
They were the DJs at this Pianos afterparty.
Saturday: 7pm - Yeah Yeah Yeahs, 8:45 - Sonic Youth
"The sun had started to set, the heat of the day has lost its grip on the city, and thousands – 10, 12, 15 thousand — were filing peacefully into City Hall Plaza long before the headlining Yeah Yeah Yeahs were due to take the stage. All the makings of a perfect rock and roll evening were in place as Brooklyn’s TV on the Radio filled downtown with an eclectic mix of organic post-punk guitars and almost trance-y rhythms devoid of the electronic embellishments that are such of big part of the alterna-indie band’s studio sound.
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All YYY Sonic Youth tour dates below...
Fri 08.11.06 Brooklyn, NY McCarren Park Pool w/ Sonic Youth, Blood on the Wall
"The Avengers were a San Francisco based punk band in the first wave of American punk.
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..The Avengers opened for the Sex Pistols in San Francisco for their final show at Winterland, and their 4-song EP was produced by Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols.
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The CD "The American in Me" released in 2004, has 4 studio tracks, and 8 live tracks recorded at the Old Waldorf in 1979 . With the release of the new CD, vocalist has joined with original guitarist Greg Ingraham to bring the Avengers back to life, completing the line-up with bassist Joel Reader and drummer Luis Illades. The new group is sometimes called the "scAvengers", and is playing a few select shows on the West Coast and the UK.
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Penelope is calling the group the Avengers again, and they're leaving the West Coast and UK to play CBGB (during it's last month) on September 8th. Listen .
All dates below...
Aug 13th - Plainfield Station, Sacramento CA w/ the Death and Glory Festival
This past weekend I missed all at Joe's Pub in NYC...
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The Oldham brothers, sitting three in a row with acoustic guitars and matching white chinos, opened the show with a set of well-selected covers.Their three voices crisscrossed and harmonized on numbers like "Tell Old Bill," a chronologyblurring traditional song about the death of the title character.
Will's voice was nuanced and haunted, rising above the others to punctuate certain phrases; Ned's was full of creaking country flourishes.The two seemed to treat the show as a learning opportunity for young Paul, the baby of the group and the least experienced performer. He sounded flat and shy as his brothers pushed him out of the nest on a few solo verses.
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"This summer, will head out on a 14-date tour consisting primarily of free shows in various indie record stores." [ ]. That tour kicks off tonight at Atomic Records in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
In October November, BPB plays some regular shows w/ Shary Boyle. All dates below..
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The next (Labor Day) party is on September 3, 2006. Musical guest: !
: Who books the DJs? What was your favorite live performance? Dream lineup?
GEORGIE SEVILLE: My dream band— or Iggy.
JUSTINE D: We only do Mofos on specific dates so the bands have to work around our schedule and it's hard to get everything organized a few months in advance. I'm still working on getting the Strokes.
That will hopefully happen soon.
MICHAEL T: I like to hire people I can potentially have sex with. Justine is a bit more professional.
I thought Andrew W.K. was pretty hilarious.
Dream band: the Cramps!
Still no CBGB show, but there are a bunch in Europe and California. All Cramps tour dates below.
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"played" . I managed to catch their 2am "performance" at The Annex on Friday night (Aug 4, 2006). By "performance", I mean two guys standing behind a DJ booth pumping their fists in the air.
Sometimes one of them moved a knob while the other one aimed a spotlight at the crowd. To their left was a dude in a bear mask strumming a guitar. At first I thought it wasn't even plugged in, but then decided the bear WAS really playing, though barely.
The Teddybears might have some fancy friends and work some magic in the studio, but at The Annex on Friday night I couldn't help but feel like a participant in some major-label marketing scheme injected right into the middle of (I know, ). Oh yeah, there was a video screen in the background, but I could barely see it through all the smoke.
At least the Fat Baby show the night before (Aug 3, 2006) was billed as a listening party (well sort of --- an industry-only "DJ Multimedia performance").
I wasn't there, but one anonymous "industry insider" was, and they actually liked it. Here's their story..
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Listening parties: an industry standard in which labels attempt to get writers, tastemakers and influencers out to hear their newest bands.
In the best case scenario, you get to leave work early to see the band perform live, or they come play a special show in your office. The worst case scenario is a dj playing the cd on repeat for three hours while you suck down free beer and lazily network. More often then not, it's the latter, and you leave questioning why you rushed over from work to see the same people you always do, to listen to a record you have had for two months.
The details of the party were sketchy at best.
The main members of the band were there, they were going to be doing some performance, but to what capacity remained elusive. When I arrived, I saw a fog machine, vocoders and massive cdjs being set up, I knew we were all in for something special.
The members of the band have been in the states the last two weeks promoting the record.
As their manager explained to me, they were unable to bring the entire band over, so they decided to innovate.
Patrick Teddybear manned the wheels of steel and played the record straight through. As an extra flourish he laid over a Hot Chip worthy amount of fx, vocoder and other delicious beeps and bloops.
