It’s finally happened. February is over, thank the gods, and March has arrived– with the usual long tail of bands pulled through town by Austin’s SXSW festival. There’s really too much to do this weekend so the choices will be hard but persevere, friends, and thou shalt find the getdown. Tonight we have a relatively [...]
Thursday & Friday Action In The Big Ol’ City
Cheetah Chrome is at Don Hill’s tonight.Some of the usual suspects and some very unusual visitors on the events calendar should liven up your weekend here in new yak this weekend. Tonight we’ve got a 6(?!) band bill at Don Hill’s in Manhattan featuring Cheetah Chrome (ex-Dead Boys) and the Blackhearts, the Martinets and some [...]
Mercury Lounge Review: Pierced Arrows Still Got It!
Oregon’s Pierced Arrows played Mercury Lounge Wednesday night.Let me quickly add to Blair’s post by saying that tonight’s Pierced Arrows show at Maxwell’s is recommended. Wednesday’s show at Mercury Lounge was fantastic… I was definitely surprised that the band are in top form, both of their voices are on, the new drummer is great, overall [...]
Lotsa Action This Friday in NJ & NY
the following is from Blair (sans blogging access today):NJ’s Holmes support Pierced Arrows at Maxwell’s this Friday night.You’ve already heard about Pierced Arrows in an earlier post, but tomorrow night (Friday the 17th), they’ll be at Maxwell’s in the Mile-Square City aka Hoboken, NJ. Starting things off around 9:30 or so will be long-time NJ [...]
CMJ Action (Hype?) Comes Early This Year
The Dirtbombs play 3 shows in NY & NJ this week.October is speeding up quick… so much happening this week, I thought we’d have a quick look at midweek action. It seems like CMJ (Oct. 21-25) starts earlier every year but in reality, it’s starting later than last year. Actually it’s both– the heavily hyped [...]
