New York By Beta December 3, 2008 | 10:32 AM Categories:

Online psych/folk/ weirdo music store Anthology Recordings celebrates the holidays with an evening of rare grooves (spun by no less a dignitary than Finders Keepers labelhead Andy Votel) and a musical performance from the King Khan & BBQ Show. Should those aural pleasures not be heady enough for you, the evening will be lit up by the legendary Joshua Light Show, which powered many a trip back in the days at the Fillmore West.
Wednesday December 3rd @ WIRED Store 15 West 18th Street 6 -10 pm

My NY by Gang Gang Dance

New York By Beta December 1, 2008 | 12:59 PM Categories:

On the heels of their headswimming new release, St. Dymphna, Gang Gang Dance's Lizzi Bougatsos divulges her secrets to getting by as an artist/ musician in the city. She is the singer/percussionist of Gang Gang Dance and just finished her album The Proper Sex with Sadie Laska of their vocal/ percussion duo, I.U.D. She is also a visual artist who lives in Chinatown, NYC.

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This Week in...12/1-12/7

New York By Beta December 1, 2008 | 11:54 AM Categories:

After filling up on yams, turkducken, and any and all assortment of pies over the past four days, we're back, ready to work off those holiday calories while siultaneously filling up the calendar with concerts and the like.

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Lovefingers party @ BEast

New York By Beta November 25, 2008 | 7:58 AM Categories:

It's a slow week for shows, as people fill their bellies with cornbread stuffing and cranberry relish, rather than fill their iCals with night-time events. Even the locals are out of town. The weekly Lee Douglas and Lovefingers disco party finds the hearty vinyl-crating duo being replaced with out-of-towners like Berlin's Hugo Capablanca and Bushwick's (well, that's sorta out of town) Speculator. Regardless, the tunes are dope if wholly obscure and the vibe is as relaxed as post-turkey feasting.
Tonight @ BEast 171 East Broadway @ Essex 10PM

My NY by caUSE co-MOTION!

New York By Beta November 20, 2008 | 12:44 PM Categories:

Today's My NY entry comes courtesy of Brooklyn's winsome, Rough Trade-styled scruffy punk enthusiasts caUSE co-MOTION! The quartet's infectious and giddy "It's Time!" release on Slumberland Records compiles a handful of OOP seven inches in one tidy CD package. And tonight, they play at Ash's Place (234 Wythe Ave.) with Cheap Time, Jacques Detergent, and Ashley Epps. When they're not on-stage (or adding exclamation points to anything that moves), the boys might be found here:

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Les Blank Retrospective @ Film Forum thru 11/20

New York By Beta November 18, 2008 | 8:50 AM Categories:

Already underway at Film Forum is a retrospective of idiosyncratic documentary filmmaker Les Blank. Just a few weeks back, we were fiending for the man's singular take on such non-standard doc subject matter like garlic, gap-toothed women, and American micro-cultures, not to mention his infamous documentary where German director Werner Herzog loses a bet and has to eat his shoe.
Of particular note are the Les Blank documentaries running this week focusing on music and its makers. Tuesday night's double feature of Chulas Fronteras and Del Mero Corazon focuses on Tex-Mex border music cultures intermingling, with performances from conjunto and ranchero icons Flaco Jimenez and Lydia Mendoza, as well as a doc about the master of the conga, Francisco Aguabella. Wednesday night's double feature of Always for Pleasure and King of the Cowboy Artists immerses itself in New Orleans and the Wild Tchoupitoulas of Mardi Gras and a singing cowboy. Thursday showcases the sublime polka documentary, In Heaven There is No Beer? The answer to that question goes: "So we must drink it here."
Through Thursday, November 20 @ Film Forum 209 W. Houston

My NY by Matt Wolf (filmmaker: Wild Combination)

New York By Beta November 17, 2008 | 11:42 AM Categories:

Today's entry in the My NY series comes courtesy of film-maker Matt Wolf, who has received many accolades this year for Wild Combination, his lovingly-rendered documentary about the inscrutable icon Arthur Russell. Out this week on DVD via Plexifilm, Wolf heps us to a few of his favorite things...

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This Week in...11/17-11/23

New York By Beta November 17, 2008 | 10:03 AM Categories:

How to fill in your iCal accordingly...

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TONIGHT: Laughing Light of Plenty DJ set @ 88 Palace (N.O.M. Party)

New York By Beta November 14, 2008 | 9:00 AM Categories:

One of our favorite singles of the year is from The Laughing Light of Plenty, a collaborative effort from Rub-n-Tug's Thom Bullock and Eddie Ruscha Jr. (who, if you know your Pop Art people, is the son of artist Ed Ruscha). Of course, as it was released on Whatever We Want Records, it's already waaaay out of print and fetching handsome amounts online. Tonight the two are the guest DJs at the nearly-monthly party, No Ordinary Monkey, hosted tonight under the Manhattan Bridge at this Chinatown Mall spot (which during daylight serves up some steaming-hot dim sum). It's a delicious spot to host a dance party, too.
Friday November 14 @ 88 Palace 88 E. Broadway 2nd Floor 10pm-4am $10/ $5 w/ membership

TONIGHT: Wild Style 25th Anniversary Party

New York By Beta November 13, 2008 | 2:18 PM Categories:

Now is not the place to wax rhapsodic about Charlie Ahearn's epochal Wild Style. Call it ground zero for exposing to the world outside of the Bronx this little thing called hip-hop, call it a jaw-dropping documentary/ document about bombing subway cars, breakdancing, busting moves on basketball courts, cutting up the breaks on disco records, or conducting MC battles on the stoops, call it whatever, but there's still a rush of adrenaline that comes with witnessing this little movie. It not only runs for a week down at Film Forum (209 W. Houston St.) but tonight, Spank Rock gets together with Busy Bee, Grand Master Cas, Grand Master Theodore, Double Trouble, Kevie Kev, and others to celebrate the movie that broke hip-hop worldwide and help raise funds for the weekly Showpaper.
@ Danbro Warehouse 268 Meserole @ Bushwick Brooklyn, $10 All Ages 8pm

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