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Just added! Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 8pmTickets for the new show go on sale Wednesday, 11/30, at 10am.
Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 8pm (Sold out)
Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 8pm (Sold out)
Doors open at 7:30pm
The second date was added after the first date, which was part of a bigger tour announcement, sold out.
Though Jeff Mangum's 1/20 Brooklyn show @ BAM was announced with an 11/11 @ noon onsale, it went on sale earlier today. Not sure if it's completely sold out yet, but a 1/21 show was just added and now both (or at least one) are on sale now.
a ticket to see Jeff in Jersey City (via Deanna Cannonball)
"Jeff Mangum's two sold-out shows at the Loew's Jersey theater in Journal Square on November 5 and 6 resembled a church service more than a rock concert.The rebirth of Jeff Mangum continues. After playing two sold out shows at Loew's in Jersey City over the past two nights, even more dates have been announced for the Neutral Milk Hotel frontman, and they include New Haven, Brooklyn, Philly, and a rescheduled UK ATP. All dates, with on-sale info, below...
The 1,500-strong audience sat quietly throughout both performances; the artist sat too, lit from above, on a bare stage flanked by four acoustic guitars. The audience applauded politely after each song; sometimes they clapped as the familiar chords of some cherished old favorite began, too. Once or twice -- following Mangum's earnest entreaties -- the crowd attempted to sing along, although even that sounded more like hymns in a cathedral than generational anthems at a big rock show.
Worship may be too strong a word to describe the relationship between Mangum and his fans, but barely so." [Jersey City Independent]
Continue reading "Jeff Mangum played 2 nights in Jersey City, announces more tour dates, BAM"
words & photos by Ryan Barkan
Feist played the Howard Gilman Opera House at BAM Wednesday night (11/2). It was the show that needed quadruple confirmation back in August. It was her first proper New York show since 2008, though a lucky few caught her play a surprise show in crypt in Harlem exactly one month ago.
After a surprisingly great (to me, first time seeing them) opening set by The Happiness Project, fronted by fellow BSS member Charles Spearin, Feist and friends took the stage around 9pm. They played a long, two-hour set leaning heavily on material from the newly-released Metals in addition to fun classics from way back, and the witty banter we have all grown to love. Highlights from the set include a skull-faced crowd member being invited up to the stage by Feist for a lively, dancey "My Moon My Man," new tracks like "The Bad In Each Other" and "How Come You Never Go There," and the gorgeous backing vocals of Mountain Man.
The encore brought a bundle of goodness so...good...that it was hard for Feist not to affirm that we made her not want to wait three years to come back again. Feist and Mountain man silenced the crowd with a stunning rendition of "Cicadas and Gulls". It's amazing how powerful four voices, one instrument, and one simple song can be in bringing a room to quiet admiration. Probably my favorite moment of the night. The rest of the band joined for a 50's version of "Bittersweet Melodies," and "Sealion," the latter seeing the stage surrounded by a hundred or so audience members invited up by Feist. Whistling ensued, Feist wore a hat, folks sat, lots of devices were taking photos and video. The coda of the evening came with a gripping rendition of 2005's "Let It Die."
More pictures from the show below...
Continue reading "Feist played BAM's Howard Gilman Opera House (pics, review)"
more Doveman guests, Wainwright events, 2 nights of 'Other Voices' (with Dessners, Glen Hansard, Sam Amidon & more)
Glen Hansard & Doveman @ Le Poisson Rouge (more by Amanda Hatfield)
Doveman's next edition of 'Burgundy Stain Sessions' at Le Poisson Rouge is this Friday night (9/23), and the listed special guests are: Chris Thile, Martha Wainwright, Trixie Whitley and Little Annie. Tickets for the collaborative evening of music are still on sale.
In October, on the 27th & 28th to be exact, 'Burgundy Stain Sessions' kick it up a notch with Other Voices NYC: A Celebration of Music & Literature. Scheduled to appear over the course of two nights at Le Poisson Rouge are: Glen Hansard (The Swell Season), Bryce & Aaron Dessner (The National), Doveman, Laurie Anderson, Sam Amidon, Bell X1, Iarla Ó Lionáird, Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, Martin Hayes, Joseph O'Connor, and Colum McCann. Prestented in conjunction with Imagine Ireland with all proceeds going to FIGHTING WORDS Creative Writing Centre, tickets are on sale.
Speaking of the Swell Season, its other half Marketa Irglova has a tour coming up in November with a NYC show of her own. Bowery Ballroom tickets are still on sale.
The National have six huge NYC shows coming up.
Martha has one big holiday show coming up with her brother Rufus, and one with Rufus even sooner as part of the The Fourth Annual Plant & Sing Festival in Shelter Island, NY.
Rufus's opera 'Prima Donna' happens at BAM in Feb. 2012. Tickets are on sale now.
Beyond This Place$25 tickets to the Brooklyn show are currently on sale for BAM members and go on sale to the general public on 9/19. There will be similar events in Portland and LA.
