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Numerous recording artists such as the Allman Brothers and the Youngbloods have filed suits challenging how their labels compute digital royalties under pre-digital era record deals. These suits ...

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At the second of the Internet Society NY Chapter's meetings with Hunter Newby, CEO of Allied Fiber, he presented an overview of the company's plan to encircle the entire USA with a dark fiber rin...

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This was the first show ever by Man Forever - a fresh project from Kid Millions, Oneida's drummer. According to legend he became inspired after seeing the Fireworks Ensemble perform a chamber ver...

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The purpose of the Advancing Community Broadband: A Summer Discussion Series is to generate a conversation now that a number of concerned parties in New York have gone through the experience of d...

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With WordPress 3.0 now in its final beta stage there is increasing interest in the programming community as to the innovations involved - thus this edition of the WordPressNYC monthly meetup was ...

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Last October the NYC Department of Information Technology & Telecommunications (DoITT) issued a request for proposals for services to obtain, manage, administer, maintain and market the geographi...

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This was the first time I'd ever managed to make it to one of the popular events of the WordPress NYC Meetup group, although I did attend WordCamp NYC late last year. It was held in the plush off...

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On Thurs. Mar 25 ISOC-NY hosted Prof. Jinyang Li in a talk about the use of distributed systems, and particularly the use of the Kaleidoscope Firefox plug-in, in circumventing censorship. This is...

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A joint effort by the both the Art Law and the IP Law Societies at Cardozo School of Law, this panel set out to consider the implications/possibilities of the Google Books Settlement model as app...

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In Feb. 2007 members of the NYC Council Committee on Technology in Government Committee introduced Resolution 712, calling on the federal government to pass net neutrality legislation, an unlikel...

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Tommy James & The Shondells were one of the biggest bands of the 1960's, starting with his breakout hit "Hanky Panky" in 1966 which led to a deal with Roulette Records, Roulette, as is revealed i...

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Prof. Moglen suggests that rather than be exploited by the social-networking juggernauts people could create their own by running personal social media servers that interface with their friends t...

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Rebecca Smeyne has, over the last few years, become the pre-eminent photographer of the NYC underground live music scene. Her pictures, regularly featured in the Village Voice's print and online ...

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On Jan 20, the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) , the National Writers Union (NWU), and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) and the Internet Society's New ...

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As he mentions at one point in this video, I have known Tony Fletcher since he was the 14yr old fanzine author/publisher of Jamming!, a popular UK fanzine. Like me, he moved to NYC in the 80s, an...

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This was the second panel discussion complementing the 'Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present' exhibit of rock music photography at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. In this...

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I was given a heads up on this weeks in advance by Anna from These Are Powers who recently toured in China - Maybe Mars, a musician-run label associated with Beijing underground rock club D22, we...

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ISOC-NY was pleased to co-sponsor, with the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. NY Chapter, a luncheon program on Oct 22 2009. The speaker was David Post, author of In Search of Jeffersons Moose: Not...

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The Internet Society - New York Chapter (ISOC-NY) was happy and interested to co-sponsor, with the Intellectual Property Law Society, a lunchtime lecture at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law ...

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The Intellectual Property Law Society at Cardozo School of Law kicked off its annual program by inviting former faculty member William F. Patry, now Senior Copyright Counsel at Google, to give a ...

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Right in the heart of the 2009 CMJ Music Marathon, sandwiched inbetween "So You Still Want A Major Label Record Deal? Here's The Truth" and "Timeless Miles: 1959 - A Pivotal Year In Music" there ...

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While many people go nuts during the annual CMJ Music Marathon in NYC - when 1000 or so bands play over three or four days - in recent years I have found myself becoming super-relaxed. There is n...

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In recent months whilst shooting RUCMA jazz and innovative music events I have not been the only one capturing the images of the performers - another regular attendee has been Alan M. Bolle, an a...

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This post OneWebDay event was held on a Saturday in a library in Forest Hills, Queens - remarkably easy to reach via the F express train - and on a pleasantly mild day. Speaker Ali Emami turned o...

