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| | | “It’s one of the few things that people know about Delaware,” says Spinto Band guitarist Joe Hobson. It’s a few days after Barack Obama’s decisive Nov. 4 victory. The band is busy bouncing from coast to coast in promotion of its recently sixth record, Moonwink, the follow up to 2005’s Nicely and Ni... Read More | | | | | | The Sea & Cake/Death Vessel Bowery Ballroom, 11.10.08 If you come to a The Sea & Cake show expecting a gimmicky balls-to-the-wall rock show, you've surely come to the wrong place. The jazz-influenced Chicago quartet has been making some of the most chilled out music for over a deca... Read More | | | | | | As a music geek, I've seen a lot of album covers, own multiple books collecting the best of them, and even went to college with the intentions of one day being a great album package designer. I've worked in record stores, and receive loads of cds every day, and this could quite possibly be the great... Read More | | | | | | Telling every child, no matter how average or sub-par they might actually be, that they’re “special” or “extraordinary” is one of the worst things to happen to the current generation since Columbine turned every weirdo into a potential murderer. And their post-liberal-arts-college shock is, of cours... Read More | | | | | | On a new list at McSweeney's, Peter Scallion coins a few new clever "anxiety medications" for our current economic downturn. Special favorites: Lehmanax, Greedquil and Downcyclen. Check out the complete list here. Read More | | | | | | Public transportation to certain parts of Brooklyn can be a real pain, but there's a new bus in town and—get this—it will take you to "the heart of Brooklyn" for free. So, if you've never been to the far-flung but worth the trip Brooklyn Museum, Prospect Park Zoo or Brooklyn Botanic Gard... Read More | | | | | | “Obamallujah!” cried Rev. Billy at his revival Sunday afternoon at Highline Ballroom. Then slower: “Obamallujah.” The anti-consumerist preacher didn’t hesitate to capitalize on progressives’ new-found fervor, attempting to merge Obama’s message with his own. “Don’t be cynical about Barack Obam... Read More | | | | | | The monthly Cakeshop event “Queers, Beers and Rears” is essentially a gay party, but any breeders who skipped it for lack of hook-up potential were doing themselves a disservice. Sandwiched between an hour of open bar and an hour of dollar beers was main act Edie Sedgwick, led by a bearded cross... Read More | | | | | | Every New Yorker should go to the Oak Room at The Algonquin Hotel at least once, even if the Algonquin’s slavish devotion to the infamous Round Table can make it feel like a tourist trap at times. And there will probably never be a better reason to go than Glimpses of the Moon, a new Jazz-age musica... Read More | | | | | | Bruce LaBruce has made everything from sex with skinheads (No Skin Off My Ass) to sex with someone's leg stump (Hustler White) seem sexy. (Or not sexy, considering how far you are willing to allow yourself to witness such dark, taboo terrain.) With his latest, Otto; or, Up With Dead People (current... Read More | | | |
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