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News + video: Monster Island Block Party is happening all day long tomorrow - Watch a video of Aa playing last year
By John Ruscher
Friday, September 3rd, 2010
The annual Monster Island Block Party goes down tomorrow with a bunch of awesome bands. It's free! See you there!
Click here to check out a video of Aa playing last year's block party...
News: Cake Shop trying to raise money to start an online video series through Kickstarter - 7 days to go
By John Ruscher
Friday, September 3rd, 2010
Cake Shop, the home to many great shows over the past five years, is trying to raise some funds to start an online video series and more. Here's an excerpt from their description of the project on Kickstarter:
"Cake Shop is hoping to give exposure to talented new bands by developing original content and programing for our web-site: Cake-Shop.com. Through Kickstarter, we want to raise as much money as possible in the true indie/D.I.Y tradition. Phase one of the project is to produce a web-series which mixes exclusive live performances with fun interviews of up and coming bands. Cake Shop will hand pick some of our favorite new bands then invite our patrons, customers and friends over for a special taped live show. After each performance, the bands will be invited to the upstairs bar area to be interviewed. The interview segments will be loose, casual and open in the hopes of being entertaining, funny and human. The web-series will also showcase underground comedians from our Tuesday evening stand-up showcase."
There are only 7 days left to contribute, and right now they're still pretty far from their goal of $10,000. Depending on how much you donate, you can get everything from a vote for which bands are featured in the video series ($5) to your own 30-second commercial that will be included at the end of a video ($5000), with many other goodies for contributions in between those amounts.
Click here to check out a video of Ty Segall playing in the Cake Shop bathroom...
Video: Lou Barlow playing Sebadoh's "Soul and Fire" on a ukulele at Mercury Lounge on Wednesday
By John Ruscher
Friday, September 3rd, 2010
Here's a video of Lou Barlow playing "Soul and Fire" from Sebadoh's 1993 album Bubble and Scrape at Mercury Lounge on Wednesday, courtesy of spoonman462. Just Lou and a ukulele! Check out more videos from the show here.
Barlow plays Maxwell's in Hoboken on Saturday.
Photos + video: Boogie Boarder's final show at Union Pool last night, including a cover of Suicide's "Rocket U.S.A."
By John Ruscher
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
Boogie Boarder's set last night at Union Pool was apparently their last ever, sadly. Heavy Cream headlined the show, and you can check out photos and video of their set here.
Check out a video of Boogie Boarder covering "Rocket U.S.A." by Suicide, as well as a few photos from the show, below.
Photos + video: Heavy Cream at Union Pool on Wednesday - They play Cake Shop tonight, The Rock Shop and Death By Audio next week
By John Ruscher
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
Last night we saw Nashville's Heavy Cream at Union Pool. Check out some videos and photos below.
Heavy Cream has three more shows in NYC in the next few days, and we highly recommend catching one of those sets.
They play tonight at Cake Shop with Party Police, Unnatural Helpers and The Suzan, Monday at The Rock Shop with Dinowalrus, ELKS and Shingals, and Tuesday at Death By Audio with Liquor Store, Grooms and Hunters.
They'll also be back in New York for CMJ, including a set at the Panache Booking Showcase at the Knitting Factory on October 23.
