The Modern Age

The Raconteurs were in Jo Whiley’s Live Lounge this past Thursday, doing a rendition of “Steady as She Goes” and answering questions. Check it out!
LISTEN: The Raconteurs on Jo Whiley’s Live Lounge
Speaking of Jo Whiley, I’ll be on again tomorrow AM talking about all things NYC, so keep an ear open!

andrewkendall: Art Brut TOTP!
Sign a petition to get Art Brut on Top of the Pops before the show airs its last program!!!

There is no way I could write a better review of Keane’s show at Bowery Ballroom on Friday night than what Chris has already written on MusicSnobbery.com, so I’m not even going to try.
What I will say is that the crowd was absolutely amazing and the band had so much energy. I’ve never seen Keane [...]

This past Wednesday night I headed over to Joe’s Pub to catch the early show of Flashy Python and the Body Snatchers–aka Alec Ounsworth of CYHSY side project. Ounsworth has described the music to be more “inaccessible” than some of his other projects, but after seeing them live, I’m sorry Alec, I’d have to disagree.
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…message someone you recognized on the street from their MySpace/ Flickr/ Friendster/ etc profile? It’s a funny little thing, this Internet, how you can be “friends” with someone online, but never meet them–and then when you DO see them in real life, it becomes totally creepy to go up to them and say, “Hey, I [...]

An entire restaurant devoted to Mac ‘n’ Cheese?!??!!? Holy crap, I’m about to cry. As you may know, M ‘n’ C is one of my favorite foods, so you can imagine how chuffed I was when I read about S’MAC, on 1st Ave and 12th Street, in New York magazine this week. SIGN ME UP!

Dude. It’s 4:05am and I just got back from Ryan Adams at Bowery. The set ended AT 3:30AM!!! GAAaaauuuugghhh!

PS- My mom loves Keane!

More about Keane over at the non-Ryan Adams attending Music Snob and Thighs Wide Shut.

Bowery just released more tickets to Keane and Ryan Adams tonight…so there ya go.
Whoops! Keane no longer avail.

So SPIN Editor-in-Chief Andy Pemberton resigned yesterday and now SPIN.com is down for the count. Coincidence??? Hmmm…
When you log onto the site you get a lovely GoDaddy.com message telling you the site is “coming soon”. But don’t start gearing up your WhoIs searches, the domain is not available for purchase. It’s parked until 2010…probably when [...]

The Devil Wears Prada next weekend…like me?