Montreal’s Nymphets play Matchless in Brooklyn Friday.Nothing will prevent NYC’s garage punkers from drinking, partying, puking and rocking this week/end. It’s awful outside but there IS reason not to lock yourself in your room until March, starting withtonight’s Anabolics show at Otto’s Shrunken Head. It’s part of a series (every other week?) called Copycats in [...]
HOT ACTION FOR A (RELATIVELY) BALMY WEEKEND!
Make plans to go out tomorrow night New York– Summer is back! That’s right, it’s going to be 44 whole degrees on Friday– so break out the bermuda shorts! Thankfully there’s plenty of hot live action this weekend, especially tomorrow for which we have an astounding 10 events listed on the garage show calendar. FRIDAY [...]
Insert Change Pun Here
OK! If you’re reading this, you’re probably tired of wall-to-wall coverage of goings on in DC. You’re also probably ready to PARTY, and boy, have we got the week for you! Tonight @ Matchless in Greenpoint, the Hot Dog! DJs promise sets of songs themed to say goodbye to Bush and hello to Hussein Obama [...]
COLD HANDS… WARM FEET!
It may only be getting up to a high of 18 F today, but there are so many great things happening this weekend, it’s no excuse to stay at home. Consider the 2008 hangover over. Bring on the 2009 Hangover! Kicking it off with live shows, we’ve got longtime L.E.S. punks the Choke at Don [...]
CRAZY, CRAZY, CRAZY!
Philadelphia’s Tough Shits play Lit Lounge tonight with the StalkersAfter a couple of weeks of relative doldrums since New Years, New Yak is back in the swing of things with a ton of events this week. So much so, this post is only going to cover Tuesday through Thursday action! First off tonight we have [...]
Sunday Night w/the Lost Crusaders
Yep…For those that didn’t already know, Mr. Michael Chandler of The Raunch Hands will be appearing at the Lovin’ Cup (aka the Cameo) in Brooklyn this Sunday night, January 11th. He is joined by many notable names on this holy mission. You can hear stuff by the Lost Crusaders in my first episode of the [...]
LATE BREAKERS! NYC Weekend Action
OK there’s still not much going on this week, especially compared with next week, but here are a few late suggestions for the weekend: Tonight: Jumpy & Mic-Lo spin 60′s garage & stuff @ The Dressing Room in L.E.S. Also in the city is New York Night Train‘s Jonathan Toubin with his 60′s night at [...]
Amazing New Blog Wakes Up Slow Week for Good Music In NYC!
Kind of a slow week here in NYC for music, just 7 days after New Years, but let me highlight a couple of live shows going down this week plus some news of our own! First off, tonight we’ve got two late-announced shows: Brooklyn’s Ex Humans (ex-Carbonas) @ The Charleston and New Jersey’s Sarim-fronted-and-excellent Liquor [...]
Knitting Factory To Open in Williamsburg in May 2009
HAPPY NEW YEAR! Oh and looks like we have a date for the new Knitting Factory. No word yet on how the space inside the old Luna Lounge on Metropolitan Ave will be reorganized. NYTimes article here: Out With The Knit SHIMMY
