April 2007

Feist Launches US Tour Dates

Feist will hit the road this June in support of her stunning new release, The Reminder, in stores May 1st on CherryTree/Interscope (all dates below).  The tour will launch June

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LCD Soundsystem: Sound of Silver

Given that LCD Soundsystem’s 2005 self-titled debut nailed most critic’s best of lists, it’s easy to presume the pressure was on LCD's James Murphy’s for his follow-up, Sound of Silver.

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A Grand (Central) Ol’ Time on Earf Day

The Green Apple Music Festival started out a disaster for me personally.

First I slept through Thursday night’s kickoff show, an acoustic affair with the Benevento-Russo Duo, when a planned short nap before a midnight ramble became an unplanned 10-hour slumber through the night. Then Friday evening arrived, and the usually reliable and talented Grace Potter put on a less-than-stellar show with the Nocturnals at Southpaw, complete with three extremely creepy, balding middle-aged dudes taking as many pictures of her as possible — not a fun vibe trying to peek through compulsive masturbators to watch a show.

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So I turned to the free shit to break me out of the funk. As we mentioned yesterday, the Green Apple organizers planned several sets gratis outside Grand Central Station for the second straight year, an oasis of quality tunes in a big, bad city. So I headed up to the makeshift hippie enclave for an Earth Day street fair to meet up with some good friends and try to salvage a piss-poor beginning.

Read on for more photos and videos from the sunny day in NYC…

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Gratis Green: NYC Gets Rocked for Free

We’re pretty geeked up about this weekend’s Green Apple Music Festival, even though overall enthusiasm for the event can only be considered “tempered” at best compared to last year. Organizers expanded the

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Pullin’ ‘Tubes: Union Square Subway

Spanning the four months between the Coventry Disaster and New Year’s 2004, I somehow found myself on an unplanned, unconscious live music hiatus. The only performances I caught in person took place under the pavement while riding

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