Part of BAM 150
Directed by Kaleo La Belle
Music composition by Raymond Raposa and Sufjan Stevens
Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 7:30pm
As part of BAM's 150th anniversary celebrations, filmmaker Kaleo La Belle--joined by childhood friend Sufjan Stevens (The BQE, 2007 Next Wave; TAKEOVER 2008) and singer-songwriter Raymond Raposa--comes to the opera house for a screening of his award-winning documentary Beyond This Place.
Deeply reflective and personal, La Belle's breakout film charts his attempts to reconnect with his perpetually stoned, long-estranged father Cloud Rock during a grueling 500-mile bike tour across the Pacific Northwest. Stevens and Raposa share the stage as special musical guests, providing a live soundtrack to this emotionally nuanced look at family ties and the process of moving on.
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
"This fall, the Next Wave Festival returns for its 29th season, presenting an array of contemporary performance, artist talks, storytelling, visual art, and film that showcases work by emerging artists and innovative modern masters."BAM's 2011 'Next Wave Festival' encompasses a series of events taking place from September through December. The schedule includes John Malkovich in The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a serial killer and Kronos Quartet's Awakening featuring the Brooklyn Youth Chorus. Single tickets to all of it went on sale to the general public this morning.
Feist's BAM show, now quadruple confirmed, goes on sale Monday, August 15th at noon. Tickets, priced by section are $54 / $47.50 / $40, and available at BAM.org, by phone at 718-636-4100 or the BAM Box Office, 30 Lafayette Ave. Mon-Sat: 12noon - 6pm.
In related news, Feist's new album teaser video is due to be unlocked at her website today. More dates and the previous video, HERE.
Feist is continuing to reveal details to her upcoming album Metals, which will be released October 4 via Cherrytree/Interscope. Her third vignette, Metals #7, was unveiled, and her website now notes that Metals #5 will surface this Friday (8/5). Check out the new video below.
She also revealed the tracklist and full color version of the album art (above), which you were given a chance to paint yourself and enter your version into a contest on her facebook. Hipster Runoff theorizes that Feist is "planking" on the cover (or "riding plankwaves"). You can also pre-order the album starting today (8/3) at Feist's website.
As previously mentioned, and confirmed again in a press release, the 11/2 Brooklyn show at BAM seems to be CONFIRMED, though someone at BAM's box office told us it is not when we called to find out about tickets. Let us know if you have better luck.
Check out the new vignette, tracklist and updated tour dates, including European and Canadian dates below...
Continue reading "BAM claiming Feist not confirmed (but it is) -- updated tour dates, album art & new vignette too"
Promoter Bowery Presents has confirmed the existence of Feist's November 2nd show at BAM's Howard Gilman Opera House in Brooklyn, NY. Though it's not listed on BAM's website yet, the ticket info is that "Tickets are available at BAM.org, by phone at 718.636.4100 or the BAM Box Office, 30 Lafayette Street, Brooklyn, NY, Mon-Sat: 12noon-6pm. $54, $47.50, $40." More dates HERE.
Feist's upcoming album Metals will be released on October 4 via Cherrytree/Interscope. A set of November Feist tour dates appeared on the internet today via Pitchfork and they include a November 2nd show at Howard Gilman Opera House in Brooklyn which Pitchfork has now marked as "not confirmed". Google confirms that Interscope also listed and then deleted a Feist show at the same venue. Stay tuned for more info.
UPDATE: The Brooklyn show is now confirmed.
Meanwhile check out all the dates listed below.
Continue reading "Feist playing BAM's Howard Gilman Opera House? (and other dates?)"
"The Barclays Center, the 18,000-seat arena at the heart of the project, will host performances by artists selected by the Brooklyn Academy of Music in a programming alliance between the two neighboring institutions, their directors said. The collaboration will include three or four shows a year and allow the academy to bring to Brooklyn work that would not fit into its theaters -- the largest of which has 2,000 seats -- with costs underwritten by the arena." [NY Times]
photos by Greg Cristman
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge's band Thee Majesty played the BAM Cinema Cafe on 6/23 directly following the screening of the new documentary The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye and subsequent Q & A. The film, which details Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and Lady Jaye path through "Pandrogyne", was screened as part of BAMcinemaFest, a festival which also saw films with Gruff Rhys and Bobby Liebling (Pentagram) among others. Bill Pearis saw the Genesis film and reviewed it.
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge is scheduled to make an appearance this weekend at the previously discussed Licker License event at Secret Project Robot on July 2nd, "a girl-on-girl, video and performance event". Genesis will be one of a few providing video art for the evening. Flyer is below.
More pictures from BAM , alongside a video of "I Love Being Here" from the performance, also below...
