2011: A pretty damn crazy year for Garage Punk in NYC. Our roundup covers the big news, venues opening & closing, Norton’s 25th anniversary, all of our local bands’ record releases PLUS The Top 10 Best Shows of The Year!
Time Gone Batty
Hey kids! Happy weekend, and Congratulations on surviving October! You deserve a cookie! OR a slap on the bum! Hope you’re well rested because the fun don’t stop for nobody: we’ve got a fully stocked cabinet of fun this weekend, and of course NEXT week is the HUGE 25th Anniversay Norton Records Blowout (which we [...]
BANANAS! Jake Noodles on Don Pedro
HURRAH! A new issue of Bananas, New York’s own garage punk zine, is out this Thursday, October 27th. If you’re not familiar, Bananas is a free, more-or-less quarterly print zine that covers everything that’s cool- current garage rock, punk and psych bands from New York and everywhere else, the golden age of porn (really!), good [...]
Candied Mucous Jellybabies
So how’s everyone’s sanity and livers holding up? CMJ week is in it’s final throes, and whether you think it’s bullshit or whether you crowded into a packed room to see your favorite band or attended any one of dozens of “anti” parties - it doesn’t matter because it’s bigger than you! Like Christianity [...]
Jekyll’s Weekend Brunch Funeral
Well ALRIGHT then! Another weekend of rock and soul madness is upon us, and not a minute or day too soon! I know you, rider: You’ve been back in that fall groove, that back to school move, trying to get serious and shit, but inside you, all Mr. Hyde like , you’ve been dying to [...]
FALL IN
A crisp chill in the air…a leather jacket zipped just to the chin…the strappy sandal replaced with the leather boot…the switch from mojitos to bourbon…can you feel it? FALL is IN, you mothers! And as predictable as magical ponies leaping to their deaths from a rocky New England cliff on the blood harvest moon, rock [...]
Memoirs from the Panic Room
Why HELLO! And welcome to the weekend! Anything disastrous going on? Anything? Of course not, you spineless troglodytes! Allow me to present you with the choice happenings for the rockers, rollers and strollers with nary an earthquake nor hurricane quip or pun. Seriously, enough with the Armageddon talk, already. Wake me when the real [...]
