tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-112368002008-06-28T21:14:05.838-04:00dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00662196419986004416noreply@blogger.comBlogger524125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11236800.post-12722519086433082182008-06-20T23:54:00.005-04:002008-06-21T12:01:15.505-04:00

Listen: Ryan Adams - The Sun Also Sets At first you may think this is your run of the mill pop ballad, but it builds. The payoff is at about 1:55 when Ryan Adams channels his inner Danzig and kind of sounds like he's being strangled, but in a good way (?). There it is. This is definitely the highlight of his latest album, Easy Tiger, for me. Of course this has been out for a while so he's

Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10244874075394531604noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11236800.post-15038575770793995472008-06-19T08:00:00.003-04:002008-06-19T10:03:08.050-04:00

Dear friends, A problem. It's way past bedtime and you are having what has become a regular nighttime occurrence; a panic attack. Your head is racing in that middle of the night frenzy of thought, possibilities opening up and closing in billions of tantalizing and terrifying ways. These scenarios are fantastical and unlikely, but they whip up the neurosis into fine, featherweight meringue

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Come out to After the Jump Fest this Saturday! Free t-shirts, Photographs and Giveaways all day! Plus Raffles to win a pair of tickets to Virgin Mobile Fest, VIP passes to Siren Festival, CMJ Badges and a new Zune with a free 3 month download subscription! Metromix.com, your online guide for arts and entertainment in New York, will be kicking it all day long at After the Jump Fest

dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00662196419986004416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11236800.post-9837711891841619102008-06-11T08:00:00.001-04:002008-06-11T11:17:39.008-04:00

Dear friends, Here is the official After the Jump Fest flyer, designed by Rob Corradetti of Mixel Pixel (also playing the evening show at ATJF). Taking over the Music Hall of Williamsburg, Galapagos Art Space, and a substantial chunk of North 6th Street starting at noon on June 21st, ATJF is partnering with Make Music NY, Metromix, Stereofame and others (including over 40 bands) to support

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Want to open the ATJ Fest 2008 on Saturday, June 21st? If you answered 'yes', enter here. Winning act will also collect $2000. Good luck!

dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00662196419986004416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11236800.post-71385295509065282322008-06-04T08:08:00.004-04:002008-06-04T11:57:10.518-04:00

Dear friends, This past Sunday, The Monkey and I celebrated our fifth anniversary. In terms of relationships, they say you should celebrate your wedding anniversary over any other but since there was no party, most of our family and friends couldn't be there, and we picked it because it was the last Friday before the end of the month, that particular date holds little meaning to me. June 1st

dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00662196419986004416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11236800.post-27506967296393062862008-05-30T08:21:00.003-04:002008-05-30T13:23:34.568-04:00

Dear friends, Do You Love Me Now? by The Breeders is one of those curdled little numbers where the question is more challenge than plea. Sure the words are straightforward enough but how could you love her when she sounds so childlike and insinuating and uh, creepy? This cover by El Jezel is a little less Whatever Happened To Baby Jane. Jessica Flanagan sounds more reasonable, less wild-eyed

dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00662196419986004416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11236800.post-69235346574820323212008-05-29T08:00:00.002-04:002008-05-29T10:11:53.547-04:00

Dear friends, A dream: I'm standing outside a thrift shop storefront. It's past closing hours but the window is lit, so I'm staring at the items inside. A red child's drum, some depression glass candy bowls, a lamp or two. You are there too and you are talking to a mutual friend of ours. Your back is to me, you're blocking me out from the conversation, on purpose it would seem. I know I should

dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00662196419986004416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11236800.post-89428253716421200412008-05-27T08:21:00.006-04:002008-05-27T11:59:34.234-04:00

Dear friends, I always resented having to think of George Michael as a sex symbol. My older cousins thought he was the hottest thing going and I was convinced he had smelly feet. Seriously. In the Faith video he wasn't wearing any shoes and I was sure his feet were stinkin'. Then in the Father Figure video he was wearing the exact same unwashed outfit and I knew I was right. Also, it wasn't just

dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00662196419986004416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11236800.post-85095753879583431832008-05-19T04:15:00.004-04:002008-05-20T00:21:47.894-04:00