Jocke Teddybear, who is also in The Ceasers, danced with manic glee to every track, while banging along with a tambourine and manning the fog machine. While all this was happening upstairs, Klas Teddybear wandered around downstairs with a huge Teddybear's mask, drinking white wine with a very long straw.
While this was entertaining, what put it over the top were the visuals.
Not content with just being a band, the boys from the Teddybears are also visual artists and have created a visual loop that takes classic movies (Spinal Tap, Aliens, Scarface, etc) and placed their iconic Teddybear head on the main characters. It could have been the whiskey and gingers, but seeing the Queen Alien battle a Teddybear, or a Teddybear gundown wannabe drug lords, made the entire night incredibly enjoyable. It was great to look around the room and see the usually apathetic industry crowd craning their neck to see a giant Teddybear pull a tin foil wrapped cucumber our of its pants.
Overall, the night was great. The new record is fantastic and if every band could promote and get into these potentially boring events as much as The Teddybears did, then listening parties could take on a whole new attitude.
10-05 Cleveland, OH - House of Blues
10-08 Buffalo, NY - Center for the Arts
10-10 Philadelphia, PA - Theatre of Living Arts
10-14 Northampton, MA - Academy of Music
10-15 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
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He's gonna post about Hip Hop...
Brooklyn may not be the borough that birthed Hip Hop, but it is the borough that perfected Hip Hop. Hip Hop is not very vegan - regardless, BV brings you the weekly Hip Hop News Round Up courtesy of of the not in any way Hip Hop related NYC band the .
Outkast's forthcoming album/soundtrack 'Idlewild' to be released December 6th.
First single is "Idlewild Blue" for which the video already has appeared on major channels and YouTube (since removed). Potential second single "Hollywood Divorce", not about the group's alleged breakup, featuring Snoop Dogg and Lil' Wayne - leaked. Get it .
Southern Rap Legend Scarface, formerly of Geto Boys, announces that after 20 years he will no longer release any more solo albums. In addition to guest spots, he will now focus more on production (via ). We shall see about that.
Those rappers and their retirements. *cough*Jay-Z*cough*
Mos Def surprises everyone by announcing the imminent release of an album "Tru3 Magic" on Geffen Records (September 26th) (via ). MP3 of "Boogie Man" to be found .
It better be closer to his brilliant debut "Black On Both Sides" than to his sophomore ehhh "The New Danger". Or else!
DJ Premier, Hip Hop legend and creator of the definite gritty New York City sound, produces half of Christina Aguilera's new album "Back To Basics" including the uncreatively titled, but excellent "Still Dirrty".
Download it .
Killer Mike stands up and raps with substance in the tradition of Ice Cube in the early 1990's (when he still was the best rapper in the world). On "That's Right", he speaks on some matters of social relevance including role models, the Bush family, racism, the responsibilities of successful African Americans to their community, and more.
Download it . (off his latest mixtape "I Pledge Allegiance")
And finally in the WTF category - Jackass's very own Steve-O nearly loses his life by proclaiming he is the new Ol' Dirty Bastard and proceeding to pull out Lil' Steve-O while on-stage with the entire Wu-Tang Clan during an Ol' Dirty Bastard Tribute, and in the presence of ODB's mother. Partial video .
We want to stop the days when the West Side of Manhattan is more like the Wild West."
"Now, very soon we will have some of the toughest laws in the entire country and WE WILL MAKE SURE OUR KIDS IN OUR CITY ARE COMPLETELY SAFE when they enjoy what our city is known for, its nightlife," said Queens City Councilman Peter Vallone.
"We will work with the City Council to draft legislation that will increase the use of technology to root out underage drinking, increase the use of security cameras and hold establishments accountable when they break the law," the mayor's chief spokesman, Stuart Loeser, said in a written statement.
Ms. Quinn dismissed the privacy implications of the plan. "Cameras at places of public assembly are commoplace now," she said, "I don't believe there is any expectation of privacy as it relates to going to a club.
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Wilco's is appearing at the Modern Drummer Festival in Newark, NJ on September 16th ( Death Cab's Jason McGerr, Stewart Copeland, and others) . Two days later Glenn starts a short tour with Wilco's at Lincoln Center in NYC. It also doubles as the first show in .
Jenny Lin and Elliott Sharp are also on that bill. All Glenn and Nels dates below..
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Sep-16 Newark, NJ Modern Drummer Festival
Sep-18 New York, NY Wordless Music Series at Lincoln Center w/Jenny Lin
Sep-20 Washington, DC The Black Cat w/Lambchop
Sep-22 Columbus, OH Wexner Center for the Arts
Sep-23 Lexington, KY Recital Hall at the Singletary Center for the Arts
"I just got word that , the legendary English black metal masters, have had to cancel their entire North American tour due to “immigration problems,” which I’m guessing means someone somewhere decided that North America just couldn’t handle it, which- to be fair- is probably true." [ ]
The first date was supposed to be August 13th at Irving Plaza in NYC.
All cancelled dates below...
