Attendance, the flyer said, would be capped at 90. I’d guess that the chapel in New York’s Church of Sweden — on 48th Street just off Fifth Avenue, unobtrusive among financial offices and gleaming glass hotels — seated 75 at most, and a few songs into her set, Frida Hyvönen suggested that those standing come … Continue reading
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Me @ Volume 1- Coming Soon to a Lower East Side Near You*
- Afternoon Bites: Chris Andrews on translation, Hot Lit Mags, James Sturm on Jack Kirby, and more
- Notes on Quentin Rowan, Yeti, and Bits of Spy Novels
- Reviewed: “Sister Stop Breathing” by Chiara Barzini
- Afternoon Bites: William S. Burroughs in pop culture, “Angelmaker” gets a trailer , 90s hardcore and Skrillex, and more
November 13, 2008, Author: , Leave a comment
Tags:: Church of Sweden, Frida Hyvönen, live music, show review
Live: Frida Hyvönen; Church of Sweden, 11.12.08
Categories: Live, Music, NYC, Review, UncategorizedTags:: Church of Sweden, Frida Hyvönen, live music, show review
September 15, 2008, Author: , Leave a comment
Tags:: air bombay, live show, pianos, pigeons, pretty & nice, show review
live: pigeons, air bombay, pretty & nice; pianos; 09.05.08
Categories: Live, Music, NYC, Review, UncategorizedTags:: air bombay, live show, pianos, pigeons, pretty & nice, show review
Pianos on a Friday night is a strange place to be. The bar portion, which one has to traverse in order to get to the venue in the back, was on this particular night full of well-dressed, well-off types making loud conversation. The actual performance space, which had added a bar since the last time … Continue reading
August 3, 2008, Author: , Leave a comment
Tags:: abc no rio, max and the marginalized, punk rock, show review
live: max and the marginalized; abc no rio, 08.02.08
Categories: Live, Music, ReviewTags:: abc no rio, max and the marginalized, punk rock, show review
“The sing-a-long songs will be our scriptures,” Craig Finn sings on the title track of The Hold Steady‘s new album Stay Positive. Having grown up on hardcore, that’s a sentiment I can appreciate — though growing up in central Jersey in the mid-90s, most of those sing-a-longs were political in nature. (You could probably make … Continue reading
July 25, 2008, Author: , Leave a comment
Tags:: bound stems, flameshovel, indie rock, live music, mercury lounge, show review
live: bound stems, mercury lounge, 07.24.08
Categories: Live, Music, ReviewTags:: bound stems, flameshovel, indie rock, live music, mercury lounge, show review
Venture to Bound Stems‘ Wikipedia entry, and you’ll find this relatively innocuous opening sentence: “Bound Stems is an indie rock band with math rock influences from Chicago, Illinois“. And that’s great and all, but I prefer to think of them as the band that caused the staff of BD Riley’s think that I was a … Continue reading