Chestnuts roasting in an oil drum fire, Jack Frost mugging you for your iPhone…though it is said, many times, many ways, it’s friggin’ cold outside, baby!!!!! Feel that Krispy Kringle chill in the air as we stomp through the various winter holidays of your particular denomination. In celebration of my favorite (the PAGAN), let’s us count the ways we can wantonly occupy ourselves in pursuit of high fun and rock and roll pleasure on these short days and long dark nights over the next couple…
Jive As…a Turkey. Stuffed as a Boar.
Thanksgiving in NYC is so COOOOOOL because the city turns abandoned and quiet like Zombieland and you can do what you WANT! Gather up all your ex-pat friends, your Thanksgiving orphans and your too-broke-for-Amtrak brethren, throw open the doors of your hearth and have yourself a FEAST for FREAKS! Roasted turkey with Four-Loko glaze and instant magic mushroom potatoes, anyone?
Le Weekender
There are weekends and there are weekenders. These are the kinds of nights that all true warriors strive for. These are the nights we throw in the faces of haters and fakers who dare to tell you rock and roll, nay, that even FUN itself, is dead in New York City.
The Homecoming Queen of Krypton 2010
Great Caesar’s Ghost, did this month fly by or what? So many great shows and dance parties, a billion Virgo birthdays, a tornado or three and weather that just won’t let summer go…It’s like homecoming on Planet Krypton, just before the big boom-boom…Let’s dive headfirst and blindly into the future by stepping out into these last couple of nights of the month. The good is as plentiful as the harvest…
Another three-day weekend
This weeks’ picture is in honor of Sunday, the day which is somehow both part of the weekend and not part of the weekend (though this weekend it is definitely part of the weekend!) Sunday Let us begin at the beginning, which is historically 5pm on Sundays. It happens that way when everyone you know [...]
Eskimo Punk
In Search Of: Dingleberries Eskimo Punk – see that? I made that. New genre. Call Pitchfork. Brrrrrrrrrrrr! Hey, I heard there’s a snow storm. Did you hear about that? The lady on the news is terrified. Did you get enough milk and eggs and bread and crystal meth to outlast this…this…ARCTIC BLAST!?!?! This is what’s [...]
A week of fuzzy things.
Have you RSVPed yet?It is “strictly required”and strictly enforced bya one-eyed gorilla bouncerwith bad teeth. Monday At 200 Orchard (I think that’s their website) in Manhattan it is time for a Glad All Over!!! party with The Rats, Des Roar, and DJ Charly Manson. And it’s free!!! Over in Brooklyn, the Rev. Vince Anderson and [...]
Get ready for a long New Years weekend.
The end of the “whatever it’s called” decade.The Naughts? I prefer “The Naught-ies”.But whatever it’s called, it’s over. Note: this post is really, really likely to be updated as we hear about more New Year’s Eve parties. Monday Snow again (supposedly). Warm ‘yerself up at Art Land Bar where DJ Knifefight will be spinning all [...]
And so it begins…
The holiday season cometh… you know what that means. Past-their-prime bands dishing out ill-advised Christmas covers; whole groups on stage in baggy Santa outfits; Facebook event invites with terrible holiday puns– you know the deal. Still, there is relief: it comes in a bottle or a glass and costs between 3 and 7 dollars. We [...]
As an alternative to listening to Christmas carols all week…
The Specific Heats bring their garage-psych sound andtheir Thanksgiving dinner to Bruar Falls on Tuesdaybecause even poultry deserves its 15 minutes of fame. Monday Glad All Over! hosts a show at Bowery Electric featuring the (cheese-inspired?) heavy rock of Humboldt Fog and the crunchy-like-a-cracker psych-rock of Whooping Crane, with DJ Lupe Loop spinning the platters. [...]
