More from the 12 hour marathon, Ezra Koenig from Vampire Weekend joins Fucked Up for Blitz and Descendents covers, while fans help the band thrash through “Nervous Breakdown” by Black Flag.
2008’s CMJ Music Marathon in New York City begins tomorrow (10/21), but for us, the festivities start tonight with Shearwater’s performance at Le Poisson Rouge (LPR).
Find below, your guide to the official and unofficial CMJ Marathon showcases featuring a trio of Matador acts: Shearwater, Jay Reatard and Mission of Burma.
With quite the live-act triumvirate and manning of the 1’s and 2’s by Billy Hayes and Times New Viking at the Beggars/Matador After Party, this’ll be a week to remember.
Two more important media events happening next week to make you aware of.
First, next Monday online radio session:
Viva Radio Presents
Me Plus You hosted by Ted Shumaker
with special guest Jennifer O’Connor
An in-depth interview and exclusive live songs at the Viva Studios.
Air Date 9/1/08, 12:30PM EST and available in the Archive Vol. 24
Check out VIVA-RADIO
Then on Friday, September 26th, Jennifer O’Connor will light up the radio airwaves when she is a guest on WNYC’s Soundcheck with John Schaefer.
Tune in at 2:30PM on 93.9FM in the New York area or WNYC online to hear Jennifer’s live interview and two-song performance.
If you missed this truly amazing evening with Shearwater, or just want to see it over and over the show is now readily available. The wonderful people at Baeble Music recorded it and are streaming the first set in which they played Rook in it’s entirety. Here’s a preview of show with the band playing Leviathan, Bound. Full set can be enjoyed here.
There were really too many highlights to list. But I’ll try, anyway.
* – The Feelies covering “Outdoor Miner”…and absolutely slaying with material from throughout their illustrious career.
* – watching WFMU’s Brian Turner forced to give props to American Express. File under “Things You Will Probably Never See Again”
* – Sonic Youth - turning old chestnuts “The World Looks Red” and “Making The Nature Scene” inside out. 90+ minutes of selections from across a 27 year span. If you’re one of the folks that paid scalper dough for a ticket, you actually got your money’s worth.
* – some guy wearing a Drazen Petrovic throwback. Had I worn mine, the hair-pulling would’ve been outta control.
* – fantastic blast from the past sightings : See/Hear’s Ted Gottfried, Richard Kern, Ken Katkin, acting/journalism double threat Brad Holbrook.
* – The Staten Island Ferry. Every day, it brings people to at least one location that doesn’t suck.
(OK, Brad Holbrook wasn’t there. But I was just wondering how he chose to celebrate our Nation’s birthday, and if he picked an event other than Sonic Youth and the Feelies, he’s a BAD AMERICAN)
Who amongst us hasn’t read the listening piles of Matador Direct’s Dave Martin (above, right) and thought, “I wish there was an Other Music party he was dj’ing?”
Well, your dreams and mine have come true. Dave will be spinning tonight from 9-10pm at Union Pool ( 484 Union Ave, Williamsburg, 11211) at an event that will also feature the dj skills of Excepter’s Dan Houghland and a live performance from El Guincho.
There’s no word on a dress code, but as always, I think you can presume that Union Pool adhere to a “no shirt, no shoes, no problem” policy.
Day 6 at Headgear Studios in Brooklyn with Mr. John Agnello at the helm. What have we accomplished so far? All the tracking and vocals (live, mind you), some sick guitar overdubs, and a whole lot of fun-having. We’ve got a week to go including mixing.
1. Remove all sidewalk sheds. The aesthetic cost outweighs the alleged improvement in safety. The near-permanence of these fixtures (one per block at any given moment) is really due to fears of liability.
2. Restore conforming street signs in business-improvement districts.
3. Replace the ungainly green lamp posts in the Grand Central business-improvement district and replace them with cobras.
4. Remove all advertising and American flags from Grand Central Terminal. (The Beyer Blinder & Belle ‘restoration’ was much trumpeted for removing billboards – now there are more than ever. The old Kodak sign was much cooler.)
5. Make Vanderbilt Hall into a waiting area again – nobody wants to push through those stupid crafts fairs.
6. Remove concrete bollards around Grand Central on the viaduct; reopen Depew Place; reopen the taxi waiting area and remove the outdoor cafe.
7. Remove corporate and institutional banners festooning every block; forbid civic boosterism trumpeting NYC as ‘capital of the world’ or ‘the greatest city on earth’ – a great city doesn’t need to constantly remind people of its greatness.
8. Restore Amtrak service to Grand Central.
9. Reopen all secondary subway entrances and exits, as well as underground transfers between uptown and downtown trains.
10. Replace all compact fluourescent lamps in public places with incandescents.
