Adele As predicted, Adele was the big winner tonight sweeping all the major categories (Album, Song, and Record) and winning everything she was nominated for, including a bonus Grammy for Paul Epworth for Producer of the Year (non-classical) for 21. The Woody Allen of the Grammys (aka Bon Iver) didn’t do too bad either, taking [...]
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2012 Grammy Winners
Drake’s Take: New Releases 02.07.12
Sharon Van Etten at SXSW (03/18/11) Words: Drake Lelane Photos: D. Caplan (More after the jump) Since February is the shortest month of the year, I’m thinking it’s going to have to be the most condensed with interesting releases, and this first week goes some ways to proving the theory true. New releases from Sharon [...]
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J&R Jr. Grand Opening This Weekend (Laurie Berkner, Dan Zanes)
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J&R Jr. Hey folks, the biggest names in kid entertainment are coming out this weekend (Feb 11-12) to celebrate the grand opening of J&R Jr., which is, “a new NYC boutique for kids & parents featuring the best of the best in baby gear, electronics, toys & more.” J&R Jr. is, of course, brought to [...]
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Showalter Says ‘Wet Hot American’ Sequel Is “Go”, MIB Disputes It
Last night on Andy Cohen‘s celebrity gabfest, Watch What Happens Live, Michael Showalter mentioned that a Wet Hot American Summer sequel was a “go” with the whole original cast on board. This seemingly off the cuff remark caused a bit of a twitterquake and eventually prompted Michael Ian Black to tweet that, “it probably wasn’t [...]
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2012 Juno Nominees Announced and The Most Anticipated Canadian Albums of The Year
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2012 Juno Nominee Dan Mangan Photo: D. Caplan (more) Congrats to all of the artists nominated for the 2012 Juno Awards, but a special big hearty Mazel Tov to Dan Mangan, who was nominated for no less than four Juno Awards this year including: New Artist of The Year, Songwriter of The Year, Alternative Album [...]
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Wednesday’s Presales: Feb 8, 2012
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Madonna at Yankee Stadium (09/12/12) Sep 12 Madonna Yankee StadiumNew York, NY Buy TicketsCitipass Presale Begins:Wed, 02/08/1210:00 AM Mar 9 Daughter Mercury LoungeNew York, NY07:00 PM Buy TicketsAmex presale begins:Wed, 02/08/1212:00 PM Mar 16 Electric Black Horse Mercury LoungeNew York, NY10:00 PM Buy TicketsAmex presale begins:Wed, 02/08/1212:00 PM Apr 1 Will Earl Beal Mercury LoungeNew [...]
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Live From Daryl’s House at The Wellmont w/ Sharon Jones and Allen Stone, Allen Stone On Tour Now (Irving Plaza, Apple Store Tonight)
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Sharon Jones at Celebrate Brooklyn (08/07/10) Photo: Bart Babinski (more) Daryl Hall started Live From Daryl’s House, the free monthly web show in late 2007, after having the idea of “playing with my friends and putting it up on the Internet,” and the show has since garnered acclaim from Rolling Stone, SPIN, Daily Variety, CNN, [...]
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Drake’s Take: New Releases 01.31.12
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Caught up with the Drake. -ed. Leonard Cohen Words: Drake Lelane This week’s collection of releases finds two at the opposite ends of life (and, well, art) in Leonard Cohen and Lana Del Rey. Elsewhere, look out for new releases from Imperial Teen, The Ex-Girlfriends Club, Hospitality, The Pines, Ringo Starr, K’Nan, Mike Doughty, and [...]
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Drake’s Take: New Releases 01.24.12
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Catching up with Drake, always catching up with Drake. -ed. Dylan Baldi’s Cloud Nothings get it together on Attack on Memory Words: Drake LeLane As the first month of 2012 nears its close, we have our very first year-end contender with the sophomore release from Cloud Nothings. Steve Albini’s production combined with Dylan Baldi surrounding [...]
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2012 Sasquatch! Festival Lineup Announced
2012 Sasquatch! Festival (May 25-28, 2012) The lineup for the 2012 Sasquatch! Music Festival (May 25-28, 2012) was announced this morning/last night with (seemingly) less fan-fare than last year. Headliners for this year’s festival include: Jack White, Beck and Bon Iver. Four day festival passes go on sale on Feb 11 at 10:00AM PST at [...]
