You ever have one of those weekends when you’re just having so much fun and getting so little sleep and you get exhausted and can’t manage to “fulfill” your “responsibilities” like updating that blog “you”* help out with and you really don’t want to do it but you feel like you’d be letting your friends [...]
You cannot read this blog.
A friend of mine tells me that GaragePunkNYC is blocked by the web filtering software at his workplace due to “sexual content”. Yes, really. Personally, I blame Shimmy’s profile photo. For those of you who have all of the necessary permissions and permits to read this blog, hello! I cannot tell you what the weather [...]
So, who’s full?
Hamburgers, ribs, hot dogs, nachos, fried chicken, tacos, pizza, corn dogs, bratwurst, tamales, potato chips, roast beef sandwiches with potato chips in them, cole slaw, macaroni and cheese, funyuns, freetos, cheetos, coca cola, pepsi cola, rc cola, shasta, fresca, black-and-white milkshakes, ice cream, apple pie, twinkies, whipped cream and/or cool whip on those last three, [...]
It’s Memorial Day. Go dance with our troops.
Fleet week ends today. Last chance to join the mile deep club! Just find ‘yerself a cute submarine commander and be sure to pack yer penicillin… Monday There’s a free party tonight at The Bowery Electric featuring the The Choke‘s punked-up garage and soul and the ballsy rock-n-roll of Tall Black Girls. It looks like [...]
What’s the Deal with Knitting Factory?!
As we mentioned many months ago, Knitting Factory is set to re-open as a Williamsburg club on the site of the failed Luna Lounge, having left its Manhattan perch of many years. And so we’re surprised to see a flyer for tonight’s “Deli Magazine” party listing, including local British Invasion junkies the Beat Rats, in [...]
Easter Weekend in New York
I hope y’all have today off ‘cuz I don’t and SOMEbody ought to be having a good time. Thankfully, there’s plenty of ways to forget to remember to forget this weekend… Tonight we’ve got the 1 year anniversary of the Barf-o-Rama dj party @ K&M Bar featuring Miss January 1963, Dylan “Otto” Bahn and Miss [...]
Celebrating the End of February in New York!
I don’t know about you, but February has been tough for me this year, so I’m more than glad to see it pass. Lots of ways to celebrate the coming Spring (3 more weeks of Winter left?), starting tonight:FRIDAYDJ GigsMelissa-Anne returns to Legion in Williamsburg with her Chickaboom! DJ night. Special Guest this month are [...]
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 [...]
Garage Punk Videos for a Rainy Day
John Barrett’s Bass Drum of Death in Brooklyn.A rainy day like this seems a great opportunity to waste some time watching youtube clips… I took a look recently at the videos of garage punk shows I’ve been posting to youtube for almost a year now and did a little ranking… here are the results, Letterman-style: [...]
