July 18, 2008
Another great one from the folks at Jelly NYC. Those cats keep bringing the free shows, and we’ll keep filling that concrete oven every Sunday. Ronnie Spector was the headliner on 7/6/08. Foxy as ever, she was wearing black silk and red lipstick. Click the photo below to see more from this set.
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July 7, 2008
I have no words to describe this. Once you have your own video game, you ascend to super-human status, right? Revisited lots of Aerosmith videos after this one. Friday, June 27, 2008 Aerosmith and Activision launched their own Guitar Hero game. Check out more photos on Spin.com.
The classic….”There goes my old girlfriend…”
Steven Tyler
The Toxic Twins
Aerosmith with limited edition Guitar Hero controller
The inventors of Guitar Hero
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July 5, 2008
Alana Amram & The Rough Gems are a Brooklyn-based Country/Americana band. I’ve mostly seen Ms. Amram perform with 5 other players including an organ and a serious pedal-steel by Mr. Phillip Sterk. Sometimes she performs with the entire family forming The Rough Gems Big Band, they bring out harmonicas, recorders and tin whistles, it’s really a party! I’m really quite picky with my country music selections, but I can tell you that Alana’s songs are extraordinary. Her lyrics take me to a place where life is simple, a dusty country road at night, following a cowboy lover who goes to Mexico. The best description of her most recent EP puts it easily “on a classic country comp, in the background of a Dolly Parton biopic or coming out of a dusty Waffle House juke box.”. I don’t have to tell you, she is also FOXY and can play a mean guitar. Watch this youtube clip of her doing “Painted Lady” with sister Adira. Her next show is at Galapagos, in Brooklyn on July 9th. In the meantime, enjoy these photos from The Knitting Factory where she opened for Richard Lloyd’s new band, The Sufimonkey Trio.
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June 30, 2008
The photos from Make Music New York and the After the Jump Fest (June 21st, 2008) can be seen in a few places. Spin.com got most of the festival photos, and the Lime Wire Music Blog, got the hot shots of Andy Animal getting arrested outside of Passout Records. You could also click on the image below to see the whole set on my flickr page. Cheers!
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June 30, 2008
There are two great shows you should check out on the Bowery right now. Neither one of them is at the New Museum, but both involve some of punk music’s great figures. The first is a small show of collage entitled “The Spirits Are Alive and Well” by X front woman, Exene Cervenka. The pieces are nostalgic and eerie with the old photographs and personal ephemera. Below is my favorite, the one with the pinochle card box! That show will be up until July 18th at 195 Bowery. Very, very cool.
Secondly, one of the absolute MASTERS of rock photography, Bob Gruen has a retrospective up at the Morrison Hotel Gallery at 313 Bowery. 280 photographs, including an installation of a a bedroom replica, from the 70’s, the walls covered top to bottom with some of Gruen’s magazine photos. The show is incredible, and you will most certainly recognize the iconic images of John and Yoko, The Sex Pistols, The Ramones, Led Zepplin, KISS….the list goes on and on. Last week I attended a guided tour/lecture of the exhibit, another great one for VH1’s Save The Music Foundation.
Bob Gruen with Legs McNeil at the Rockers exhibit
Bob Gruen
Bob Gruen
Exene Cervenka
“The Spirits Are Alive And Well #46″ By Exene Cervenka
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June 23, 2008
Arrojo Studio is that fancy salon downtown on Varick Street. Kelly Wright is one of the stylists there, and she put together this amazing hair show with looks inspired from some of the greatest biker exploitation films like Easy Rider (1969) and The Wild One (1953). She did an amazing job, as did all the girls. Fantastic styling by Leah, I’m talking leather and suede, fringe and feathers! Fun! We did these photos right before the girls hit the runway. They are the BAD GIRLS on the block. Check out the hotness.
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June 15, 2008
Thursday night at Bowery Ballroom, Bang Camaro rolled in with the entourage of 19+ “bros” and a slew of fans. Opening the night were locals Demander with our favorite, The Giraffes. I ran into Mike Frankel, of the LWMB there as well as a few friends and superfans. Inquiring minds want to know, how do those Bang Camaro dudes split up the groupies? Just kidding, I can attest that they are all perfect gentlemen. I did some photos of them last fall for Playgirl Magazine’s music feature, and the after party was a pretty good ratio, if you know what I mean! There was, however, some explicit behavior out on the street after Thursday night’s show.
Getting cheeky with Nick Given of Bang Camaro, Damien Paris of The Giraffes and some passed out pimp on the Bowery
The lovely Demander at Bowery Ballroom
Bang Camaro at Bowery Ballroom
Bang Camaro
Jens Giraffe
The Giraffes at Bowery Ballroom
Bang Camaro, Bryn Bennett and Alex Necochea
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June 13, 2008
I’m pleasantly surprised at the consistency at which The Charleston books bands that I actually like. Here are some snaps of Providence, RI based hardcore/post-punk band, She Rides. The had a run with Gallows (did anyone see Frank Carter in the new Converse campaign?! love it). It doesn’t look like She Rides ever stops touring, so check ‘em out next time they come around. Fun times. Kids these days…
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June 2, 2008
Whoa…this is one appropriately labeled “back in the day”. In my last post, you saw that Semi-Precious Weapons performed at the Joey Ramone Birthday shin-dig. It was so nice to see Justin Precious, who never ages. The band is ontop of it, and still kick out those hugely glamorous rock songs. Here they are in my backyard in 2006.
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May 20, 2008
oh hey…. it’s been a while! Let me get you caught up. On May 20th, I snapped a bunch of photos at the Annual Joey Ramone Birthday shin-dig. I was excited because I’ve been trying to go for years, and couldn’t for one reason or another. It was a proper good time, a lot of the same crew from that Varvatos/CBGBs party in fact. Here’s a few of the top selects, but you should check out the piece on Spin.com. The comment section on Bobby Steele’s blog is priceless.
Bobby Steele of The Undead
Arturo Vega in front a Joey Ramone poster signed by fans.
Jimmy Webb’s tattoos
Mary Weiss
The Raveonettes
Semi-Precious Weapons
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