July 2011
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The Black and White Project: Day 95: June 30, 2011
As I was sitting down in Times Square’s cheesy pedestrian area for a brief lunch break of some sunlight before going back to work and to listen to the Yanks sweep the lowly Brewers, I saw this woman with her parrot. I hadn’t seen her before so I was able to take a couple of quick photos of her for a small donation.
People with animals aren’t an irregular sight; just the other...
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This track, “The Artist Type” by The...
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The Black and White Project: Day 94: June 29, 2011
I decided to spend another lunch break in Central Park and as I was at roughly West 66th Street and Central Park West when I came across these dogwalkers petting their charges. For the most part, the dogs were remarkably well behaved but then again maybe the weather had something to do with that.
Walking up to West 72nd Street and Central Park West, I passed by the utterly gorgeous Bethesda...
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The Black and White Project: Days 92-93: June 27,...
What I love about Central Park, Bryant Park and several other locations that I find myself revisiting is the fact that each and every time I’m there I see something different — something that I hadn’t seen previously. During a lunch break I wandered to the Grand Army Plaza entrance of Central Park but since I left the office a bit later than I intended I only managed to walk up...
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New York-based band, Caveman, released “Old...
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Album Review: Chilly Gonzales' The Unspeakable...
Chilly Gonzales
The Unspeakable Chilly Gonzales
Arts & Crafts Records
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Track Listing
Supervillain Music
Self Portrait
Party in My Mind
Different Kind of Prostitute
Rap Race
Beans
Bongo Monologue
Who Wants to Hear This
Shut Up and Play the Piano
Chilly Gonzales, the Canadian-born and Berlin, Germany-based Grammy nominated...
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The Black and White Project: Days 90-91: June 25,...
I had the limited funds blues after a dinner date with the other half, and I couldn’t quite figure out what I was going to take photos of for the Black and White Project. So I got on a Manhattan bound train and while sitting on the train, it occurred to me that I should make a stop in Times Square. Sure, it’s annoying and filled with tourists but there was the chance that I would see...
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WatchI had written about this lovely and amazingly talented young woman, Vanessa Boyd some years ago for Ins&Outs after catching her at the LIC Bar during their now annual Queens of Queens Festival. She has a powerful, amazing voice which will probably remind you of the great Janice Joplin. Over the years, her work has evolved to include trippy, atmospheric trance beats and electronica. Check out...
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WatchSouth African DJ/Producer/rapper Spoek Mathambo just recently signed with Sub Pop Records, and to celebrate the occasion, Sub Pop and Mathambo released “Put Some Red On It,” as a little taste from his EP of the same name, Put Some Red On It. Similar to the Kuti family, Mathambo’s music is uniquely African — however, his music is much more heavy bass, drum and dubstep with...
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Album Reviews: Garage A Trois' Always Be Happy,...
Garage A Trois
Always Be Happy, But Stay Evil
Royal Potato Family Records
Release Date: April 12, 2011
Track Listing
Omar
Resentment Incubator
Earl Harvin
Shooting Breaks
Kansas
Swellage
The Drum Department
Thumb
Baby Mama Drama
Chimp & Flower
Dark Bogul
Assault on Precinct 13
Preservation Hall Jazz Club Band and the Del McCoury Band
American...
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WatchGloomy, atmospheric and cinematic, “Cuckoo” is the lead single off Still Corners’ debut 7” which will drop on June 28th on Sub Pop Records. A full length album by the name of Creatures of the Hour will drop in October. In some way it reminds me of the Castaways “Liar, Liar” meets Portishead. Check it out.
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The Black and White Project: Day 89: June 24, 2011
After getting off of work, I had a good hour and a half or so to kill before the Rockies vs. Yankees game so I wound up getting off at West 4th Street with the hopes that I’d catch something interesting in Washington Square Park for the 89th day of the Black and White Project.
39 1/2 West 3rd Street is one of my favorite address in the city because it seems so absolutely random. Why...
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The Black and White Project: Day 88: June 23, 2011
I was about to get off the subway at Union Square when I came across the Raices Group as part of the MTA’s Music Under New York series. Whoever is behind Music Underground series manages to get a wild variety of talent, that is seemingly representative of the cultural variety you’d come across in New York. The Raices Group perform the music of the indigenous peoples of the...
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Happy 1st Anniversary: Or Some Brief Thoughts On...