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A recent move of my studio turned up this tape. I've numbered it #80 as it was a spare number but in truth it should be something like Punkcast#6.5. It was September 1998, I had just purchased th...

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Nothing to do with the Nickolodeon cartoon band of the same name, my first encounter with The Beets was a couple of years back when they hopped on the tail end of Todd P's Acoustic BBQ. I seem to...

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I offered to shoot Care Bears On Fire a year or so back but was rebuffed as they were just introducing a new bass player. So I bided my time. In 2009 they, with an even newer bass player, went ou...

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The Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation (BNYDC) have made a request for proposals to develop the historic Admiral's Row site. A 40,000 sq.ft. supermarket, plus further industrial space, is...

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This was a public hearing of New York City Council Committee on Technology in Government to discuss open data standards for city agencies, a new bill #991-2009 having been introduced to establish...

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There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth when, in 2006, Le Tigre announced they were going on hiatus. As Kathleen retreated to domestic life and teaching, Johanna to running a hair salon, it ...

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For the 14th Session at Santa's Spencer Sweeney brought in a duo of duos.First, we had Light Asylum featuring Shannon Funchess. Shannon is mostly known as a sometime member of Telepathe, and can ...

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Ann Arbor group Destroy All Monsters are probably best known for their punk rock edition that came about in 1977 and included both Ron Asheton of the Stooges and Michael Davis of the MC5. Fronted...

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RE:NEW RE:PLAY is a residency series, curated by Travis Chamberlain, at the New Museum in NYC. In May 2009 the resident artist Nick Hallett is presenting a four-part series VOICE & LIGHT SYSTEMS ...

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The Internet Society's New York Chapter (ISOC-NY) welcomed David Bollier to speak at NYU on May 18 2009. David talked about the themes of his new book, Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Dig...

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Copyright developed in the age of the printing press, and was designed to fit with the system of centralized copying imposed by the printing press. But the copyright system does not fit well with...

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On Julia Haltigan's earlier appearances on PUNKCAST - #529 and #1136 - I have noted her dearth of recorded output. That shortage has now been eased with the release of two full length CDs "When...

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Greetings To One and All, Good Vibes Promotions presents Reuben Celebration Exellency of Dignity, Exellency of Power Roots Steppers DubDance Feat. Legendary Studio One Orthodox Singer Judah Esken...

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After a lengthy time off the road making their 3rd album "It's Blitz" our old pals launched their 2009 campaign with a last-minute warm-up show for friends and family at Santos Party House on Eas...

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I'm not going to go into the long and involved history of Certain General (see their MySpace ) . Suffice it to say that they were a key aspect in the zeitgeist of NYC in the early 80s, yet, like ...

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The Secret Orchestra is a new project from bassist and composer Clif Jackson appeared as part of the RUCMA Performance Series in the cozy confines of the 5C Cultural Cafe in the far East Village....

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Growing, originally from Olympia WA, but for some years based in Brooklyn, are living up to their name. Not only is their music evolving, from ambient soundscape to purposeful rhythms, but also s...

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This was the second of two NYC shows the weekend after Thamksgiving. The Marnie Stern/Gang Gang Dance tour of Fall 2008 had confused, confounded, and amazed concertgoers from coast-to-coast in th...

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A friend of mine who travels widely recently reported to me that recently, upon arriving in exotic destinations, the most frequent question asked by the locals, upon hearing he is from NYC, is do...

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Guitarist Brad Farberman rounded up the unusual suspects for a RUCMA Monday night performance at the Yippie Cafe. Notable was the rare presence of clarinettist David Rothenburg - known for his ex...

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Amongst NYC's leading punk luminaries is Jack Rabid - founder, editor, and major contributor to the Big Takeover fanzine. What is not so well known is that Jack is also an accomplished musician, ...

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On October 17 2008 Council Member Gale A. Brewer (D-Manhattan), Chair of the NYC Council's Technology in Government Committee, held a hearing regarding the City's interest for a unique .nyc Top L...

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OneWebDay - a global annual event that celebrates,and draws attention to threats to, the internet - is held every September 22. In 2008 this was a Monday - a breezy pleasant day as we gathered in...

