MOMENT was proud to bring the MOMENT NYC Ensemble to PS110 to help celebrate their 110th year! The event was also host to the first annual Lower “Eats” Side – a food festival that celebrates the wide range of cultures, and their delicious foods, that call the Lower East Side home – showcasing over 30 countries’ cuisines. The MOMENT NYC Ensemble played select music from the long musical history of NYC and enjoyed some great food too!
The legendary NYC venue Max’s Kansas City is celebrating its 50th anniversary from June 4-7 at Bowery Electric
June 4th – All-star Jayne County tribute, Jahn Xavier & the Bowerytones, The Sick F*cks, Ruby & the Rednecks, The Magic Tramps, Zecca and The Black Cats NYC, with MC Jimi Lalumia and DJ Mojo, and cameos by Miachael Alago and Yvonne Sewal.
June 5th – The Waldos, Testors (the original lineup featuring Sonny Vincent), New York Junk, Luigi & the Wiseguys and Love Pirates, with Bill Popp & the Tapes playing in the Map Room. MC Jimi Lalumia’s role is reprised, this time with DJ Rob Select, and there will be cameos by Steve Dior and Tammy Faye Starlight reprising her acclaimed off-broadway performance as Nico.
June 6 – Pure Hell, Sea Monster, Puma Perl & Friends and Joey Kelly All Stars, with Martin John Butler in the Map Room. MC Jimi Lalumia, DJ Mojo, and a cameo by Tammy Faye Starlight as Nico once again.
June 7 – Nelson Slater, Prima Donna, The Rattlers, 4 on the Floor, Deborah Front, Hipp Pipps, The Flashcubs, MC Jimi Lalumia, DJ Twig the Wonder Kid, and a cameo by Penny Arcade
All four nights will be hosted by Peter Crowley. Tickets for all four shows, and a four-night pass, are on sale now. There will also be after hour parties at Arlene’s Grocery
Contact Arlene’s for advance tickets to max’s after hours at Arlene’s Grocery, Friday and Saturday, 11pm to 3:30am. $10. (No passes)
We just received word that our application for funding from the Musicians Performance Trust Fund, American Federation of Musicians was approved through Local 802.
Make sure to visit your favorite record store for the eighth annual Record Store Day Sat April 18th to pick up some rare vinyl and check out some local DJs and bands.
If you don’t know, RSD takes place on each year on the third Saturday in April putting out about 400 exclusive vinyl releases at record stores — no cd’s or mp3s but surprisingly one release on VHS!
It’s a chance for vinyl lovers and collectors to get rare reissues, exclusive and early releases on vinyl. Not all are releases are available at every store so if you looking for to pick up something in particular be sure to check out what’s coming to your store and get there early as popular items run out quick. Aside from a slew of new releases, there is a rare Paul McCartney reissue, Steve Reich, unreleased Foo Fighter demos, reissues of J Dilla, KMD, ESG, Wu-Tang, Sugarhill Gang and Grand Master Flash.
Also of note, split 7″s featuring different artists doing their take of the same song, like Bowie and Tom Verlaine doing “Kingdom Come”, the Black Keys and Junior Kimbrough doing “Meet Me in the City” and Robert Johnson and Steve Earle doing “Terraplane Blues” See a complete listing of releases at the official RSD page.
Most of the stores are having special guests of one kind or another with people like Kim Gordon, the Buzzcocks, Fred Schneider and official ambassador of RSD — Dave Groll, all taking part in this years events. Check out Dave talking about it here.
As an example of what you can expect, In Living Stereo on Great Jones Street will have DJs spinning all day, food, drinks and three bands playing, they will also be giving away etched In Living Stereo martini glasses if you spend over $200 on records.
You can find a pretty good run down of DJ’s and bands appearing around NYC here from Brooklyn Vegan.
Born Eleanora Fagen Gough or Elinore Harris either in Philidelphia or Baltimore depending on who you believe…Apparently she was born into poverty and dropped out of school in the 5th grade, possibly running errands in a brothel and her father may have been the jazz musician Clarence Holiday. It turns out we don’t really know with certainty a lot about Billie Holiday’s childhood…but there is no question about the impact she had on the musical world as an adult. People do agree that she was born on April 7th and that 2015 marks 100 years since her birth. In 1929 at the age of 14 she moved to Harlem to join her mother who had moved there the previous year.
She was ‘discovered’ at the age of 18 by the producer John Hammond (a member of the Vanderbilt family), he arranged for her first professional recording session with Benny Goodman in1933 which took place at 55 Fifth Avenue and 12th Street in Manhattan. She went on to work with Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Artie Shaw and many others, famously performing in the jazz clubs along Swing Street (52nd). Her singing forever changed the universe of jazz sining and beyond.
She had an amazingly successful career, in spite of or perhaps partially facilitating her troubles with substance abuse, touring and appearing in films, eventually performing to a sold out crowd at Carnegie Hall in 1948 with a fantastic 6 encores. Among many other accolades she was posthumously awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1987 and in 1994 she was given her own US postage stamp. Among her many memorable recordings are: “I Love You Porgy”, “Willow Weep For Me”, Strange Fruit”, “God Bless the Child” and so many others. Happy Birthday Billie!!