Our friend (and immensely talented singer-songwriter-producer-dad) Mark Bacino filmed us performing a new song, “Spider Sabich,” for episode 5 of his video show “Speakin’ the Queens.” We then backed Mark for “Who Are Yous?,” a track from his fantastic new album Queens English. Mark’s album (did we mention it’s fantastic?) is a song cycle about life in New York’s outer boroughs, and “Who Are Yous?” is the Williamsburg song, so we felt right at home.
Spider who?, you ask. Spider Sabich.
Daniel Johnston ranks as one of our favorite things in all of creation, and so we are honored, excited and probably a bit nervous to be performing three songs from his Hi, How Are You album in the next installment of Boog City’s awesome Classic Albums Live series. It’s happening Wednesday July 14 at the Sidewalk Cafe. Boog City (p.s. that link is actually a download of the most recent issue) has made the unusual pairing of Hi, How Are You (to be performed by Bob Kerr, Steve Espinola, Preston Spurlock, Christy Davis and yours trulies) and Paul Simon’s Graceland (to be performed by six other acts). Unexpect the expected.
Humans can survive for at least 8 hours without accessing the internet.
A Dunkin Donuts blueberry muffin has twice as many calories as a glazed donut (530).
It’s possible to get a fantastic drum sound in a room no bigger than the average hedge fund manager’s master bath.
Three new songs coming soon:”Spider Sabich,” “O My Body,” “Teethmarks”!
We’re in cover mode again this Wednesday, 09/09/09, when we’ll beÂ
helping to cover the entirety of the Magnetic Fields’ 69 Love Songs as part of
the opening night party for the 3rd Annual Boog City Festival. It’s going to take
13 bands to do it, starting at 7pm at the Sidewalk Cafe. We’d love to tell youÂ
exactly when we start our five-song Magnetic mini-set, but we don’t know. We’reÂ
figuring somewhere around 9pm. But you really should come and see the whole thing.
Or just come whenever you want. Roughly 58 of the 69 songs are good.
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L’amour toujours, Stephin.
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Wednesday, 09/09/09
Sidewalk Cafe
94 Avenue A (at E. 6th St.), NYC
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The Magnetic Fields’ 69 Love Songs
performed live by
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Admiral of the Narrow Sea
Kathy Zimmer
Ben Krieger
Adam Ferretti
Yoko Kikuchi & Sara Lautman
Andre Hoepfner
Genan Zilkha
Stephanie Niles
The Trouble Dolls
Maynard and the Musties
Bernie Q. and Friends
Gracefully
A Brief View of the Hudson
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Bob’s in Edinburgh, after all, and a practical man.
Matty and Cheri, reckless as ever, will be flying in from Brooklyn to play with the other members of Mark Bacino’s band as he performs his new album “Queens English” in its entirety.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
7:00pm – 8:00pm
The Living Room
154 Ludlow Street
New York, NY
F, V to 2nd Avenue
Free
Sherman Boim, who put this show together, says “If it sounds like the Beatles, it’s power pop.” Shhhhhhh – we don’t sound like the Beatles. But we fit the bill in our own melodic, harmony-laden fashion.
New York Power Pop Page presents
8:00 Joey Salvia
8:30 The Trouble Dolls
9:30 Amanda Kaletsky
10:30 Splitsville
Kenny’s Castaways
157 Bleecker St., NY
Between Sullivan and Thompson
A, C, E to West 4th
21 and over
$10
On Thursday Nov. 6 we celebrate change with lots of new songs and one old new bass player named Pam.
The Delancey
8 pm – Hot Chelle Rae
8:30 pm – The Rakehells
9:15 pm – John Brodeur
10 pm – Trouble Dolls
On Thursday May 15, we’re putting our Radioheads on and covering three songs from “OK Computer” as part of a benefit for the literary journal Boog City (wait, do you really not have a website, David? How do we link to you?) at Cake Shop (who do have one). We and many of our literary-wannabe band friends will cover David Bowie’s “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust…” and Radiohead’s “OK Computer” in order, starting at 7 pm. Randi Russo, Dibson T. Hoffweiler, Todd Carlstrom & The Clamour, the Passenger Pigeons & more!
We’re coming out of hibernation, and we’ll be shaking off the dust and the rust Friday May 2 as part of the Baggot Inn’s final-week-in-business festivities:
Baggot Inn
82 W. 3rd St., betw Sullivan & Thompson, NYC
Friday May 2
$5
8 pm – Jenny Amlen
9 pm – Trouble Dolls
10 pm – The Bisbees
Fact: blue corn chips are better percussion instruments than raw carrots. Listen close.
Mouse Pak, “Reindeer Boy”
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