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Who: Pterodactyl Location: Brooklyn, NY NXNE Sets: Friday @ Sneaky Dee’s (11pm), Saturday @ El Mocambo (3am) 5 Questions: - Who are you guys looking forward to seeing while north of the border? Any Canadian bands you’re really excited to see? We’re super excited to see Mika Miko and our friends The Coathangers who we’re playing with at Sneaky Dees! We always love dd/mm/...

Largest Musical Saw Ensemble in NYC

New York goeds for a world record: the Largest Musical Saw Ensemble will play on Saturday, July 18th, 2009, 2pm in Trinity Church, 31-18 37th Street (37th Street at 31st Avenue), Astoria, NY. It’s part of the 7th annual NYC Musical Saw Festival. The art form of making music with a carpenter’s handsaw has been around for 300 years, but has become almost forgotten since the 1930...

People who wait in line overnight to buy shit.

Photo via Kanye University Sometimes it is hard for me to evaluate what I truly value, and how much I value it. Do I value ‘friends’/’family’? Do I value ‘life experiences’ like ’studying abroad’? Do I value having new products in my possession? Do I value ’shit like Apple products’/’cell phones’/’the right to...

DOWNLOAD: Hatcham Social - So So Happy Making

British indie-pop group Hatcham Social have enjoyed some stellar company, sharing their drummer with a rising Klaxons, collaborating with The Horrors’ Faris Badwan, and signing in the States to TBD Records, home of White Rabbits and this band called Radiohead. The Badwan-produced "So So Happy Making" was initially released as a single last year in the UK, though it’s now...

I feel confused about Woody Allen directing the Curb Your Enthusiasm movie.

Yall. I saw the preview for the new movie with the CurbYallsEnthusiasm guy, and I feel really confused. Why did they need to bring Woody Allen on board? I feel like the Larry David comedy formula was just fine as it is. Even though Woody Allen has branded himself as ‘being authentic’ and ‘from New York’, I just don’t really relate to him. Maybe I’m not...

New York,New York,United States MP3s

Darlings - Buzzworthy??? Or Not???

Who: Darlings Location: New York, NY First Heard: Quiet Color Thoughts: Last week The L Magazine named these guys one of NYC’s 8 Bands You Need to Hear, and they were probably the only band that I didn’t know too much about. I had heard a song or two here or there but nothing really latched onto my brain. Well that all changed when I went digging around and started listening to the...

How Now So Cow?

It was a total High Fidelity moment. I was hanging out at Academy Records Annex, getting my fingers dirty flipping through used records something came over the speakers that instantly made me prick up my ears. Low-fi pop, a bit shambly, but in the best way and every song was super-catchy and there was a clever wit going on too. They had by by the third song and I went up and asked what was...

New Song : VEGA : No Reasons

Thanks to BIG STEREO and GvB for breaking this one. We reported on VEGA’s drama with the Crystal Castles show in Dallas not too long ago, but Alan Palomo, the man behind the project, is moving on. He’s releasing his new EP Well Known Pleasures on May 19th through Vogue College Records. This is some hook-heavy, Italo-disco-influenced synth pop that just feels so good. VEGA - No...

New York,New York,United States Reviews

Yeah Yeah Yeah's "It's Blitz"

EDITORS NOTE: About once a month the writers of the RSL get together and look through new projects, drink the finest of wines and shoot our mouths off about music and politics. (And have a pretty damn decent time, I must say!) We recently hosted a debate about the new album from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. What follows is the review of our own Nick Parker…. He defends the dramatic shift in sound...

New Favourite Band: Top 20 Records of 2011
Everyone seems to be whinging on about records of the year lists at the moment, how we’re all sick of them as there are too many and they’re irrelevant anyway. But I like them. So...
New Favourite Band: Jack of Heart - Only Seven Inches for your Girlfriend?
Gratuitous Jack of Heart endorsement from Jared Black Lips, pic from Falsestuff Don’t let the terrible title put you off. ‘Only Seven Inches For your Girlfriend?’ is a compilation...
New Favourite Band: Personal & The Pizzas: Diet, Crime, & Delinquency
"Hey, what’s up you little jerks? Long time no see uh? You ready to learn something?" Personal and the Pizzas describe themselves as "the greatest friggin band in the...
Parsley's Commlock: Tony Reeve
PARSLEY’S COMMLOCK Hero of the week: Tony Reeve Tony Reeve was famous as a cartoonist for Private Eye, but he was also an extremely nice guy & one of my best friends for over 20...
Parsley's Commlock: The Baby Show
PARSLEY’S COMMLOCKShow review/preview: The Baby Show, Excel Centre 18-20/02/11, Earls Court 28-30/10/11The Baby Show is amazing, and perfect for anyone with any interest in babies. Of course,...
Parsley's Commlock: Facebook
PARSLEY’S COMMLOCKTechnology Review: FacebookHaving spent a considerable amount of time, usually the early hours of the morning, trying to create a Facebook presence of the same order of the Myspace...
Parsley's Commlock: Marketing Week Live!
PARSLEY’S COMMLOCK Show review: Marketing Week Live!, Olympia 29-30/06/11Dropped into this show to see what’s happening on the other side of web browsers (i.e. what companies are doing when...
Parsley's Commlock: News International coverage 6-8/07/11
PARSLEY’S COMMLOCK TV Review: News International coverage 6-8/07/11What an amazing and thoroughly entertaining week’s news it was. On Wednesday we started with the parliamentary debate...
Parsley's Commlock: 2011: A Space Odyssey, pay for a coffee with your phone, Brentford County Court and Apple vs Google vs Microsoft
PARSLEY’S COMMLOCK Film Idea: 2011:A Space Odyssey I’ve been reflecting on the fact that we’re not having this conversation on the moon, and it caused me to re-imagine 2001:A Space...
Parsley's Commlock: Jet Harris
PARSLEY’S COMMLOCKHero of the week/Obituary News : Jet HarrisYes, actually I do know that he died on 18th March 2011, but I’ve been a bit busy and this is my first real chance to...