No matter how much you love your favorite DIY venue, there’s no sense in getting too attached– as anyone who’s been in the game for…
Before the Puerto Rican Poets, There Was the Polish Violinist
This week, we present a series of longer pieces unraveling the histories of storied buildings. The entrance to the Nuyorican Poets Café dissolves into a…
The Story of the Gaslight Café, Where Dylan Premiered ‘A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall’
This week, we present a series of longer pieces unraveling the histories of storied buildings. Bartenders with beards and tattoos serve $15 cocktails to a…
Week in Shows: Fresh Newgaze, Disco Misnomers, and Phish Swims Up Livestream
Guilty Giraffe, Disco Cream, Sooner, Yairms Wednesday December 28, 8 pm at Sunnyvale: $10 Welcome back friends, orphans, Santa assassins, and gainfully employed. This is…
Soap Library’s Outer-Space Tape Set to Launch into the New Year
Last week, we told you about Soap Library, the “holistic” tape label specializing in cassettes that are not just objects to behold with your with your…
Was this Performance Art Show Calling Out Hate Groups Too Real?
The results of the election have churned up a tsunami of cultural backlash aimed at the incoming Trump administration’s rhetoric of hatred and intolerance (or,…
New Tape Label Has Scented Cassingles, Ready to Mingle
One recent X-Mas, three, maybe four years ago, my then-BF/now very much ex-BF, and I were out gift shopping (aka escaping family time), and making…
Film Alert: a Witch Most Skillful in Blood-Lusty Sex Magic, James Baldwin Redux, and More
The Love Witch Thursday December 15, 4:15 pm at Nitehawk: $12 If you can play hooky this afternoon, do. Your first hideout should be Nitehawk’s…
Wake Up and Smell the Poppins at Supercalifragilisticexpialadocious
Tackling the topic of feminism is a monumental task for any art exhibition, let alone one that fits inside a downtown art space called White…
Bushwick’s Own Sexy Neighbors Premiere a ‘Post-Grunge’ Single Off Forthcoming EP LIHC
If you’re a dedicated visitor of spots like Shea Stadium and Alphaville, you’ve inevitably seen or heard Sexy Neighbors. Going on seven years of recording together…