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Live from The Artists Den Premieres Tonight with Adele, Win an Artists Den Prize Pack (CD, DVD + T-Shirt)
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The first episode of season 4 of Live from The Artists Den premieres tonight (Fri, Feb 3) on public television (WNET 13 in NYC), featuring multi-platinum selling recording artist Adele live from the Santa Monica Bay Woman’s Club. In honor of the season 4 premiere, I’m giving away two Live From The Artists Den prize [...]
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Bruce Springsteen Playing The Apollo (and Lots of Other Sold Out Venues)
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Bruce Springsteen at The Apollo (03/09/12) BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND THE E STREET BAND ANNOUNCE FIRST US LEG OF 2012 ‘WRECKING BALL’ WORLD TOUR Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band launch the first US leg of the 2012 ‘Wrecking Ball’ World Tour on March 18 in Atlanta. Bruce Springsteen’s 17th studio album ‘Wrecking Ball’ will [...]
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Daniel Tosh Tour Dates and Presale Info (Radio City)
Tosh Tour 2012 Timed conveniently with the premiere of the fourth season of Tosh.0 on Comedy Central, Daniel Tosh announced a bunch of new dates for his Tosh Tour Twenty Twelve today. The tremendously popular Tosh will be playing Radio City Music Hall on Apr 13, 2012. Tickets are on Internet presale now and the [...]
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February 2012 Bookstore Events
A surprisingly quiet month at our local B&N’s, especially the USQ mothership. Here are some February 2012 bookstore events that looked interesting to me for one reason or another. Barnes & Noble New York 02/02 Mike Doughty: The Book of Drugs A Memoir (Tri) 02/06 Tom Santopietro: The Godfather Effect (86th & Lex) 02/07 [...]
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Wednesday’s Presales and On Sales: Feb 1, 2012
Guns ‘N Roses at Izod Center (11/17/11) Photo: Jon Klemm (more) Feb 10 Fri Guns N’ Roses Roseland BallroomNew York, NY Buy TicketsOn sale:Wed, 02/01/1212:00 PM Feb 12 Sun Guns N’ Roses Terminal 5 New York, NY Buy TicketsOn sale:Wed, 02/01/1212:00 PM Feb 15 Wed Guns N’ Roses The Ritz(aka Webster Hall)New York, NY Buy [...]
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Young The Giant Playing Central Park Summerstage
Young The Giant at CMJ 2010 (10/20/10) Photo: Jon Klemm (more) Hey folks, another official CPS Summerstage benefit show has been announced for the 2012 season. California’s Young the Giant will play the Rumsey Playfield at Central Park Summerstage on July 16, 2012. For more of this year’s lineup, please check out the 2012 Summerstage [...]
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James McCartney Playing NYC
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James McCartney James McCartney, the only son of Paul and Linda McCartney, made his US television debut on Monday night on The Late Show with David Letterman. While not really touring this time out, James is sticking around the city for a couple of low key gigs including one at the Rockwood Music Hall on [...]
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Win John Mulaney’s “New In Town” on DVD
John Mulaney – New In Town > Do I keep posting about John Mulaney because I hope one day he will invite me on a personal tour of the Saturday Night Live set? In a word, yes. Do I also keep posting about John Mulaney because he’s one of the funniest stand-ups around today? Without [...]
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Southpaw Closing at The End of February
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I’m From Barcelona at Southpaw (08/06/07) Photo: D. Caplan (more) According to the Brooklyn Paper, the pioneering Park Slope club will shutter its doors on February 20 to make way for a kids tutoring center. A long-standing Park Slope concert hall will close and become a tutoring school now that the hood caters more to [...]
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120dB Concert Photography Group Show This Friday
120dB Concert Photography Group Show (01/27/12) Hey folks, occasional Bumpershine photographers, Jessica Amaya and Abbey Braden, are just two of the good people taking part in 120db group photography show that opens this Friday (Jan 27) at Fort Useless in Brooklyn. The details below, if you can’t make it to the opening, the show runs [...]
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