March 2012
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February 2012
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The Black and White Project: Day 335: February 28,...
My father used to take me to a small, dusty, family-owned watch repair shop over on 62nd Street and Roosevelt Avenue in Woodside, and I’ve been going there to get minor repairs on watches ever since. The battery on my old Victorinox Swiss Army watch has just about given up the ghost, so I walked down to the 42nd Street/Times Square Station to take the 7 train when I came across Malang...
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Donner Social and Alexa Dexa at the Local 269...
Donner Social and Alexa Dexa
Electrofest
The Local 269
February 8, 2012
A few weeks ago, I was in the Union Square 4, 5, 6, L, N, Q and R station hoping to catch something interesting for my Black and White Project when I came across local trio You Bred Raptors? performing an impressive set as part of the MTA’s Music Under New York program. Thanks to the miracle of technology, and the six degrees...
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WatchRapper Khalil Nova will be releasing his forthcoming effort The Guyver Saga soon and “Breakthrough” is the first single from it. With it’s buzzing snyth line, the song sounds a lot like Jay Z’s “Dirt Off Your Shoulder” but with stranger lyrics. Check it out.
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The Black and White Project: Day 334: February 27,...
I needed to go out for a walk during my lunch break — it had already felt like a long day — when I come across this pretty cool ass bike.
Interestingly, the bike had been long gone when I walked out of the office on my way home, so I’m glad that I was able to take a photo of it. Not surprisingly, there were a number of people who stopped to take pictures of their friends or...
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WatchShot in a stunning, cinematic black and white, the video for Black Marble’s “Backwards” takes place in a very weird house, a house filled with topless women, lab mice, plenty of milk and other odd goings on. In mood and tone, it should remind you of Joy Division.
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Hardly Art Records released Black Marble’s...
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Watch“Where Are Your People” is the first single from the UK-based act We Have Band’s sophomore effort, Ternion which will drop on Tuesday. From all accounts, the new release is a stylistic departure from their debut. In any case, this track reminds a lot of the New Wave of the early to mid 80s — this song in particular reminds me a bit of New Order and Depeche Mode, and it...
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The Black and White Project: Days 332 - 333:...
Saturday night was supposed to be a pretty busy night for me as I was attempting to make at least two stops at birthday parties in two different parts of town, and a possible stop somewhere else. So it was bound to be a very busy, long night of subway rides between parties. The first stop of the night was in Midtown, so I took the E train to the 53rd and 7th Avenue, E, and D station.
Here a...
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The Black and White Project: Day 331: February 24,...
Last night was the first Friday night in quite some time where I didn’t have anything planned and didn’t have to be anywhere to cover a show or meet someone, and it felt kind of odd — but strangely enjoyable. So when I got home, I took care of some much needed blog posts, ate dinner and watched the Rangers vs. Islanders game when I got a text from a friend asking me where I was....
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My Old Kentucky Blog premiered the Buenos Aires,...
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Album Review: Barry Adamson's I Will Set You Free
Barry Adamson
I Will Set You Free
Central Control Records
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Track Listing
Get Your Mind Right
Black Holes In My Brain
Turnaround
The Power of Suggestion
Destination
The Trigger City Blues
Looking to Love Somebody
The Sun and the Sea
If You Love Her
Stand In
Barry Adamson has had a lengthy and rather storied career as he has played...
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The Black and White Project: Days 329 - 330:...
Thursday was an incredibly late night — so late, that I couldn’t edit photos or do much beyond a very quick post for y’all. But it was a worthwhile night as I hung out with my friend Brandie, and we caught The Devil Makes Three, Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears and Flogging Molly at the Hammerstein Ballroom. Brandie left her office about a half hour after I had left, so as I...
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WatchFilter Magazine debuted the video for “Warm Night Home” by the Los Angeles-based band, Hands the other day. “Warm Night Home” is the first single off their forthcoming EP, Massive Context which Small Plates Records will release in April. The song is a bit of dreamy, ethereal pop that manages to sound both alien and familiar — I kind of thought of Travis or early...
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Last year, JD Samson of Le Tigre fame started off...