Believe or not friends, today marks the first anniversary of when I signed up to Tumblr, seemingly inspired by frustration and a whim to start this blog. And with that I wanted to thank everyone who has read my blog, checked out the photos, commented on posts or became fans on Facebook. Certainly, when I started this thing I wasn’t sure that anyone beyond a few friends would actually read...
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The Coney Island Mermaid Parade 6/18/11
Over the last twenty years or so, the sense of the strange, the sense of danger, along with of the possibilities of the forbidden and downright depraved have been scrubbed away, forever stripping some of the intriguing seediness that was part of the city’s unique quality. In some way, part of that was a natural progression — who doesn’t want to feel reasonably safe as they go...
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The Black and White Project: Days 86-87: June 21,...
June 22, 2011
Walking out of my Times Square office after work, I passed by a rather long, twisting line of people patiently waiting — for something. Clearly, they weren’t New Yorkers because I would have heard griping and complaining about the wait, about the weather or something.
From what I can tell, all of those folks were patiently waiting for an opportunity to do Yoga...
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“Why Did We Have to Part” is the first...
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Forming in the early days of the punk rock...
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WatchBoston-based singer/songwriter Marissa Nadler has been getting a lot of love from NPR.com’s First Listen, Pitchfork, IFC.com and others, and after listening to this song, you’ll see why. Her voice will draw comparisons to the haunting, ethereal beauty of the very lovely Kate Bush.
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The Black and White Project: Day 85: June 20, 2011
While in Bryant Park during my lunch break, I was fussing with my Canon. I’ve been having a problem shooting in automatic with my 18mm-55mm kit lens. I’ve had it for a couple of years so I wouldn’t be surprised if there was some issue with the damn lens. In any case, lately I’ve had to fiddle with it in order to shoot in automatic and this picture was taken as I was...
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Seapony at Piano's 6/17/11
Seapony
Piano’s
June 17, 2011
Last Friday night, I was at Piano’s – yet again! – to catch Hardly Art Records recording artists and Olympia, Washington-based trio Seapony at Piano’s, as they made an NYC area stop in support of their debut album, Go With Me, which I recently reviewed on the blog the other day. During the sessions that comprised Go With Me, the band recorded as a trio but it was...
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No Surrender’s “Young World” off...
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DFA Records’ Planningtorock released a...
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The Black and White Project: Days 82-84: June 17,...
This weekend has been an incredibly busy weekend — so busy that I haven’t had much of an opportunity to post much of anything. Friday night I covered the Olympia, Washington-based trio Seapony at Piano’s and wound up hanging out at my regular Lower East Side bar a bit longer than what I intended because I ran into a couple of regulars I hadn’t seen from in quite some time....
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“Worker,” the first single from...
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Album Review: Seapony's Go With Me
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Go With Me
Hardly Art Records
Track Listing
Dreaming
I Never Would
Blue Star
Into the Sea
I Really Do
Go Away
Always
So Low
What You See
Nobody Knows
With You
Personnel
Danny Rowland – synthesizer
Jen Weidl – vocals
Ian Brewer – bass
The Olympia, Washington-based trio, Seapony can trace their origins back to a couple of ironic circumstances and...
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The Black and White Project: Day 81: June 16, 2011
There are certain things about New York that I love with every fiber of my being. I speak with a little of bias but I’m pretty sure that New York has some of the loveliest woman — and some of the craziest people. It’s not uncommon to walk past some jaw-dropping beauty and encounter someone muttering to themselves or someone doing something that seems highly unsettling. For...
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Album Review: Atari Teenage Riot's Is This...
Atari Teenage Riot
Is This Hyperreal?
Digital Hardcore Recordings
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Track Listing
Activate
Blood in My Eyes
Black Flags
Is This Hyperreal?
Codebreaker
Shadow Identity
Re-Arrange Your Synapses
Digital Decay
The Only Slight Glimmer of Hope
The Collapse of History
Personnel
Alec Empire
Nic Endo
CX KiDTRONiK
With a name partly inspired by a Portuguese Joe song titled,...
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The Black and White Project: Day 80: June 15, 2011
This man was performing right outside the Columbus Circle A, B, C, D, 1, 2 and 3 station, near the Trump International Hotel. He had a fairly pleasant voice although his music was kind of bland. But like a lot of aspiring performer, he was selling CDs for a couple of bucks.
Central Park Sheep Meadow — yet again — but from a pathway near West 64th Street and Central Park West.
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