Happy Weekend, children! Looky Look: the month is up, the weather is apocalpytically warm, and you are jonesing for trouble! Here’s where that’s at: Friday February 24th The clear pick for live show of the night is at the one true mecca of rock and roll in Bushwick (and only place I know that serves [...]
Runaway Runway Weekend, or HATE Coutre
What’s up, city! The weekend is here. Call your mom! (Make sure your gin rage calms down a bit first, though!) I’d make some quip about Fashion Week but I doubt anyone (who reads this blog) cares too much. You shop at Beacon’s Closet/The Salvation Army/The Dumpster outside C-Town, and let’s be real, YOUR idea [...]
Friday the 13th Part XIII: Jason Takes the BQE
Have you ever walked under a ladder cradling a black cat with an open umbrella in your other hand and a dirty rabbit’s foot in your back pocket? Have you ever stepped on a crack on the sidewalk while whistling at night? Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale fluorescent lights of [...]
A Helping Hand For The Good Guy
As most of you have probably already heard, our town’s own DJ extraordinaire and nightlife mainstay Jonathan Toubin was the victim of an absolute freak accident, having been seriously injured when an out of control taxi cab plowed through the wall of the hotel he was staying in in Portland OR where he was on [...]
It’s Only Real if you Touch It
WELL THEN! Happy Friday, New York City! How are we going to destroy our minds this weekend? Family Circus comic reading marathon? Windex mouthwash? Sasquatch hunting parties? Wisdom tooth extractions? Mall Santa royal rumble? Forget all that noise. How about a tall heaping glass of rock and roll? (TM and copyright Rico) Friday December 2nd [...]
Norton’s 25th Anniversary: Day 2! Plus Other Stuff that Reminds You Why You Live Here
Holy fuck I am still SO WASTED and I don’t even remember how I got home from The Bell House last night. I am lucky to be alive and surely owe My Sweet Satan a couple of favors. Fuck. FUCK. Where’s my camera? WHERE’S MY MIND? Those of you who were there, you know. [...]
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 [...]
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 -Â it doesn’t matter because it’s bigger than you! Like Christianity [...]
HOBOPUNK SEXCORE
What’s up, Witches! We’ve powered through and survived yet another week in Hooverville. You deserve a cookie…or at the very least a rock and roll night out. What do you say, a little levity with your ennui? Friday October 7th In case you missed them when they played last month (or if you didn’t catch [...]
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 [...]