My musical coming of age knew no older siblings, no church-going folk, and no roving beer-guzzling events besides the dude downstairs. Still don't really know/care who/what/when a Black Sabbath is. I first heard them via Japanese cover. It was a Japanese man who gave me my first taste of Zepplin, Motorhead and his beloved Type-O Negative. Sure, I knew what an 80's metal band sounded like. I

Kirstenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16483596985557141209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11236800.post-73731127237145185352008-05-16T08:00:00.000-04:002008-05-16T12:08:06.026-04:00

2008 Noise Stage Lineup @ Galapagos June 21st, 2008 Noon Featuring: Ponytail, Power Douglas, Fiasco, The Shackeltons, Extra Life, The Austerity Program, Cursillistas, Monotract, Dinowalrus, Autodrone, Alex and the Horribles, Noveller, Brilliant Sweater, and more!!! After the Jump is the joint effort of 20 New York City music bloggers whose sites attract over one million readers a week.

dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00662196419986004416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11236800.post-38751335327244178252008-05-12T08:05:00.006-04:002008-05-12T10:34:37.130-04:00

Dear friends, If you're prone to feverish, fan-fictionesque flights of fancy about the rock bands in your life, then you must be a Fleetwood Mac fan. It's practically mandatory. They make it so easy. Everyone WAS sleeping with each other and busy as beavers being bitter about it. No projection necessary; most of the songs were meant as nasty little messages. To one another, old lovers, new

dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00662196419986004416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11236800.post-1304996407586969522008-05-09T11:30:00.002-04:002008-05-09T11:50:27.078-04:00

Hello All, Just wanted to draw your attention to The Fugazi Covers Project, which a fundraising effort for Braking the Cycle - proceeds go to benefit the HIV/AIDS services at the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Center of NYC. Aside from the fact that the project benefits a really important cause, anybody who's participated in d's covers projects before knows that they're a lot

Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01644467395018196352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11236800.post-69377210978084279472008-04-30T08:39:00.002-04:002008-04-30T11:41:00.223-04:00

Dear friends, It's been so long since I've felt that going-out excitement. Like the jittery teenage nerves that I'd manage while getting ready to see friends somewhere out there in big bad NYC. I've always equated that feeling with a particular sound. The skeletal, echoing skitter of Robert Smith's guitar. No joke. Some people get their party up to dance music, not I. I like nothing more than

dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00662196419986004416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11236800.post-54206249929600378582008-04-21T13:52:00.002-04:002008-04-21T13:54:57.475-04:00

Kids in the Hall are in the midst of a North American tour, and I'm swept up in the madness. Their NYC shows were this weekend, and now my personal tour with them is over (unless I go completely insane and decide to go to Philly in the middle of the week, which is extremely unlikely.) As I ease back into the stresses of work and moving to a new apartment, I am still finding myself insanely

Tavienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11236800.post-41285888839823144662008-04-21T10:59:00.000-04:002008-04-21T11:00:36.188-04:00

In a few short months, it will be Summer and that means the second annual After the Jump Fest! Bigger, better with even more acts and surprise guests, this year the festival takes place along side the city wide music event, Make Music New York (which itself is a part of the worldwide music phenomenon that takes place in 300 cities in 108 countries) on the first day of Summer, June 21st. After

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Dear friends, As far as songs that fall under the category of "I'm not your dreamboat but I can pretend to be" (and I feel like there might be a few) Sherlock Holmes is a peculiar one. The original, as performed by the kooky Mael brothers aka Sparks, was a confusing little number that came across like a man more interested in his fantasy of masculinity, the brainy, fog dwelling super sleuth

dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00662196419986004416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11236800.post-44607437029288861492008-03-27T08:30:00.001-04:002008-03-27T14:20:39.242-04:00

