With a career spanning thirty-odd years, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark are a difficult band to categorize; they’re really a band with two distinct styles, dabbling equally in experimentalism and carefully crafted pop singalongs, mixing the two in varying degrees at…
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BETTY: live at the Highline Ballroom, 9/10/2011
Due in part to the sisterly love (and sibling rivalry) on stage, sitting in the audience at a BETTY show feels very much like you’re at your cousin’s wedding. Only the band is actually worth watching. This performance came at the…
Kid Savant live in New York City
Kid Savant are a band from NYC who are beginning to garner acclaim for their high-tension brand of synthpop. Their live show is sparse and direct: four guys onstage, lit only with projections, building anthems from tones and beats…
Mariachi El Bronx, Legendary Shack Shakers, Two Man Gentleman Band: Live at Brooklyn Bowl, 6/28/2011
On Tuesday June 28th, Brooklyn Bowl hosted a special concert promoted by Sailor Jerry rum. It was a strange bill, each act perfectly compatible with the image of the Sailor Jerry brand, but having very little in common with one…
Gene Colan, 1926-2011
Gene Colan passed away a few days ago. I can’t possibly do justice to this man’s life and career in the space of a few lines of type. He was one of the finest artists ever to grace comic books. …
Urge Overkill: Live at The Bowery Ballroom, 5/17/2011
Urge Overkill visited The Bowery Ballroom on Tuesday night, touring in support of their new LP “Rock & Roll Submarine” (reviewed here). The band stepped onstage just past ten p.m., and proceeded to unleash an hour and a half of…
Stretch And Bobbito Reunion at Le Poisson Rouge, 2/10/11: Photos and Review
Sometime around 1990, two guys went into a college radio station late at night and spent the next few hours playing hip-hop records and cracking each other up. They called themselves Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Garcia, and both went on…