Latest Concerts from NYC

First off, here are a cou­ple pic­tures & a short video from the final Sleater-Kinney show in NY. They rocked for a solid 2 hours with no air con­di­tion­ing, so my hat really goes off to these ladies. It was a great show. I know no one left disappointed.

Up next, a day so beau­ti­ful, it should almost be ille­gal — this past Sun­day (8/13 — crap! only 3 months until my birth­day) — McCar­ren Pool offered up sev­eral bands & a DJ (super cool ?uest­love from The Roots) FOR FREE!. I got to see Apollo Sun­shine, although, sorry Bosto­ni­ans, I didn’t like it all that much — too jammy for me, Beirut, who’s slowly grow­ing on me and head­lin­ers Deer­hoof. A cou­ple years ago, a friend of mine said Deer­hoof was the mod­ern Cap­tain Beef­heart. I can’t say it’s not true! They just have a high-pitched Japan­ese woman singer. :) I was joined at this show by two for­mer WRUW DJs: Matt of apple­jack­they­lack and Denise of The Make Please Me Radio Hour. It was nice to see those kids!

So, in response to the above show, I’d like to share a track from Beirut & Deer­hoof, as well as the song I loved to hear by ?uest­love (hint — it’s a DJ Heroin(e) 80’s throw­back favorite).