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Top 10 NYC Shows This Week: Rock Girls, Harmonium, Animals, etc. Free mp3s? Yup.

Published May 12th, 2009 by Karen

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Who says you have to wait until Friday to have fun? Not us!

As always, there’s a lot of rockin’ going on in the big city this week.
So, we’re breaking down this week’s top concert options based on some unique categories, including:

Best place to beg a bouncer to let you sneak in to see a panda
Best place to see a gal rock a harmonium
Best place to see the singer who wrote “I Kissed a Girl” 10 years before Katy Perry
Best place to see a band that might sue Coldplay
Best place to make un-funny gay jokes about the band’s name
Best place to find out if cupcakes, beer and pop mix
And more!

Plus: We’ve got free mp3s (Animal Collective, My Teenage Stride, more) and videos you can check out before you go to the shows.

So, what shows are on our list for this week? Let’s find out… Continue reading »

"[...] is shaping up to be a big year for the annual Celebrate Brooklyn Music and Arts Festival at Prospect Park. The fest offers a series of FREE concerts..."

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2009 Celebrate Brooklyn Line-Up: Free Summer Concerts Schedule, Free Mp3s and More!

Published May 4th, 2009 by Karen

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This is shaping up to be a big year for the annual Celebrate Brooklyn Music and Arts Festival at Prospect Park. The fest offers a series of FREE concerts by some big name acts in Brooklyn’s beautiful Prospect Park.

We previously reported that David Byrne (Talking Heads) will perform on the festival’s opening night, giving a free show in the park on June 8. (Free David Byrne/Dirty Projectors MP3.)

The fest has just released the rest of the line-up, which will include a diverse array of artists including indie favorites Dean & Britta (ex-Luna), Blonde Redhead (free Blonde Redhead “23″ mp3), They Might Be Giants, Kronos Quartet, Robert Cray, Crystal Stilts, Big Daddy Kane and dozens more.

Complete line-up details and schedule, after the jump.

2009 Celebrate Brooklyn Schedule Continue reading »

"[...] Plans for the band’s upcoming album and tour are understandably on hold until Yauch’s physicians give him the green light to return..."

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Lollapalooza 2009 Line-up Tool, Kings of Leon and Depeche Mode

Published April 21st, 2009 by Karen

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With the overwhelming onslaught of music festivals hitting fields and stages across the country, it’s easy to forget that one of the founding fests is still around.

Once a travelling music festival spearheaded by Perry Farrell (of the newly reunited Jane’s Addiction), Lollapalooza has reemerged as a yearly event held at one venue.

Taking place August 7-9 at Chicago’s Grant Park, the Lollapalooza 2009 line-up has pretty much been spoiled by leaks and speculation, but the official list is finally up. Big names include Depeche Mode, Tool, the Killers, Jane’s Addiction, Beastie Boys, Kings of Leon and Lou Reed.

We’re not entirely sure why, but the music festival is giving Depeche Mode top billing. What year is it?

The whole line-up looks a lot like all of the other summer festivals (Animal Collective, Vampire Weekend, indie rockers, whoevers). The rest of the line-up (around 100 acts) includes: TV on the Radio, Silversun Pickups, Animal Collective, Decemberists, Snoop Dogg, Neko Case Continue reading »

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“Psycho Killer” in Brooklyn: Free David Byrne Concert

Published April 10th, 2009 by Karen

Talking Heads leader-turned-world music provocateur David Byrne has just been added to the line-up of the upcoming Celebrate Brooklyn concert series.

Byrne will kick-off the summer concert series with a free show on Monday June 8 at the Prospect Park Bandshell. The complete concert line-up Continue reading »

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Free Music: Yeah Yeah Yeahs 7″ Giveaway!

Published March 24th, 2009 by Karen

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The economy sucks, but your rock’n'roll friends are looking out for you.

Right now, Yeah Yeah Yeahs fans can score a free 7″ version of the band’s new single, “Zero“.

Plus, the free “Zero” single includes a remix by everyone’s favorite indie jam-band featuring a guy named Panda Bear, Animal Collective.

The YYYs’ new album, It’s Blitz, wasn’t actually supposed to be released until late April, but now the band is releasing the CD/vinyl March 31 since it is already being leaked online (the official digital release was March 10) .

To grab the free Yeah Yeah Yeahs 7″, just head over to Continue reading »

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Concert News: Springsteen, Phish Headline Bonnaroo 2009

Published February 3rd, 2009 by Karen

Bruce Springsteen seems pretty unstoppable these days, and the just-confirmed news that the Boss is taking his show from the the Super Bowl to Bonnaroo is music to fans’ ears.

Also confirmed, is the appearance of a recently-, perhaps only temporarily-, reunited Phish. (Insert your own patchoulie/hippie/Phish sucks joke here.)

However, the strangest factor in this music festival trifecta is probably the inclusion of industrial rockers Nine Inch Nails as the third big band on the bill.

Fake hippies and mall goths camping together at a music festival in a field somewhere in Tennessee?
Maybe 2009 really is a year of change. Continue reading »

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What’s So Great about Animal Collective “Merriweather Post Pavillion”?

Published January 23rd, 2009 by Karen

This is likely to change in 30 seconds, but at the moment the hottest band buzzing around the indie-rock scene is Animal Collective. The group’s new album, Merriweather Post Pavilion, is already generating reviews so glowing that it has probably secured its spot on many critics’ Best of 2009 lists.

So, what’s so great about this Baltimore band?
Keep reading as we listen to some tracks, sort through the facts and try to demystify this wild bunch. Did we mention that one of the guys is named “Panda Bear”? Yeah, keep reading.

With songs that often flow like languid jam sessions built around soft vocals and a blur of electronics, guitars and various forms of percussion, there doesn’t seem to be much separating these beloved indie-rock experimentalists from hippie jam bands (which are, of course, the arch enemies of hip rockers everywhere). Continue reading »