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Top 10 NYC Shows this Weekend: Trashed Museums, Bands We Thought Were Fictional and Pancakes

Published June 26th, 2009 by Karen

ABOVE: If you’re lucky, maybe they won’t play this awful movie soundtrack ballad. Aerosmith hasn’t been cool since the ’70s, and the band is finally admitting it. See the guys play their classic album Toys in the Attic in its entirety during their upcoming tour. Find out where, below.

Each weekend in NYC there are so many concerts that it’s hard to decide which ones to attend.
So, to help you decide where to go, we’ve assembled a list of the weekend’s best concerts based on some interesting categories, including:

Best Place to See if Rock Bands and Priceless Art Collections are a Bad Combination.
Best place to See a Band We Sort of Thought was Invented for a Credit Card Commercial.
Best Place to Be Slightly Disappointed That There are No Pancakes.
Best Place to See Sexagenarians Out-Rock Youngsters. Seriously.
Best Place to Wish You’d Never Heard “Stacy’s Mom,” Unplugged.
And More!

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

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Rachel Ray rockin’ South by Southwest 2009 with the Hold Steady?

Published January 29th, 2009 by Karen

flickr photo by fuzuoko The massive annual music festival South by Southwest doesn’t take over all the music venues in Austin, TX until March, but the pre-show parties are already cookin’—literally.

Love her/hate her TV cook Rachel Ray is setting up her second SXSW party. Last year’s bash was a surprise hit among indie-rock types who are normally too cool for-Oprah-approved chefs.

Ray, whose husband is in a band called the Cringe, is rumored to have lined up high profile acts such as the critically drooled over the Hold Steady for her SXSW 2009 party. Maybe she lured them in with free donuts (she is, after all, the spokeswoman for Dunkin Donuts).

While details of Ray’s SXSW 2009 invasion are still foggy, details of her February 25 shindig in NYC have been revealed. Continue reading »