Dear friends, I was waiting for the F train a couple of days ago. When I got on, I eyeballed the car looking for that elusive morning commute seat. I saw a disheveled redheaded man in his late 40s with an empty seat next to him. He saw me look at it and him. He narrowed his eyes and shifted slightly in a way that I recognized as psychic projection of DON'TSSITHERE DON'TSITHERE DON'TSITHERE.

dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00662196419986004416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11236800.post-7689519214514780782008-03-19T09:00:00.003-04:002008-03-19T11:34:09.078-04:00

Dear friends, Things will really get all dear diary up in here today I think. I was very tired. The kind of tired where it seems like exaggeration. My head kept falling down towards my desk. I didn't fall asleep. I couldn't. I was at work. But I really wanted to turn off the monitor and close my eyes. Instead, I stared stupidly ahead, weaving slightly, eyes half-closed, until I could leave.

dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00662196419986004416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11236800.post-71437989567942650372008-03-14T09:00:00.004-04:002008-03-14T14:30:38.772-04:00

Dear friends, A dream: I am dressed in medieval garb. I am me, I am not me. It's hard to say, but judging from my outfit and surroundings it would appear I'm on the pilgrim's path and the pilgrim's path looks a lot like the 9W next to the Hudson. It's no highway though, it's a road, glassed over like a mall walkway, lined with diversions. I know that at some point I should stop or take a detour

dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00662196419986004416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11236800.post-68954021927737689942008-03-10T08:15:00.001-04:002008-03-10T11:22:12.434-04:00

Dear friends, I'd like to draw your attention to something lovely. (photo by Lars Stephen) Last week, Stereogum* debuted the fabulous new video to Dean and Britta's cover of Ann-Margret and Lee Hazlewood's You Turn My Head Around. You Turn My Head Around/Dean and Britta (video) DISCLAIMER! I am SO biased because I am friends with the clip's talented director, Sera Rogacki AND I had a hand

dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00662196419986004416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11236800.post-59165483435184008892008-03-10T08:00:00.004-04:002008-03-10T11:00:10.761-04:00

After the Jump is headed to SXSW for the first time ever with four outrageous shows, including our very own official showcase (not bad for an organization under a year old huh?). Each show has some incredible tricks up its sleeve, so if you are headed to Austin, don't miss out! Friday 3/14, 7pm The After the Jump Backyard @ 1204 Salina St. - East Side Free and open to the public + Free

dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00662196419986004416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11236800.post-29716618346972231802008-03-08T11:15:00.010-05:002008-03-10T10:20:20.161-04:00

Reiko remembers 尾崎豊 Yutaka Ozaki: "God, the things I wanted to do to him when I was 12!" She bites her glossed lip and smiles. "I bet." "He was terribly good looking," she moans. "I mean he was beautiful enough to convince you that he wasn't even real, you know those impossibly good-looking people. On the poster he was an idol but when he sang, he turned into an idol with a beating heart.

Kirstenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16483596985557141209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11236800.post-32281051628228556512008-03-07T09:00:00.000-05:002008-03-07T16:22:44.768-05:00

Dear friends, Czech it... After the Jump is throwing TWO shows on March 15th. Pertinent details below... After the Jump SXSW 2008 Party at The Lucky Lounge 205 W 5th St Austin, TX March 15, 2008 Starts at Noon * Free AND After the Jump Official SXSW 2008 Showcase at Lambert’s BBQ 401 W 2nd St Austin, TX March 15, 2008 * Badges and limited tickets at the door Love, D

dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00662196419986004416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11236800.post-45795508409983636112008-02-29T09:00:00.001-05:002008-02-29T10:34:19.018-05:00

Dear friends, Behold Jeff K's wise words about Eamon Hamilton, our headliner tomorrow night at Neon Light presents... at Galapagos. "The final performer on Saturday's kick off to the 2008 Neon Lights calendar is Eamon Hamilton, better known to the blog-music devotee as singer and songwriter for Brakes (you can triple that if you feel so inclined). The Brighton, UK band is signed to Rough

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