Aug. 20 - Chicago, IL @ House of Blues
Aug. 25 - Hollywood, CA @ House of Blues
Missouri's Foundry Field Recordings are a four-piece that play sweet shoegazing guitar pop that sounds like Grandaddy (a lot) meets Nada Surf meets Flaming Lips at their most normal.
These are really good lo-fi songs, featuring lyrics full of sci-fi stuff, like robots, clones, the future, technology etc. [ ]
Jackson menitoned , and I've been digging (Prompts/Miscues) too (most of it anyway). it.
The MP3 above is from it, plus there's and more MP3s and even and .
The band is touring as we speak and they're gonna play 3 NY shows - one in Long Island, , and one in Manhattan. The Manhattan one is and and also features and on the bill - (I hear Jackson might be DJing too).
All dates below...
2006-08-08 WUTK (in-studio) Knoxville, TN
2006-08-08 WRVU (in-studio) Nashville, TN
"With his new album currently scheduled to drop in September, is officially back in action. The Outsider, his most experimental album to date, should hit stores on September 12 via Universal. With a new album also comes a North American tour, kicking off next month.
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He hits Webster Hall on October 17th. All dates below..
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09.20.
06 - Seattle, WA (Showbox Theatre)
* There's a song off the latest Vitalic 12" called Bells. Friend and DJ Laz Casanova says, "Bells is a fast paced heavy distorted track (about 137 bpm) with opera-esque vocals by Linda Lamb that actually brings a decent balance to the song. Sticking true to its name the track does feature bells.
Not entirely crazy about this one but its high energy can probably rock the right crowd." [ ]
* New Blood Brothers tracks leaked. Their album entitled Young Machetes is due for release in the fall and was produced by John Goodmanson, (Blonde Redhead) and Guy Picciotto (Fugazi).
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* Fans of Q And Not U should definitely check out John Davis' new band Georgie James. Davis acts alongside friend Laura Burhenn, to create music that could take Ian Mackaye/Amy Farina's The Evens down! [ ]
* One band who I think deserves more attention is Toronto's Tangiers (French Kiss).
I recently found some CBC Radio 3 Sessions (from 2 years ago) that are great. [ ]
* One of my favorite album's of this year, (so far) is Souls She Said's As Templar Nites (Dim Mak). It features singer Joe Cardamone and guitarist Don Devore of The Icarus Line.
Imagine The Icarus Line becoming some sort of schizophrenic, distorted, yet somewhat happy dance projecy. [ ]
Nov. 17: West Hollywood, Calif.
(House of Blues)
Nov. 18: San Diego (House of Blues)
Nov. 19: Anaheim, Calif.
(House of Blues)
are touring "small and mid-size venues" across the U.S. this Fall.
The NYC date is at on October 21st:
The Grand Ballroom at Manhattan Center Studios blends elegant ambiance with cutting edge modern technology. With a capacity of 1,200 for theater-style seating and 550 for seated dinners, this 10,000 square foot space is perfect for a theatrical production or formal banquet.
starts today (thx all!
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9/28/2006 - Shrine Auditorium and Expo Center Los Angeles,CA 8/8/2006 3:00:00 PM
Oct.
11: Milwaukee (the Rave)
Oct. 13: Iowa City, Iowa (University of Iowa)
Oct. 20: San Francisco (Grand Ballroom)
:You recently in New York.
Were you nervous?
: Only one of us had ever been to New York before. It was really hard to focus on the music, and not be tempted to (pause) go outside.
Tokyo Police Club are back TONIGHT (August 7, 2006) @ Pianos. Then they're back again to play a free show at on August 25th and then they're back again to open for at Warsaw in Brooklyn on October 18th. They're also touring with .
All dates below...
8/25/2006 South Street Seaport, NYC (w/ Ted Leo)
Of course it's cool to close your venue with friends, and I'm sure there will be plenty of guest appearances, but the now-official lineup for 's last three days ( ) just seems pretty boring. Jesse Malin and Murphy's Law play NYC all the time. broke up in 2005.
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15 - Banana Fish Zero (REUNION), Prince Hal's new band The Rabbits, Derek Jenkins
- Murphy's Law, Two Man Advantage, Suicide King
ALSO: There's a for (Furious George) at Continental on August 20th. There was .
, the only scheduled concert remaining at is the show tomorrow night (July 8, 2006).
The says the same thing. is now at Hiro Ballroom, and had a September 16th date at Avalon, but her tour was cancelled.
Rumors have started that the club is for sale and/or closing.
just says "new website coming soon."
Clear Channel at Avalon at the beginning of 2006. In that short amount of time: for ticket sales, Teddy Thompson Glenn Kotche , and the club was shut down causing (and maybe others).
The above picture is from the The Liars show @ Warsaw in Brooklyn on June 24th because I couldn't really find a picture of the show they played at Avalon on June 26th.
are going on tour with this Fall.
November 12th -- New York, New York - Irving Plaza
All dates below.
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10/10 - New York, NY - Irving Plaza (new)
10/11 - Brooklyn, NY - Warsaw
on sale.
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