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Independence Day Weekend Musical Happenings
Hooray for long weekends! Happy almost 4th to you all! Hope you’ll be celebrating wtih some music; here’s what’s going down this weekend:
Thursday (tonight):
Forro in the Dark at the MoMA Sculpture Garden (free, 5:30 pm)
Thee Oh Sees, Golden Triangle, The Beets, German Measles at Glasslands
Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, Tammy Faye Starlite at (le) Poisson Rouge
The Feelies at Maxwell’s
Jay Reatard, Screaming Females, TV Smith of the Adverts at Music Hall of Williamsburg
Cubic Zirconia, Head Automatica, Chico Mann, Dam Funk at Santos… More »
More Free Summer Shows
Image: Newscom
Debbie Harry of Blondie performs for NBC’s Today Show in 2007.
A bunch of free shows for this summer have already been announced, but here are some more! All of these shows listed are FREE!
East River Park (At the Band Shell along the East River in NYC
Between Grand & Jackson Streets):
July 16: Man Man
July 23: Slick Rick
July 30: Ismael Miranda
Asser Levy Park in Coney Island:
August 13: Blondie, Pat Benatar, and The Donnas
Updated South Street Seaport:
Friday, July 3: Here… More »
Seaport Winter Music Series
South Street Seaport will start having winter outdoor concerts! If you are brave enough to withstand the cold on Friday nights from January 30 through February 27, then head on down to the Seaport to catch some free music. Also, they have an ice rink there now!
From the South Street Seaport website:
Brooklyn-based Neckbeard Telecaster and Grand Mal kick off the series on January 30. Neckbeard promises a “Calvacade of Stars on Ice,” from its band of singing bearded… 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 »
Final Seaport Show
The last free South Street Seaport show will be tonight. Previously announced bands Oneida and Endless Boogie will be there, but it was announced yesterday that Raphael Saadiq will be the special guest…. 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 »
To Do This Weekend
Lots going on, as usual…make sure to squeeze something outdoors in before summer is over, especially the final free Pool Party at McCarren with Yo La Tengo!
Friday:
Jupiter One, Your Vegas, Band of Thieves @ Bowery Ballroom
Crystal Stilts, caUSE co-MOTION!, German Measles @ Death By Audio
Professor Murder, Free Blood, Pink Skull @ Music Hall of Williamsburg (FREE)
Grand Archives, Violens @ South Street Seaport (FREE)
The Homosexuals, Looker, Unsacred Hearts @ Union Hall
Saturday:
Don Caballero, An Albatross, Ponytail @ Knitting Factory
Rasputina @ Hio Ballroom
Nico… More »
Dirty Projectors, Sharon Jones, Battles, and More This Weekend For Free
Dirty Projectors @ Pitchfork Music Festival
Photo Permission: Devorah Klein
Lots of great free shows this weekend and hopefully it will be nice weather.
Friday:
Dirty Projectors @ South Street Seaport
Bajofondo @ Central Park Summerstage
Wordless Music @ Damrosch Park Bandshell
Saturday:
Battles and Black Dice @ Central Park Summerstage
Oh No! Oh My! with Write Bloody Publishing authors @ Sound Fix
Sunday:
Aesop Rock, Panther, and Chin Chin @ McCarren Park Pool
Oxford Collapse @ Sound Fix
Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings @ Central Park Summerstage… More »
BUST Party with Amy Sedaris, Morningwood, and More
Bust magazine, a favorite of mine, is celebrating their 15-year anniversary this Tuesday, August 12, at the Spiegletent down by Pier 17. Amy Sedaris is hosting, and musical guests Morningwood, Free Blood, and Leslie Hall, along with various DJs and other performers will all be there to celebrate. Get more information and tickets here…. More »
Weekend Update
Here’s the free stuff that’s going down this weekend:
Friday:
Brother Ali @ South Street Seaport
Saturday:
Roy Hargrove Big Band @ Central Park Summerstage
Sunday:
Black Lips, Deerhunter, King Khan and His Shrines @ McCarren Park Pool
Jamie Lidell and Janelle Monae @ Central Park Summerstage
African Guitar Festival @ Prospect Park Bandshell… More »
What To Do This Weekend
Spiritualized @ Pitchfork Music Festival
Lots going on and lots for free. Check it:
Friday
Atlas Sound, Crystal Stilts @ South Street Seaport. Free.
Ween @ McCarren Park Pool. $37.50.
Sound of Urchin, Tragedy @ Music Hall of Williamsburg. $10.
Valient Thorr, Early Man, Monotonix, The Golden Error @ Bowery Ballroom. $15.
Black Kids, Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson, Zambri @ Santo’s Party House. $15.
The Philip Glass Ensemble @ Prospect Park Bandshell. Free.
Brian Jonestown Massacre @ Terminal 5. $23.
The Subways, the Postelles @ Gramercy Theater. $15.
Freedy Johnston… 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 »
This Weekend
While I am in Chicago this weekend for the Pitchfork Music Festival I’ll be missing plenty great shows in NYC:
Friday
Mary Weiss of the Shangri-Las @ South Street Seaport (free)
Matmos @ (le) Poisson Rouge
Deerhoof @ Prospect Park Bandshell (free)
Dizzee Rascal @ Highline Ballroom
Chris Garneau @ Joe’s Pub
Saturday
Village Voice Siren Music Festival with Broken Social Scene, the Dodos, Stephen Malkamus and the Jicks, Islands, Beach House, and more @ Coney Island (free)
Warm-Up Party with Au Revoir Simone @ P.S. 1
Enter the Dragon… More »
El Guincho Cancels US and Other Dates
So…I am pissed. One of the people I was looking forward to seeing twice this summer has canceled most of his upcoming tour dates. Argentinian El Guincho will no longer be at the Pitchfork Festival in Chicago, or opening for Atlas Sound at a string of dates, including a free show at South Street Seaport on July 25. Pitchfork reports:
A post to the Discoteca Océano blog filed on his behalf notes that El Guincho is exhausted from the whirlwind 2008… More »
Lots More Free Summer Shows
Image Source: River to River
So many venues host (mostly) free shows in the summertime, it’s hard to keep up. There’s McCarren Pool, Central Park, and Prospect Park. But then there’s also Castle Clinton in Battery Park, the Winter Garden at the World Financial Center, and the South Street Seaport. Here’s an update to what I’ve already posted (McCarren so far, Prospect Park so far, Central Park so far):
Winter Garden:
Saturday, May 31, 6:00pm – Sunday, June 1, 6:00am (12-hour… More »
South Street Seaport Having Winter Shows
South Street Seaport has had awesome shows in the summer (Menomena, Animal Collective, Hot Chip, etc.) and now they’re trying their thing with some winter indoor shows called “On-the-Side” at a venue called @Seaport.
The first show is this Friday, February 22 with Beat the Devil at 7 p.m. Also slated for the evening is the premier of an untitled documentary on Beat the Devil by filmmaker Ben Clayton, plus an exhibit of work by artist Jason Frederick and photographer Mitchell… More »