Saturday, 22nd November – It looks like it’s going to be a big, big show over at the space formally known as Asterisk. Five bands, two DJs, and the unveiling of the venues brand new name! Honestly, the bands playing this show are really fantastic. You’d be a fool to miss this show. Headlining are [...]
Thank Ganesh It’s Friday!
Friday, November 7, at Asterisk – The British are coming! The British are coming! Tomorrow night at Asterisk you’ve got the chance to see four truly great bands, two being from the UK. The headliners, Nightingales, hail from an extra funny speaking part of the UK and they play this insanely great style of Rock’N’Roll [...]
New compilation out with some great New York bands on it!WILD ABOUT JENKEM!10 tracks by 10 of America’s sexiest bands, all about jenkem. For those of you that don’t know what jenkem is, let me explain. It’s a drug popular in extremely poor places in Africa.Step 1) You take a bottle.Step 2) You shit and [...]
The Blue Van
In the Summer of ’04, The Blue Van – from Denmark – spent a few months living in NYC, playing a few gigs a week, at the very least, including weekly residencies at clubs in both Manhattan and Brooklyn. The first time I saw them was at one of the ones they did at the [...]
Godfather of Rap Dies!
RIP Rudy Ray Moore!March 17, 1937 – October 19, 2008 Moore died Sunday of complications with diabetes. He was 81 years old.I encourage everyone to toss on one of his records or pop in one of his films in honor of him.Since the ’60s he’s been inspiring artists of all types, especially comedians, writers, and [...]
Or, if you’re in NJ…
For those of you Jersey-bound this Saturday night (October 4th), I recommend heading down to Asbury Lanes for Shaw ‘Nuff, The Von Ghouls, and The Coffin Daggers. Shaw ‘Nuff are a confabulation of members of various other area groups and were originally formed as a tribute to the then-recently deceased Greg Shaw (Bomp/Voxx Records, and [...]
October Starts with Multiple Blasts!
The Above play Saturday night at 9 o’clock at Bowery Ballroom It’s felt like the last two weekends were a little slow in the excitement area, but that’s about to change this weekend where there’s so much to do, it’s going to be hard to see everything that’s awesome… as you can tell on GPNYC’s show [...]
