There are only 9 dates left for the latest installation of Shakespeare in the Park. The Twelfth Night is surely not to be missed. Log-in at midnight for a spot on the virtual-line the day of your desired day ~ and check back in ~ in the afternoon to see if you are invited..! For Free!
The players were recently on Leonard Lopate ~ it should be quite a treat.
James Chance was the saxophone-playing-funky-rowboat dancing-frontman of the Contortions, one of the original punk jazz groups of the New York No Wave scene of the late 1970's.
Matt & Kim play River Rocks at Pier 54 on July 9th. These shows are FREE but tend to start a wee early for the regular day laborer. This show is scheduled to start at 6pm ~ but if you don't get there by around 4.30/5pm, you can forget it. I cruised by last year when Blonde Redhead was scheduled, by 5.30 I think the line ended somewhere near Dinosaur Bar B Que.
But Pier 54 plays host to many rad happenings; here's the events page.
The first time I heard American Analog Set I thought I'd discovered the UK's version of Wilco. Turns out they were fronted by a Texan. huh.
Andrew Kenny has now formed ~ and is on tour with ~ The Wooden Birds. Their debut album Magnolia was released in May on Arts & Crafts and they play tonight at The Bell House in Brooklyn.
As unfathomable as it seems, Kenny's somehow achieved an even mellower sound ~ mellowerestest even ~ than his days with AmAnSet. wow. Well done, cowboy.
And here's a sampling from that aforementioned british wilco band:
Here are The Drums. They've made The Annex their home through June and will be there tonite with a host of additional NY dates yet this summer. Their EP Summertime is due out August 4th.
These guys have a buzz going for their live performances steeped in 50's surf rock with blended gloomy 80's pop. It's easy to say that the small, intimate venues won't be holding them for long.
Bjork has just released her latest project, Voltaic, to the masses. And rather than hit us with the next wave of sonic sounds of the Nordic persuasion, Bjork + band have offered more of a retrospective of their cannon.
Prior to touring their last album Volta, released in 2007, the group recorded live to tape selections from Medulla, Homogenic, Post, Vespertine and Volta. These performances are what make up the Voltaic release.
The Jamaican, black metal band Major Lazer is a collaborative musical project from DJ/Producers Diplo and Switch.
As if the video leaves any questions, Major Lazer is a Jamaican commando who lost an arm in a secret zombie war and has since replaced it with a highly rad and girthy automatic weapon. He fights vampires and various monsters, parties hard and rides a rocket-powered skateboard circa 1984.
Back on planet earth, the duo released their first album Guns Don't Kill People... Lazers Do on June 16th, 2009. Being a pretty big deal, tons of people collaborated on this album recorded at Tuff Gong Studios in Jamaica.
Diplo and Switch previously worked together to produce artists Sanitgold and M.I.A. ~ being nominated for a Grammy with M.I.A's song Paper Planes from her 2007 album, Kala.
Major Lazer is currently on tour. I think they were in NYC a week or so ago. Bummer to have missed it.
