The new record from The dBs will finally be released next month. Here is World to Cry, a track off of it, as performed by the band last week at The Hoboken Arts and Music Festival.
Music Video: The dBs – World to Cry
May 14, 2012
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Tonight: James Maddock at The Rockwood Music Hall Stage 2
May 12, 2012
Tonight you’ll find James Maddock playing his monthly show at his home base, The Rockwood Music Hall Stage 2. James is certainly a favorite around here; his shows are not only excellent musically, they are just plain fun. Joining James will be his band, Oli Rockberger (piano), John Shannon (guitar), Drew Mortali (bass), Aaron Comess (drums) and Leslie Mendelson (vocals and tambourine). Tonight is the last time James will be playing The Rockwood until September. Opening tonight’s show will be Chris Velan.
James Maddock (with Chris Velan opening), The Rockwood Music Hall Stage 2,196 Allen Street between Houston and Stanton Streets (F Train to 2nd Avenue, use the 1st Avenue exit, but note that F trains from Brooklyn are not stopping at 2nd Ave.), 7pm, $15 (bar stools and standing only, $22 table seats are sold out)
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Music Video: Megan Reilly – To Seal My Love
May 11, 2012
Megan Reilly has just released her new record, The Well. Originally from Memphis, Megan has lived in both New York City and Philadelphia before settling in New Jersey. Megan’s band is made up of top notch area musicians: James Mastro on guitar, Tony Maimone on bass and Steve Goulding on drums. Here’s the first single off the album.
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Advance Planning: May 2012 Music Calendar Update (Added 5/10)
May 10, 2012Three updates including tomorrow (probably today by the time you see this).
May 11 – Adam Bernstein & Leon Gruenbaum – Pete’s Candy Store – 11pm
May 29 -Freddie Stevenson - Rockwood Music Hall – 9pm
Advance Sale
June 15 – The dBs – Le Poisson Rouge – doors 6:30pm
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News and Notes
May 9, 2012
Is happy hour the new late night? It used to be that big names would show up to a small club in the wee hours. But lately, it seems that is happening in the late afternoon/early evening. Two months ago Norah Jones and her band showed up at The Living Room to play an unannounced show at 6:30. Yesterday, Glen Hansard played a show announced only to his fans around the same time. And Glen brought a friend of his to help out: Bono. Thanks to BillieJo Sheehan for getting the shot above and allowing Now I’ve Heard Everything to use it.
CBGB Festival: There’s a new group of owners of what is left of CBGBs. They will be holding the CBGB Festival for four days beginning on July 5th. The festival is modeled after SXSW and CMJ and will be held in a number of clubs throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn. The festival will also include screenings of more than 30 rock-themed films at two downtown cinemas and a series of 24 workshops and conferences and a spirits fest that will incorporate artisan spirits distillers.
Bands announced so far include: The Cro-Mags, Vision of Disorder, Sick of It All, Guided by Voices, the Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Cloud Nothings, Rocket From The Tombs, The Baseball Project, Craig Finn, Willie Nile,The Dirty Pearls, Sister Sparrow and The Dirty Birds, D Generation, David Johansen and Ben Taylor.
Venues include Arlene’s Grocery, The Bell House, The Bitter End, The Bowery Electric, The Box, Cafe Wha?, Th Canal Room, Summer Stage, City Winery, The Delancey, Fontana’s, The Gramercy Theater, Hank’s Saloon, The Highline Ballroom, Hill Country, Joe’s Pub, The Knitting Factory, Le Poisson Rouge, Lit Lounge, Littlefield, The Living Room, Local 269, Otto’s Shruken Head, Pianos, Sullivan Hall, Tammany Hall, Trash Bar and Webster Hall.
Badges for the music performances portion of CBGB Festival are now on sale for $69 through the end of May. The price will go up June 1 to $79 and to $89 on July 5. There is also a badge for film and a combined music and film badge.
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Streaming: Spanking Charlene – Boyfriend
May 8, 2012
After yesterday’s review of Spanking Charlene‘s album Where Are the Freaks I was not quite ready to move on. So here is Boyfriend, a song from that record for you to listen to (you can also buy it if you like).