Continue reading "Thee Majesty played BAMcinemaFest (pics & video), Genesis will be @ Secret Project Robot Saturday"
by Bill Pearis
As mentioned (and here and here and here), BAMcinemaFest is underway at BAM in Brooklyn (it runs through June 26th), and there's a couple worthy music docs playing this week that you should check out. Tonight (6/22) they're screening Last Days Here, about Pentagram frontman Bobby Leibling's struggles to beat drug addiction and return to the stage. When the movie opens, 50-something Leibling is in bad shape, living in the "sub-basement" of his aging parent's house. But through the help of fan and indie metal label employee Sean Pelletier, there might be hope for Leibling yet.
If that sounds like standard rock doc type stuff, it is, and those who follow metal coverage on BV at all you probably know how everything turns out but it's not really the point. Last Days Here a moving portrait of recovery and, yes, love -- and you can't help but get a little choked up at the end.
I could've used a little more backstory on Pentagram (for that this SPIN article is pretty good at filling in the blanks), and could've done without the (sparingly used) reenactment footage, but the film works on its own terms. Filmmakers Don Argott and Demian Fenton will answer questions after tonight's screening.
Tomorrow night (6/22), BAMcinemaFest hosts The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye which is definitely NOT you're run-of-the-mill rock doc. Filmed over seven years on 16mm, the film follows former Throbbing Gristle/Psychic TV leader Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and his partner Lady Jaye through their "Pandrogyne" project, where they sought to become two parts of the same person through body modification surgery. It is crazy, and amazing, and a genuinely touching portrait of real love. You won't forget it.
Director Marie Losier and Genesis will be in attendance for a post-screening Q&A which should be pretty interesting and will then be followed by a performance from Thee Majesty, Genesis' current project.
Trailers below...
Continue reading "BAMcinemaFest continues, Pentagram & Genesis included"
Gruff Rhys played Knitting Factory & Club DeVille (pics), will do a Q&A at BAM with his movie (and other dates)
photos by Tim Griffin
Gruff Rhys @ Club DeVille
Austin venues Mohawk and Club DeVille border each other. If there's a loud show at Mohawk, a quiet show at DeVille will suffer. Thus, back on May 27th, as Gruff Rhys was taking the Deville stage he announced, "The idea is to play as many songs as we can... Before the Melvins kick in next door." Luckily, ultimately it wasn't a problem. H0key.net was there:
"The sweetness dripped heavy, especially on songs like 'Honey All Over' and 'If We Were Words (We Would Rhyme).' Gruff didn't go overboard, however. The fact that the Melvins and some other sludge metal type bands were playing next door helped out. It also gave an opportunity for Gruff to flex his wit.Wales instrumental surf rock quartet Y Niwl opened the show, and then became Gruff's backing band, like they're doing on the entire tour that started on May 18th at Knitting Factory in Brooklyn. The tour ends June 15th back in NYC at Mercury Lounge. Tickets for that one are still available.
Gruff also flexed his technological ability. The amount of noise gadgets that filled the stage exceeded my expectations. There were these wobbly, red light tipped, noise makers he shook every once in awhile. He had a tiny metal box with a red light shining on itself that produced sound. The coolest gadget for me was the record player he used to drop in effects and other items during songs. It's such a practical use for an old technology that you can get away with using it live and not have to drop major coin for a big computer box thingy to play sounds when needed."
Tickets are also still available for the June 18th screening of Gruff's movie Separado! at BAM where there will be a "Q&A with co-director and film subject Gruff Rhys" (we weren't sure last time we mentioned it).
More pictures from the Austin show, some videos from the Brooklyn show, and all tour dates (including a whole bunch of newly announced European shows), below...
Continue reading "Gruff Rhys played Knitting Factory & Club DeVille (pics), will do a Q&A at BAM with his movie (and other dates)"
BAM presents the 17th annual R&B Festival at MetroTech. The festival is a free outdoor concert series featuring shows every Thursday from noon-2 PM, June 2 through August 4 at MetroTech Commons in Brooklyn. Awesome if you work right there. The fest kicks off this Thursday (6/2) with George Clinton & Parliament/Funkadelic. Full lineup below.
Continue reading "BAM R&B Festival at Metrotech 2011 lineup (free summer shows, Thursdays at noon)"
Gruff Rhys kicking off tour w/ Y Niwl, BAM premiering his movie @ BAMcineFest (Genesis & Pentagram films too)
by Bill Pearis
Gruff Rhys kicks off his North American tour tonight at Knitting Factory and tickets are still available. He's over here supporting his new solo album, Hotel Shampoo, and will wind his way around the country before ending back up here in New York for a show at Mercury Lounge on June 15.
A mostly mellow affair, with detours into Bossa Nova and '70s MOR territory, Hotel Shampoo is another fine record from the hardest working indie musician in Wales. Where previous visits have involved just Rhys and a tablefull of junkshop keyboards and other oddball instruments, this time Gruff will be backed by Y Niwl, the finest surf band in Wales, who'll also get their own opening set. Rhys is one of the most charismatic performers around, do go if you can.
In other news, Rhys' travelogue tour film Separado! will make it's NYC debut on June 18 as part of the BAMcineFest. No word yet as to whether Rhys will be at the screening. Like Rhys himself, the film is charming, scruffy, funny and full of good songs. Tickets to all BAMcinefest selections -- including the Pentagram documentary Last Days Here, and The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye -- go on sale May 23.
