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The MuseBox, After the Jump, and Achord Recordings Present:
“The Official After the Jump Fest Kick-Off”
FREE BEER, bring something to BBQ if you like, watch some incredible bands.
Friday, August 24th, 7 PM
Paul Duncan
Luke Temple
Butane Variations
DJ Set by David Bruno
The Rooftop of:
84 N. 9th St. (and Wythe Ave.)
Brooklyn, NY 11211

On Saturday, the 25th of August, at Studio B in Brooklyn, the first blogger-organized After The Jump Fest will be taking place. After the Jump will be an all-day event with a FREE day show (doors at 1pm, bands start at 2pm) and an AMAZING night show to benefit a proposal submitted by the [...]

AT&T’s Overstuffed iPhone Bills Annoy Customers - New York Times
For the last several weeks, iPhone users have been by turns amused or enraged over the sheer heft — some are the size of small novels — of the bills they are receiving from AT&T.
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Trading Up From Red Paper Clip to White Picket [...]

On Monday I went to a screening of Ethan Hawke’s new old movie, The Hottest State, which is based on his novel of the same name. William (Mark Webber) is a fledgling young actor who falls for a quiet, reserved girl named Sarah (played by Catalina Sandino Moreno) and the movie chronicles the rapid growth [...]

I’m Not There - Bob Dylan - Weinstein Company - Movies - New York Times
In addition to Film Forum, the film’s distributor, the Weinstein Company, will be opening the movie in just three other theaters, one more in New York and two in Los Angeles, giving it the kind of debut that might be afforded [...]

Check out this interview I did with Tim from The Teenage Prayers, one of the many kick-a** bands playing this year’s blogger-approved After the Jump Festival THIS SATURDAY at Studio B in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. [Buy tickets here]

Photo: Orianna Riley
QUESTION: What is the origin of your band name?
ANSWER: Our band name comes from a Bob Dylan [...]

OMG, I CAN’T BELIEVE IT!
Due to the rigours involved in touring, Amy Winehouse has been advised to postpone her upcoming September US and Canadian tour dates. All ticket holders may obtain refunds at their point of purchase. Amy’s European and UK tour dates in October and November remain in place. Plans are being made to [...]

Um… where has this song been for all my life? With lyrics like “and if you wake up in the morning and think ‘what have I done?’/ I wouldn’t lose all that much sleep about it/ Because it’s only…gay fun” and “as you were leaving the restaurant/ You grabbed a free magazine/ I knew right [...]

Grease - Theater - Review - New York Times
With “Grease” this means that if you last until intermission, you sit through more than an hour of a musical set in a high school that feels like a musical put on by a high school — and I don’t mean a high school of performing arts.
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They tried to make her brush her hair and she said, “No, no, no!”…

More heartbreakingly adorable/frightening photos over at The Daily Mail.