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Album Review: Homeboy Sandman's Subject: Matter
Homeboy Sandman
Subject: Matter
Stones Throw Records
Release Date: January 18, 2012
Track Listing
The Miracle
Mine All Mine
Unforgettable featuring TreZure
Sweet Emotion (Orchard Beach)
Canned Goods
Soap
Born and raised in the Elmhurst section of Queens, New York, Homeboy Sandman (a.k.a. Angel Del Villar) is arguably one of the most talented, sharpest,...
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The Black and White Project: Day 328: February 21,...
I came across this sign in a newspaper bin and it seems to capture some of the current political feeling of late.
This display in a midtown Modell’s proves one thing — we all have Linsanity. Seriously, everyone has gone wild over this Jeremy Lin kid, and in some way he represents so much for so many different people.
If only this was a real eagle, then it’d be extremely...
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The Black and White Project: Day 327: February 20,...
Thanks to the 3 day weekend, I went out Sunday night with the desire to do something different. I had been in the regular bar but Friday and Saturday, and I just couldn’t do it Sunday night. Change is good and usually quite necessary, so I wound up stopping at Sophie’s on East 5th and Avenue A. I used to go frequent there almost a decade ago when it was a scuzzy, dark, dive bar where...
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WatchJeffrey Cain, who was formerly in Remy Zero and is now head of Birmingham, Alabama-based label, Communicating Vessels, is also part of a unique collaboration with the Church’s Steve Kilbey, known as Isidore. Life Somewhere Else, the duo’s second album is set to drop tomorrow and “You Will Remain” is the second single released from the album, which Huffington Post debuted...
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The Black and White Project: Days 325 - 326:...
Thanks to the MTA working on the F train and several lines throughout the city, I was forced to figure out a way to the Lower East Side. Thanks a lot, guys. So I wound up having to take the L train and saw this on my way to Avenue A.
Stained glass window at Immaculate Conception High School on East 14th Street between First Avenue and Avenue A.
I wound up hanging out at my regular bar until...
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Spin Magazine premiered this track “No...
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Spin Magazine premiered “Break My...
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The Black and White Project: Days 323 - 324:...
It was a dreary and damp Thursday night, and I was on my way to catch Rene Lopez at the Lower East Side club, Nublu when I came across these ads on East Houston. They caught my attention on several levels — mostly for how much they reminded me of comic book panels.
This one in particular struck me as being adorable. Look at the chubby dog and cat. Awwww.
I’ve come across...
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5 Pointz Benefit Show featuring Brain Space, Rabbi...
5 Pointz Benefit Show featuring Brain Space, Rabbi Darkside, One West, JDL, Illimanjaro, Double A.B., Homeboy Sandman, and more!
Hell Gate Social
January 20, 2012
Located out in Long Island City, New York, 5 Pointz Aerosol Arts Center is an outdoor art exhibit space dedicated solely to graffiti, and for those artists who primarily use aerosol and create through graffiti, 5 Pointz is their Mecca....
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The Black and White Project: Day 322: February 15,...
For those of you who have been following this blog for some time, and this project since it’s inception last March, this gentleman should strike you as being very familiar. I’ve come across him a handful of times and always in the same exact spot by the Century 21 sign, looking at it with intense concentration until he gets on the screen. When the weather is warmer, he’s like...
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WatchViolinist Kishi Bashi has recorded and toured with the likes of Regina Spektor, Sondre Lerche, Alexi Murdoch, of Montreal and others. His album 151a will be released by Joyful Noise Recordings on April 20th. The first two singles from the album, “It Began With a Burst,” and “Bright Lights” have already received tons of love from Spin Magazine, Consequence of Sound and tons...
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Spin Magazine premiered this single from British...
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The Black and White Project: Day 321: February 14,...
With Valentine’s Day I had been thinking about love a lot lately and in a more philosophical way than I probably ever would have expected. Yeah, it was the first Valentine’s Day in some time that I had been single and although it was a bit odd, it was pretty cool. Perhaps it should have been no surprise that I caught a rather interesting demonstration related to Occupy Wall Street...
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