J&R Jr. Hey folks, the biggest names in kid entertainment are coming out this weekend ( Feb 11-12 ) to celebrate the grand opening of J&R Jr. , which is, "a new NYC boutique for kids & parents featuring the best of the best in baby gear, electronics, toys & more." J&R Jr. is, of course, brought to you by Joe & Rachelle Friedman , the same folks who founded the famous downtown music and electronics superstore "chain." Some of the big names coming out for the grand opening [...]
Last night on Andy Cohen 's celebrity gabfest, Watch What Happens Live , Michael Showalter mentioned that a Wet Hot American Summer sequel was a "go" with the whole original cast on board. This seemingly off the cuff remark caused a bit of a twitterquake and eventually prompted Michael Ian Black to tweet that, "it probably wasn't true." Well, who knows if it's true, or it isn't, but judging by last night's Twitter response, there certainly still is some interest in the [...]
2012 Juno Nominee Dan Mangan Photo : D. Caplan ( more ) Congrats to all of the artists nominated for the 2012 Juno Awards , but a special big hearty Mazel Tov to Dan Mangan , who was nominated for no less than four Juno Awards this year including: New Artist of The Year, Songwriter of The Year, Alternative Album of The Year , and Video of The Year . Here's a list of the nominees in a few of this year's more "important" and [...]
Madonna at Yankee Stadium (09/12/12) Sep 12 Madonna Yankee Stadium New York, NY Buy Tickets Citipass Presale Begins: Wed, 02/08/12 10:00 AM Mar 9 Daughter [...]
Sharon Jones at Celebrate Brooklyn (08/07/10) Photo : Bart Babinski ( more ) Daryl Hall started Live From Daryl's House , the free monthly web show in late 2007, after having the idea of "playing with my friends and putting it up on the Internet," and the show has since garnered acclaim from Rolling Stone, SPIN, Daily Variety, CNN, BBC, Yahoo! Music and influential blogger Bob Lefsetz, who have cited Live From Daryl's House as a perfect example of a veteran artist reinventing [...]
Caught up with the Drake . -ed. Leonard Cohen Words : Drake Lelane This week's collection of releases finds two at the opposite ends of life (and, well, art) in Leonard Cohen and Lana Del Rey . Elsewhere, look out for new releases from Imperial Teen, The Ex-Girlfriends Club, Hospitality, The Pines, Ringo Starr, K'Nan, Mike Doughty , and The Jealous Sound . Playlist: New Releases 01.31.12 (Rhapsody) / [...]
Catching up with Drake , always catching up with Drake. -ed. Dylan Baldi's Cloud Nothings get it together on Attack on Memory Words : Drake LeLane As the first month of 2012 nears its close, we have our very first year-end contender with the sophomore release from Cloud Nothings. Steve Albini's production combined with Dylan Baldi surrounding himself with a full band makes for a giant leap from his debut. Besides that, there are noteworthy releases from The [...]
2012 Sasquatch! Festival (May 25-28, 2012) The lineup for the 2012 Sasquatch! Music Festival (May 25-28, 2012) was announced this morning/last night with (seemingly) less fan-fare than last year. Headliners for this year's festival include: Jack White, Beck and Bon Iver . Four day festival passes go on sale on Feb 11 at 10:00AM PST at sasquatchfestival.com . (Get'em while you can folks, if the past is any indication, they won't be around for long.) View the full Sasquatch! 2012 lineup [...]
The first episode of season 4 of Live from The Artists Den premieres tonight ( Fri, Feb 3 ) on public television (WNET 13 in NYC), featuring multi-platinum selling recording artist Adele live from the Santa Monica Bay Woman's Club. In honor of the season 4 premiere, I'm giving away two Live From The Artists Den prize packs featuring a DVD of The Swell Season Live from The Artists Den , a CD of Artists Den Volume I and [...]
Bruce Springsteen at The Apollo (03/09/12) BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND THE E STREET BAND ANNOUNCE FIRST US LEG OF 2012 'WRECKING BALL' WORLD TOUR Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band launch the first US leg of the 2012 'Wrecking Ball' World Tour on March 18 in Atlanta. Bruce Springsteen's 17th studio album 'Wrecking Ball' will be released on Columbia Records on March 6. "We Take Care Of Our Own," the album's first single,' is "classic Springsteen" with "anguish and challenge [that] run thick and [...]
