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High Places Contest
Don’t forget to enter to win tickets to see High Places and Grouper this Friday at the New Museum, and I have two High Places albums to give away! Email me at bigapplemusicscene@gmail.com and tell me what you’re doing to keep warm. Contest ends at 6 pm tonight!!!
Image: Paco Barba, Thrill Jockey… More »
Win tickets to see High Places and their CD!
Is everyone as depressed as I am that it is so darn cold outside?? To cheer us up, I have two tickets and two CDs to give away! Hurrah!
First prize: Two tickets to see High Places and Grouper at the New Museum on Friday, February 13. This should be a really fun party at a really cool museum! If you don’t win, you can still buy tickets here. Also, you will get a copy of the High Places’ latest full-length… More »
After the Jump CMJ Fest
Passion Pit @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Photo permission: Devorah Klein
After the Jump is sponsoring an end of CMJ BBQ at the Yard on Saturday. Lineup:
12pm – Fight Bite
1pm – High Places
2pm – The Homosexuals
3pm – Women
4pm – Bearsuit
5pm – MBAR
6pm – Passion Pit
7pm – The Ruby Suns
8pm – Crystal Stilts
Admission is $10… More »
CMJ Schedule
CMJ starts next week and there is going to be a ton of stuff going on. You don’t need a badge to get into a lot of stuff, but you will need to buy tickets in advance for some. This is by no means a definitive list, but more a list of stuff I’m excited for!
10/21
8 PM Gringo Star / 9 PM Wild Light (Ourstage.com) / 10 PM Cheeseburger / 11PM Vivian Girls@ Red… More »
High Places, the Drones, Earl Greyhound Tonight
High Places @ Pitchfork Festival 2008
Photo Permission: Devorah Klein
Brooklyn’s own High Places is playing with Crystal Stilts, Deastro, and Breathe Owl Breathe at (le) Poisson Rouge. $8 tickets are still available.
Also playing tonight are the Drones at Union Hall with Brothers & Sisters and Tall Pines. $10 tickets are still available.
Earl Greyhound is also playing a show tonight at a place called The Calhound School, which is at the Mary Lea Johnson Performing Arts Center. If you miss them tonight… More »
Lots of Free Stuff This Weekend!!
Even though McCarren Pool is closed (probably forever) and the parks are done with their free summer concert series, there are still some great free events going on this weekend! Long live summer!
Saturday:
East Village Radio Festival with KRS-One, Boris, Awesome Color, Vivian Girls, High Places, Dr. Lonnie Smith, The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, Flying Lotus, Ólöf Arnalds, 4-IZE, Devin the Dude, John Oliver of The Daily Show @ South Street Seaport
….And simultaneously, at the… More »
East Village Radio Festival
East Village Radio is having a festival all day on Saturday, September 6 at South Street Seaport. Here is the lineup:
4-ize 12:30 – 1:15
Hypnotic Brass Ensemble 1:15 – 1:45
Dr. Lonnie Smith 1:55 – 2:25
Olof Arnolds 2:35 3:05
Vivian Girls 3:15 – 3:45
High Places 3:55 – 4:25
Awesome Color 4:35 – 5:05
John Oliver 5:05 – 5:20
Devin the Dude 5:20 – 5:50
Flying Lotus 6:00 – 6:30
KRS ONE 6:45 – 7:15
Ronson 7:15 – 7:45
BORIS 7:45 – 9:00… More »
CMJ Announces Initial Lineup
High Places @ Pitchfork Music Festival
CMJ, the annual music conference in New York akin to SXSW in Austin, has announced its initial lineup, which includes some previously announced shows. You can usually buy tickets to individual shows, or get a badge and hope to get in. If you register by August 19 you get 15% off the “all-access” badge (but sometimes the badge can’t get you in to certain shows anyway…). Here’s the lineup so far:
3OH!3, A Place to… More »
Pitchfork: Sunday, Part I
After getting some rest, the day finally started with some sun. Yeah!
