Brooklyn Veganette

This is all that needed to be said, expressed in the perfect tone. Well done, Judy Berman, well done. 

judyxberman:

VICE WRITERS
Music Reviews
Rating: X(((((((

Ladies, imagine being a Vice writer. Just walking around everywhere with your entitlement and ennui and midlength penis all gently bouncing in step; wearing a male tank top or a waxed mustache or some shit. Imagine having an ironic, retro-sexist dudebro-voice and getting together with a couple of other white guys and some cocaine and making your not-at-all-different voices all sync up as tautly as your nihilistic senses of humor, then snuggling all up together (no homo!) in a big Bushwick loft of partially employed trust-fund kids while something noninformative is happening on the Internet. What a life. I guess there’s the whole “everyone in the world thinks I’m an asshole” thing to deal with, too, but let’s not split hairs here: Vice writers got it pretty fucking made.

**show of the day**

Saturday Looks Good To Me, The Wild Moccasins, Cola Jet Set, Orca Team, Catnaps @ Knitting Factory, 361 Metropolitan Ave, Williamsburg

Don’t call us emo. 

SHOW OF THE DAY: EULA, Psychic Feline, Lame Drivers, The Sloppyheads @ Death by Audio, 49 S. 2nd St, Williamsburg

NYC POPFEST! Burning Hearts, Speedmarket Avenue, Dear Marje, Heaven’s Gate, Marshmallows @ Cake Shop, 152 Ludlow St, LES

Psychic Feline

She was incredible. 

nprmusic:

RIP Donna Summer. The R&B diva was 63. Between the Queen of Disco and the Godfather of Go-Go, the heavens are having one crazy dance party right now. 

Here’s a really great 30-minute Fresh Air interview from 2003 where Donna Summer talks about producer Giorgio Moroder, her discomfort with becoming a ’70s sex symbol, and what she listened to as the “Q of D” (some of her answers are delightfully surprising).

SHOW OF THE DAY! GO!

thepermanentwave:

Come to Permanent Wave’s benefit show for Hollaback!

8 PM, $7, ALL AGES!

with

CINDY LOU GOODEN
http://veryfresh.bandcamp.com/album/kitsch-tapes-ep

LEDA (formerly Amy Klein and the Blue Star Band) 
http://leda.bandcamp.com/ 

YOUNG UNKNOWNS
http://youngunknowns.bandcamp.com/

EMERALD LAKES
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Emerald-Lakes/121681907927159

Olof Arnalds @ Rockwood Music Hall, 196 Allen St, LES

Torild, Something in Spanish, KOORTWAH, Letterist @ Pianos, 158 Ludlow St, LES

Mercies, Beach Moms, Little Racer, Blade Runner Trio @ Death by Audio, 49 S. 2nd St, Williamsburg

Not as many bands as I would like, but here’s a cool picture of Something in Spanish: 

amyrebeccaklein:

My new band Leda is premiering two songs today. We are a five-piece rock n roll orchestra featuring yours truly on guitar, vocals, and violin. Anyone who wants to know what has been going on in my mind for the past six months should probably just listen to these songs. Here’s the first one. It’s called “A Thimble.” It is a song about the life I used to have, which was being in a band and touring all the time. It is also a song about saying a big “fuck you” to other people’s expectations and living life on your own terms instead, which I have recently discovered is exactly where confidence comes from. I will post the second song, “Halfway,” right after this. You can download both songs from the Low Times blog, where my friend Maggie posted about us this morning. To find out more about my new band, you can visit our bandcamp page, soundcloud page, or facebook page. 

Yikes. No woman in the top 20? Okay, Spin. Fine. Be that way. 

jennpelly:

27 PJ Harvey
39 Carrie Brownstein (Sleater-Kinney/Wild Flag)
56 Kim and Kelley Deal (The Breeders)
77 Marissa Paternoster (Screaming Females)
82 Kristin Hersh (Throwing Muses)
84 Lydia Lunch
87 Marnie Stern
91 Viv Albertine (the Slits)
93 Annie Clark (St. Vincent)

Can’t really fuck with this top…

Lower Dens at the Insound office in Greenpoint. Hyponitizing as always. 

I’ve seen these guys play in a parking lot, a college campus, and now an office. However, there are two opportunities to see them at an actual music venue this week in New York—Mercury Lounge tonight and Glasslands tomorrow night. 

I have an extra ticket to the SOLD OUT Glasslands show that I would like to give away. I would go myself, but I like this streak of only seeing this band play in unconventional places (also I’m afraid that I’m verging on stalker territory). Just send an email to pbacalao at gmail.com if you want it. Put the name of Jana Hunter’s old band in Houston in the subject title and the ticket is yours. 

nprmusic:

The New York band Hospitality makes music that’s unmistakably friendly and welcoming — it’s hug-and-a-handshake pop that lives up to its name by jangling and chiming comfortably. The group doesn’t overwhelm so much as it wears listeners down with a subtle charm offensive. Watch the band perform at the NPR Music office.