All Gruff Rhys tour dates are below, along with videos, trailers and album streams.
Continue reading "Gruff Rhys kicking off tour w/ Y Niwl, BAM premiering his movie @ BAMcineFest (Genesis & Pentagram films too)"
by Andrew Frisicano
Evan Ziporyn
Just a reminder that Laurie Anderson's Delusion is still at BAM through this week (minus Monday, Sept 27). The show is definitely worth a look.
Since Laurie has the night off, tonight (9/27) is a good chance to see her Next Wave compatriot and Bang on a Can All-Star Evan Ziporyn, whose "A House in Bali" runs October 14-16 at BAM Opera House. Evan is at LPR tonight, where he duets with violinist Todd Reynolds and presents his composition "Typical Music," being performed by Todd, pianist Vicky Chow and cellist Ashley Bathgate. are on sale.
The same month of the opera, Evan will have a night at Carnegie Hall as part of their Making Music series (the performers include Brad Lubman and Signal, Gamelan Galak Tika, clarinetist David Krakauer and pianist Vicky Chow). Tickets for that October 30th show are on sale.
Video of some of Evan's pieces (and one of his BoaC compositions on Rock Band) are below...
Continue reading "Evan Ziporyn at LPR tonight, BAM & Carnegie Hall in October"
photos by Rahav Segev, words by Andrew Frisicano
Laurie Anderson's Delusion, the first production in this year's BAM Next Wave Festival, is in effect the artist opening up her notebook to the audience. The 90-minute work recounts dreams, stories, parables, musings, jokes and melodies strung together with moody cinematic projections. Some of the stories we've heard before, like "Another Day in America," a song intoned as Laurie's male alter-ego, from her stellar LP Homeland was was released earlier this year. Others - an emotional story about the death of her mother, sharp one-liners and surreal scenarios about the afterlife - were fresh from the workshop.
Above all though, Laurie's sonorous voice, and her ability as a monologuist to travel to different places (the moon, Iceland, dreams), drove Delusion. The metronomic brilliance of the words and cadences would've been enough to propel a one-woman show in any downtown space. Here, they were supported by the projections and stage elements - one main screen in the center, with a smaller projector focused on a covered seat, and two smaller screens on either side.
Her supporting cast loomed beyond those side screens: violinist Eyvind Kang and horn & reed player Colin Stetson. Their silhouettes, namely that of Colin's unmistakeable bass saxophone, rocked steadily behind the backlit screens as they added layers to the evening's instrumental moments. The pair peaked up mainly during Delusion's chaotic interludes, when a red light washed over the stage, evoking the landscape of hell, with Anderson the Mephistophelean figure guiding the madness.
Clearly, Laurie was having a good time on stage, during the goodtime moments, with a permanent grin and a wink. The wink, as we found out, might be genetic; it also speaks to her style of communication: subtle, everyday gestures that unfold in countless ways. "Not a lot of people know this but..." one of her stories goes.
Delusion is at BAM Harvey Theater through October 3rd, every day except Monday. Tickets are on sale.
More pictures from the show are below...
Continue reading "Laurie Anderson's 'Delusion' continues @ BAM (pics & review)"
Nick Cave w/ the Dirty Three @ ATP NY 2009 (more by Ryan Muir)
"You wake up one morning to discover that you've turned into a giant bug. It's the stuff of nightmares, unless you're Kafka's oddly placid Gregor Samsa--more concerned about being late to work than anything else. Iceland's Vesturport Theatre and its fearless director Gísli Örn Gardarsson (who made their US debut with Woyzeck at the 2008 Next Wave Festival) present a topsy-turvy stage adaptation of Metamorphosis, whose protagonist leaps, scrambles, and skitters, telegraphing his mounting despair.Metamorphosis, adapted by David Farr and Gísli Örn Gardarsson with music by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, will make its US debut at BAM's Next Wave Festival, Nov 30--Dec 5 at BAM Harvey Theater in Brooklyn. The production premiered at Lyric Hammersmith Theatre in London in 2006.
The performance is a tour de force, supported by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis' delicately inflected score. The excellent cast, each member embodying the alienation and dysfunction of Kafka's unsparing tale, enhances the precariousness of the predicament as it morphs into outright cruelty. [BAM]
Ticket subscriptions (a package of tickets to 4 or more shows) are on sale now. Single tickets go on sale August 30th for Friends of BAM and September 7th for everyone else.
After the December 2nd show there will be a post-performance talk with actor/director Gísli Örn Gardarsson and others from the show for ticket holders. Maybe that'll be around the time Nick Cave brings Grinderman back to NYC in support of their upcoming 2nd album.
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis released a soundtrack to The Road, via Mute, in January. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds put some reissues in March.
Cave and Ellis previously collaborated with Vesturport Theatre on their adaptation of Woyzeck (which debuted in 2006 and was part of the 2008 Next Wave Festival). Trailers with music excepts from both shows are below...
