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The Glorious Return of Jesse Malin to the Stage – Jesse Malin and Friends at The Beacon Theatre (2024-12-02)
In early 2023 while out to dinner with friends at a local East VIllage restaurant only a couple of streets from his walk up apartment, Jesse Malin suffered what ended up being a very rare spinal stroke which left Jesse paralyzed from the waist down. Jesse has yet to return to his walk up home,…
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Playlist of the Month – December 2024
December In Her Eyes – The days are short, the nights are cold and the mood is meloncholy.
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Happy Birthday to The Menzinger’s Rented World
The Menzingers Live at Theatre For The Living Arts (2024-11-29) The Menzingers celebrated the 10th anniversary of their, in my humble opinion, underappreciated album Rented World with a semi one off show in their hometown of Philadelphia (fuck the Eagles & the Phillies) at Theatre For Living Arts aka TLA, a venue I’d not previously…
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Futurebirds & Color Green Spend The Weekend In The Big Apple
Futurebirds and Color Green at Bowery Ballroom (2024-11-24) Futurebirds brought their brand of southern fried rock and roll to New York City last weekend with a 2 night run at Bowery Ballroom and to quote rhythm guitarist and vocalist Dan Womack, it might have been the best shows and experience they’ve ever had in the…
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Album of The Week: No Souvenirs- Fightmilk
UK foursome, Fightmilk have been around for some nine years now, having grown up and formed in the neighborhoods of South London. They burst upon the British music scene with their debut LP, Not With That Attitude in 2018 and released their follow up, Contender in 2021. Both albums received considerable good press from the…
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Ratboys, Palehound & youbet Invade Warsaw
Ratboys, Palehound & youbet Live at Warsaw (2024-11-16) Chicago’s Ratboys have been a busy band this year. They were out on tour most of the summer as support for The Decemberists (a tour which passed through Brooklyn over at the gorgeously renovated Brooklyn Paramount back in May. On Saturday night they finished up a mini…
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Florist Live at Cassette (2024-11-12)
The indie folk foursome, known as Florist is currently in the midst of a sold out 4 night stand at Cassette over in Ridgwood. Not surprising the 4 night run in this small basement venue sold out almost immediately considering Emily A. Sprague, lead singer, primary songwriter, and rhythm guitarist along with her 3 bandmates…
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Quote Of The Day (2024-11-07)
There are times in our life when we must go underground, not in retreat, but to self-heal, rebuild our community in terms of good, not party, not self-interest, but as a mobilizing energy propelled by benevolence. This is not rhetorical. It is a plan. I started this morning with my offspring and then slowly with…
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Playlist Of The Month – November 2024
VOTEmber 2024
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Album of The Week: Coin de l’œil by Healees
2015 saw 4 musicians, Bryan Quinn on guitars, vocals, synths, & percussion, Renaud Chauré on guitars & vocals, Hillevi Robertsson on bass & vocals and Arthur Chen on drums from The US, Sweden, Belgium and France get together in Paris to form Healees. The foursome’s joint appreciation for reverb, distortion, jangly guitar and muffled non…
W.S. Walcott Medicine Show 