The Modern Age

Quick update before I head out to do something productive today…
Last night I headed out to the wilderness that is known as Terminal 5 here in NYC in order to see the first night of The Raconteurs‘ three-show stand in the city.

Having never been to the venue before, I was quite surprised by the “open [...]

Celebrate the 125th Anniversary of the Brooklyn Bridge this holiday weekend!

Cellphone image of the fireworks kicking off the 125th Birthday of the Bklyn Bridge.

In the midst of watching the new episode of Gossip Girl (Michelle Trachtenberg, really? Vampire Weekend’s “Campus” playing during a Brooklyn scene?) I’m finding time to log in some quick updates during the commercial breaks.

Last Thursday I headed over to the new Morrison Hotel Gallery, now located on the Bowery in the former location of [...]

TMA favorite St. Vincent (aka Annie Clark) will be ripping it up at the Bowery Ballroom tonight at a sold out show.
See ya there!
UPDATE: It’s official, St. Vincent can do no wrong. Annie let loose by wearing a charming sleeveless black trapeze dress and let her naturally curly “Tina, diva” hair do its thang, making [...]

New York City homies Vampire Weekend are quickly becoming as ubiquitous as MacBook Air commercials–currently gracing the cover of the music magazine for the “blawg-rockers”, SPIN and now they are featured in the new issue of Nylon magazine:

(Bigger photo on Vorrasi.com.)
The shots were taken at Tom & Jerry’s bar in the East Village by TMA [...]

I saw a band called “Sandbox” somewhere in the continental United States…
Where do you think it was?

Last time I saw hometown heroes Vampire Weekend at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in September of 2007, the positive hype was high, uber Anonymous blog readers had already begun to revolt, and their album hadn’t even come out yet.

Fast forward to last Wednesday night, January 30th–the boys were back in town, playing the second [...]

Tonight (Wednesday, January 30) I went to go see zee the sold out Vampire Weekend at Bowery Ballroom.
Photos for now. Commentary later.

Behold! Jack Penate did a few lines from one of his New York City music heroes, Biggie Smalls (his other hero? Jeff Buckley), by busting out the song “Dead Wrong” during a show at the Mercury Lounge in NYC.
Check it out as he breaks it down:

Needless to say Jack Penate is an absolutely [...]

I had already heard that Improv Everywhere’s “No Pants 2k8″ was going to happen today, so I wasn’t too surprised when about 50 sans-pants people flooded the subway car I was in today as I was headed on a downtown N to Union Square around 3:30 pm.

Probably the funniest thing that happen was there were [...]