Music, unda da sky
I’ve got a brand new GoldStar a/c from Home De Pot in my window (p.s.: what’s with the Energy Guide using prices from a 1995 gubmint electricity cost chart?!) which means:
- It’s hot outside
- It’s cold inside
- It’s time for NYC summer festivalia
The following to-dos caught my eyes:
>> Wednesday, June 13th: Booker T. & The MG’s with guest Sharon Jones
Haven’t heard of Sharon Jones and/or her Dap Kings? Oh heavens, trot over to iTunes and check her out. Free, 7 p.m., Rockefeller Park.
>> Wednesday, July 25th: Comedian Seth Herzog hosts NY’s best emerging Jewish artists in art, comedy, music, and film
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The Zog is a genuinely nice guy (and reportedly funny comedian) that happens to live in a marginally renovated custodian’s closet. He also throws one helluva New Year’s bash! $25 / $30, 7 p.m., Museum of Jewish Heritage
>> Friday, August 3rd: A night of Billie Holiday, remixed and reimagined
This has the potential to be Orville Redenbacher-weird, but it might also be bad-ass. (I can vaguely hear echoes of the cassette tape I wore out in the summer of ‘97, a hip hop track that sampled her… who was that?!) Free, 7 p.m., South Street Seaport, Pier 17.
>> Friday, August 10th: Au Revoir Simone !!!
One of my new favorite bands! If you haven’t heard of ‘em, take a listen to their twilight-sounding Backyard of Our Neighbors (released as Through the Backyards), or their primary-colored Sad Song. Free, 7 p.m., South Street Seaport, Pier 17.
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>> Friday, August 17th: The National
Anyone who reads the comments on xoxoANP! knows how excited four of my seven blog readers will be about this one.
… these Brooklyn-based Ohians bring their Americana, bar-soaked gems to the pier for this amazing night.
Tsk, tsk to the copy-editor on this one; every good Midwesterner knows it’s Ohioans. Duh!
Haven’t heard ‘em? Listen to a sample of Slow Show. Free, 7 p.m., South Street Seaport
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And, in the perfect musically orgasmic build-up, the free music bliss-fest culminates on
>> Friday, August 24th with Camera Obscura.
Blissful indie pop from … Glasgow
I don’t know where Glasgow is (Scotland? Sweden? Whatever!) but I know I am loving me some Camera O. Where to begin my gentle yet definite brainwashing of y’all that they are tops?
- Come Back Margaret
- Lloyd, I’m Ready to be Heartbroken
- Let’s Get Out Of This Country
- I Need All The Friends I Can Get
- If Looks Could Kill
God, all so good! It’s like 1955 union Clap Your Hands intersection canary yellow intersection carnation pink!
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I’ll be the jackalack singing aloud while flailing my limbs about in my own personal dork-off on the splintery boards of the South Street Seaport. Free, 7 p.m.
The best is saved for last.
>> Saturday, August 25: Chew on this!
Learn about the history of chewing gum, Adams NY Gum #1 and make a pack of chewing gum from scratch.
Hello-o-o-o-o, and you don’t even need to forge your moms’ .sig on the permission slip. Free with museum admission, 1 p.m., South Street Seaport Museum, 12 Fulton Street.
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OMG, time to put this all in my planner. And to think I still have to go through that thing that my girl Aleeeece sent me (the mondo NYC cultural listings guide).
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i finally downloaded The National’s new album last night- i luuuuuuurve it!! so much better than i expected. next up on my Itunes wishlist: LCD Soundsystem (a ton of hype, sure, but i’ve listened to snippets and i like).
also, if you haven’t already, go see “Knocked Up” immediately. a bit long, but still ridiculously cute.
LCD soundsystem is playing a free show in philadelphia at the Fillmore (the TLA) tonight. It’s kind of tricky to get tickets though. you have to go to http://www.myspace.com/thelist and add them as a friend and send them a message with your name, email address, and “death from above”. Kind of weird but it works…then they email you back and tell you how to pick up your tickets.
thanks, sgt! sadly i’m in nyc, so no free show for me… hopefully there will be one up here sometime soon.
I’m fired up to try it out.