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The sixth lecture in Evan Korth's NYU Computers and Society course featured Professor Lawrence Lessig of Stanford University. His topic, the subject of his recent book, was "Remix: Making Art and...

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The Assault, a spunky girl band from Brooklyn , took their own advice in 2006 and quit ther jobs and went on tour - from sea to shining sea - and back again.. They had many adventures on their tr...

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The last time we saw Jimmy G. and Murphy's Law on Punkcast was way back in '99 on lucky #13 , They are still going strong, on the umpteenth line-up. With mainstay venues, such as CBGB, Coney Isla...

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This is the gig that will not die! I tried to bury the video, since I screwed up on recording room audio, and the camera I was using decided to go on the fritz with audio dropouts. What's more I ...

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Diamond Consultants was hired by the New York City Economic Development Corporation to determine the breadth of the digital divide in New York City and develop programs and initiatives to provide...

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Back in PUNKCAST#1190 last August, we saw Aaron Friedman talking about his ambitious plans for 2008's Make Music NY, a local version of an international festival that takes music to the streets. ...

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A few weeks back a show by a reformed Teenage Jesus & The Jerks launched with a bang Thurston Moore and Byron Coley's new book 'No Wave:Post-Punk. Underground. New York. 1976-1980'. But this was ...

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It's been 5 years since we last saw Viva L'American Death Ray Music in PUNKCAST#284. Since then they have become quite popular in Europe, and released several albums. They've also taken to wearin...

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The second of the 2008, and 6th annual, series of East River Music Project open air concerts took place under threat of serious thunderstorms. The line-up was all skronk but each band had a diffe...

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A couple of years ago my friend Vivien Goldman - The Punk Professor - asked to me to talk to her class at NYU about fanzines. Back in the late 70s I ran Better Badges, making millions of punk bad...

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This forum. presented by OneWebDay, ISOC-NY, and the Information Law Institute @ NYU during Internet Week NY, is part of the build up to a politically-minded OneWebDay on September 22, 2008. It b...

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When I got the invite to this show, an acoustic AIDS benefit in Soho, I immediately paid attention when I saw the name of Jeb Loy Nichols. I'd heard his name mentioned in dub circles because of h...

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This is not The Carrots founder V-Jon's first appearance on Punkcast - she is also the vocalist on the raucous 'Missile' by Finally Punk on PUNKCAST#1001 from July 2006. Even at that time the fou...

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The concept that there should be a 'dot nyc' was originally launched some years ago by a Community Board in Jackson Heights. Tom Lowenhaupt, a member of that board, gave the idea a good run aroun...

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At Tessa Pollitt's back garden, Bakerloo Line & The Underworld Sep 18 2007 - Ari-Up performing with her backing band, 'The True Warriors', at The Underworld in Camden was the first of two gigs in...

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Indian jewelry are a dronepunk band from Houston TX. They've been around in various line-ups and names for some time before settling into the current touring power quartet. I'll leave the describ...

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Genevieve Ballon is the lead vocalist/musician with Long Island band Past Mistress. Here we see her in a rare solo performance at Brooklyn's Goodbye Blue Monday. Mostly she played synth or guitar...

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What will come of the next decade on the Internet? We often take for granted the state of the net today, but there's no guarantee that it will remain this way. Will the digital future be dystopia...

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Jonathan Zittrain is something of an Internet prodigy. A co-founder of the Berkman Center at Harvard, he is now the Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at the Oxford Internet Institut...

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The Daves - Dave Sewelson on Bari Sax, Dave Hofstra on tuba, Stephen Moses on drums/trombone - are described in the RUCMA press release for this show as 'the progenitors and perpetuators of post-...

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In PUNKCAST#1190 we saw a public meeting, subsequent to the closing of Tonic, where the NYC avant-jazz community committed themselves to working to create themselves a new home and, in fact, a wh...

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To inaugurate the 2009 New York Guitar Festival a free concert was held in the spacious glass atrium of the World Financial Center, right next to 'Ground Zero'. The theme of the night was to have...

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We last saw TK Webb, Brooklyn's Missouri bluesman, 30 months ago in the rustic environs of PUNKCAST#738. Since then he's gotten a haircut, put out an acclaimed solo album 'Phantom Parade' on The ...

