Expect to enjoy Les Savy Fav on September 9th!

Ticket info can be found here.

Upcoming gigs will feature: Boss Hog, Rasputina & Titus Andronicus.

MP3: Les Savy Fav - Precision Auto

City Winery will see daylight on New Year’s Eve.

The initial schedule includes:

Dec. 31: Joan Osborne
Jan. 8: Steve Earle & Allison Moorer
Jan. 9: Raul Midon & Sonya Kitchell
Jan. 11: Boz Scaggs
Jan. 15: Suzanne Vega & Lenny Kaye
Jan. 22: Mike Doughty & Tony Scherr Trio
Jan. 29: Jill Sobule & Julia Sweeney
March 4: Rufus Wainwright
March 10: Calexico & Keren Ann
March 15: Philip Glass
March 22. Philip Glass
March 29: Philip Glass
April 5: Philip Glass
April 9: Jesse Malin & Rachael Yamagata

Learn all about the venue here.

MP3: Rufus Wainwright & Ben Folds - Careless Whisper (Live)

ATJ, the NYC blogger collective, is set to help present the final show at the legendary, 3 level, Knitting Factory space in Tribeca. This last hurrah just happens to also be New Year’s Eve. After the Knitting Factory space was put on the market and sold into condos, the decision was made to move the cutting edge concert space to the smaller scaled Luna Lounge in Williamsburg. The New York Times interviewed owner Jared Hoffman last month about the plans. The final multi level party is sure to be a fabulous event, the kind only fitting for a spot that many NYers (and not so NYers) hold in their hearts & where many amazing acts got their start. Stay tuned for details!

Well, not all of the Sluts are on vacation… Last Tuesday, I saw Norwegian Grammy award winner Sissy Wish at The Knitting Factory. After seeing her short, but riveting, performance at SXSW this year, I couldn’t miss my chance to see her first ever New York gig.

Once again, Sissy did not disappoint, giving as commanding a performance as her album Beauties Never Die demands. With a sound perhaps better suited for sweaty dance halls than punk basements, expect her to be tearing through CMJ after parties come October.

Well, not all of the Sluts are on vacation… Last Tuesday, I saw Norwegian Grammy award winner Sissy Wish at The Knitting Factory. After seeing her short, but riveting, performance at SXSW this year, I couldn’t miss my chance to see her first ever New York gig.

Once again, Sissy did not disappoint, giving as commanding a performance as her album Beauties Never Die demands. With a sound perhaps better suited for sweaty dance halls than punk basements, expect her to be tearing through CMJ after parties come October.

Well, not all of the Sluts are on vacation… Last Tuesday, I saw Norwegian Grammy award winner Sissy Wish at The Knitting Factory. After seeing her short, but riveting, performance at SXSW this year, I couldn’t miss my chance to see her first ever New York gig.

Once again, Sissy did not disappoint, giving as commanding a performance as her album Beauties Never Die demands. With a sound perhaps better suited for sweaty dance halls than punk basements, expect her to be tearing through CMJ after parties come October.

It was roughly two years ago when I first discovered the brilliance that is Copenhagen’s post pop collective, Efterklang. The 8 member band incorporates elements of jazz, electro experimentalism, folk, prog & krautrock into one otherworldly amalgamation. Last night marked the band’s first ever visit to New York City and it was a glorious one. For nearly 75 minutes, Efterklang enthusiastically pranced around all of their releases to date creating a mystical wall of sound. To close out the evening, C. Taylor (Grizzly Bear) plus various members of Slaraffenland joined forces with Efterklang for an extended celebratory denouement. A monumental gig from start to finish! I kindly demand your attendance at one of their few remaining North American gigs. They may not return for some time.

Visit Efterklang at their official MySpace page. A handful of photos & an MP3 follow.

MP3: Efterklang - Cutting Ice To Snow

Watch the band tackle ‘I Wanna Be Your Dog’ with Emilie Simon in the clip below.

MP3: Neimo - Echoing Pixels [alt link]

After The Jump’s New Year’s Eve show had so many great moments - Poingly in silver spandex making everybody crazy, watching people’s jaws drop in amazement as Pattern Is Movement began playing, David Longstretch (of Dirty Projectors) missing midnight but recovering so adorably a minute later, Eric from Foreign Islands kicking off karaoke with The Darkness single, ‘I Believe In A Thing Called Love,’ - but for me, the best part of the night was when beautiful, little Sophie from Care Bears On Fire joined Senryu on stage to sing my favourite songs of theirs, ‘Leave The Light On.’ I think I might have even liked it better than the original, and I like that a whole hell of a lot.

Senryu’s live show is interactive and messy yet flawlessly calculated. It draws you in and spits you out with undulating waves of dance pop and slower indie melodies. It makes you fall in love and fall into step with nonconforming uses of recorded sound and off mic screaming that gets your blood pumping, as you find yourself uncontrollably screaming “I AM A BATTERING RAM!”. Lead singer Wil Wright once described their live show as a “magical car accident.” At the end of their set on Monday night, I found myself sweaty, covered in glitter and glowing with joy. I don’t think he was far off.

If you didn’t make it to Knitting Factory on NYE to see Senryu, you’re shit out of luck New York, at least for a while. Next up for the Tennessee lads is a show at Knoxville’s Pilot Light on Monday and then onto SXSW (with perhaps some more dates sprinkled in between).

For a better description of what makes Senryu tick, check out this rather fantastic article about the band’s return to Knoxville in The Daily Times.

MP3: ‘Leave The Light On‘

After The Jump’s New Year’s Eve show had so many great moments - Poingly in silver spandex making everybody crazy, watching people’s jaws drop in amazement as Pattern Is Movement began playing, David Longstretch (of Dirty Projectors) missing midnight but recovering so adorably a minute later, Eric from Foreign Islands kicking off karaoke with The Darkness single, ‘I Believe In A Thing Called Love,’ - but for me, the best part of the night was when beautiful, little Sophie from Care Bears On Fire joined Senryu on stage to sing my favourite songs of theirs, ‘Leave The Light On.’ I think I might have even liked it better than the original, and I like that a whole hell of a lot.

Senryu’s live show is interactive and messy yet flawlessly calculated. It draws you in and spits you out with undulating waves of dance pop and slower indie melodies. It makes you fall in love and fall into step with nonconforming uses of recorded sound and off mic screaming that gets your blood pumping, as you find yourself uncontrollably screaming “I AM A BATTERING RAM!”. Lead singer Wil Wright once described their live show as a “magical car accident.” At the end of their set on Monday night, I found myself sweaty, covered in glitter and glowing with joy. I don’t think he was far off.

If you didn’t make it to Knitting Factory on NYE to see Senryu, you’re shit out of luck New York, at least for a while. Next up for the Tennessee lads is a show at Knoxville’s Pilot Light on Monday and then onto SXSW (with perhaps some more dates sprinkled in between).

For a better description of what makes Senryu tick, check out this rather fantastic article about the band’s return to Knoxville in The Daily Times.

MP3: ‘Leave The Light On‘