Archive for April 2009

Ladytron + the Faint + Crocodiles at Webster Hall – 10 April 2009

12 Apr 2009

Okay, dear readers, I haven’t the time for detail, but here are the set lists from Friday’s show, copied exactly from the physical ones, pictures of which will be posted as quickly as time permits my computer recognizes my camera’s memory card. An engaging write-up of the night is also forthcoming RIGHT HERE FOR THE [...]

Craigslist getting serious now

10 Apr 2009

So I went to post my extra of Montreal tickets for next Thursday’s show on Craigslist, and I was confronted with a challenge I had not previously encountered. Old Newmark was telling me “Your account needs to be authenticated by phone to post to tickets on new york city craigslist.” Here’s what he has to [...]

James Surowiecki looks at the new unemployment numbers.

08 Apr 2009

Whoa! Hoppity hoppity boom boom! Chooparoo chooparee! Fraggledy smaggledy whizzerino! Gadfly pudding! Tse tse whiz-bang! Jerk chicken in a pita! I haven’t seen numbers this high since I weighed Marlon Brando! Too soon. Since I weighed William Howard Taft! Too late. Since I weighed Orson Welles! Just right. Man, these numbers are so high they [...]

Late of the Pier at Studio B – 3 April 2009

06 Apr 2009

If you want to know about this concert, let me give you some rundown: -There were like twenty people there -Everyone was on Ecstasy because they gave it away at the door -All the ladies at the party were shaking their booties, and the fellas were shaking their booties as well -There were little octopi [...]

Sasha Frere-Jones offers a chance to hear Catchdubs, Jubilee, and Ayres in action.

06 Apr 2009

Ha, ha, ha, okay, this isn’t actually going to be an imaginary New Yorker blog post, I just wanted to call attention to the ridiculousness of that sentence’s appearance on the Web site of the New Yorker. Love him or hate him (I do both, passionately (?)), Sasha Frere-Jones does bring the New Yorker to [...]

Glasvegas and Ida Maria at Webster Hall – 30 March 2009

02 Apr 2009

Monday evening was mad hectic, ladies and gentlemen. I was in class until 5:25, then I had to run the hell over to my room and put my books away and grab my ticket and run to the D train, then I had to run to W. 13th St. to meet my auntie for dinner, [...]

Elvis Perkins in Dearland at the Bowery Ballroom – 25 March 2009

01 Apr 2009

I’ve been facing the ire of my legions of followers lately for the dearth of posts here, and for this I am grateful, because it is good to know that there are so many out there who rely on me for their daily sustenance of wit and pith and good cheer. Today I bring you, [...]


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