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MGMT and the Ting Tings at McCarren Pool, 7.27.08
The thunder, rain and bad-hair-day humidity didn’t keep the kids away and as predicted, MGMT brought out the expectant crowds en masse. The lines coiled around and around the park for hours with over 6,000 fans waiting to get in and many, sadly, did not.
The Ting Tings were just what the soggy crowd needed [...]
Brian Jonestown Massacre at Terminal 5, NYC, 7.25.08
Two of my favorite Brian Jonestown Massacre album titles have got to be Thank God for Mental Illness and Take It from the Man since they’re both simple, direct statements that immediately reveal the provocateur mind of main man/songwriter Anton Newcombe.
Tonight’s nearly sold out show at the lofty Terminal 5 proves that since 1990, BJM’s [...]
Brothers and Sisters - ‘Fortunately’
The Brothers and Sisters don’t veil the mirth that they take in simple pleasures: their album’s Pollyanna title Fortunately is reflective of the record’s upbeat, carefree sound. With influences like The Beach Boys and The Mamas and The Papas, the Brothers and Sisters, actual siblings, make unmitigated pop music. They write the sort of lyrics [...]
Brendan Canning - ‘Something For All Of Us’
Something For All Of Us is appropriately titled as it easily captivates fans of any musical genre. After beginning with hauntingly soft, almost blurry vocals, the CD builds to a fleeting crescendo of horns and drums and then quickly reverts back its delicate origins. The CD acts as a trance like experience, fragmented from shimmering [...]
8th Annual Village Voice Siren Music Festival, Coney Island, New York, 07.19.08
It’s hard to stay focused during the dog days of summer, especially when spending an afternoon wandering around the unruly Brooklyn coastline of Coney Island for its eighth annual indie music fest, Siren. So it’s not that hard to understand why the next morning, while flipping through the latest, insipid Vogue article on Kate [...]
Johnny Flynn U.S. Tour Dates and Album Release
We first caught Johnny Flynn at SXSW in March and were quite awed, deeming him a romantic spirit with a gift for Shakespearean wit. Since his album, A Larum, will be released in the U.S. this fall, the UK troubadour will head to North America for some tour dates to coincide. He’ll be coming [...]
The Hives and Eagles of Death Metal to Tour in September
Vocalist Howlin’ Pelle Almqvist, drummer Chris Dangerous, bassist Dr. Matt Destruction, and guitarists Nicholaus Arson & Vigilante Carlstroem, collectively known as The Hives, (of course), are still the proudest bunch of Swedes to invade our stages. They will once again bear the gift of their musical splendor, and as their publicists say, they [...]
Jarvis Cocker at Music Hall of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 7.21.08
Jarvis Cocker is a showman like Elvis. In fact, he’s been deemed “a Yorkshire Elvis” by fans in his native UK city of Sheffield, though he may not have as smooth of a croon and he’s so self-deprecating that he insists his voice is far from being one of the greats.
However, even Jarvis himself [...]
The Morning Benders Free Album Release
The morning benders aim to please. During a week off between touring the US with The Kooks, We Are Scientists, summer festival dates and a Ra Ra Riot tour this fall, the band took time off to create cover versions of some of their favorite tunes to offer fans exclusively on their blog. To download [...]
Jenny Lewis to Release Second Solo Album in September
Tireless Jenny Lewis can’t sit still it seems. She has long been on the road in support of Rilo Kiley’s fantastic 2007 effort Under the Blacklight, and come September, will release her sophomore solo record, Acid Tongue on Warner Brothers. The eagerly anticipated follow-up to 2006’s Rabbit Fur Coat, was recorded in January 2008 over three [...]
"Poetic" and overwrought, I like this though: "In the husk of a new construction " 
The show was sensational and everyone was in top form both on and off stage! Backstage gossip revealed that there ...
she came last year with rilo kiley and 2 years ago with the watson twins but i couldn't go to ...
Can someone tell me why she refuses to come to canada? Has she ever played a show here? I live ...
"if the world does come to an end i will be dancing through it…..@ a SYH show!!"
brilliant. I second that. 