The small stage was somehow already running behind, but that worked out well for me because this way I got to see Dirty Projectors and High Places, two more bands I had been meaning to check out for a while. Both are brooklyn bands that have gotten a lot of buzz, and I can now safely say that both deserve it. Dirty Projectors is totally not what I was… More »
Free Shows This Weekend
Ah summer. Another weekend, another long list of free shows. Here’s this weekend’s schedule:
Friday:
Brazilian Girls @ Prospect Park Band Shell
No Age @ South Street Seaport
The Breeders @ Other Music (must have tickets)
Rennie Harris Puremovement (hip-hop dance) @ Central Park Summerstage
Saturday:
Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival @ the Bodega
Afro-Punk Festival @ Ft. Greene Park
Beth Orton @ Prospect Park Band Shell
Julieta Venagas @ Central Park Summer Stage
Sunday:
The Breeders, Matt & Kim @ McCarren Park Pool
Afro-Punk Festival Block Party @ Clinton Ave. btwn Myrtle and Willoughby
Mobius… More »
What to Look Forward To
High Places
Photo by: Hisham Baroocha
Photo Permission: Paco Barba, Thrill Jockey Records
Serendipitously, a few days after I did my post on the best albums of the year that have come out so far, Pitchfork has done a list on what to look forward to in the rest of 2008, and boy is it all-inclusive. I’m personally psyched for the new albums from Ratatat, Annie, Brazilian Girls, Chad VanGaalen, Missy Elliot, Of Montreal, Deerhunter, Fujiya & Miyagi, Re-Up Gang, and Clipse,… More »
Free High Places Show Tonight
Apparently Stuyvesant Town has been hosting some free music in the Oval and tonight Brooklyn’s High Places will be there with DJ Pocketknife at 6 pm. On July 9 DJ Basquelo will be there with Slavic Soul Party and on July 16 DJ Duane Harriott will be there with the Easy Star All-Stars.
Album cover of High Places’ 03/07-09/07
Photo Permission: Paco Barba, Thrill Jockey
High Places is releasing their first offering, a compilation of singles and some rarities, called 03/07-09/07 out… More »
Upcoming Todd P BBQ and More
Ponytail – The Knitting Factory, NYC – May 31st, 2008
Photo Permission by Chris LaPutt
Todd P says:
Sunday June 29th @ SOUTHERN TIP OF ROOSEVELT ISLAND
:: (SUMMER)TIME UNAMPLIFIED ACOUSTIC BBQ
:: an afternoon of folks playing songs lackadaisical-like
:: 4TH ANNUAL BBQ!
:: Extra Life —————> duo version
:: Aa aka BIG A little a
:: Warmer Milks
:: Pink Reason
:: Pterodactyl ————-> duo plus buds!
:: the Shoe —————> feat Jena Malone
:: Stars Like Fleas
:: Ezekiel Healy
:: Dave and Ryan from Tall Firs
:: the So… More »
Oneida, Black Lips, Abe Vigoda, and More Play Todd P Shows
Promoter Todd P has some great shows coming up for the summer at various locations, but there are a few that stand out:
June 5: Black Lips @ Ridgewood Temple
June 14: Love Is All, Cause Co-Motion, Vivien Girls @ Market Hotel
June 28: Trachtenberg Family Slideshow Players, Belaire (members of Voxtrot), Vivian Girls @ Market Hotel
July 9: Menaguar @ venue tba
July 12: Oneida, High Places, Titus Andronicus, Abe Vigoda and more @ outdoor venue tba
July 21: Mae Shi, Japanther, and one more… More »
No Age and High Places Tonight
If you haven’t seen these locals yet, head to the Bowery Ballroom tonight to see No Age, fresh off the release of the excellent Nouns, who are playing with the also excellent High Places. I don’t think anyone could have a bad time there. Tickets are still available here…. More »
NY Times Reports on Brooklyn Scene
Following in MTV’s footsteps, The New York Times had a piece yesterday about the Brooklyn music scene. Check it out in full here, but here are some highlights:
A nice little recap of why music out of Brooklyn is cool:
“For rock bands this is a great time to be weird and independent in Brooklyn. After years in which the sound of New York was defined by various shades of retro monochrome — the new wave minimalism of the Strokes, the disco-punk… More »