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Music Snow, Sex and Fujiya & Miyagi

January 25, 2012 - 10:36 am

Over here on the East Coast, it’s been a relatively mild winter for NYC so far, until the wee hours of last Saturday morning when prayers were answered. It’s almost February and not a lick of snow! My morning commutes have been so ice-free and I haven’t once slipped and broken my ass or had a passing bus spray me with foul brown toxic slush! With the Giants doing so well, people have run out of things to complain about until we finally got a nice layer of clean white snow that was properly turned into said foul brown toxic slush by early Saturday evening.

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Fashion Gallery Chasing Gin with Fashion (and Cupcakes) at FNO

September 23, 2011 - 10:55 am

Fashion’s Night Out in NYC is an annual excuse to drop everything you’re doing, put on your absolute FINEST garb and go discover whats gonna be good in fashion for the next year while sipping cocktails and snacking on treats. While the masses forced their way through crowds and broke their heels on the cobblestones of the main streets in Soho, I was lucky enough to wiggle my way into the FNO afterparty at Red Bull Space. Since when did FNO become more about chasing free drinks than appreciating good fashion? Let’s get back to the roots, ya’ll.

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Art Featured Gallery Molly Crabapple Is My New Hero

August 8, 2011 - 11:59 am

Molly Crabapple is my new hero. When I emailed her to set up some time for me to meet her and watch her in action, she replied, “I’m pretty much ALWAYS working.” It’s true. You’d need to hire an assistant just to keep up with this girl. With this much success at age 27, its hard not to wonder how she got to this point.

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Gallery Music #justsayin: Northside Fest Day 4

June 23, 2011 - 2:39 pm

It was Sunday afternoon and I set out to enjoy the last of the Northside Festival riches. Four days of music and art were drawing to a close and I was content with the events of the weekend. I fought my way through crowds, rubbed shoulders with indie music celebs, I saw more shows in four days than I have since SXSW and I’ve got a list of EP’s to download.

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Gallery Music Kids, WAVVES, Blood and GBV: Northside Festival Day 3

June 21, 2011 - 5:34 pm

Surfer Blood opened for WAVVES who opened for Guided by Voices during Saturdays day shows at McCarren Park.

Most people in attendance were there to see Guided by Voices. I know this because the demographics were much more something you’d expect to see in Williamsburg’s southern neighbor, Park Slope; lots of old dudes and so, so many children. I totally wish I was one of those babies at music festivals with the hot pink ear protectors on my head and I bet if, god forbid, I ever birth such a thing I’m gonna drag it along with me. Maybe thats what outside day shows are for. Bring your kid to a music festival during the day and everyone will glance over and be like, ‘OMG, isnt that rocker kid so cute. And look at his mother! I hope I have that many tattoos by the time I’m a parent.’ Bring your kid to a bar at 1 AM and you’re likely to get picked up by social services.

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Gallery Music Double Rainbow: Day 2 Northside Fest

June 20, 2011 - 12:29 pm

It was day two of Northside Fest in Williamsburg and thunderstorms threatened to shut the main event down. But just before Yellow Ostrich went on the Steve Madden stage in McCarren Park, the clouds cleared and a double rainbow stretched over the Manhattan skyline, or at least that’s what I heard via Twitter. I had taken cover in a nearby bar and made it just in time to see the end of Sharon Van Etten as she played to a sparse, rain drenched crowd. The rest of Williamsburg poured in shortly thereafter, anxiously awaiting to see Beirut. The band had been relatively quiet since 2007 but with their release of The Rip Tide in August 2011, momentum picked up and they became a group everyone was talking about again.

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Gallery Music Northside Festival: Brooklyn’s Best Day 1

June 17, 2011 - 3:36 pm

It was the opening day of the third annual Northside Festival in Brooklyn and at every step of the way I couldn’t help but make SXSW comparisons. First, there was free beer at the press badge pickup and I was off to a great start. The festival is very definitely music heavy but is also featuring film and ‘Ideas’ showcases.

I saw a few shorts by NYC filmmakers at indieScreen, a beautifully designed small theatre three blocks from my house that I didn’t even know existed, before heading over to The Music Hall of Williamsburg to catch Gordon Voidwell and Theophilus London at the Northside Festival Opening Party. I have to say that Gordon Voidwell stole the show. That voice! Their style! The girl on the keys!

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Gallery Music Coldwave is Coming

May 2, 2011 - 10:44 am

There is a new-old music trend a-brewing and its headquartered (surprise!) in the underground clubs and venues of New York City.

Coldwave is a term traditionally used to describe a group of European post-punk psychedelic experimental bands in the late 70’s and 80’s that you’ve probably never heard of. Taking notes from the Cure, Joy Division and Siouxsie and The Banshees, Coldwave draws inspiration from punk and goth styles and then chills everything out a whole lot. Think multi-layered analog synths, deadpan vocals and lyrics that would bring yo mama to tears and you’ve got the idea.

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Gallery Music Oh Land Brings it “Home”

April 7, 2011 - 11:04 am

Danish electro-pop singer and songwriter Nanna Øland Fabricius, AKA Oh Land, was the topic of much buzzing conversation at this years SXSW. She played a handful of shows during the festival and then turned around and played a four night residency at NYC’s Charles Bank Gallery in Soho in tandem with an art installation by artist Eske Kath.

Backed by a string quartet, keyboardist and drummer, Oh Land performed a thirty minute set to a packed gallery on a stage surrounded by art similar to what appears on her album cover. The set was obviously a collaboration between the two Danes– Oh Land’s characteristic white balloons made an appearance (they are the backdrop for her video ‘Wolf & I’) but were modified with projections of faces, planets, ballet dancers (Oh Land used to dance before an injury ended her career) and other peculiar images.

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Music The Majestic Mister Heavenly

March 25, 2011 - 8:13 am

Lets define the term “Supergroup”. Webster defines it very narrowly as “A rock group made up of prominent former members of other rock groups; also an extremely successful rock group.”

This definition would cover three of Mister Heavenly’s four members – Honus Honus of Man Man on keys and vocals, Nicholas Thorburn of Unicorns and Islands on vocals and guitar while Modest Mouse drummer Joe Plummer keeps time.

But how to place our fourth member? Did anyone even know he could play instruments? I guess he sang a little in Juno… Yes, thats right. Actor Michael Cera has picked up a bass and is touring with some of the most talented musicians alive.

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