Continue reading "a Nick Cave & Warren Ellis scored show is coming to BAM"
BAM Next Wave Festival 2010 (the annual music/dance/theater/opera series to run September 21--Decemeber 19) will include work & performances by Laurie Anderson (doing the NY premiere of her work Delusion), a song cycle from Stew and Heidi Rodewald (of Passing Strange fame), music by NOLA's Trombone Shorty, Mikel Rouse's multimedia-song project Gravity Radio, and A House in Bali, an opera by Bang on a Can All-Star's Evan Ziporyn featuring Balinese Gamelan Salukat and BoaC All-Stars.
Next Wave Festival subscription tickets for Friends of BAM (as well as subscribers to both the 2010 Spring Season and 2009 Next Wave Festival) are on sale Jun 7; subscription tickets for the general public are on sale Jun 14. Single tickets for Delusion and Vollmond are on sale Aug 30 (Aug 23 for Friends of BAM).
The 2009 Next Wave included musical works from DJ Spooky, So Percussion and The Dessner Brother and Deal sisters.
More info on the above-mentioned shows is below...
Continue reading "BAM announces 2010 Next Wave Festival (Stew, Trombone Shorty, Bang on a Can All-Stars and more)"
Laurie Anderson & Lou Reed are king & queen of the 2010 Mermaid Parade, playing BAM & other shows & stuff
photos by Erez Avissar
Queen Mermaid Laurie Anderson (at Santos Party House)...
Mark your calendar for this year's Mermaid Parade, happening Saturday, June 19th at 2pm. Leading the proceedings will be "King Neptune" Lou Reed and "Queen Mermaid" Laurie Anderson. The parade's afterparty, featuring burlesque and music, is at the nearby NY Aquarium later that night. More details on the route and transportation are here.
Check out some pictures from the 2009 parade (which had Harvey Keitel and wife Daphna Kastner as the king and queen) and 2008's ball/afterparty
Laurie Anderson has a new album on the way.
Laurie Anderson's forthcoming Nonesuch release, Homeland, is due out on June 22. To count down the weeks till then, Nonesuch will release one short video clip featuring Anderson's male alter ego, Fenway Bergamot, every Tuesday now through release day. In today's inaugural clip, Bergamot revisits the early days of the 2008 financial crisis. BAM has announced that Anderson will give the NY premiere of her new work, Delusion, at the Next Wave Festival this fall. [Nonesuch]Delusion will run at BAM's Harvey Theater Sep 21-25, Sep 28-30, Oct 1 & 2 at 7:30pm and Sep 26 & Oct 3 at 3pm. Tickets will be $20, 35, 45, 60. "Next Wave Festival subscription tickets for Friends of BAM (as well as subscribers to both the 2010 Spring Season and 2009 Next Wave Festival) are on sale Jun 7; subscription tickets for the general public are on sale Jun 14. Single tickets for Delusion and Vollmond are on sale Aug 30 (Aug 23 for Friends of BAM)."
The above-mentioned Nonesuch videos get posted here. There's also a remix contest for the song "Only an Expert" off that record, which runs through May 27th (the winner will get $1,000 and their song will be available on iTunes).
Looking way into the future, Laurie Anderson joins Lou Reed, Mike Patton, Marc Ribot, Dave Douglas, and Uri Caine to perform with John Zorn in "a series of mind-bending sonic compositions and no-holds-barred improvisations" at NYC Opera on Wednesday, March 30, 2011. Tickets...TBA?
Lou recently took part in the Anthology Film Archives benefit at Hiro, but never made it to the Codes Festival in Poland where he was scheduled to play with Laurie and John Zorn on May 15th (Laurie and John did go though). All three of them are next scheduled to appear together on July 2nd at the Montreal Jazz Festival.
The pictures above and those below are from an April 28th benefit show at Santos Party House with Laurie Anderson, Tony Conrad, Erik Friedlander and (not pictured) Text of Light. More pictures and videos (including one with Laurie talking about Delusion) are below...
Continue reading "Laurie Anderson & Lou Reed are king & queen of the 2010 Mermaid Parade, playing BAM & other shows & stuff "
words by Rachel Kowal, photos by Getty Images for American Express
All week, The National has sponsored nightly events at their "High Violet Annex" to celebrate the release of their highly anticipated fifth album, High Violet. On Friday they even performed a set of National songs at the space. Saturday night's sold-out "ZYNC from American Express Presents The National to Benefit Red Hot" show at BAM capped off the week's festivities which started earlier the same evening at the Annex where 70-or-so lucky attendees were, unexpectedly, given tickets to the BAM show and then bussed to the Brooklyn venue to see the show...
the bus @ BAM
The BAM show began with a brief behind-the-scenes video about their recording process, and then the band launched into "Mistaken for Strangers" and then played a string of new songs. Though the National is technically a quintet, as many as nine additional people joined them on stage to play a variety of string and brass instruments. Sufjan Stevens joined the band to sing backing vocals (like he did on Letterman) on a handful of songs. Sometimes National-members Padma Newsome and Thomas Bartlett (Doveman) made a rare appearance together on stage (usually its one or the other as a member of the band). The biggest surprise band member of the night was the Arcade Fire's Richard Reed Parry who sang backup and played a variety of instruments throughout the set. Richard, Sufjan and Thomas all also contributed to High Violet which is out now.