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This, the release party for Sightings new album 'Through the Panama', was the probably the NYC art-noise event of the year. Aficianadoes are still chuckling over Sightings spectacular appearance ...

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Around 3 years ago I shot a peculiar NYC band called I Love You. Earlier this year I reviewed the footage and, on googling, discovered there was another band of the same name from Kansas City. Th...

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Although new to me, and possibly, you, Echostream are by no means a new band. Years of development have given them a unique and matured sound that is world class. The band's roots lie in London w...

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The word 'seminal' is so overdone that it has practically been banned from Wikipedia,but if any band could be so described it is The Clean from Dunedin, New Zealand. Formed in 1978, they single-h...

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Glasgow trio Frightened Rabbit's debut album 'Sing The Greys' was a paradox. Ostensibly DIY - it gained wide distribution via Universal Records in the UK. NYC indie label Self-Starter was so impr...

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Los Angeles psyche-drone outfit The Warlocks sre a Punkcast favorite. They appeared on the site way back in May 2001 in #48 opening for Nikki Sudden. We caught up with them again a year later or ...

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After some years of semi-obscurity the artrock/electroclash boom, a new record 'American Dream' in 2002, and finally a rush of re-issues of their original classic albums, had made Suicide in 2004...

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San Francisco all-girl electro soul-punk group Von Iva first visited NYC a couple of years back, playing storming shows at Death Disco and Cake Shop during CMJ. I shot them both but never never d...

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This was the final show of the East River Music project's 2007 season, curated by popular music website Paper Thin Wslls. I got down there early to catch These Are Powers who were slated first on...

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A Todd P affair on a Monday night, this was just the second show of Magik Markers tour in support of 'Boss' - their new Ecstatic Peace! release. The band have shed their bassplayer, and are down ...

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It's 1O years and 1200 shoots since punkcast started in September 1997. There will be a screening/party tonight @ Secret Project Robot in Brooklyn. Click the link for more info and a brief histor...

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The day after the popular Lower East Side experimental music club Tonic closed down in April 2007, a group of jazz musicians and other artists - calling themselves 'Take It To The Bridge' - comma...

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I have been following NYC electro/improv gtoup Excepter for some years, but this is the first time I've got around to posting any. Excepter was founded by J F Ryan, previously of the No Neck Blue...

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Domenic Priore's book 'Riot On Sunset Strip; Rock'N'Roll's Last Stand in Hollywood' concerns the brief period in the mid 60's when Los Angeles, specifically Hollywood, became the nexus of surf mu...

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I detailed the relationship with Luscious Jackson, and Gabby Glaser in particular, back in PUNKCAST#1133. I remember running into Gabby backstage at the Strummer shows in 2002 and asking her what...

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What wasn't mentioned on this, the second NYC date of critically acclaimed Austin band Peel's first tour of the East Coast, was that Josh Parmenter - founder and major songwriter of the band - wa...

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Cheap Perfume are an all-girl rock band that was formed by two CBGB waitresses back in 1977. As well as playing CBGB they soon gained a residency at Max's and opened for everybody from the Dead B...

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This one is for the guy who came up to me last week at the Slits McCarren show and requested Acid Mothers Temple - you know who you are. NYC was one of the final stops on the lengthy first tour o...

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The opening day of the East River Music Project's 2007 concert series occurred on the Saturday of the first really hot weekend of the NYC summer, the same day as the annual Gay Pride Parade. The ...

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Opening for Sonic Youth's 'Daydream Nation' show in the derelict McCarren Park Pool in Greenpoint, Brooklyn - this was just the second time, as far as I know, the current version of The Slits hav...

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Bat For Lashes' star is rising fast over in the UK. A week prior to this show their album 'Fur and Gold' was included in the short list for the prestigious Mercury Prize. They are only just now t...

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I was able to get two birds (one of them prehistoric even) with one stone at this show. Shock Cinema are new to the Brooklyn scene, the core having been enticed north from Atlanta, and then envel...

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Blood Red Shoes are an artrock duo from Brighton UK. Steven Ansell plays drums, Laura-Mary Carter plays guitar, and they both sing. Comparisons have been made with The White Stripes and the YYY's...

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This was the final concert of three that concluded Swiss photographer George Gatsas' exhibit at the Swiss Institute, a large upper floor space on Broadway in downtown Manhattan. The exhibit, whic...

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I've noted before that when club bookers, who see hundreds of bands, go nuts over an act it's usually worth paying attention. In this case it's Xiaoting Luo who books The Annex and the band is Ge...

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The Homosexuals, mainly in the persons of Bruno Wizard and Anton Hayman, were London post-punk pioneers. Formed from the ashes of punk band The Rejects in 1978 they proliferated DIY projects on t...

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I started paying attention to the Screaming Females back in April after Jim Testa named them the most exciting new NJ band in 10 years. I had to wait til midsummers day before they eventually sho...

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Back in 2005, when I first shot Brakes for PUNKCAST#854 I learnt that the drummer and guitarist - the White brothers - were also in The Electric Soft Parade. While unfamiliar with that band what ...

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Yula Be'eri is well known as the alluring bass player with World Inferno/Friendship Society (see them in PUNKCAST#252). She also has her own band NaNuchKa, a gypsy-jazz power-trio, who I'd become...

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Sometimes everything goes smoothly with the punkcasting, and sometimes not. This would be one of the latter. First, arriving at Studio B in fair time for this - the first major showcase of this e...

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The Jammyland All Stars have found a new venue for their occasional jams with reggae veterans - Rockys bar in Williamsburg. A venue that, as I have remarked before, is not noted for formality. At...

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Brian Chase is the one musician who, from his regular gig banging for the YYY's to tabla with Oakley Hall, to seriously weird experimental music, has appeared more often on Punkcast than any othe...

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We already noted in PUNKCAST#1159 that TV On The Radio maintain contact with the Brooklyn scene, but Kyp Malone, who is originally from Seattle, also has roots in San Francisco where he played in...

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As a writer for the British music weekly NME in the punk years Chris Salewicz had ample opportunity to get to know The Clash. His down-to-earth sense of humor, broad taste in music, and strong pe...

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NYC hippie kid Josh Cheuse started taking pictures of The Clash in 1981 when he was 16 years old. Later he became one of their best buddies, touring with both Joe Strummer and Big Audio Dynamite....

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One might think that Andy Bodor, who runs Cake Shop and books 4 bands a night, might become blasé about the music. Occasionally so, perhaps, but he also periodically gets totally knocked out by ...

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Although I've never posted video, Seth Misterka and Jennifer DeVeau, performing as Dynasty Electric Duo, have long been punkcast favorites. They have a healthy following in the far-east, where th...

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In the last couple of years TV On The Radio have scaled great heights of achievement and popularity, and toured widely. But they haven't lost their roots in the Brooklyn arts and music world. Thi...

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Shooting Shapes And Sizes was serendipitous, as I was able to catch them while on a pop-in to the Cake Shop between two other shows. I was unfamiliar with the band but found them a very pleasant ...

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There's something oddly compelling about the singing of Dan Penta, who heads up Whisper Doll. It's a kind of gravelly mope with gregorian undertones. Arriving in NYC some years ago, performing un...

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A lot has been written recently about the power of myspace. Here is a good example. Quitzow asked to be my friend and, idly checking them out, I liked their style, and offered to shoot them for p...

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The pinstand goes way back with Luscious Jackson. Guitarist Gabby Glaser actually came to the UK and toiled at Better Badges. (In 1981 or 1982, I can't quite remember.) As the pinstand went onlin...

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It's hard to believe that, since we first saw her in PUNKCAST#529, Julia Haltigan has yet to put out a record. But she has 1) had a very popular version of 'Boots Of Spanish Leather' included on ...

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Despite being the nexus of the Brooklyn scene that has transformed the culture of NYC, and elsewhere, over the last few years, and home to countless rock and art shows, Williamsburg had never had...

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In it's auspicious history the NYC experimental music mainstay Tonic has seen the debuts of many groups that have gone on to world fame. This night, two weeks before the suddenly announced closin...

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The last Thursday ever at Tonic, and, at last, it's the release party for Other Passengers long awaited album 'We Are All Other Passengers', a good two years in the making. Tonic had it's officia...

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The vanishing voice in this case is James Jackson Toth aka Wooden Wand. While newly releasing an album 'James and The Quiet' on Ecstatic Peace! he has ceased fronting Wooden Wand & The Vanishing ...

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As one of the leading lights on NYC's thriving indie-pop scene The Besties have long been on my list of bands to shoot. However one way or another I've missed them over the years, partly because ...

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Until buying his book 'White Bicycles' last year I only knew of Joe Boyd as one of the proprietors of UFO - the London venue that, back in the 60s, spawned the UK psychedelic underground - and al...

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There was much disappointment when Brooklyn was deprived of seeing hometown heroes Radio 4 play the Jan 31 final show at North Six when Con Ed cut the power a day early. When they were eventually...

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K8 Hardy: Susanne wanted to come over to New York and play and I wanted to make that happen. I thought it would be amazing to pair her with the Lesbians on Ecstasy from Montreal. Then I wanted to...

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When it comes to shows there are few more more flexible in approach than Ari-Up of The Slits - famous for her impromptu presentation which often involves recruiting vocalists and musicians straig...

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Brooklyn female musical collective Effi Briest are named after a 19th century German fictional anti-heroine, a victim of circumstance whose spirit nevertheless survives intact. As one might expec...

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Years ago now, the old Mighty Robot was the heart of the Williamsburg art rock scene. Since promoter Fitz's departure to Berlin it has moved location, changed name, and pursued art more than musi...

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'I can't pay the rent but I'm fucking gorgeous.' - the opening line of 'garage glam heroes' Semi Precious Weapons eponymous opener, was enthusiastically sung along to by the eagerly massed fans -...

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With Oakley Hall moved up to touring, The Woods have replaced them as the Graham Ave drinking man and woman's band of choice. Broke Revue refugees Brad Truax and Bruno Meyrick-Jones are joined by...

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Stolen Transmission is a happening label run by Ultragrrrl Sarah Lewitinn. She's already signed up our favourite UK trashers The Horrors, and I was sorry to miss her hot new signings The Oohlas w...

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"The Council for the Fortieth Anniversary of The Summer of Love with Gavin Brown's enterprise opens and invites you to an exhibition of the world's most radical living papers from a time when the...

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It's been a long time since we've seen Kimya Dawson in these parts. Her family moved to Seattle a little while back, and then she's been busy infanticipating. Now, thanks to an invitation from Th...

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The first time I visited NYC, in 1980, the Bush Tetras were just about the hottest band going in the city. They had a corner on the rhythm and noise style of the day, plus three of them were attr...

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In 1972 I spent a few months in Cambridge (UK). It was an absurd time, and my life there was much like something out of a Lewis Carroll book, and included characters as diverse as Syd Barratt and...

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It wasn't all the way nice and easy at this show, in the basement of Club Seho on NYC's Lower East Side. The room was so narrow that there was hardly room to set up the whole Jammyland All Stars,...

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We first saw microtonal guitarist/composer David First playing with Jean Smith as Book Of Common Gestures in PUNKCAST#965 where he dazzled with feedback pyrotechnics. So, when his band Notekiller...

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This show was a post-Katrina benefit for the excellent radio station WWOZ in New Orleans. And like that station it featured a diverse array of new music from the local community. I arrived late, ...

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Punkcast viewers were introduced to visualist Berkoy way back in PUNKCAST#478. She continued to illuminate Dub Trio for several more shows before discovering a new appropiate vehicle for her tale...

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Like punk itself, punkcast has deep roots in the hippie heydays of the late 60's, when bands took r and b to new psychedelic limits. As the players grew older in the 70's music morphed in a coupl...

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Like Gang of Four, Forward, Russia are from Leeds, Yorkshire. They also share that band's slashing guitar sound, reggae-influenced basslines, and swinging disco throb. But that's where the simila...

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Rocky's bar aka The Local aka The Ship's Mast aka whatever in Williamsburg is a low key joint that has zero pretentions. Serious drinking and partying are the order of the day, everyday. So, on t...

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Marc Camporeale is a mover and shaker in the Manhattan new media world, and a long time behind-the-scenes supporter of punkcast. So, when I heard his band was playing an Irish dive-bar on Times S...

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Back in the day, a good customer of the pinstand was one David Sutch aka Screamin' Lord Sutch. We made all the campaign badges for the electoral efforts of the Monster Raving Loony Party, on beha...

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During their existence, 1997-1984, the UK anarcho-nihilist group Crass never toured in the USA, much to the chagrin of many. They did, however, have roots in the NYC downtown art scene, and playe...

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Teen punk rockers Outl4w have made a fair bit of a name for themselves in the UK over the last couple of years, and since releasing their DIY album 'Get In The Van' last summer, now seem to be ha...

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Be Your Own Pet, a teen band from Nashville TN, had a meteoric rise to fame back in 2004 when their debut DIY single became a radio hit in the UK. The band subsequently destroyed at CMJ and SXSW ...

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Avengers, from San Francisco, had a brief but stellar career from 1977-1979, playing over 100 shows, including opening for the original Sex Pistols last show. They never, however, made it out of ...

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The recent closing of CBGB has concentrated minds very much on it's role as the nursery of punk and hardcore. What is less known, particularly outside NYC, is that for about half it's existence i...

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There's no question in my mind that the best CMJ shows this year were the non-CMJ shows run by Brooklyn Vegan and Todd P. Especially this one, giving us not only CSS downstairs, but also my first...

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This was an afternoon showcase on the first day of CMJ 2006 curated by the popular Brooklyn Vegan blog site. The place was well jammed as it was CSS's only freely accessible club date during the ...

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The package of Kiosk and Finally Punk that barnstormed across America in Summer 2006, while unnoticed by many, was nevertheless very likely the defining event of the year. Updating the girl-punk ...

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I'm doing a joint show with photog Lisa Corson at Secret Project Robot in Brooklyn starting this weekend. You can see some of Lisa's work at http://www.flickr.com/photos/lisacorson/sets/ I've mad...

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Awesome Color's rise to most-favored status in NYC since arriving from Ann Arbor has taken place over just a matter of months. Shows with local favorites such as Oakley Hall have helped, but it's...

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In the late 70's Vivien Goldman wrote for the UK weekly music paper 'Sounds'. As punk rock raged around her, she steadily and eruditely featured reggae, both the artists and philosophy. She went ...

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After a lengthy sojourn on the left coast, HR, erstwhile singer with the Bad Brains, has returned to NYC for a spell. He has been popping up here and there, performing short acoustic sets. Camera...

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Flipper are still trying to piss off their audiences, but are now so fondly loved it's nigh impossible. Especially with the general acceptance that they invented grunge, and the fact they are as ...

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I actually became a fan of Kinnie Starr some years ago, back in the late nineties, when the internet was still young. Her sultry blend of folk, grunge, dub, hip-hop, and jazz styles was definitel...

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When I arrived at this show, a Sunday afternoon affair at the Union Docs artist co-operative, I had never heard of Mecca Normal. How, I can't imagine. A duo based in Vancouver, they've been going...

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Aug 6 2006. After a screening of his home movie of the band - 'Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out' as part of the Film Society at Lincoln Center 'RockDocs 2006' series, drummer Stewart Copela...

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The original inspiration for this event came from BJ Rubin, of Puttin' On The Ritz, as a celebration of that combo's completing a year of their classic-wrecking existence. BJ got Todd P and Tiann...

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As Joan Jett embarks on her stint on the Warped tour, this could be an indication of how she regained her enthusiasm for playing live to unruly mobs of scruffy youths. Here we see her joining her...

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Brakes are an indie supergroup from Brighton, England. Leader Eamon Hamilton has done time as the keyboardist with British Sea Power, while Tom and Alex White, guitar and drums, are from Electric...

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This was the CD release party for Rose Melberg - long awaited, since the CD - 'Cast Away The Clouds' - took 5 years to materialize. Rose has something akin to 'grande dame' status in indie-pop du...

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The Metropolitan NY Chapter of the Internet Society continued its popular series of seminars at the Jefferson Market library in Greenwich Village with a session with Eben Moglen, a Columbia U. la...

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I've dug this one up as an extra for Nick Hallett's '23 Reasons to Spare New York' vid expo as he takes it to Europe in Summer 2006, where it will be shown amongst other spots at All Tomorrow Par...

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For the last two and a half years or so, Punkcast has enjoyed something akin to artist-in-residence status at NYC's Knitting Factory, with a carte-blanche to record bands. With 3 floors going nig...

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'Death Is Hanging Over Me' - Despite the ominous song title, and Nikki's sad demise less than 40 hours later, mortality was far from anybody's mind at this show, an impromptu instore at the Cake ...

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The term 'Art Brut' was originally coined in 1948 by Jean Dubuffet to describe outsider art, particularly that made by people in insane asylums. While the band of the same name definitely can, at...

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Seeing The Tough And Lovely, a 'garage/soul' band from Columbus Ohio playing in a NYC basement a few years back, it was love at first sight. I'm a pushover for girls, grit and passion combined wi...

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We have not seen that much of Gang Gang Dance, recently, in NYC. Thus, when this late night show was announced, only earlier the same day, tickets were snapped up instantly. The lucky holders wer...

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Those who follow punkcast will have seen pianist Emily Manzo in more than one one-off collaboration. But here we have a different kettle of fish, an ongoing partnership in which she also sings. T...

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To promote the release of the USA edition of his book 'Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984' author Simon Reynolds held a panel discussion at Mo Pitkin's on NYC's Lower East Side. Paneli...

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This show happened the day after the night of NYC's single biggest ever snowfall. The city's pristine white blanket, and it's unusual quietness were an appropiate backdrop for the curiously inter...

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This show happened the day after the night of NYC's single biggest ever snowfall. The city's pristine white blanket, and it's unusual quietness were an appropiate backdrop for the curiously inter...

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Many hearts were wrecked when, on the way to her annual Valentine's show this year, Syd Straw fell foul of NYC's finest and was hoiked off to jail, leading to the show's cancellation. To cheer ou...

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This is the first time, I think, that the same song by the same artist has appeared twice on punkcast. But the wait of a year and a half between our first airing of 'Volume Rambler' by Oakley Hal...

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To celebrate the 75th anniversary of Haile Selassie's ascension to the throne of Ethiopia, NYC's Black Redemption Sound Of Praises held a musical session at Joe's Pub. As special guest, Ras Kush ...

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Last time we saw Richard Stallman was almost 5 years back on PUNKCAST#64. On that occasion we were unable to provide video as an acceptably patent-free video codec simply didn't exist. Fortunatel...

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Back in the late 80's/early 90's the pinstand would regularly trek down to Trenton, NJ, on a Sunday, for the shows at City Gardens. One of the hottest local bands down there was a stomping ska cr...

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Every year, recently, the NYC East River Music Project has presented a remarkably forward thinking program of new music in this little known piece of greenery between the Williamsburg and Manhatt...

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Checking out 54 Nude Honeys as this Death Disco show approached, I was impressed to discover they are on the french label Skydog Records. It is not well known enough that, in 76/77, particularly ...

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With the advent of the G5 video iPod, PUNKCAST has joined the ranks of the podcaster nation. The podcast videos are rendered in the new-fangled H.264 codec which, will play back also in iTunes, Q...

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Lately, the fine folks at Artrocker have taken to mailing us a copy of their wonderfully designed and informative magazine, so, when CMJ gave an excuse for some of their faves to visit NYC, we we...

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I may put up more from this, the KRS/5RC showcase at the 2005 CMJ Music marathon, in time, but right now this is definitely the hottest thing I saw all week - The Gossip doing their shortly-to-be...

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We last encountered sometime punkcast cameragirl Leesaw back in #376 chasing one of Earl Greyhound. She, in time, like us then, has come to appreciate another member of the band, the bassist Kama...

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Filming shows, one is often keenly aware of the ephemerality of the phenomena one is capturing. Brilliance is no guarantee of longevity or success, If one misses it - it may be gone forever. This...

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