News now from Comedy Central (via Stereogum) that the Colbert Report will be puttin’ on one hell of a Christmas special this year. The November 23rd show will feature Feist, Elvis Costello, John Legend, Willie Nelson, even “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue” Toby Keith—all singing tunes written by Fountains of Wayne’s Read More
America’s breathy-voiced sweetheart Feist will "Feel It All" at Prospect Park on July 9. Tickets are on sale through Ticketmaster. She’ll be playing a benefit show to fund all those free Celebrate Brooklyn concerts at the bandshell. This season’s concert series will open with Isaac Hayes on June 12. Other highlights include Cold Read More
Like many music-obsessed New Yorkers, Oliver Truman navigates the honeycomb of city streets with headphones plugged into his ears. Mr. Truman, a 26-year-old marketing assistant with a beanstalk frame and curly-q’d chestnut hair, has a playlist called “walking” on his iPod, loaded with songs ranging from The Buzzcocks to The Four Tops.
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THEATER
Ernest Hemmingway only wrote one play during this literary career: The Fifth Column, a Spanish Civil War-era drama of espionage and romace that he penned while covering the war in Madrid. The off-Broadway Mint Theater will be presenting the play starting Feb. 26, marking the production’s first faithful performance on the stage. Read More
Feist’s Grammy-nominated The Reminder has won the 2007 Shortlist Prize, which "recognizes albums released between January and November 2007 that have yet to be certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America for U.S. shipments of 500,000 units," according to Billboard. It’s basically a pat on the back by industry folks and musicians, Read More
My dad recently emailed me for help identifying a song he "really liked." It was female singer, a medium pop type of song, a light swing to it," he wrote. "The refrain had in it words something about ‘change your heart’ or ‘changing your heart.’" Of course, it was Feist’s "1 2 3 4," which Read More
The most popular artists today on Amazon’s new mp3 download service are, in order:
New Yorker critic Alex Ross speculates that Wagner’s “phenomenal rise up the charts would Read More
The big dogs of publishing might have Oprah Winfrey’s Book Club, but the little ones have indie rock. Unclear when the flirtation became a marriage, but the benefit concert held Sunday night at Beacon Theater for 826 NYC, the McSweeney’s-sponsored reading-and-writing program for kids, seems a good indication that independent literature and independent music are Read More
