Category Archives: Show Reviews

5 Reasons To Go To The NEW Magic Monday

Posted on November 30, 2011 | Leave a comment

If you read our site often, you are already thoroughly annoyed by my love for a little party called Magic Monday. I believe I’ve covered it three times before, while it was running at my favorite Lower East Side bar,  St Jerome’s, so you might know a bit about it already. What you might not know, though, is that Magic Monday has been reincarnated. New York City club owner, writer, and overall leather-jacket-wearing-beer-drinking-LES-roaming-guy Luc Carl, has helped rebirth this party at his new decadent club, The Casino. For those of you that are nervous to make the switch from the St. Jerome’s Magic Monday to the new space, let me give you a little push. Dip your toes, my friends, the water feels real nice (No, really, there’s an indoor fountain/waterfall in the new club…). Continue reading →

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Guest Blog: Ash Fox talks Scott Weiland

Posted on July 2, 2011 | Leave a comment


Scott Weiland
Gramercy Theater
May 18th
By Ash Fox

Our favorite fashion maven/nightlife photographer/blogger, Ash Fox, is now also our newest writer. Check back for more from Ash on rock n’ roll style and New York experiences. Below is Ash’s first blog on Scott Weiland’s May show at the Gramercy Theater: Continue reading →

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Event: Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger plays R2R Festival

Posted on June 25, 2011 | Leave a comment

Last night, Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger, experimental folk band formed by Sean Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl, played at River To River Festival’s South Street Seaport stage. The group, who previously released an acoustic album, adapted their songs into full-band form for the show, evoking spirits of 60′s psychedelic folk rock with Lennon’s long, soaring guitar solos and Kemp Muhl’s soft, haunting harmonies.

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7 Reasons To Go To Magic Monday

Posted on June 15, 2011 | 1 Comment

Back in October, we published an article about a then young Lower East Side weekday phenomenon known as Magic Monday. The Monday night festivities, held at St Jerome’s on Rivington, and brought to life by an exciting group of people, from bar regulars to DJs to singers and dancers, have grown from intimate to out of control in a very short amount of time. After spending about nine more months frequenting Magic Mondays, I’ve realized that there’s much, much more to talk about. So here it is, 7 Reasons To Go To Magic Monday, an article where I will name-drop my best friends and brag about my favorite local dive bar.
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Review: The Strokes

Posted on April 2, 2011 | 3 Comments


The Strokes
Madison Square Garden, Manhattan
April 1, 2011

Forget all that you’ve read. Julian Casablancas, Albert Hammond Jr., Nikolai Fraiture, Nick Valensi, and Fabrizio Moretti are boxing in the title fight of a lifetime. Weighing in at (most likely) a collective 800 pounds of unwashed hair, Fender equipment, and general insanity, The Strokes tore Madison Square Garden down to the ground and built it up again. Like a bruised fighter who gets battered for a few bloody rounds only to rise up and win with an impassioned blow, New York’s garage rock kings just sent a massive “Fuck You” to every spiritless critic who has scorned them since their return to the spotlight. The Strokes belong to New York City and we belong to them, with all of our night owls, bar rats, starving artists, and party girls. They make their music for us. The same blood runs through our veins. With that, tonight was as much of a “Thank You” as it was a “Fuck You”. Oh, and Elvis Costello was there, too. Continue reading →

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Review: Fences

Posted on February 23, 2011 | 2 Comments


Fences
February 19th, 2011
The Mercury Lounge, Lower East Side

Christopher Mansfield rarely opens his eyes. Maybe it’s for fear of looking out into the Mercury Lounge and seeing the sweeping sudden success he’s had in music since just 2010, or maybe he’s just exhausted from writing really good songs. Continue reading →

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Review: Kelle Calco & The Colored Boys

Posted on February 23, 2011 | 1 Comment


Kelle Calco & The Colored Boys
TrashandVaudeville.com Launch Party
Don Hills, Lower West Side
February 21st, 2011

Hanging out in Lower Manhattan is a lot like living in a time capsule full of mementos from bygone eras and landmarks of rock music, you just have to know where to find the entrance (and know how to get your name on the list at the door, of course). Figuratively speaking, last night wasn’t Don Hill’s Club on the Lower West Side, it was CBGB’s. The opening band wasn’t a local Brooklyn glam punk group, it was The Stooges. The group of grungy leather-clad twenty-somethings that stood next to me in the crowd weren’t just hipsters off the street, they were Guns N’ Roses, fresh off the sunset strip. And most off all, Kelle Calco & The Colored boys weren’t just a band, they were the band. Kelle Calco was Mick Jagger, and with my camera, I was Mick Rock. Oh wait, Mick Rock was actually there last night… Continue reading →

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Review: Patti Smith for The Poetry Project

Posted on February 10, 2011 | 3 Comments


Patti Smith & Lenny Kaye for The Poetry Project
St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery, Lower East Side
February 9th, 2011

In a church service like no other, “Godmother of Punk” Patti Smith brought a couple hundred people to their feet Wednesday night at St. Mark’s Church, fists pumping and voices rising to the 200-year-old ceiling to the tune of “Gloria,” the lead track off her revolutionary punk-rock-meets-poetry album, Horses. Forty years ago today, she and guitarist Lenny Kaye did their first poetry performance in this very spot, with New York legends Andy Warhol, Lou Reed, Sam Shepard, Robert Mapplethorpe and others in the front row of the audience. Last night, those ghosts were palpable in the space simply referred to as “the sanctuary.” Continue reading →

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Review: Tapes ‘n Tapes

Posted on February 7, 2011 | Leave a comment


Tapes N Tapes
February 4th, 2011
Music Hall Of Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Jesus listens to Tapes ‘n Tapes. Not metaphorically. And not like how John Lennon said that The Beatles were bigger than Jesus. Not even to try to make them seem like the most important band ever. Jesus Christ literally has these midwest indie rockers on his iPod. Right after picking up my press pass at the Music Hall Of Williamsburg, I checked my phone and found that I was being tweeted at by a mysterious Jesus Twitter account saying that he was going to the Tapes ‘n Tapes show too. Strange, but why not? They are really really good. Continue reading →

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Review: Lissie

Posted on February 4, 2011 | Leave a comment


Lissie
January 28th, 2011
Webster Hall, East Village

“I’m a scorpio, so you better watch out.”
More than her astrological sign, though, watch out for Lissie’s set list. Fellow female folk musicians especially. Don’t expect Elisabeth Maurus to put on a babydoll dress and sing pressed against auto-harp or toy piano, or anything of the sort. As of late, girls in folk rock have gotten the bad rep of being no more than walking, talking, Urban Outfitters ads with breathy vocals stuttering “I love him”. As for Lissie, having style is all about attitude and skill, sans gimmicks. Cue the tequila and telecasters. Continue reading →

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