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We're Not Out of Ammo Yet
Artists mentioned:"why? why have i resisted radiohead for SO long? failed to see their greatness and just give in already. well, partly because i hate to be told what to do. doubt should be anybody's natural inclination when they're being bombarded with how great something is--and that's one reason why i...(read full post)
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Uno Amor Something Something Something (Erykah Badu, Wingate Field, 8/5/08)
Artists mentioned:Monday night at a baseball high school football field in Brooklyn, Erykah Badu tried to pull several thousand people into her brain. Some climbed in her head willingly; some walked away shaking their own.Wait.Erykah Badu - The Healer (mp3) (buy)Badu released a weird, indulgent, amazing record in February that will wind up near, if not...(read full post)
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It is Too Nice Out to Even Think About Blogging
Artists mentioned:Haven't gone radio silent yet. Have some intentions of retrotackling this weekend's African Festival, last weekend's Siren Festival (someone has to!), the weekend-before-that's Afro-Punk Festival. (Fethtival fethtival fethtival!) Maybe briefly mourn Be Your Own Pet, maybe down a few with Ida Maria, maybe talk about how Batman Returns>Dark Knight (someone...(read full post)
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"It's Rock and Roll. Remember? Isn't it Fabulous?" (Semi Precious Weapons, Mercury Lounge, 7/28/08)
Artists mentioned:"This is our first 21+ show. Usually there's a row of underage girls up front showing me their vaginas. And they're not here and that's kind of freaking me out."I've come to see if I can erase, or at least absolve, the guilt from the pleasure I've gotten from We...(read full post)
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"I Think This is a Massive Ball of Undergarments" (MGMT/BMSR/TT, McCarren Park Pool, 7/27/08)
Artists mentioned:For three summers, now, the JellyNYC folks have hosted solid line-ups and provided a casual atmosphere for a series of free Sunday shows at McCarren Park Pool. They're all worth attending, they're free, duh (upcoming shows include The Felice Brothers/Eli "Paperboy" Reed, Black Lips/King Khan & His Shrines). But I...(read full post)
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Joanie Loves Qatsi
Artists mentioned:Every summer brings a ton of free shows to this town, and I've already missed more than my fair share. But when the schedules went up, there was a single event which got circled and exclamation-pointed and gold-starred and kitty-stickered. Tonight, in Prospect Park, Philip Glass and his ensemble...(read full post)
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Creepy Little Sneaky Little
Artists mentioned:Miley Cyrus, "Fly on the Wall"(No mp3, duh. Disney'd string me up by my nutsack and order merry, 2-D woodland creatures to gnaw at my innards.)My father worked for the airlines. Nothing glamorous - and at the start of the 30+ years he worked for Delta, I think there might...(read full post)
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We Held Our Tongues Throughout It (Siren Music Festival 2007, That's Right, 2007, Bite Me)
Artists mentioned:Holy lousy sound system, Batchaps, the annual Village Voice Siren Festival is today! A stirring reminder that I never posted a recap of last year's Siren Festival. And timeliness is next to godliness. On, like, the other side. Anyway.I'm not sure how much I'll remember, but last year's pictures were...(read full post)
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Life During Tea Time
Artists mentioned:(pic via)We've always needed assumptions and projections and fantasies to survive. We've always needed to sort events into predisposed options and progressions. We need easily understood reasons, we need easy-to-follow storylines. Either/Or, Three Acts, Fiscal Quarters.One of the failings of human beings in the 21st Century is that, in our...(read full post)
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You Can Jive
Artists mentioned:(pic courtesy of)It's almost here! It's finally almost here!Fanboys have been all in a tizzy! A tizzy! Critics have been ejaculating buckets full of descriptive phrases and opinionry! It's a movie! A movie that opens this week! A long-awaited movie you can see projected in a theater starting OMG2morrow (and...(read full post)
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The Second Step is Really Fucking Enjoying Your Problem
Artists mentioned:Occasionally, in real life, I'll run into someone who reads this blog. And because there's nothing else interesting about me they'll say, "Hey, how's that Party Cake thing going?" (actual quote). Or, "Had your Party Cake yet today?" Or the like.Well, let me tell you how that Party Cake thing...(read full post)
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Let Us Now Praise Crazy Bitches
Artists mentioned:[painting of Julie Christmas by myspace.com/allthethingsiveneversed]Brooklyn's Made Out of Babies (myspace) were responsible for one of my favorite records of 2006. Coward was necessary, desperate music. Someone had backed it into a corner, done bad things to it. For forty minutes it lashed out, punching the air, screaming into a...(read full post)
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Possibly Maeby
Artists mentioned:"[Arrested Development is] kind of the best thing I have going at the moment." - Austin's Manhattan's ("It's so expensive here") Brooklyn's Annie Clark (Libra)Show's been off the air for a couple years, of course. Almost as long as it's been since I've caught Clark's band (myspace). Then, it was...(read full post)
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"This is the Part Where We Beg Them. SARCASTICALLY." (Seun Kuti & Egypt 80, Central Park Summerstage, 7/06/08)
Artists mentioned:Consider this out-of-focus shot as part of an ongoing tribute to bad ontheinternet live concert snaps....or an acknowledgement of missed opportunities. A mental coin flip put this show over Ronnie Spector, and just this weekend I'd already let slip the start of the AfroPunk festival and free time with Sonic...(read full post)
