The Bowery is bigger than New York. Marking the indomitable concert promoter’s first venture outside N.Y.C., Bowery Presents will soon host a steady stream of rock, pop and blues acts at Montclair, N.J.’s Wellmont Theatre—an 86-year-old movie palace recently refurbished by the Rosen Group. And guess who scored the opening night honors … It’s Hanson! Read More
It’s a perfect match, really. An artist who’s made a career out of refashioning musical kitsch to his own inscrutable ends plays a venue refashioned out of a massive, gold-encrusted, Art-Deco movie-palace and former televangelism center in Washington Heights. It’s Beck at the United Palace Theatre!
The pop mystic seems to be out of a Read More
In 2008, a big day for record sales is a relative thing, for the majors and the indies alike. Physical sales are lower than ever, even for superstars; bands routinely crack Billboard’s top 10 with sales barely in the five digits. But today is a big day in the record industry.
Coldplay’s newest, Viva la Read More
Coldplay’s Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends comes out today. That’s about as big as record-release news gets nowadays. But more importantly for the band, on Sunday, the album hit No.1 on charts in the U.K., where it was first released last Thursday, selling more than 300,000 copies in three days. Then Read More
It seemed odd enough when the 80′s Texas psych-punk band The Butthole Surfers made something of comeback in 1996 with an album that got lots of mainstream airplay. Now they’re making a comeback from their comeback? You be the judge—they’re playing Webster Hall on July 29.
On a warm June evening, the novelist Rick Moody sat on the floor of the placid backroom of the Ludlow Street bar Pianos, peeking out from beneath the brim of a porkpie hat at a shag-haired musician named Hannah Marcus. She was crooning about “dragon fruit” and stealing lap blankets from United Airlines. They were Read More