With its ornate molding, dramatic curtains, and theater-like seating, BAM may be a bit of an odd choice to host what is essentially a rock show, but the beautiful space complimented the dapperly dressed band and gave them enough room to spread out on stage. Possibly sensing that something was not quite right, lead singer Matt Berninger hopped off the stage and began pulling people up into a standing position early into the show.
Throughout the show, Berninger was a sight to behold. One moment, he'd take a sip of white wine and sing softly into the mic stand and the next, he's wildly pacing back and forth on stage with his head down, pounding his hands together like a mad man. The contrast between Berninger's smooth baritone voice and his manic behavior makes for a dynamic performance. During the four-song encore, Berninger leapt off stage again and rushed the audience in the orchestra section. With his impossibly long mic chord trailing behind him, Berninger climbed desperately over anything in his path - be it chairs or people. From the middle of a row, he stood recklessly on a chair, screaming the chorus to "Mr. November" into the faces of ecstatic fans.
When all was said and done, The National played the entirety of High Violet in addition to a number of older songs. Film directors D. A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus were on hand to direct the live webcast of the concert that was happening on YouTube (the band addressed the Internet audience a few times), and which you can still watch there (some videos below too).
After the show, a fancy ZYNC-sponsored afterparty was held around the corner at One Hanson Place, aka the Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower, downstairs in the old bank's bottom floor (now used as an event space). The National, their friends and associates, partied until late with an invite-only crowd that also included members of Grizzly Bear and Beirut, and some celebrities who had attended the show (like Julia Stiles). And there was a lot to party about - recently completed Europe tour and a week of festivities in NYC aside - High Violet is selling really well too. More pictures from the show and the afterparty, with the setlist and some videos below...
Continue reading "The National & guests played BAM & YouTube (pics & video) "
The National's High Violet came out Tuesday. They also used that occassion to release a video for the song "Bloodbuzz Ohio." That clip, which features Matt Berninger, his infamous glass of wine, and documentarian D.A. Pennebaker as a bartender, is posted below.
The band's High Violet Annex events kicked off last night with a low key few hours of DJing from members of Blonde Redhead and a ticket contest for Saturday's BAM show. Contests like that will be happening each day at the space which is next to Other Music. Tonight, Wednesday, there's also a full lineup of bands playing. Lineups for the rest of the nights still TBA.
Speaking of D.A. Pennebaker, he'll be directing a live webcast of the BAM show on YouTube Saturday night. And speaking of ticket contests for the show, we also have two pairs to give away courtesy of the show's sponsor, Zync. Contest details, with the above-mentioned video and a Pennebaker/Dylan (both pictured above) rehash to promote the show, below...
Continue reading "High Violet Annex open, new National video, free BAM tix"
"Tickets did go on sale at the pre-sale link b/c it now says "No Inventory Currently Available".Comments like that yesterday illustrated the confusion surrounding how to get tickets for the show The National are playing at BAM on May 15th, but Beggars, Bowery Presents & the band's original instructions all confirm that, despite what someone at BAM may have said, tickets do go on general same today at 10am (and appear to be on sale as of 9am for BAM members). Yesterday, as advertised, was just the presale.
If you try to purchase via BAM's website, you get the following message: "Although tickets are on sale, this performance of The National is currently not available online. Please contact BAM Ticket Services"
I talked to someone in the ticket office who said tickets did go on sale via BAM's website this morning and are sold out, but more tickets may become available & to check back" [Brett]
The National performed at Royal Albert Hall in London last night (5/6), and the UK's Electric Ballroom the night before that. All dates HERE. Videos from those shows below...
Continue reading "The National BAM tickets DO go on sale today "


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Katrina Lairsmith grows animated when talking about the popularity of dance these days — both the good and bad aspects.
"All these kids want to dance and compete because of shows like ' So You Think You Can Dance,' " said the 43-year-old Denver native, who has taught at more than a half-dozen area academies. "But it's become so outrageous and so unfair to people who don't have a lot of money. It's catered to the upper class. People are now starting to realize it's almost a scam."
Lairsmith is referring to the competitive dance world, with its sanctioned national contests, conventions with names like Jump and Nuvo, and dramatic pop-culture representations (or, some would argue, misrepresentations) on reality shows such as Lifetime's " Dance Moms."
To access that world, kids need lessons. And as with any sport or after-school activity, that includes auditions and rehearsals, gear and costumes — and competition as parents vie to get kids into the best programs. None of it comes cheap.