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News and Notes: Norah Jones to Play The Bell House This Friday (May 11)
May 7, 2012
The Bell House announced this afternoon that Norah Jones and her band will be playing a show there this Friday, May 11th at 9pm (door at 8pm). Tickets for this show will go on sale tomorrow, May 8 at 12 noon. There is a limit of two tickets per person, and they will be sold only on a will call basis. The face price of the tickets is $35, which puts them at around $40 with the ticketing fees.
I enjoyed seeing Norah and her new band play at The Tarrytown Music Hall last month (you can read my review of that performance here). The Bell House is a great venue as long as you don’t mind standing, and is located in the Gowanus section of Brooklyn a short walk from the F, G and R trains. On street parking can usually be found near The Bell House.
Update: The show sold out in less than three minutes.
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Review: Spanking Charlene – Where Are the Freaks?
May 7, 2012
As a result of the recent closing of The Lakeside Lounge, the monthly appearance by Spanking Charlene, a combination party and show, is now on hiatus until the band finds a new club to call home. I’m sure that some club out there would want to book a great band with a large, loyal following. There is a show booked for the end of June up on the Upper West Side, so we’ll see what develops. But for now, we’ll have to be content with the Where Are the Freaks?, the album which Spanking Charlene released earlier this year.
Spanking Charlene is led by the husband and wife team of Charlene McPherson (vocals) and Mo Goldner (guitar), and the band is rounded out with Eric Seftel (drums) and Alison Jones (bass). Eric “Roscoe” Ambel joins the band playing guitar and additional instruments on this record; he also frequently appears with Spanking Charlene when they play live.
The band’s stock in trade is a combination of rock and punk together with intelligent, often feminist lyrics. On this record, lead singer Charlene’s pristine vocals are mixed up front and with clarity and presence. Mo provides both a snarling punk guitar and trades off leads with Eric Ambel.
Where Are the Freaks? contains a generous helping of Spanking Charlene music, 14 tracks worth, clocking in at about 45 minutes. Highlights include opening track Secrets, Rev It Up, The Other Girl, I Like You as a Friend (quite an audience participation number live) and Dismissed with a Kiss. That last song was produced by Steve Van Zandt along with the album’s final song, Canarsie (the prize Spanking Charlene got as the winner of The Underground Garage’s Best Unsigned Band contest). The rest of the album was well produced by Eric Ambel.
I’ve been playing this record since it released. So far this year, I have not heard a better straight ahead rock album than Where Are the Freaks?
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Advance Planning: May 2012 Music Calendar Update (Added 5/6)
May 6, 2012Word has com from Jeremiah Birnbaum that due to an injury to his vocal cords, he has canceled all upcoming solo and Ramblers shows. He will likely have corrective surgery within the month, and with luck will be fully recovered by mid-summer. But Jeremiah will keep a limited schedule of dates as a guitarist, joining friends onstage and his Thursday residency at the venue now know as ZirZamin will continue with a slew of guest artists. I’ve made that change to the May music calendar here and on the main May, 2012 music calendar, as well as added some additional shows.
May 7 - Alana Amram and The Rough Gems – The Gutter – show 9pm
May 10 – Jeremiah Birnbaum and friends - ZirZamin – 8pm
May 17 – Jeremiah Birnbaum and friends - ZirZamin – 8pm
May 21 – Bucky Hayes - Rockwood Music Hall – 9pm
May 22 – Freddie Stevenson - Rockwood Music Hall – 9pm
May 24 – Jeremiah Birnbaum and friends - ZirZamin – 8pm
May 27 – Nick Africano – Rockwood Music Hall – Midnight
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Today: The Hoboken Arts and Music Festival (Spring, 2012 Edition)
May 6, 2012
Today is the Spring, 2012 edition of The Hoboken Arts and Music Festival, which is held on Washington Street in that mile-square city. What draws Now I’ve Heard Everything to Hoboken today is the music (although neither the arts or the food should be ignored). There’s a pretty interesting line-up on the main stage (on Washington Street between Newark Street and Observer Highway), starting at 12:30pm. The line up and times are:
12:30pm – The Ones & Nines
1:15 pm – Demolition String Band
2:00 pm - Freedy Johnston
3:15 pm -The Front Bottoms
4:30 pm – The dBs
The Hoboken Arts and Music Festival, Washington Street between Observer Highway and 7th Street, Hoboken (Path Train to Hoboken), Fair opens at 11am, Music on the Main Stage starts at 12:30pm, Free
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