Sure, you could spend your New Year’s Eve in a confessional, but that would be a sin. Instead, why not head over to The Stone and kiss this miserable year goodbye with some real legends of downtown avant-garde.
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Cancel Yr Date With the Night: YYY’s Drummer Brian Chase Takes Over The Stone
(Photo: ugotsoul on Flickr).
Brian Chase isn’t just the Jonathan Safran Foer doppelganger who drums in the Yeah Yeah Yeahs: whether he’s sidelining with a supergroup or helping pay tribute to Lou Reed and Bowie, the guy is somewhat of a renaissance man. Unbeknownst to 99.99999% of people who have “Maps” in their iTunes library, he regularly sits in at John Zorn’s East Village venue The Stone, and has also appeared on some recordings released by Zorn’s record label, Tzadik. So it’s no surprise The Stone has tapped him to be an artist in residence in October.
John Zorn Improv Night at The Stone
This benefit gives you a chance to see one of free jazz’s living legends, John Zorn, wail and chirp on the sax, and the the admission (hefty by Stone standards but reasonable by any other) goes toward a worthy cause — his intimate, meticulously curated non-profit venue. Tonight, Louie Belogenis accompanies him on the sax.
Thurston Moore and Anne Waldman Talked William Burroughs, Then Jammed
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So how did Thurston Moore and Anne Waldman observe the centenary of William S. Burroughs last night at The Stone?
If you guessed that Waldman, a preeminent poet prone to fiery performances, read/chanted from Burroughs’s work while Moore (with his brother Gene also on guitar) did his best impression of a guitarist high on “black meat,” you’re correct.
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Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon Are Playing The Stone (Not Together, Sorry)
John Zorn and Thurston Moore at a Faculty Against the Sexton Plan fundraiser at LPR in 2012.
The saga of Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon has been back in the news lately (and by “the news,” we mean Pitchfork and Brooklyn Vegan). Thurston says he’s now in a “really romantic place” but next month, he’ll step into a not-all-that-romantic place: John Zorn’s East Village hole-in-the-wall, The Stone. As it turns out, Kim’ll be there too — about a month later.
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