"It's crazy what some of these companies are charging," said Anthony Recce, a 42-year-old self-described "dance father." "I was paying $2,000 per month for two kids to dance. I've seen parents lose their TVs, their cars, their houses in making sacrifices to afford this."
After meeting Lairsmith two years ago, Recce began thinking of a way to rein in the costs associated with competitive dance while still supporting a top-notch program.
Earlier this year he partnered with Lairsmith to launch Levitate Dance Academy, the pair's attempt at a high-quality, low-cost competitive studio.
The owner of Arvada's Halo Protection Group security company, Recce has invested $80,000 in Levitate.
He converted his company warehouse in Arvada into a fully equipped dance studio and opened its doors on May 4 for auditions, attracting 40 students on the first day.
Levitate's second studio, a 4,500-square-foot space in the Larkridge Town Center retail complex in Thornton, is slated to open June 2.
Of course, old-fashioned dance lessons — the kind that don't require matching costumes or a trip to Las Vegas for a title competition — are relatively easy to find. And no one is forcing kids to don sequins and spend six days a week rehearsing jazz, tap, ballet or hip-hop moves with a team.
But divining and supporting a child's passion is a full-time job for most parents. So it's with a mix of social consciousness and business aspirations that Recce and Lairsmith are rebelling against what they see as the dance world's entrenched system of inflated costs and entitlement.
Some industry veterans say their math doesn't work.
Franchise ambitions
In addition to offering a lower-cost tuition for monthly classes — opening with a flat fee of $300 per student, as compared with variable hourly rates at other companies — Lairsmith and Recce are angling to give Levitate a national brand identity.
Recce's eyes light up as he shows off what will become the retail section of Levitate's Thornton studio, a dance-supply shop called Rise Above — after Levitate's slogan, "Rise above your dreams." It already includes sweatshirts, hoodies and T-shirts bearing the company logo.
"We want to be the first franchised competitive dance studio in the country," Recce said. "It's a void that needs to be filled."
Recce said that while some studios buy dance apparel for $30-$50 from catalogs only to sell them to parents for $150-$200, he will sell shoes and costumes for less-than-retail cost to students by giving them a 20 percent discount.
So how can he afford to be in the competitive dance world without "nickel and diming" his students, as he puts it?
By taking lower mark-ups, he said.
Recce estimated he spent more than $3,000 on costumes for his 10- and 13-year-old girls last year alone.
However, owners of area dance companies defended their rates and models, saying Recce and Lairsmith will soon realize the hidden costs of trying to run a national-quality competitive studio.
"People just see us teaching class, but so much stuff goes on behind the scenes," said Julie Jarnot, who along with sister Jennifer has operated the Thornton company Artistic Fusion Dance Academy for the past 15 years. "I work seven days a week, and just like any other job, you have to support yourself. "
An expensive passion
The lessons, gear and fees for an average competitive student can run about $1,000 per month. That includes a full (four to six days per week) schedule of high-level classes and rehearsals, training with master and guest choreographers, eight to 10 competitive events per season, and the attendant audition, application, costume and other fees at the studio, according to Michelle Latimer, owner of her eponymous, 23-year-old dance academy.
Competitive classes at some companies can also break down into team and solo routines, or even "tiers" with names like Starburst ($165 per week for a 3- ½-hour class) and Senior Company ($350 per week for 15 ½ hours of classes).
"It's not a hardcore set of numbers because there are so many variables. We charge the dancers what (the competitions) charge us," Jarnot said, noting that her Artistic Fusion attends three to four conventions each month during its 11-month competitive season.
Competition fees for one of her dancers can range from $4,000 to $8,000 annually.
Lairsmith, who founded the nonprofit Damsels Dance Company, said she has different priorities.She describes Levitate as a brand in service of an idea, as opposed to a concept serving a revenue stream.
In Levitate's bare Thornton studio, Recce calls up testimonials from parents and students on Facebook and Instagram, describing their relief in finding a company with high standards and low costs.
"I've been in the whole 'Dance Moms' situation, and that TV show is real," said Celina Toney, whose daughter will leave a company she declined to name to begin classes at Levitate later this year.
"Tony and Katrina are the opposite of that. They're very zen and they have some of the best instructors and choreographers."
"We just want to create a place people can afford," Lairsmith said. "I would never have been able to dance as a kid if this was the world that I lived in. And there are so many kids out there who just want to compete."
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Khutulun (c. 1260 – c. 1306), also known as Aigiarne,[1] Aiyurug, Khotol Tsagaan or Ay Yaruq[2] (literally Moonlight)[1] was the most famous daughter of Kaidu and a niece of Kublai Khan. Her father was most pleased by her abilities, and she accompanied him on military campaigns. Marco Polo[1] and Rashid al-Din both wrote of her.
Khutulun was born about 1260.[3] By 1280, her father Kaidu became the most powerful ruler of Central Asia, reigning in the realms from western Mongolia to Oxus, and from the Central Siberian Plateau to India.
