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Monsters of Folk
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Monsters of Folk is a folk supergroup comprised of Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis, My Morning Jacket’s Jim James and singer/songwriter M.Ward. The group has a self-titled debut album coming out on September 22. A track from the album is available for free on their website and it’s called “Say Please.” To get it go to the site and type “please” into the request form.
The four have toured together before, back… More »
Juana Molina Played Summerstage
Spanish songstress Juana Molina played a free show at Central Park’s Summerstage last night. The weather was perfect and she was great, playing songs from her many albums.If you missed her, she just announced a show at Music Hall of Williamsburg on August 20 (tickets go on sale Friday at noon). Click here to see the rest of Summerstage’s schedule this summer.
Images: Devorah Klein (sorry for the blurry pictures, my camera was mesed up!)… More »
Dinosaur Jr. Playing Summerstage
Image: Devorah Klein
The final show at Central Park’s Summerstage has been announced: Dinosaur Jr. will be playing and The Walkmen will open for them. And, it’s FREE! Dinosaur Jr.’s new album Farm comes on June 23. It seems like only a distant memory when they were broken up….(from 1997-2005)… More »
Sharon Jones, Naomi Shelton Played Summerstage
Summerstage’s final show was yesterday, Sunday August 17 and it was a doozie. Naomi Shelton and the Gospel Queens played first, followed by the Menahan Street Band, and finally by Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings. Sharon Jones, who is only 4’11″, has the most spectacular stage presence, and an incredible voice to go with it. From her fabulous dress to calling hot men on stage to dance with her to doing James Brown dances like the boogaloo, Jones was… 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 »
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 »
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 »
Once Screening for Free, Swell Season on Tour
Highline Ballroom is giving a free screening of the movie Once, featuring Glen Hansard of the Irish band the Frames and Czech singer Market Irglova, and much of their music, this Saturday, July 19. Doors are at 7 p.m., movie starts at 8 p.m. The movie is excellent, I highly recommend it.
The two musicians now tour as the Swell Season and will be at the Saratoga Music Festival with Bob Dylan and others on August 17 and at Central Park’s… 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 »
Paper Route
A new band called Paper Route releases their debut EP today, Are We All Forgotten.
They are head out on tour today and will be at Mercury Lounge on August 18 and Summerstage with the Final Riot Tour, along with Phantom Planet, Jack’s Mannequin, and Paramore on August 28. See below for all dates. Also, here’s an MP3 to check out and some clips created by them to accompany the EP.
Tour Dates:
July
8 Birmingham, AL – WorkPlay Theatre
10 Chapel Hill, NC… More »
July 4 Weekend
While many people are going away, including me (I’m hitting up the Jazz Festival in Montreal!), there is tons going on in NYC for your listening pleasure:
July 4
1:00: Ponytail, The Apes, Indian Jewelry, Marnie Stern, Double Dagger, Power Douglas at The Yard, part of a Todd P Party. $8 in advance, $10 at the door.
3:30: Sonic Youth and the Feelies in Battery Park. Free, but you need to have tickets that have already been distributed.
4:00: Japanther, Hidden Power, Dear Friends,… More »
Mosh Ben Ari Reprise
Mosh Ben Ari @ Summerstage
Photo Permission: Shemspeed/Erez Safar
If you missed him in Central Park on Sunday because of the rain, Israeli musician Mosh Ben Ari is playing at Music Hall of Williamsburg tomorrow (Tuesday) night with Diwon, Y-Love, Electro Morocco, and special guests. You can get tickets at Holyland Market at 122 Saint Marks Place in Manhattan…. More »
Free Shows This Weekend
Cold War Kids at Pianos, May 3, 2006
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There is a ton of free stuff going on this weekend, and it should be packed like this every weekend for the rest of the summer…woohoo! Here’s what’s going on:
Friday:
Cold War Kids @ Prospect Park Bandshell
A Place to Bury Strangers and King Khan & the Shrines @ South Street Seaport
Times New Viking and ACME @ the Whitney Museum
Saturday:
Obits and Titus Andronicus @ East River Park
Crookyln Dodgers Reunion @… More »
Yael Naim at Summerstage
Israeli songstress Yael Naim played at Summerstage in Central Park on Sunday night. It was a beautiful evening, the rain finally clearing up and the temperature finally cooling down. Naim has songs in Hebrew, French, and English, including a cover of Britney Spears’ “Toxic” and the song “New Soul,” which is on the MacBook Air commercial. Naim’s voice is exquisite and the arrangements are unique and interesting, thanks in part to her musical collaborator, David Donatien. I wonder if she… More »
First Free Park Shows
19 January 2008 – New York, NY – Isaac Hayes at the B.B.King Blues Club & Grill.
Photo Credit: Lionel Urman/Sipa Press/0801222041
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Celebrate Brooklyn in Prospect Park has its inaugural show tonight with none other than Isaac Hayes. It’s free and sure to be a good time so come on down. Tomorrow (Friday) Central Park will christen Summerstage with Mavis Staples, another amazing soul singer. The schedules only improve from there so click on the… More »
The National, She & Him, Ratatat On Sale Friday
Yeasayer @ Brooklyn Masonic Temple
Photo Permission: Devorah Klein
The National, Yeasayer, and Plants and Animals (whose debut album I happen to really like) have been added to the SummerStage lineup and will be there on August 4. She & Him (M.Ward and Zooey Deschanel) are returning to NYC to play a show at Terminal 5 on July 26. And Finally, Ratatat have a new album coming out and will be at Music Hall of Williamsburg on July 15. All of… More »
Central Park Announces Summerstage Schedule
Finally!!
June 13: Mavis Staples and Stephanie McKay
June 14: Vampire Weekend, Kid Sister, Ecstatic Sunshine
June 15: Victor Manuelle and Special Guests
June 20: Comedy Night with Stephen Lynch and Mike Birbiglia
June 22: Yael Naim, David Donatien, Piers Faccini
June 26: Thievery Corporation, Seu Jorge with Bebel Gilberto and Federico Abuele*
June 28: Vieux Farka Toure, Fallou Dieng, Kaleta & ZoZo Afrobeat
June 29: Mosh Ben Ari, Rupa and the April Fishes, Y-Love, DJ Diwon
July 5: Rachid Taha, Dengue Fever, Apollo Heights
July 6: Seun Kuti and… More »
Lots More Free Summer Shows
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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 »