Love, American Style Here we are, rolling towards this gorgeous, four day, Fourth of July weekend, where many will celebrate liberty and the pursuit of drinking yourselves blind, gorging on grilled meat products or soy based products designed to look like said meat, and/or blowing your thumbs off with loud incendiaries – a.K.a: FREEDOM FRIES. [...]
Sunday is a good day to relax. Don’t.
Above: Born Loose plays Club Europa. Below: Born Loose plays Club Europa and other music news. Sunday Tonight! DJ Dave The Spazz and Andy Maltz spin the sounds of the 50s and 60s, soul, garage, and rarities over at Union Pool. Also on the agenda, Soul Sunday at the Manhattan Inn. It starts with The [...]
Here Comes the Summer
Yep, it’s that shirt-sticking-to-your-back feeling you’ve all been waiting for. Don’t have an AC? Then suffer punk-o! At least we don’t have millions of gallons of oil off our beaches! Speaking of disasters, L (for Loser) Magazine’s ‘curated music festival’ kicked off yesterday in Williamsburg and Greenpoint. They have their own name for it, but [...]
Hot Tramp, I Love You So
Everybody Dance Now… If I were to quote a C&C Music Factory song, would you hold it against me? Would you hold it against me like you held your sweaty body against mine, underneath the Magnolia tree on that hot Savannah night so long ago? REALLY ? You mean it? COOL, I love you…ahem… GONNA [...]
Sunday musta mugged Saturday and stole its shows.
A show in Queens?What the hell? Sunday Apparently there is a bar in Long Island City called LIC Bar and they have shows there. Who knew? Anyway, today at 5pm Humboldt Fog and Madam Robot and the Lust Brigade grace their (stage? patio? parking lot?) No cover! Later (meaning 6pm) an indoor beach party at [...]
Friday Frontloaded, Saturday Stickin’ It
photo copyright Anna AnabolicYep, that thing I’ve been telling you about? Where there’s tons and tons of things to do Friday night and only a handful of things to do Saturday? Yeah, that’s happening again. The good news is that those few things on Saturday are pretty kickin’ and Marcus will have some decent stuff [...]
The Pterodactyls Are Coming! The Minotaur Is Here!
Harry, You’re a Beast. Welcome to the hot and heady days of bread, circuses and mermen! Everybody’s working towards the weekend (and what a weekend we’ve got ahead of us, between various sundry shows, HullabooTASTIC shindigs, and Velvet commandeered nautical parades) but lest the inner hedonist in us all forget, there’s tons to do between [...]
Go stimulate the economy whydoncha?
No hurry, but you might want to check this out. Sunday Today we have not one but two record fairs for you. Three if you count the Teels’ garage sale (at the corner of Eagle and Manhattan in Greenpoint, the only place in the USA to pick up the new Chicken Snake LP, no cover [...]
Choose Wisely Young Skywalkers
Yep, it’s another one of those weekends. The kind where you’re asked to choose between tons of different good options…… on Friday. On Saturday, you’ll have very little choice so be a good little person and just go to Don Pedro. TONIGHT (Friday): Where to begin? Let’s kick it off with the ‘big name’ out [...]
With Electric Lights Flashing Very Fast
I have looked into the eye of Horus. He told me to build a spaceship and fill it with corn dogs. I believed him. The spaceship didn’t work and I’m stuck with worthless meat on a stick. That’s what she would never say. Wednesday June 9th Oh CopyCat, you keep on keeping on with your [...]
