Favorite New Albums & Reissues
Panda Bear - Person Pitch (Paw Tracks)
Tully - Sea Of Joy (Em)
Brenda Ray - Walatta (Em)
Devin The Dude - Waiting To Inhale (Rap-A-Lot)
UGK - Underground Kingz (Jive)
Jim Ford - The Sounds Of Our Time (Bear Family)
Eduardo Mateo - Mateo Solo Bien Se Lame (Lion Productions)
Pantha Du Prince - This Bliss (Dial)
Richard Crandell - In The Flower Of Our Youth (Sound Advice)
Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam (Domino)
Here's this week's installment of Live Catch, Beware Of The Blog's weekly live music guide.
Tonight, Religious Knives (featuring members of Mouthus and Double Leopards) will play at Williamsburg restaurant/performance space Monkey Town. Over at the Issue Project Room, you can hear Canadian electronic musician Mitchell Akiyama.
WFMU favorites Clockcleaner are back in town supporting their great new album on Load Records. The Philadelphia band plays a free show Saturday afternoon for the final installment of the summer concert series at the East River Park Amphitheater.
The So Percussion ensemble will be at The Stone on Sunday night playing a selection of John Cage compositions.
Circle, the pioneers of the New Wave Of Finnish Heavy Metal, are making a rare New York appearance on Monday night. And it's free! Catch them at 8pm at Other Music.
Finally, the current incarnation of Silver Apples will play in the area a bunch of times next week. Drummer Danny Taylor died two years ago, but Simeon Coxe III--who survived a near-fatal tour bus crash in 1999--is now on the road with a new line-up. The band plays a free early show on Wednesday at Cake Shop, followed by a show later that evening at the Knitting Factory, and another show at Silent Barn on Thursday night.
For comprehensive listings, check out our regularly updated Arbitrary Guide To Popular Culture.
Things are slowing down a bit in New York as the summer draws to an end, but there are still some great shows to look forward to over Labor Day weekend and beyond. Here's this week's edition of Live Catch, Beware Of The Blog's guide to live music in WFMU's New York and New Jersey broadcast area.
The summer free concert series at South Street Seaport comes to a close tonight with a terrific bill, Deerhunter and Battles.
This year's Columbia University back-to-school concert is free, outdoors, and open to the public, unless it rains. So if you wake up on Saturday morning and the sun is shining, head up to their campus at 2pm to catch performances by Neptunes-affiliated rappers Clipse and blogger-favorites Vampire Weekend. Later on Saturday evening, you can catch Acid Mothers Guru Guru--a band featuring members of Acid Mothers Temple and Krautrock legends Guru Guru--at the Mercury Lounge.
On Thursday night at Southpaw in Brooklyn, you can see Bill Callahan (formerly known as Smog) and the Sun City Girls' Sir Richard Bishop.
For comprehensive listings, check out our regularly updated Arbitrary Guide To Popular Culture.
It's hard to believe we're only a few of weeks away from Labor Day. The summer is drawing to a close, and that means the annual free concert season is just about over. So if you haven't taken advantage of any of New York's outdoor musical events this year, you don't have much time left! To help you decide what to check out, here's Live Catch, our weekly guide to live music in New York and New Jersey. All of the events listed this week are free and al fresco.
Tonight over at the South Street Seaport, you can watch a performance by New York-via-Ohio rockers The National.
On Saturday evening at the World Financial Center's Winter Garden, experimental musicians Stephen Vitiello and Molly Berg will debut their new piece "Flutter." The 10 minute long composition will be performed on 100 "small, sound-producing objects" which will be attached to parachutes and dropped from 150 feet in the air.
Sunday afternoon bring what could be the last ever McCarren Park Pool concert. After this summer the pool will finally be restored to its original water-filled glory... if you ask me that's nothing to be depressed about. The final show of the summer will be headlined by dance-rock outfits Ghostland Observatory and Yacht.
On Tuesday night, minimal composer and accordionist Pauline Oliveros will debut a new interactive vocal piece titled Worldwide Tuning Meditation at Lincoln Center's Damrosch Park.
For comprehensive listings, check out our regularly updated Arbitrary Guide To Popular Culture.
It's Friday and it's time for Live Catch, Beware Of The Blog's weekly guide to live music in the New York/New Jersey area.
Tonight, the highly photogenic all-girl keyboard trio known as Au Revoir Simone plays a free show at South Street Seaport. You can visit WFMU's archives to listen to their live set on Trouble's show.
On Saturday afternoon at the East River Park Amphitheater, rock minimalist and former Rhys Chatham drummer Jonathan Kane plays for free with his band February. The played live on Brian Turner's show last year, you can listen to the set here. The other artists on the afternoon bill are singer-songwriter and Espers member Meg Baird, and heavily-hyped indie rockers Vampire Weekend. Also on Saturday, glam-punks Glass Candy play at P.S. 1 in Long Island City, Queens, and The Social Registry throws a late summer party near the Gowanus Canal with live sets from Jah Division, Psychic Ills and others.
The Social Registry's party continues on Sunday with a completely different line-up of bands, including Gang Gang Dance and Growing. This summer's penultimate free show at McCarren Park Pool will be headlined by frequent Best Show caller Ted Leo (and his Pharmacists). And Sylvie Courvoisier, whose new album on Tzadik has been played quite a bit on FMU, will do a solo piano performance at The Stone.
Finally, Marley Marl protege and Cold Chillin' Records star MC Shan plays a free show at Queensbridge Park on Tuesday night.
For comprehensive listings, check out our regularly updated Arbitrary Guide To Popular Culture.
If you live in the New York area and you want to hear some live music this week, you've come to the right place. It's gonna be a hot weekend, so those of you who don't have air conditioners might as well check out some free late-summer outdoor concerts.
Tonight, legendary MC and Boogie Down Productions founder KRS-One plays a practically-free show at the
Prospect Park Bandshell.
On Saturday, Antibalas will play a free set of their politically-charged, Fela Kuti-inspired Afrobeat on Governor's Island, just a short ferry ride away from lower Manhattan. Up in Queens, Genesis P-Orridge's reformed Psychic TV will play with Flaming Fire at one of New York's finest art museums, P.S. 1. You can listen to Psychic TV's 2006 live set and interview on Strength Through Failure With Fabio in the WFMU archives.
On Sunday at McCarren Park Pool in Williamsburg, indie rock stalwarts Blonde Redhead will play a free show with Swedish pop sensations I'm From Barcelona.
You can catch Brightblack Morning Light and Endless Boogie playing live on a boat, departing from 23rd Street and sailing up the East River on Monday night.
Finally, on Wednesday night, the great Biz Markie will play a free concert at Jackie Robinson Park in Harlem.
For comprehensive listings, check out our regularly updated Arbitrary Guide To Popular Culture.
