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Your Guide to the Halloween Concerts in NYC
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From this year’s Thompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade, October 26, 2009.
Still figuring out what to do for Halloween? Aside from lots of dog-costume parades, there are a ton of concerts, of course. Listed below are the shows happening on Halloween (Saturday, October 31), including some that were just announced. My picks are in orange.
Flavorpill Halloween: Gods and Heroes. With The Very Best, Bajah + The Dry Eye Crew, DJ Stretch Armstrong, Subswara at a “secret location” (I’m pretty sure… More »
Music Store CMJ Shows
In addition to all the CMJ shows going on at clubs around town, record stores Sound Fix and Other Music and the Apple store in Soho also have quite a few musicians playing free shows there. Here is the schedule:
Sound Fix
Wed, 10/21, 6pm, the Antlers
Thu, 10/22, 6pm, Cymbals Eat Guitars
Other Music
Tue, 10/20, 8pm, El Perro Del Mar
Thu, 10/22, Noon, The Very Best CANCELED
Apple Store Soho
Thu, 10/22 7pm, The xx
Fri, 10/23 7pm, Portugal. The Man… More »
CMJ Update: The Very Best Cancels
Unfortunately, The Very Best, a collaboration between Malawi’s Esau Mwamwaya and Radioclit, and also one of my favorite performers at Pitchfork Music Festival this summer, has had to cancel their CMJ appearances due to “travel circumstances.” They were scheduled to play at their label’s (Green Owl) showcase tonight (Wednesday) at (le) Poisson Rouge. However, other performers Theophilus London, Violens, Grandchildren, Ninjasonik and Nat Geo Music, will still perform. A few other artists had to cancel due to travel issues, among… More »
Pitchfork: Sunday
Sorry for the lapse between days of my reviews (click here for Friday and here for Saturday) but I finally got around to writing up my review of Sunday, July 19 at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago.
We actually managed to get there on time, which was great because it was so empty! We could get places easily and get good spots at the stages. And, the sun even came out a little bit!
I started off my day with The… More »