April 2011
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Album Review: The Baseball Project Volume 2: High...
The Baseball Project Volume 2: High & Inside Yep Roc Records Release Date: March 1, 2011 Track Listing 1976 Panda and the Freak Fair Weather Fans Don’t Call Them Twinkies Chin Music Buckner’s Bolero Tony (Boston’s Chosen Son) Ichiro Goes to the Moon The Straw that Stirs the Drink Look Out Mom Pete Rose Way Twilight of My Career Here Lies...
Apr 1st
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March 2011
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Mar 31st
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The Black and White Project: Day 3, March 30, 2011
MARCH 30, 2011: 6:10PM: I never got a chance to smoke a cigar to actually celebrate my birthday. As it turned out, I was in some situation where I couldn’t just walk away from a fairly expensive camera without fearing that it might walk away from me. New York City may be different but sometimes, it’s still New York. So before, a publishing industry function at the swanky —...
Mar 31st
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The Black and White Project: Day 2, March 29, 2011
MARCH 29, 2011: I had a lengthy conversation with a friend and former bartender about how New York has seemingly changed for the worst lately. As a native New Yorker, I had reminisced about some of the old haunts I used to drink in — I had mentioned to about how I used to go to Sophie’s on Avenue A when it was a seedy biker bar where you once were able to smoke. Fuck you, Bloomberg!...
Mar 30th
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The Black and White Project: Day 1, March 28, 2011
With my 32nd birthday coming and now passing, I had a number of people who had asked me for months how I was going to celebrate, and for a while I couldn’t come up with anything. What I did know was that I wanted to do something different. And so it occurred to me, why not a photography project with an equally simple but kind of bizarre premise? I mean I knew at least two people who did...
Mar 30th
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Album Review: Cold Cave's Cherish the Light Years
Cold Cave Cherish the Light Years Matador Records Release Date: April 5, 2011 Track Listing The Great Pan is Dead Pacing Around the Church Confetti Catacombs Underworld USA Icons of Summer Alchemy and You Burning Sage Villains of the Moon Personnel Wesley Eisold Dominick Fernow Jennifer Clavin Guy Licata Cold Cave, the New York-based, synth pop outfit began...
Mar 30th
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Album Review: Youth Sounds' Tomorrow And Tomorrow...
Youth Sounds Tomorrow And Tomorrow And Tomorrow Release Date: February 22, 2011 Track Listing It’s Hell Whatever Works Foolish Love You’ll Be The Death of Me We’re No One Personnel Erika Mejia Federico Mejia Adrian Frye Taryn Mejia You may remember that a couple of months ago, I reviewed the New Orleans-based quartet, Youth Sounds’ debut The Bit Parts EP, which was an...
Mar 23rd
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Low Water and Alcoholic Faith Mission at the...
Low Water and Alcoholic Faith Mission The Knitting Factory, Brooklyn Tuesday, March 15, 2011   Last Tuesday night, I was at the Knitting Factory in Williamsburg, Brooklyn to catch two bands with roots in the Brooklyn area – Low Water, the opening act, a quartet that originally formed in San Francisco and moved to Brooklyn, and Alcoholic Faith Mission, a sextet of Danes who started out in Brooklyn...
Mar 22nd
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Little Embers at the Living Room/Soulive and...
Little Embers The Living Room Saturday, March 12, 2011 Last Saturday night, was the busiest Saturday night I’ve had in some time as I wanted to cover the dynamic duo of Anthony Rizzo and Theresa Hoffman, aka Little Embers celebrate the release of their long awaited full-length album, Raise the Dead at the Living Room and cover Soulive’s last night of their two week residency at Brooklyn Bowl,...
Mar 20th
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Mar 19th
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ListenIf you grew up in the 80s, you remember both Neneh...
Mar 12th
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Bowlive: The London Souls, Soulive, Robert...
Last year, Soulive released a full length album of jazz interpretations of some of the great and beloved Beatles tunes called Rubber Soulive, which I reviewed here. When I had learned that Soulive was doing a two week residency at the Brooklyn Bowl with tons of special guests including Maceo Parker, Pharaohe Monch, Bernie Worrell, Corey Glover of Living Colour fame, Robert Randolph, Ivan Neville,...
Mar 11th
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ListenDel McCoury and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band...
Mar 9th
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Album Reviews: Tahiti 80's The Past, Present, &...
Tahiti 80 The Past, The Present, & The Possible Human Sounds Records Release Date: February 22, 2011 Track Listing Defender Darlin’ Gate 33 Solitary Bizness Want Some? Easy The Past, The Present, & The Possible Nightmares Rain Steam Speed Crack Up (Extended) 4am Personnel Xavier Boyer – vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards, piano Pedro Resende – bass, programming,...
Mar 8th
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ListenHops, the Houston, Texas-born, Astoria, Queens,...
Mar 8th
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Album Review: Art vs. Science's Magic Mountain EP
Art vs. Science Magic Fountain EP Release Date: March 11, 2011 Track Listing Magic Fountain Friend in the Field Flippers Parlez Vous Francais? Hollywood Personnel Jim Finn – keyboards, bass, vocals Dan McNamee – keyboards, guitar, vocals Dan Williams – drums, vocals The Sydney, Australia-based trio Art vs. Science can trace their history to one specific moment – the Daft Punk...
Mar 7th
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An Impromptu Jam Session with Little Embers and...
Friday night, I stopped by the LIC Bar to catch local sensation Nicola play — some video from that show will be coming soon — but after her two sets, there was an impromptu set featuring Little Embers and Gus Rodriguez. In fact, it was so impromptu that I never got a chance to write any notes about it. However, I did take some photos of the proceedings and I think that they can speak...
Mar 7th
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The St. John's University Red Storm vs. The Seton...
Thursday, March 3rd marked the third time during the college basketball season that I saw St. John’s University Red Storm — I saw them beat an undersized, undermanned Northwestern University Wildcats team while sitting in the student section in the Garden and a frustratingly stupid and overrated Georgetown University Hoyas in the same seat. (Quite honestly, the closest I’ve ever...
Mar 6th
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Album Review: Cut Copy's Zonoscope
Cut Copy Zonoscope Modular Recordings Track Listing Need You Now Take Me Over Where I’m Going Pharaohs and Pyramids Blink and You’ll Miss a Revolution Strange Nostalgia for the Future This Is All We’ve Got Alisa Hanging Onto Every Heartbeat Corner of the Sky Sun God Personnel Dan Whitford – vocals, keyboard, guitar Tim Hoey – guitar, sampler Ben...
Mar 5th
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Mar 4th
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Mar 3rd
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ListenScattered Trees, just recently released a single...
Mar 3rd
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Mar 2nd
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Album Review: Mogwai's Hardcore Will Never Die,...
  Mogwai Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will Sub Pop Records Release Date:  February 15, 2011   Track Listing 1.      White Noise 2.      Mexican Grand Prix 3.      Rano Rano 4.      Death Rays 5.      San Pedro 6.      Letters to the Metro 7.      George Square Thatcher Death Party 8.      How To Be a Werewolf 9.      Too Raging to Cheers 10.  You’re Lionel Ritchie   Personnel Stuart...
Mar 2nd
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ListenCheck out the latest single from Jeanne Marie...
Mar 1st