Monday, June 25, 2007

Concert Season (Summer Edition) UPDATED

FREE SHOWS

Friday June 22
Dave Attel
with John Mulaney, Joe DeRosa, Amy Schumer, Kurt Metzger, Ted Alexandro
Central Park Summer Stage
7:30pm-10pm

Saturday June 23
MC Chris
Passout Records
131 Grand St. (btwn. Bedford & Berry)
4pm-8pm

Sunday June 24
Ted Nugent
Nokia Theatre
7pm doors
(this one's almost free. If you go HERE and use the password "catscratch", it'll give you the tickets for free, you just have to pay all the bullshit Ticketmaster charges. Which comes out to about $9/ticket if you buy two. The more you buy, the cheaper each one is. Who wants to get a group together and party with The Nuge? C'mon people, you know he's gonna play "Cat Scratch Fever", "Stranglehold", and "Great White Buffalo". Maybe he'll shoot something with an arrow!)

Monday July 9
MC Hammer, Doug E Fresh, Slick Rick & MC Lyte
part of Martin Luther King Jr. Concert Series
Wingate Field
at Winthrop Street (btwn Brooklyn Ave & Kingston Ave)
7:30pm

Wednesday July 11
Spoon
part of River to River Festival
Rockefeller Park
(at River Terrace & Warren St)
7pm

Thursday July 19
UCB Theatre's Comedy Cabaret
featuring Human Giant, Demetri Martin, Rebecca Drysdale, The Defibulators
Central Park Summer Stage
7:30pm-10pm

Saturday July 21
Siren Music Festival
Coney Island
All day
Lineup (so far & in no particular order)
New York Dolls
M.I.A.
Voxtrot
Cursive
White Rabbits
We Are Scientists
The Black Lips
Dr. Dog
Noisettes
Lavender Diamond
The Detroit Cobras
Elvis Perkins
The Twilight Sad
Matt & Kim

Sunday July 22
Brazilian Girls
with Cat Empire, HIMALAYAS (conducted by Kenny Wollesen & Jonathon Haffner)
Central Park Summer Stage
3pm-7pm

Thursday July 26
Hippiefest
part of Seaside Summer Concert Series
Asser Levy/Seaside Park
(at West 5th St & Surf Ave)
7:30pm
Lineup includes (in no particular order)
Iron Butterfly
Mountain (featuring Leslie West & Corky Laing)
The Turtles (featuring Flo & Eddie)
The Zombies (featuring Colin Blunstone & Rod Argent)
Country Joe McDonald
Felix Cavaliere's Rascals
Denny Laine (co-founder of Moody Blues & Wings)
Joey Molland's Badfinger
Mitch Ryder
Mark Farner (formerly of Grand Funk Railroad)

Sunday August 5
Blonde Redhead
with I'm From Bercelona & The Coy Dogs
part of the Helio & JellyNYC Pool Parties
McCarren Park Pool
at Lorimer St (btwn Driggs Ave & Bayard Ave)
3pm
(requires rsvp, see the site for details)

Monday August 6
Lauryn Hill
with special guests
part of Martin Luther King Jr. Concert Series
Wingate Field
at Winthrop Street (btwn Brooklyn Ave & Kingston Ave)
7:30pm

Thursday August 9
The B52's
with Patty Smyth and Scandal
part of Seaside Summer Concert Series
Asser Levy/Seaside Park
(at West 5th St & Surf Ave)
7:30pm

Sunday August 12
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists
with The Thermals & Birds of Avalon
part of the Helio & JellyNYC Pool Parties
McCarren Park Pool
at Lorimer St (btwn Driggs Ave & Bayard Ave)
3pm
(requires rsvp, see the site for details)

NOT SO FREE SHOWS

Friday June 22 & Saturday June 23
Violent Femmes
with John Kruth
Warsaw
261 Driggs Ave (btwn Leonard St & Eckford St)
8pm
$25

Tuesday July 24
The White Stripes
with Grinderman
Madison Square Garden
8pm
$49.50 ($39.50 for the upper level 400 section)

Wednesday August 8
Beastie Boys
Central Park Summer Stage
7pm-10pm (doors 5:30pm)
$50

Thursday August 9
Beastie Boys
McCarren Park Pool
at Lorimer St (btwn Driggs Ave & Bayard Ave)
5:30pm doors
$49

Thursday August 9
The Black Crowes
Central Park Summer Stage
6pm-10pm (doors 4:30pm)
$45

Friday, June 22, 2007

There's no home for you here

I'm very confused by the people who are touting the new White Stripes album as the best thing they've ever done while totally throwing the last album to the side. I think 'Get Behind Me Satan' was excellent. Jack White finally accepted the notion of putting down the guitar and fuzz box for a minute and writing songs with other instruments. I think it's great. But everyone else seems to be so excited that he's taken a step backward and gone back to the safety of the sound he's been treading and retreading since they formed. Remember when 'Elephant' came out and there were all those songs that were basically just rewrites of older White Stripes songs? That's what happens when you confine yourself to a box for too long, you just redo what you've already done.

I guess everyone can look forward to the next album with it's newly rewritten versions of "I'm Slowly Turning into You" and "Little Cream Soda" then.

Although, I do think I'm the only person in the world that thinks "There's No Home for You Here" is better than "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground".