1271782 Matisyahu The Glitch Mob Matisyahu 8778811 Webster Hall New York United States 125 East 11th Street 10003 40.731561 -73.989172 http://www.last.fm/venue/8778811+Webster+Hall http://www.websterhall.com/ http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/34/57540.jpg http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/64/57540.jpg http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/126/57540.jpg http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/57540.jpg http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/57540/Webster+Hall.jpg Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:00:00 http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/34/29207545.jpg http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/64/29207545.jpg http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/126/29207545.jpg http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/29207545.jpg 7 0 lastfm:event=1271782 http://www.last.fm/event/1271782+Matisyahu+at+Webster+Hall+on+10+December+2009 http://www.bowerypresents.com/event/3761 0 reggae hip hop glitch hop hip-hop idm glitch jewish glitch-hop matisyahu 1307873 dj sincerious dj sincerious 8931541 (le) poisson rouge New York United States 158 Bleecker St. 10012 40.728617 -74.000111 http://www.last.fm/venue/8931541+%28le%29+poisson+rouge http://lepoissonrouge.com/ http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/34/10368285.jpg http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/64/10368285.jpg http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/126/10368285.jpg http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/10368285.jpg http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/10368285/le+poisson+rouge+logoredinblack.jpg Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:00:00 Thursday 12.10.09
THE BLEND @ (le) Poisson Rouge

A Gallery Bar dance party featuring DJ Sincerious

21+ | FREE | 7pm

For more information about his event, visit http://lepoissonrouge.com/events/view/763.]]> 1 0 lastfm:event=1307873 http://www.last.fm/event/1307873+The+Blend http://lepoissonrouge.com/events/view/763 0 1223287 Ute Lemper Ute Lemper 8778940 Joe's Pub New York United States 425 Lafayette St 10003 40.729149 -73.991974 http://www.last.fm/venue/8778940+Joe%27s+Pub http://www.joespub.com/ http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/34/5743640.gif http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/64/5743640.gif http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/126/5743640.gif http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/5743640.gif http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/5743640/Joes+Pub+public2.gif Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:00:00 7 p.m.
$30]]> http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/34/9001.jpg http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/64/9001.jpg http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/126/9001.jpg http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/9001.jpg 0 0 lastfm:event=1223287 http://www.last.fm/event/1223287+Ute+Lemper%3A+Last+Tango+in+Berlin+-+7+p.m.+show http://www.joespub.com/component/option,com_shows/task,view/Itemid,40/id,4815 0 cabaret german alternative female vocalists chanteuse ute lemper 1297800 Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs Holly Golightly Vandaveer She Keeps Bees Nouvellas Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs 8899833 Mercury Lounge New York United States 217 East Houston Street 10002 40.722024 -73.98682 http://www.last.fm/venue/8899833+Mercury+Lounge http://www.mercuryloungenyc.com/ http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/34/5163255.jpg http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/64/5163255.jpg http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/126/5163255.jpg http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/5163255.jpg http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/5163255/Mercury+Lounge+logo.jpg Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:30:00 http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/34/211662.jpg http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/64/211662.jpg http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/126/211662.jpg http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/211662.jpg 2 0 lastfm:event=1297800 http://www.last.fm/event/1297800+Holly+Golightly+-+The+Brokeoffs+at+Mercury+Lounge+on+10+December+2009 http://www.mercuryloungenyc.com/event/3752 0 folk country alt-country singer-songwriter folk rock indie folk indie 1170906 Daniel Epstein, piano Andy Simonescu, violin Susan Salm, cello Daniel Epstein, piano 8863060 Symphony Space New York City United States Broadway at 95th Street 10025-6990 40.793838 -73.972857 http://www.last.fm/venue/8863060+Symphony+Space http://www.symphonyspace.org Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:30:00 Daniel Epstein, piano

Andy Simonescu, violin

Susan Salm, cello

This distinguished ensemble, in residence at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., performs a world premiere by Marjorie Merryman, the Beethoven Trio in G Major, Op. 1 No. 2; Mendelssohn Trio in C minor, Op. 66; and Dina Koston's "Piccolo Trio." Only New York recital.

Cost:$25; Day of Show $30; Members $20

For additional information or any questions, please contact us
212-864-5400

info@symphonyspace.org

www.symphonyspace.org
]]> 0 0 lastfm:event=1170906 http://www.last.fm/event/1170906+Raphael+Trio http://www.symphonyspace.org/event/6003-raphael-trio 0 1278677 Arctic Monkeys Screaming Females Arctic Monkeys 8861273 Terminal 5 New York United States 610 W 56th St 10019 40.769663 -73.99275 http://www.last.fm/venue/8861273+Terminal+5 http://terminal5nyc.com/ http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/34/2156820.jpg http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/64/2156820.jpg http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/126/2156820.jpg http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/2156820.jpg http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/2156820/Terminal+5.jpg Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:43:01 http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/34/32839307.jpg http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/64/32839307.jpg http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/126/32839307.jpg http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/32839307.jpg 55 0 lastfm:event=1278677 http://www.last.fm/event/1278677+Arctic+Monkeys+at+Terminal+5+on+10+December+2009 http://www.last.fm/affiliate/byid/29/1278677/12/ 0 rock punk indie alternative indie rock new jersey female vocalists british 1321638 Gary War Ducktails Infinity Window Gary War 8782826 Cake Shop New York United States 152 Ludlow St. 10002 40.720947 -73.987878 http://www.last.fm/venue/8782826+Cake+Shop http://www.cake-shop.com/ http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/34/2522642.jpg http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/64/2522642.jpg http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/126/2522642.jpg http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/2522642.jpg http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/2522642/Cake+Shop+cakeshop.jpg Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:00:00 $8, $21+]]> http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/34/20848741.jpg http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/64/20848741.jpg http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/126/20848741.jpg http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/20848741.jpg 8 0 lastfm:event=1321638 http://www.last.fm/event/1321638+Gary+War+at+Cake+Shop+on+10+December+2009 0 psychedelic experimental 1302855 The Derek Trucks Band Shannon McNally The Derek Trucks Band 8981021 NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts New York, NY United States 40.729769 -73.997872 http://www.last.fm/venue/8981021+NYU+Skirball+Center+for+the+Performing+Arts http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/34/16273225.jpg http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/64/16273225.jpg http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/126/16273225.jpg http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/16273225.jpg http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/16273225/NYU+Skirball+Center+for+the+Performing+Arts+skirball.jpg Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:00:00 Grammy Award nominated songwriter, record producer and bandleader Derek Trucks is one of the most critically-acclaimed guitarists and the youngest musician to be included in Rolling Stone's list of the Top Hundred Guitarists of All Time. Known for their blues roots and Southern rock style, The Derek Trucks Band has taken their latest album, entitled Already Free, well beyond to incorporate the larger sounds of rock, soul, jazz, Latin, and Indian music.

THE DEREK TRUCKS BAND:
Derek Trucks, Bass, Lead and Slide Guitar
Todd Smallie, Bass and Vocals
Yonrico Scott, Drums, Percussion and Vocals
Count M’Butu, Percussion
Kofi Burbridge, Keyboards, Flute and Vocals
Mike Mattison, Lead Vocals]]> http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/34/13076129.jpg http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/64/13076129.jpg http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/126/13076129.jpg http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/13076129.jpg 3 0 lastfm:event=1302855 http://www.last.fm/event/1302855+The+Derek+Trucks+Band+with+special+guest+Shannon+McNally http://www.skirballcenter.nyu.edu/calendar/the_derek_trucks_band 0 rock alt-country blues blues rock female vocalists adult alt 1272285 Railroad Earth The Infamous Stringdusters Railroad Earth 8851989 Music Hall of Williamsburg Brooklyn, NY United States 66 North 6th Street 11211 40.71942 -73.961678 http://www.last.fm/venue/8851989+Music+Hall+of+Williamsburg http://musichallofwilliamsburg.com/ http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/34/14974335.jpg http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/64/14974335.jpg http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/126/14974335.jpg http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/14974335.jpg http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/14974335/Music+Hall+of+Williamsburg+1261681233_a77ed20a2d_o.jpg Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:00:00 http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/34/25775837.jpg http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/64/25775837.jpg http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/126/25775837.jpg http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/25775837.jpg 2 0 lastfm:event=1272285 http://www.last.fm/event/1272285+Railroad+Earth+at+Music+Hall+of+Williamsburg+on+10+December+2009 http://www.musichallofwilliamsburg.com/event/3740 http://www.last.fm/affiliate/byid/29/1272285/12/ 0 bluegrass folk acoustic country jam jam band americana 1320396 Julian Velard Ryan Montbleau Band Julian Velard 8779095 Bowery Ballroom New York United States 6 Delancey St 10002 40.720274 -73.993456 http://www.last.fm/venue/8779095+Bowery+Ballroom http://www.boweryballroom.com/ http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/34/57494.jpg http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/64/57494.jpg http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/126/57494.jpg http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/57494.jpg http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/57494/Bowery+Ballroom.jpg Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:00:00 Native New Yorker, London resident, former Kindergarten Gym Teacher and one-time Parisian Street Sweeper, Julian Velard is a true original. The kind of character in a Wes Anderson or Quentin Tarintino film you’d like to grab a drink with. A real-life, musical version of Philip Marlowe (more Elliot Gould than Bogart) fusing the effortless cool of Robert Downey Jr. with the self-depreciating humor of Woody Allen, serving up slices of old-school Pop perfection with a raised eyebrow.

