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Around 1am this morning, after three openers and soundchecks, things finally got interesting at the Market Hotel. Montreal’s AIDS Wolf played a speedball set of noisecore, fronted by the banshee-like

Part 2 of my evening brings me out to the Mrytle Ave stop on the M train, somewhere in the no man’s land between Bushwick and Bed-Stuy. The venue is

It would not be a reach to say that the breakout instrument of 2008 is the young male voice. Singers such as Beirut’s Zach Condon and Bon Iver‘s Justin Vernon

That you can get good Brooklyn Beer at any bar for $3 before 8p. That there are galleries next to thrift stores next to record label offices. That you can

Pulse Art Fair 3.29.08 DiVA New York (Digital and Video Art Fair) 3.30.08

Todd Sickafoose’s Blood Orange (feat. Will Bernard, Mike Gamble, John Ellis, Alan Ferber & Allison Miller) Barbes, 3/26/08

I thought I was back in Austin last night for Kuntry Karaoke at Hank’s Saloon on 3rd & Atlantic in Brooklyn. It’s pretty much what you might expect, but with

Well. I got in, and the minute Judy Collins started singing "Bright Morning Stars," I completely forgot about the wait. She followed it up with a sing-a-long "Amazing Grace" that

Gil Mantera's Party Dream, Emo's Main Room, 3/13/08