City - Monday, November 16, 2009 7:45 - 5 Comments
NYC Shows of the Week
Monday
Part-time member of The New Pornographers. Soul with a country twang.
Legendary hardcore ensemble.
Tuesday
No words (except that he is playing a Thursday show, too)
A supergroup consisting of members from The Kills, The Racontours and Queens of the Stone Age. Jack White included.
Wednesday
Bed-Stuy based experimental rock from a Yale-dropout.
Punk from Ohio. ‘Nuff said.
On Campus - Tuesday, November 10, 2009 9:30 - 0 Comments
Alicia Keys Backstage at NYU
It seems Alicia Keys had CNN in tow when she held a concert exclusively for Tischies at Skirball in mid-October. Between clips of the backstage interview and onstage performance are a couple cutaways to the audience. So if you were lucky enough to attend, please enjoy scrutinizing the four seconds of footage searching for your face.
On Campus - Wednesday, November 4, 2009 10:15 - 2 Comments
Vote to Bring Weezer to NYU
So what if you haven’t heard a Weezer song since “Island in the Sun” in middle school? So what if you’re too busy listening to “No Ceilings”? Weezer is still releasing albums — they just released “Raditude” yesterday — and with your help, they could perform at NYU. Of course, you’ll be forced to do something that involves massive corporate advertising (which in this case is brought to you by T-Mobile), but this one isn’t so hard. Just check out this Facebook event:
- Step 1. Go to this website:
http://apps.facebook.com/tmobilecliqchallenge/vote.php
Step 2. Vote for “New York University”
Step 3. Tell all of your friends to vote for NYU too!
Step 4. INVITE EVERYONE TO THIS EVENT!
Even if you don’t like or listen to Weezer, you can still vote for NYU. We promise that it will not damage your street cred.
Featured, On Campus - Monday, November 2, 2009 11:35 - 2 Comments
NYU Halloween Punk Showcase
A comprehensively tattooed man dressed up in a pink tutu and blonde wig gutturalizing lyrics as he swayed across stage may have been the most terrifying moment of my Halloween weekend. The NYU Program Board’s A Refined Evening of Hardcore at Le Poisson Rouge lived up to half the title. The photographs after the jump comprehensively capture the spirit of the night. NYPD showed up after an unruly non-NYU show-goer “had an altercation” with a female bar tender, despite (or perhaps because…?) no alcohol being served at the event.
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On Campus - Friday, October 23, 2009 13:30 - 0 Comments
Video of “Fallin’” From Free Alicia Keys Concert
For those non-Tisch Alicia Keys fans who found that “Every Little Bit (of not getting into the free concert) Hurts,”* you’re in luck: NYU student Max Meyers grabbed a video of the singer/songwriter performing one of her signature hits.
And even better, the quality is strikingly good for one of those concert bootlegs, presumably because this isn’t anything like recording Fucked Up from stage left of the mosh pit. Anyway, enjoy.
*Special thanks to Wikipedia’s list of Alicia Keys singles for helping me formulate that awful, awful pun.
On Campus - Friday, October 16, 2009 14:30 - 3 Comments
Alicia Keys to Perform for Tisch Kids Free
The piano-playing, Jack White-collaborating singer-songwriter is going to be performing at the Skirball Center this coming Wednesday. A moderated Q&A will follow the performance. The kicker? Although the concert’s free, it’s only open to Tischies. If you’re among those, then you have already received or will receive an email explaining how to snag your free ticket. If not, here they are:
STEP 1: Pick up a voucher at 194 Mercer Street (between Bleecker and Houston,
across from Coles), 5th floor, front desk during weekday business hours. The
latest you can pick up your voucher is Tuesday October 20 at 5 pm.
You must bring three things: 1) a NYU ID, 2) a current printout of your Albert
course schedule for verification of your Tisch status, and 3) a copy of this
email. If you do not bring these three items you will not be given a voucher.
Each voucher is good for one ticket. One voucher per unique NYU ID. This email
invitation is not transferable.
Entertainment - Wednesday, September 9, 2009 10:00 - 11 Comments
Concert Review: Battles at Terminal 5
My family and I discovered Battles in 2007, when they made the cover of CMJ Magazine after the release of their first full-length album, Mirrored. When we listened to their single “Atlas,” my sister dubbed the song “tribal chipmunk music” after singer Tyondai Braxton’s warbling distorted vocals, and ever since then I’ve been trying to convince everyone I know (with varying degrees of success) that Battles is the next frontier in rock and roll.
Entertainment - Tuesday, February 10, 2009 14:51 - 0 Comments
Free Lily Allen Concert Tonight
Lily Allen is performing with Matt and Kim, as well as Trouble Andrew tonight at the Bowry Ballroom (6 Delancey St) at 7 pm for free, which means lines will be horrendously long, so get there early. This is a MySpace “Secret Show,” and it’s being sponsored by…TurboTax.
Happen to be friends with a tax-filing service on MySpace? Good for you, because “if you are one of the first 15 people with a print out showing TurboTax in your top friends, you will be guaranteed entrance to the show.”
City - Monday, September 15, 2008 8:48 - 0 Comments
Lightning Bolt Makes Your Ears Bleed
If you were riding the J-M-Z last night past Myrtle Avenue and looked out your window, you might have thought there was a brawl. Hundreds of sweaty, screaming heads just below the subway in what looked like an abandoned lot. But then, you were in Brooklyn on a Saturday night, and you must have heard the music — which Lightning Bolt freely describes as “noise” — long before you saw anything. Lightning Bolt just tends to bring out the violence in people.
People wear earplugs when they listen to Lightning Bolt. The rumor is that if you don’t, they’ll make your ears bleed. Saturday night turned out to be disappointingly un-noisy, maybe because it was an outdoor concert in a partially-residential neighborhood. But that didn’t really take away from the experience, which is primarily that of staying afloat in a heaving morass of people. If you go under, you don’t come back up easily.