Born in the heart of Martin Scorsese’s Big Apple to a Queen-sized legs model/4-time Jeopardy champion mother and a French ex-patriot/ATM designer Father, Velard attended Laguardia High School for the Performing Arts, immortalized in the movie Fame. His first job was delivering videos to the likes of Cyndi Lauper and The Coen Brothers. It was during those after-school afternoons Velard devoured the albums that would form his musical landscape for years to come – Stevie Wonder’s Talking Book, Elvis Costello’s Armed Forces, Billy Joel’s The Stranger, and Elton John’s Tumbleweed Connection.

Velard spent his young adulthood paying his dues, living in an efficiency apartment literally in the shadow of Manhattan, in Red Hook, Brooklyn. He supported himself with some very odd jobs (including the afore mentioned “Hungover with Hula-hoops” episode) and touring the U.S., playing shows anywhere and everywhere, from rock clubs to cabarets to bar-mitzvahs and back again, honing his quirky brand of Pop all the while. After releasing three records independently, in 2007 Velard was plucked from relative obscurity off of Myspace, the source of well deserved UK Major Label attention. He signed a record deal and promptly moved to England.

Since then, Velard has straddled both sides of the Atlantic, writing songs for himself and others, and playing shows alongside Goldfrapp, Shelby Lynne, Marc Broussard, Amy McDonald, Kate Nash, Jose Gonzalez, Sonya Kitchell, Tom Baxter, The Clarks, Horatio Sanz, Ben Kweller, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals and others, and is currently working towards the 2010 release of his label debut.

Ryan Montbleau is a pure soul singer. Not in the traditional sense. His voice — although a sweet, passionate instrument — isn’t packed with Memphis clay like Al Green’s or greased with urban sophistication like R. Kelly’s. Instead, Montbleau sings purely from his soul in a voice every bit as honest, open hearted and original as the stories he tells in his songs.

Whether he’s playing a club around his Boston home base or a big stage at the Gathering of the Vibes or the High Sierra Music Festival, the young leader of the Ryan Montbleau Band is a one-man antidote for an era of irony. His lyrics about romance, joy, pain and loss care nothing for the barriers of image and style. He is unabashedly romantic, wistful, a soul-searcher looking for the Holy Grails of Love, Virtue and Hope at a time when headlines and the rapid pace of life often make those causes feel lost.

Of course, the love Montbleau has already found is music, and the Ryan Montbleau Band’s new album Patience on Friday spotlights its creators and their dazzling array of sounds in full mutual embrace. The singer-guitarist and his A-Team of bandmates — drummer James P. Cohen, keyboardist Jason Cohen, bassist Matt Gianarros and violist Laurence Scudder — weave a tapestry of folk, blues, rock-steady, country, cocktail music, rock, gypsy jazz and psychedelia that’s exciting, elegant and sometimes even elegiac.

The Ryan Montbleau Band is on the leading edge of a new kind of musical pluralism that drives some of today’s best young groups. "I’ve listened to all kinds of styles ever since I can remember, from Bell Biv Devoe to Bob Dylan. So being interested in a lot of musical elements just came naturally," says Montbleau. "The other guys are the same way. Some are firmly rooted in jazz, some classically trained. Most of what we do is rooted in something older, but from there, it goes in every direction you can think of. And when we were in the studio working on the arrangements of these songs, we tried not to limit ourselves in any way."

