NYC Shows/Just Announced Thread

Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck
Where: Madison Square Garden, New York, NY
When: Thu 2/18 & Fri 2/19
Presale: Mon 12/7 at noon ? Fri 12/11 at 10pm

Concur w/Sweetcell on that one. Id never miss a show at Terminal 5 because of the venue itself. Its def not a favorite place, and I try and avoid it if possible, but the sound is really good there and the people are quite pleasant that work there. Sightlines from the balconies are
great if you get there early enough. Empanada Mama's on the 3rd floor is always reliable.

Shows like The Faint are actually quite good at a venue like that. Their light show was incredible.

sweetcell wrote:

azaghal1981 wrote:
I sold my ticket to the show with SY partially because of all the T5 horror stories I've heard.

while T5 isn't a venue i would seek out, i've never had a horrible experience there either - vs. RnR Hotel or every House of Blues that i've ever been to.  it's big, it's cold, it's modern and lacking in character (other than that of "mega-club"), but the sound is above average, there's a rooftop open-air patio, and if you get there early there are some excellent sight-lines to be had from the first balcony.  yes, it's overly polished and you feel like there should be more models around than there actually are… but at least it's not a sh*t-hole with bad sound.

i wouldn't recommend it as a venue, but i wouldn't skip a great line-up just because of it.

Wish that I could attend this show:

Beach House
Webster Hall, New York, NY
Thu, May 6, 2010

maybe a DC area show around then, too?

You know, I've noticed before that though they are a Baltimore band, it seems that they never play around here. I see them playing shows in all sorts of places but never home area shows.

I saw them play in Baltimore with Grizzly Bear in October of 2007. It was in that church the Ottobar people briefly used for shows.

i've been to three of their dc shows and each time, even when they played with grizzly bear, was pretty barren.

haven't seen them since their last album came out though, but they still play in baltimore quite a bit. they had an outside concert over the summer but whenever they do play, they're using bunched up along side other local bands with no one having top billing.

I agree. I was bored both times I saw them.

I saw Beach House this summer in Baltimore - outside the Metro Gallery, along with Celebration…….and a few months before that, they played right down the street from me in Baltimore at the Patterson.    They do play, just not always well advertised.

That must have been the Rufustival which I was thinking they were there. Obviously, I've missed any other announcements of their local shows. Oddly enough for me, considering the 'Gazers tend to love them, they don't do a whole lot for me. Guess that's why I just don't pay much attention to the few announcements they do have.

SHOUT OUT LOUDS

2010

01 MAR  Music Hall of Williamsburg, New York (US)

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Allow us to present to you a very first taste of our coming album "WORK".
This track is titled "WALLS", and you can download it for free for two weeks. Beginning now, you snooze you lose good people.
The remaining songs that make up "WORK" will be available to you until the end of February world wide. In anticipation of that fine date, please consider yourself cordially invited to watch and re-watch a video with exclusive behind the scenes footage from the recording of the album, courtesy of our own Ted Malmros and our dear friend and camera man of choice Christian Haag.

And as if that's not plenty already, we will be warming up for the touring of "WORK" by playing two pre-tour shows in two of our absolute favourite cities.
Clue: Lou Reed, borough of birth and 1973 album.
We can't wait to see you, there or elsewhere.
From the home front,

Shout Out Louds

Murder City Devils
Nokia Theater, NYC
Saturday, February 13

Our Love Will Destroy the World
1/14
PPOW Gallery


Strongly contemplating this one.

Beth Orton
1/17
City Winery ($25-$45)

Beth Orton
1/18
The Bell House ($22.50)

Charlotte Gainsbourg
1/19-20
The Bell House ($25)

You lucky bastards

Nada Surf
March 25th - Bowery Ballroom - performing Let Go
March 26th - The Bell House - performing The Weight is a Gift
March 27th - MHOW - performing Lucky
all tix $25

so jealous

Pretty friggin awesome:
http://www.bam.org/weareplasticono

Cornelius in Plastic Ono Band.

Special guests will include Midler Bond Wainwright Hosono SonicYouth ScissorSisters, Clapton

More info here: http://pitchfork.com/news/37533-yoko-ono-thurston-and-kim-eric-clapton-bette-midler-together-at-last/

Hercules And Love Affair,  with James Lavelle
Thu 02/11/10
Le Poisson Rouge, New York, NY

hopefully this will be to road-test some new tunes, in prep for a new album

Gene Ween Solo
1/29
Highline Ballroom

American Idiot moves to Broadway after a record?breaking world premiere at Berkeley Repertory Theatre

Music by multi Grammy® award?winning band Green Day
Directed by Tony Award winner Michael Mayer

Preview performances begin March 24, 2010
Opening night is April 20, 2010 at the St. James Theatre
www.AmericanIdiotOnBroadway.com

here is a big one:

The Specials
Terminal 5 (NYC)
April 21st

with more US dates to be announced later.

had it posted in the wrong thread, my bad.