Tosh Tour 2012 Timed conveniently with the premiere of the fourth season of Tosh.0 on Comedy Central, Daniel Tosh announced a bunch of new dates for his Tosh Tour Twenty Twelve today. The tremendously popular Tosh will be playing Radio City Music Hall on Apr 13, 2012 . Tickets are on Internet presale now and the password is ANAL , regular on sale begins Friday, Feb 3 at 10AM EST. [...]
A surprisingly quiet month at our local B&N's, especially the USQ mothership. Here are some February 2012 bookstore events that looked interesting to me for one reason or another. Barnes & Noble New York 02/02 Mike Doughty: The Book of Drugs A Memoir (Tri) 02/06 Tom Santopietro: The Godfather Effect (86th & Lex) 02/07 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: What Color Is My World? (Tri) 02/07 Elaine Hall: Seven Keys to Unlock Autism (86th & Lex) 02/14 Dave Isay: All There Is Love Stories from StoryCorps (82nd & Bway) [...]
Guns 'N Roses at Izod Center (11/17/11) Photo : Jon Klemm ( more ) Feb 10 Fri Guns N' Roses Roseland Ballroom New York , NY Buy Tickets On sale:Wed, 02/01/12 12:00 PM [...]
Young The Giant at CMJ 2010 (10/20/10) Photo : Jon Klemm ( more ) Hey folks, another official CPS Summerstage benefit show has been announced for the 2012 season. California's Young the Giant will play the Rumsey Playfield at Central Park Summerstage on July 16, 2012 . For more of this year's lineup, please check out the 2012 Summerstage Unofficial Lineup page over here . Ticket details below: American Express Presale Start: Wed, 02/01/12 [...]
James McCartney James McCartney , the only son of Paul and Linda McCartney , made his US television debut on Monday night on The Late Show with David Letterman . While not really touring this time out, James is sticking around the city for a couple of low key gigs including one at the Rockwood Music Hall on Feb 1 and another at the Wonder Bar in Asbury Park, NJ on Feb 3 . [...]
John Mulaney - New In Town > Do I keep posting about John Mulaney because I hope one day he will invite me on a personal tour of the Saturday Night Live set? In a word, yes. Do I also keep posting about John Mulaney because he's one of the funniest stand-ups around today? Without a doubt, yes. If you don't skip through the ads on The Daily Show or The Colbert [...]
I'm From Barcelona at Southpaw (08/06/07) Photo : D. Caplan ( more ) According to the Brooklyn Paper , the pioneering Park Slope club will shutter its doors on February 20 to make way for a kids tutoring center. A long-standing Park Slope concert hall will close and become a tutoring school now that the hood caters more to kiddies than roadies, owners say. Southpaw — the legendary music venue that hosted the likes of Patti Smith and Joan Jett — [...]
120dB Concert Photography Group Show (01/27/12) Hey folks, occasional Bumpershine photographers, Jessica Amaya and Abbey Braden , are just two of the good people taking part in 120db group photography show that opens this Friday ( Jan 27 ) at Fort Useless in Brooklyn. The details below, if you can't make it to the opening, the show runs until March 24, 2012 during events and by appointment. 120dB A Fort Useless Event Curated by [...]
The Secret Policeman's Ball at Radio City Music Hall (03/04/12) The Secret Policeman's Ball is letting America in on the party: The British-based music and comedy festival is coming to New York in March. Coldplay, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Mumford & Sons and Russell Brand are among the acts who have signed on for the event at Radio City Music Hall on March 4. The concert will benefit Amnesty International, as it has since it started back in 1976 with celebrities [...]
Not surprisingly, the latest release from Pollard & Co. draws the attention (and admiration) of Drake . -ed. The 'Classic' lineup of Guided By Voices returns with two new releases in 2012 Words : Drake Lelane 2012 continues to be slow, with only the excellent return of Guided By Voices to show for this week. Looking back through my archives, by this time last year we'd already had several albums of note, including Wire, Smith Westerns, British [...]
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