The result is an album that’s truly resonant, surpassing 2006’s excellent One Fine Color in its sonic exuberance and heart-on-sleeve emotionalism. Patience On Friday’s 14-song adventure begins with Montbleau’s expressive vibrato contemplating life’s fragility a cappella in "How Many Times" and dashes through the Jamaican postcard from a broken heart "Draw the Line." It pauses for the high-spirited sustenance of the Gypsy swinger "Eggs" and flows on to the classic Philly soul update "This."

Karl Berger, string arranger for Jeff Buckley’s Grace, adds orchestrations to Montbleau’s autobiographic serenade "If It Comes Around," "Waiting," and "How Many Times?" The album concludes with "Shine On," a tune that was written for the band’s late friend, drummer Dennis Babin. As the somber piano and soaring pedal steel, courtesy of the New Riders of the Purple Sage’s Buddy Cage, entwine, "Shine On" becomes an essay in transcendence.

Through it all, Montbleau’s storytelling holds the spotlight. His songs reveal the eye of a novelist and the lyricism of a poet. They’re rich in the kind of real-life detail that makes characters breathe. Numbers like the beautifully vivid "Love and Love Lost," where a shambling homeless man becomes a compelling metaphor for a neglected heart, and "If It Comes Around," the musical equivalent of one of Robert Altman’s ensemble films, both merit comparison to the writings of Tom Waits. "I’ve tried to build this whole thing on a platform of honesty," he says. "When I write a song, hopefully there’s nothing separating me or the music from the truth."

As the great R&B sage Solomon Burke tells his audiences, "The best road is always the straight road." And that’s the path Ryan Montbleau has always followed. "Everything I do has come from working hard, and none of it has come easily, from honing my ability to write a song to singing to playing guitar to learning how to be a performer," Montbleau says. "There are no shortcuts." He got his first guitar from his father when he was nine — a Fender Squier with a matching amp. That was in Peabody, Massachusetts, a town just north of Boston where Montbleau was raised. As a kid he was entranced by the bubble-gum R&B of groups like New Edition, but all the while he could pluck out "Back in Black" and was listening to Jimi Hendrix and more and more of the blues by the end of high school.

"All of this really started to come together for me when I went to college at Villanova University, outside Philly," he recounts. He came under the spell of adult soul musicians like Stevie Wonder, guitar heroes like Stevie Ray Vaughan and Hendrix, songwriting maestros like Paul Simon, and jazz/jam gurus Medeski, Martin and Wood. So he honed his own musicianship and began writing songs. Montbleau played in college bands and began singing on stage in his senior year, but got truly serious about performing when he graduated and moved back to the Boston area to work as a substitute teacher.

In Boston, Montbleau began hitting the clubs and coffeehouses with his guitar and steadily assembling the Ryan Montbleau Band. His first album, 2002’s out-of-print Begin., was essentially a solo recording that captured his still-evolving singing style. The next year’s Stages was a collection of solo acoustic live performances that continued building his regional reputation. Meanwhile, Montbleau was also playing shows with his band. Almost immediately the group struck a chord with fans who were tired of cookie-cutter rock outfits and corporate music marketing. Montbleau grew his fan base the grass roots way: through constant touring, college airplay, and an affability that comes across both on stage and one-on-one.

By the time the Ryan Montbleau Band’s first group album One Fine Color was released in 2006, they were playing more than 200 dates a year, coast to-coast, and the CD quickly sold 10,000 copies. "My touring’s not going to slow down any time soon," vows Montbleau. "I really enjoy going out and meeting people and performing these songs with the guys in the band, who are my closest friends. And when we’re on stage together, the people in the audience are right there with us, so even a sad song can become uplifting. We’re all in it together. When you strip away all the goals I might have as an artist and a working musician, what I really want to do with my life is uplift people," Montbleau says. "My favorite thing in the world is looking out from the stage and seeing smiling faces."]]> http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/34/13758489.jpg http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/64/13758489.jpg http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/126/13758489.jpg http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/13758489.jpg 1 0 lastfm:event=1320396 http://www.last.fm/event/1320396+Julian+Velard-Ryan+Montbleau+in+NYC http://www.boweryballroom.com/event/3580 0 folk soul indie americana singer-songwriter alternative indie rock jam band ragtime rock the hub