Free Shows for New Yorkers
“Thank Jeebus!”
There’s so much amazing music happening this summer. Thank Jeebus! Here’s a list of free shows happening in New York City. Not listed are kick-ass shows of the unfree variety, to wit, Spoon and Built to Spill.
Of the free shows, I want to see: Sonic Youth w/ The Feelies, The Breeders, Fiery Furnaces, Liars w/ Fuck Buttons, Feist, Blonde Redhead, Battles w/ Black Dice and Gang Gang Dance, Santogold and Aesop Rock.
Share
Now listening to:
Now reading:
//RECENT
Vincent Moon and Arcade Fire Walk Into An Elevator….“[T]he crowd seemed really emotionally engaged with the music.”
Water Water Everywhere…. “Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.”
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
An extended version of Bon Iver’s La Blogotheque Take Away Show of “For Emma, Forever Ago” with three versions of the song and some very startled tourists. I think this is one of my favorite things in the whole world. Not just that the song is so beautiful, and is so beautifully sung, but that [...]
So, This Stephen Malkmus-looking Guy Who Went to High School with My Boss Wrote a Children’s BookA man once said, “Childrens do learn.” and I believe childrens should learn to dream big dreams. Even better is to dream arty dreams like a hipster might draw. This hipster author’s name is Dallas Clayton. Although I do not know for sure that Dallas Clayton is a hipster, he looks like this: And, I [...]
Matilde UrrutiaIt isn’t simply that you are loved gloriously, or loved beautifully. But rather that a pitch perfect expression of love for you sounds and sounds, Rises into the very air. Though the love itself may fade, I do not know, The poetry you inspire ascends, ascending Becomes stars and you, who are so loved, Look [...]
//FROM THE ARCHIVES
Crushing, Part Zwei“See? I’ve got jokes. We could sit around being funny together. Then he could leave me for a 22 year-old model/actress named Stacey.”
R.I.P. Tim RussertTim Russert, most beloved host of “Meet the Press”, died this morning of a heart attack at age 58. He will be sorely missed as his was one of the few voices of reason in the media.
When in Doubt, Resort to MockeryRepublican campaign tactics have seemed to lack a certain gravitas of late, but it wasn’t until they began to resort to outright mockery that said tactics began to look particularly desperate. It honestly seems as if McCain’s camp has been able to find so little with which to hang Obama, that they’ve opted, instead, simply [...]
Fairytales in Space“How much can eight million dollars really be expected to help you when you’ve got issues no amount of money can cure.”
A brief letter of confession from one who has three tenths suicided, to his loving cousin in Des Moines“And, love, we come in droves. I must confront that I, in common with everyone I can call without first dialing ‘one,’ moved to Los Angeles for greed.”
