The Battering Room Northside Festival Showcase

This Saturday!!!

Semi-outdoors (weather permitting)!!!
Completely, totally, 100% FREE!!!
5 amazing bands!!!

Once again, here are the set times:

6 - Bridges and Powerlines
5 - pow wow!
4 - Appomattox
3 - The Pet Ghost Project
2 - Family Lumber

Jeff K of L Magazine and Merry Swankster will be DJing throughout the day!!!

Flyer designed by Bunkre!!!

LET'S DO THIS!!!

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Northside Festival

L Magazine's Northside Festival begins next week. You may or may not be aware that I am presenting one of the festivals many showcases. My showcase is taking place during the day at my favorite bar on planet Earth, Matchless, on Sat June 13. Doors open @ 1pm. Set times:

6 - Bridges and Powerlines
5 - pow wow!
4 - Appomattox
3 - The Pet Ghost Project
2 - Family Lumber

I'll have more details soon. In the meantime, take a look at the rest of the Northside Schedule here.

Deli Magazine’s Best of NYC Fest

I fully endorse our (After The Jump) endorsement of this:

Wednesday 05.06 [$10 at the door]
(sponsored by BMI)
@ Southpaw
11:10 Lowry
10:30 Elizabeth & the Catapult
9:40 The King Left
8:50 April Smith
8:10 KaiserCartel
7:30 Mia Riddle

Friday 05.08 [$15 BUY TICKETS]
@ The Bell House
12:00 Crystal Stilts
11:00 Blank Dogs
10:00 Religious Knives
9:00 Dinowalrus

Saturday 05.09 [$12 BUY TICKETS]
@ Joe's Pub
9:30 The Lisps' FUTURITY
FUTURITY is an original indie-rock musical by Brooklyn band The Lisps. A theatrically staged song cycle, FUTURITY tells the story of a Union soldier in the Civil War who is an aspiring science fiction writer. The work fuses traditional Americana, found text, experimental music, and The Lisps’ own brand of quirky co-ed pop.

Sunday 05.10 [$12 BUY TICKETS]
@ The Bell House
(sponsored by ASCAP)
10.00 Chairlift
9.00 Takka Takka
8.10 Angel Deradoorian
7.20 The Secret Life of Sofia
6.30 The Gay Blades

SXSW '09 Official Showcases

The SXSW official showcase schedule has been posted. I skimmed over it quick and these are some of bands that stood out to me. Obviously many of these bands are going to be playing several additional "unofficial" showcases, but that it for you to figure out.

First, these are the band that will/would be TOP priorities for me if I go/was going:

Future of the Left - Aces Lounge - Fri 3/20 9:00pm
Russian Futurists - Karma Lounge - Fri 3/30 1:00am
The Rural Alberta Advantage - Central Pres Church - Thurs 3/19 7:45pm
The Wrens - Prague - Thurs 3/19 TBA
Let's Wrestle - Wave Rooftop - Thurs 3/19 11:00pm
WAVVES - The Music Gym Patio - Thurs 3/19 12:00am
The Coast - Lamberts - Sat 3/12 11:00pm
The Secret Life of Sofia - St David's Church - Sat 3/21 9:00pm

These are notables. Big name/buzz bands.

Voxtrot - Volume - Wed 3/18 11:00pm
Department of Eagles - Central Pres Church - Wed 3/18 10:00pm
Grizzly Bear - Central Pres Church - Thurs 3/19 8:30pm
Here We Go Magic - Club 115 - Thurs 3/19 1:00am
Okkervil River - The Parish - Fri 3/20 1:00am
Matt & Kim - Opal Divine's - Thurs 3/19 TBA
The Thermals - Red Eyed Fly - Thurs 3/19 TBA
Silversun Pickup - Antone's - Sat 3/21 TBA
The Rosebuds - The Parish - Sat 3/21 TBA

Two NY bands that I highly recommend:

The Cloud Room - Cedar Door - Wed 3/18 TBA
Bell - Club de Ville - Wed 3/18 TBA

Two showcases, other than the AFTER THE JUMP SHOWCASE, which i have already posted about, stood out as being all around great:

MOKB show - Radio Room - Wed 3/18
Slumberland/Cakeshop show - Emo's Jr - Fri 3/20

I reserve the right to add to this post.

UFO Sighting in Brooklyn

travels - The Hot Summer, Union Hall

travels are coming back for their second ever NYC show! Union Hall, Sat Feb 21. Playing with Get Him Eat Him and Kleenex Girl Wonder. Excellent lineup. travels were one of my TOP priorities for CMJ '08. I saw them at Bell House and loved them. Hopefully this is the beginning of many more NYC shows as they promote their new album, The Hot Summer, which I have been listening to a lot. Fans of their first album and of their previous bands, especially Metal Hearts, will be pleased. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

After The Jump - SXSW '09 Lineups

Two shows this year. Official and Unofficial. Here are the lineups:

The Official ATJ/SXSW Showcase
Thursday, 8pm-2am
The Rusty Spurs Saloon, 405 E 7th St.

Featuring:
- Bearsuit
- Drink Up, Buttercup
- Fight Bite
- Bloodsugars
- Eugene McGuiness
- A Classic Education

The Unofficial House Party at the infamous ATJ Backyard presented by Red Stripe (that means free beer)
Friday 1pm - 11pm (?)
1204 Salina St. - EAST SIDE BABY

Featuring:
- Superdrag
- the Parenthetical Girls
- the Pains of Being Pure at Heart
- Cause Co-Motion
- Blank Dogs
- Nite Jewel
- Girls
- Golden Triangle
- US Royalty

This year MAY be my first SXSW, but it's going to be a very last minute decision. Whether I go or not, I'll try to throw up some suggestions for bands to check out.

The Annex - Feb 21

I told you that once the flyer for this show popped up that I would post it, so here you go. And DDDDAAAAAAMMMMMNNNNN!!! The Shackeltons are playing too!!!!

Mark my words. Come hell or high water, I WILL be at this AMAZING show.

Fires of Rome - "Set in Stone" video

Another band that I have been meaning to post about for a while have just given me a great reason to. Fires of Rome have detonated the comments section of my myspace with the video for one of my favorite songs on their You Kingdom You album, which I have been listening to a lot recently. Give it a view:



Hey, is that Billy Corgan???? And this reminds me, isn't Westminster this week? I love Westminster.

Guilt By Association Vol. 2 Release Party

Thinking about pregaming it at this before Thermals.

More pow wow!

Took me forever to finally get this post up. pow wow! have posted some more free song for you to download.


pow wow! - 23 19

pow wow! - Handhold

Fine Fine Music Announcement

Some exciting news, well, exciting to me at least. Even though I am barely keeping this blog alive, I am also now a contributor to the Fine Fine Music Blog. If you are unfamiliar with Fine Fine, it is a Dutch mp3 blog with a focus on Dutch music, but also posts music from all over as well. I am joining up with Fine Fine in order to bring in some New York flavor. My first post for Fine Fine featured a song from The Antlers' brand new album, Hospice. I'm still trying to get the hang of things over at Fine Fine, but I have a lot of music that I plan to bring there. And btw - unlike this blog, which is on life support, my twitter is rockin and rollin. So if you like what I do here, maybe you would like what I do there too. Also, I am still updating my Upcoming page regularly.

2 great options for this Thurs

Vanishing Point - This Thurs Jan 15

Finally there is a demo song posted @ Coyote Eyes Myspace for you to listen to. And their second show ever is this Thurs at new venue Vanishing Point.