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NYC adding stricter rules for Street Musicians!
If you haven’t realized yet that New York City is becoming more and more of a Police State, here’s example #545. Starting May 8th, NYC will be forcing stricter rules on street musicians/buskers or just musicians in general who perform out in the street and parks. They will have to perform in 100 defined spots in the parks, and have to PAY to rent the limited area space. Yes seriously! So say I wanted to film a friend in the park, I could be subjected to a $250 summons if I don’t comply with the rules. This is complete bullshit and something needs to be done! You can sign a petition to help stop this from happening!
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NYC’s The Apple Stomp Ska Festival Announces Full Lineup!
New York City has been lacking in the ska festival department but that’s all about to change! We previously announced that there was going to be an Apple Stomp 2-day ska festival at Irving Plaza in New York City, and now the full lineup has been announced! Better see below for all the awesome bands playing! Tickets go on sale on TicketMaster Friday at 12pm EST!
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Willie Nile @ Joe’s Pub, NYC
Date: April 3rd 2013
Band Link: willienile.com
New York rocker Willie Nile and his band played an early show at Joe’s Pub last night. If you’ve been to a Willie Nile show before, you know why they are legendary! This was only my second time seeing Willie, but I’ve been a fan of his since 2004 when I saw him for the first time. I believe it was in 2004 and he opened for the Saw Doctors at Irving Plaza. I have no idea why I haven’t seen him since but I need to make it a point to see him more than once every 9 years!
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The Specials playing New York City on July 17th
According to various sites (Specials2.com and BrooklynVegan.com to name a few), The Specials are playing in New York City on Wednesday July 17th at Pier 26 in Hudson River Park. An outside Specials show at 5pm, looks like I’m taking a half day that day!
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Video: The Beards perform in Washington Square Park (BeforeTheConcert.com)
The Beards from Australia are a comedy rock band and they have 3 albums worth of songs about Beards. Funny songs too! Something tells me they have plenty of more beard songs to sing about. The band meet up with me in Washington Square Park in New York City Wednesday and performed 3 beardly songs (“Born with a Beard,” “Shaved Off His Beard,” and “If Your Dad Doesn’t Have A Beard, You’ve Got Two Mums”). It was pretty hard to film and not laugh at these guys. This is a video you need to watch!
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Video: The Alternate Routes – “Oh My My,” “Sundress” and “Stereo” (BeforeTheConcert.com)
The Alternate Routes recently played at Rockwood Music Hall in New York City and they were nice enough to spend some time with me before their set. I filmed singer Tim Warren performing a few new songs, one song (“Stereo”) in their van and then 2 songs (“Oh My My,” “Sundress”) in their dressing room for BeforeTheConcert.com. They are great songs acoustically and they sound amazing with the full band as well! To get a nice preview of new things to come with the band, watch the videos below!
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Saw Doctors @ Irving Plaza, NYC
Date: March 15th 2013
Opening Band: The Latchikos
Band Link: sawdoctors.com
It’s that time of the year when The Saw Doctors come to the United States and rock out! They stopped at their usual spot at Irving Plaza and the show was sold out! That’s not surprising since they sell out that place in August when they play. But since it’s St Patrick’s Day weekend, everybody was out having a great time, watching the band from Tuam.
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The Scofflaws playing “Electric Avenue” at Characters on January 19th
The Scofflaws are playing Electric Avenue (AKA The Duff Guide To Ska and Marco On The Bass) at Characters NYC on January 19th. See the details at the Event page here.
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Mephiskapheles and Inspecter 7 playing aboard the Star of Palm Beach in NYC on October 26th
There’s Doomsday! The Tribute to Mephiskapheles featuring some Meph members and then there’s Andre and some others in Mephiskapheles. Well Andre’s Mephiskapheles band is playing October 26th aboard the Star of Palm Beach in NYC, brought to you by the numbers 6, 6, 6. The cruise loads at Pier 40, West Houston St. at West Side Highway. The show also features Inspecter 7, Step 2 Far and some awesome food being catered too. It sounds like a great show right around Halloween time! Oh, sorry Skalloween.
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Video: Larry and His Flask – “Land of the F(r)ee,” “Closed Doors” and “Hobo’s Lament” (BeforeTheConcert.com)
The awesome & fun bluegrass punk band Larry and His Flask perform 3 songs (“Land of the F(r)ee,” “Closed Doors” and “Hobo’s Lament”) on my new video series Before The Concert last weekend in New York City. It was before the Frank Turner concert near Webster Hall. The sessions were filmed at Cooper Square to a crowd of around 40 or so people. It was a blast, as you can see from the video! Watch the video and spread the word about it! Comments are nice too!
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Music Video: Joey Ramone – “New York City”
Joey Ramone’s last album Ya Know? came out in May but a new music video for “New York City” premiered tonight. It’s probably one of the best and coolest music videos I’ve seen this year! It features a lot of celebrities and musicians in a leather jacket like Reggie Watts, Anthony Bourdain, Andrew WK, Tim Harrington, some people from 30 Rock, and many more! I don’t even know how they filmed this. A combination of time lapse and stop-motion filming? Regardless of how they did it, this video is fucking cool and Joey would have loved it! I think anyway….
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Jello Biafra, Tom Morello, Das Racist and others playing Occupy Wall Street concert Sunday at Foley Square
Hey remember Occupy Wall Street? It’s back for the 1 year anniversary and there will be an Occupy Guitarmy march from “Spectra Frack Pipeline Blast Zone” to Foley Square. At Foley Square, there will be a concert, teach-ins and other stuff where everybody will wiggle their fingers. It’s happening from 1pm-6pm Sunday, one day before the 1 year anniversary of OWS. I might check it out just to see Jello and Tom. If I do, I’ll have pictures up the following day.
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