So It’s Actually Coming Out: Wu-Tang Member Raekwon To Play Two Nights At Manhattan’s Santos Party House To Celebrate The Long Anticipated Release of Only Built 4 Cuban Linx… Pt. II [Brooklyn Vegan]
Watch A Ridiculously Shoddy Video of “Michael Jackson” Allegedly Still Alive, Entering The Coroner’s Office…Tupac, Biggie, John Hughes, Andy Kaufman, and Jesus All Sighted on the Premises As Well [Idolator]
The Ronettes’ “Be My Baby” Scribe Ellie Greenwich Passes Away At 68 [Pitchfork]
Watch Goth Legend Bauhaus’s Peter Murphy Join Nine Inch Nails On Stage At NIN’s Farewell Show At New York’s Terminal 5 [Spin]
The Who’s Pete Townshend Announces A New Rock Opera Floss, Along With A New Who Album To Be Released Sometime In 2010 – Floss Is About A Bar Musician, Who The Who Couldn’t Have Possibly Related To In Like 20 Years [NME]
Noisy Brooklynites Gang Gang Dance’s Drummer Jesse Lee Attacked By Security At Belgium’s Pukkelpop Festival [Brooklyn Vegan]
Former Hüsker Dü Drummer Grant Heart Readies His First Solo Album In A Decade (Sidenote: Hell Yeah!); Hot Wax Released October 6 [Prefix]
UK Extravaganza, The Reading And Leeds Festival, Announces They Will Have Zero Tolerance Toward Crowd Surfing (Read: Fun) [Prefix]
Watch Rapper Lil Wayne’s Pro School PSA; The Sentiment Good…The Ad (And Trying To Consider The “Syrup” Addicted, Face Tattooed Lil Wayne A Role Model) Confusing [Videogum]
Stream The Second Song Of The Bon Iver/Collections of Colonies of Bees Collaboration Volcano Choir, “Youlogy” (It’s Dark, Brooding, And Decidedly Boring); Unmap Released September 22 [NPR]
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VIBE Magazine Out Of Business [Pitchfork]
More Changes in East Side Punk History: Morrison Hotel Leaving CBGB Location [Brooklyn Vegan]
“Question Time”: Jarvis Cocker on Panel for Political TV Show [Pitchfork]
Michael Jackson’s Body for View at Neverland Ranch [NME]
Jay-Z’s Roc Nation Making Moves: Deals With Sony, Atlantic [Billboard]
No, It’s Not Another Weird Supergroup: Bob Dylan on Beastie Boys’ Album [NME]
Gang Gang Dance To Tour North America [The Tripwire]
Brooklyn to Jamaica! Slew of Brooklyn Musicians in New Film, “Wah Do Dem” [The Tripwire]
Wavves’ Nathan Williams Talks to Pitchfork About “The Freakout” [Pitchfork]
Beck Announces “Planned Obsolescence,” Another Online Project [Prefix]
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HEALTH Announce North American Fall Tour, Three Summer Shows in New York [Prefix]
UK DJs Arrested for iTunes Scam [NME]
Backstage Passes to Whoever Finds Alice Cooper’s Bag of Horror Films! [NME]
Ghostface, Method Man, Redman Will Hit the Road With “The Footprints In Hip Hop Tour” [Brooklyn Vegan]
TV On The Radio Remix Gang Gang Dance’s “First Communion” [Stereogum]
What? Pete Doherty Arrested? [NME]
SPIN Magazine Celebrates 25th Anniversary of Purple Rain with Free Tribute Album [SPIN]
Fiery Furnaces Debut New Album at Philly Show [SPIN]
Girl Punk Legends The Slits Announce New Album [Prefix]
Sonic Youth Take North America, Take Down Radiohead [Stereogum]
New Raveonettes Track From In-Progress LP [Stereogum]
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August 4, 2008
88BoaDrum Performers Announced
Drummers: if you’re planning on participating in this year’s 88BoaDrum, it’s too late. The names of the 176 percussionists performing in the Boredoms’ second annual drummer fest have been announced. BoaDrum is a bi-coastal event, this year taking place on August 8 for 88 minutes with 88 drummers in both Los Angeles and Brooklyn. Last year on July 7, 2007, 77 drummers participated. Mark your calendars for September 9, 2009.
Brooklyn’s BoaDrum happens at the Williamsburg Waterfront and is coordinated by Gang Gang Dance. Among the multitude of performers are drummers for Animal Collective, Modest Mouse, TV on the Radio, Superwolf, Parts and Labor, Phosphorescent, A.R.E. Weapons, Japanther, Rings, and Timothy Monaghan of J.A.C.K., Jezebel Music NYC’s March Feature Artist. Read more to view the complete lists.
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