Our good friends over at Earfarm (one Poptarts favorite blogs of 2009) just put out a holiday compilation disc amusingly titled " Do you EAR what I EAR? " and they are having little record release/holiday party tonight ( Dec 18 ) at Spike Hill in honor of it. If I didn't have my own office party to attend tonight, I would definitely be there. Here's a little more info on this evening's festivities: Dearest of EAR FARMErs - We're having a FREE party tonight. It's an [...]
Lee Fields @ Pop Montreal ( more by Ryan Muir ) tonight in NYC * Hanukkah * Blip Festival * Cage @ BB King's * Ruff Club @ Europa * The Ballet @ Don Hill's * Rob Moose @ The Stone * Ethel @ WFC Winter Garden * Blip Festival @ The Bell House * [...]
Monday: The Slits, The Sundelles, + Sisters @ Highline Ballroom 7pm $15 [ tix ] Amid all the hoopla surrounding the reunions of bands like Pavement, My Bloody Valentine, Pixies, The Vaselines, Mission of Burma, etc., etc., some of reunions have been lost in the perpetual motion of all this getting back together. One such band is Britain's The Slits, an all-girl punk group that is sorely underrated and being a bit overlooked once again. The vivacious punks have been reunited since 2005 and are once again touring to pump the new Trapped [...]
Every year at this time people across this great land line up to play on your heart strings hoping to save noble charity after noble charity with just a few pennies from you. Every year we fall for at least a couple of them, especially when they're offering us something great in return. We've already shelled out $0.99 for Fucked Up's version of "Do They Know It's Christmas?" which benefits three great organizations up in Toronto ( read more here ) and we're sure some Salvation Army Santa's will managed to pry a few coins from [...]
Brooklyn band Shark? graciously sent me their garage-tastic cover of the Beat Happening 's Christmas to share with you all as as a taste of a fantastic holiday compilation / benefit album project they're involved in. The album's called Do you EAR what I EAR? and it's been put together by Ear Farm and Let 'Em In Studios. It's available for a $5 donation and all of the proceeds from this project will go directly to the Association to Benefit Children , an outstanding New York-based [...]
IT'S HERE! We're very pleased/thrilled/proud to let everyone know that Do you EAR what I EAR? , a holiday album for the Association to Benefit Children is OUT NOW! Simply head over to EAR FARM's Store Page and for a suggested minimum donation of $5.00, SIXTEEN tracks of original and classic holiday goodness from some of our favorite artists around are yours for the taking (or downloading as it were). In fact, you can sample a track below, right now! [...]
EAR FARM is having a FREE holiday party on December 18th! Come celebrate the holidays and the release of EAR FARM's holiday album Do you EAR what I EAR? * with us and some of the bands from the EAR FARM family! Featuring (in reverse order of appearance): Goes Cube Takka Takka Mancino Moser's Gambit Doors are at 7pm. Get there early, stay late! As an [...]
Chad of Destroy the Runner sent in the following update: "We are recording our 3rd studio album right now, and it is going great so far. Way heavier, screaming, breakdowns, shredding guitars, double bass...haha. The whole bit. Jordan Mancino(As I Lay Dying) will be playing all of the drums on the new record, and we are having many well known gue... Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com
Do you EAR what I EAR? is a holiday album for the Association to Benefit Children from Ear Farm.com. The album is a joint venture between EF and Let 'Em In Studios, and all of the proceeds from this project (unlike that money I sent to the tsunami victims a few years back) will go directly to the Association to Benefit Children, a New York-based service dedicated to permanently break the cycles of abuse, neglect, sickness and homelessness among disadvantaged children and their families. tracklisting: [...]
As you continue digesting from last week's spoils, let us be among the first to usher in the holidays with a special announcement regarding Do you EAR what I EAR? , a holiday album for the Association to Benefit Children . We've got cover art! Please direct your eyes above to see the cover, courtesy of our dear friends at Destroy Space . Keep reading and things only get more enticing, as we also have a full tracklisting to unveil today in advance of the album's digital-only release on EAR FARM's Store Page [...]