Marco Polo described Khutulun as a superb warrior, one who could ride into enemy ranks and snatch a captive as easily as a hawk snatches a chicken. She assisted her father in many battles, particularly against the Yuan Dynasty of her cousin the Great Khan - Kublai (r. 1260-94).
Khutulun insisted that any man who wished to marry her must defeat her in wrestling and forfeit horses to her if they lost. She gained 10,000 horses defeating prospective suitors.[3]
Khutulun's enemies alleged that she and her father had an incestuous relationship and that this explained her resolve not to marry. In order to protect him from these rumors, Khutulun decided to marry one of her father's followers, without wrestling him. Sources vary about her husband's identity. Some chronicles say her husband was a handsome man who failed to assassinate her father and was taken prisoner; others refer to him as Kaidu's companion from the Choros clan. Rashid al-Din wrote that Khutulun fell in love with Ghazan, Mongol ruler in Persia.
Of all Kaidu's children, Khutulun was the favorite, and the one from whom he most sought advice and political support. According to some accounts, he tried to name her as his successor to the khanate before he died in 1301. However, his choice was declined due to her male relatives. When Kaidu died, Khutulun guarded his tomb with the assistance of her brother Orus. She was challenged by her other brothers including Chapar and relative Duwa because she resisted their succession. She died in 1306.
In culture[edit]
Khutulun is thought to be the basis for the character of Turandot, who has been the subject of a number of Western works. While in Mongol culture she is remembered as a famous athlete and warrior, in Western artistic adaptations she is depicted as a proud woman who finally succumbs to love.
François Pétis de la Croix's 1710 book of Asian tales and fables contains a story in which Khutulun is called Turandot, a Persian word (Turandokht توراندخت) meaning "Central Asian Daughter," and is the nineteen-year-old daughter of Altoun Khan, the Mongol emperor of China. In Pétis de La Croix's story, however, she does not wrestle her suitors, and they do not wager horses; rather, she has them answer three riddles, and they are executed if they cannot solve them.
Carlo Gozzi wrote his own version 50 years later, a stage play in which she was a "tigerish woman" of "unrelenting pride." Friedrich Schiller translated and adapted the play into German as Turandot, Prinzessin von China in 1801.
The most famous version of Turandot is Giacomo Puccini's operatic version, which he was working on when he died in 1924.
There are many stories and novels about Khutulun presented by Mongolian writers, such as Khotolon by Purev Sanj, Kaidu's wonderful daughter Khutulun by Ch.Janchivdorj, Khotol Tsagaan by Oyungerel Tsedevdamba, and The Story of Kaidu Khan by Batjargal Sanjaa etc.
Khutulun is portrayed by Claudia Kim in the Netflix series Marco Polo.[4]
- ^ a b c Polo, Marco (1982). "195". Il Milione. L'Unità - Editori Riuniti. External link in
- ^ Bernardini, Michele; Guida, Donatella (2012). I Mongoli. Espansione, Imperi, Eredità. Turin: Einaudi. p. 184. ISBN 978-88-06-20596-6.
- ^ a b Jack Weatherford - The Wrestler Princess in Lapham's Quarterly
- ^ Barrett-Ibarria, Sofia (2014-12-12). "Netflix's 'Marco Polo' Stars Joan Chen, Zhu Zhu, & Claudia Kim on Playing History's Most Powerful Women". Bustle. Retrieved 2015-03-24.
Further reading[edit]
- Jack Weatherford - The Secret History of the Mongol Queens
- "Warriors: Asian Women in Asian Society" from Colorq.org
- "Heroines: Mongolian Women" from Womeninworldhistory.com
- Rossabi, Morris; Khubilai Khan; pp. 104–105, 252; ISBN 0-520-06740-1
- Polo, Marco. The Book of Sir Marco Polo, The Venetian: Concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of the East. 2nd ed. Trans. Colonel Henry Yule. Vol. 2. London: John Murray, 1875. 461-464. Print.


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Mesa, AZ – Public input is needed to provide guidance for housing planning in the City of Mesa over the next several years. Two public "kickoff" meetings will be held Wednesday, March 12 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. and from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Mesa Main Library, 64 E. First St.
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Moody's bumps Turkey's rating up by one notch with outlook positive
June 21, 2012, 12:39 am TWN
ANKARA--Moody's on Wednesday hiked Turkey's credit rating by one notch from "Ba2" to "Ba1" with a positive outlook on improved government finances and ability to withstand economic shocks.
It said the main reason for upgrade was "the significant improvement in Turkey's public finances and the resulting increased shock-absorption capacity of the government's balance sheet."
Moody's said Turkey's government had also taken steps that could help address the country's large current account deficit "which is the largest credit risk facing the country."
The "Ba1" rating leaves Turkey just below investment grade, which Moody's said it would likely receive if the country becomes more resilient to balance-of-payments shocks.


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I like looking at the different styles that can be done.
That was fun...I must be a sadist.
From a really bad place where norty people go.....Originally Posted by lisaw, post: 96354
Sometimes, I just simply don't know what to say.
Now. Stay out of those scary places, willya'?
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