18 December, 2009 7:30 pm to 11:59 pm Who: Goes Cube, Mancino, Moser's Gambit, Special Guest Where: Spike Hill Show Info: 21+, 7:30pm, FREE
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Hearing Captain Love made me want to HUP-two-three-four, stand at attention and snap a million salutes because it's so rare for me to take such pleasure from a rock album with pop persuasions. Mock Orange present a rare batch of influences before the listener and DARE him/her to deal with it, up to and including: A resemblance, in both the lead and back-up vocals, to How it Feels / Rising [...]
Monotonix @ Sasquatch Fest in May ( more by Chris Graham ) tonight in NYC * DANCE * Kiss @ Nassau Coliseum * Kayo Dot, Extra Life @ Drom * Monk at 92 @ WFC Winter Garden * Ludlow Lions, Indra @ Union Pool * Rosanne Cash @ St. Ann's Warehouse * Clutch, Lionize, Wino @ Irving Plaza * [...]
Recommended Show: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2009 PEELANDER-Z & MATH THE BAND @ MAXWELL'S 1039 Washington St Hoboken, NJ 07030 $10, 9PM I normally wouldn't recommend a show outside of the five boroughs, and this will be a trek for any city-dwellers. However, with both Peelander-Z and Math the Band on the bill tonight's show at Maxwell's is sure to be an insane experience. Mancino @ Union Hall Clutch @ The Fillmore TV Ghost @ Silent Barn Ludlow Lions @ Union Pool Indian Jewelry @ Cake Shop Children @ Knitting Factory Two Man [...]
EAR FARM is a very ethical place to work. For instance, it has a long-standing policy that the bands of employees will not be written about in any promotional, or critical manner. So while EAR FARM used to write about Goes Cube, we no longer do because Matt (our fearless editor) now plays bass in the band, and I (guitar/vocals of Goes Cube) recently joined the EAR FARM staff. Thanks to this policy, I can't just turn this column into one giant advertisement for Goes Cube. I can't use it as a soapbox from which to tell you how [REDACTED] [...]
TV on the Radio @ Sasquatch Fest 5/24 ( more by Chris Graham ) tonight in NYC * DANCE * Kumail Nanjiani @ Comix * Lisa Lisa @ Red Hook Park * Budos Band @ Hudson Square * Steely Dan @ Beacon Theatre * Andy Andy @ Highbridge Park * Care Bears On Fire @ Cake Shop * [...]
Matt Tyson, the main man behind the incomparable New York City music blog Ear Farm, has long been a friend of Pop Tarts Suck Toasted. He was part of the original After the Jump gang, and like most of us New York bloggers he could be found fairly regularly at all the same shows we all attend. A few months ago news came down that Matt Frey was leaving Goes Cube and was going to be replaced by Matt Tyson and we were all thrilled for Matt. That said we wanted to find out what it was like for a [...]
This is called the Slowcast because there are so many songs and, more commonly, whole albums out there which I took ages and ages to get into, and for no really obvious reason. There are several reasons, I guess: how familiar a sound is, your emotional state at the time, what your mates are listening to, how popular something is and stuff like that. I know I've admitted plenty of times in the past that I have a habit of refusing to like things if they get too popular. That sounds ludicrous, but it's not exactly a conscious [...]
Recommended Show: THURSDAY, MAY 28, 2009 CRIME NOVELS & ISLAND'S EYELIDS @ P.P.O.W. 511 West 25th Street Room 301 New York, NY 10001 FREE, 7PM This is supposedly a benefit for Showpaper, but it's also supposedly free. Don't ask me how that is going to work! But it's a good lineup in a rather odd location (a gallery in Chelsea). Additional goings on are listed below. Mancino @ Union Hall Tyvek @ Monster Island Dinowalrus @ Red Star Bar Sean Bones @ Mercury Lounge Andrew W.K. @ Santos Party House [...]
Goes Cube is set to release their full-length debut, Another Day Has Passed , on May 12th via The End Records and will hit the road in May/June to promote the release. In related news, the band has announced that they will be amicably parting ways with founding member, and close friend, Matt Frey. Here is the official announcement: Matthew Frey (above right), co-founder and bassist of Goes Cube will be stepping down from his bass duties in Goes Cube. His final show will be 5/14/09 at the [...]
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