Are we the only people currently loving this show, much of which is filmed in Williamsburg? People don’t seem to be talking about it very much. If you haven’t seen it yet, here’s a taste:

We’re excited since we’re huge fans of the band. More info on the McCarren Park show here.
Turns out, the band is a little touchy about being filmed/photographed. Here’s a video of Ben Bridwell acting all douchey and flicking off a fan for filming them at a recent performance in California. [Via BrooklynVegan]

Bridwell explains how he’s a prima donna to Pitchfork:

It seems to keep happening. You see it getting progressively worse. It’s almost like the skateboarding community, where everyone’s a fucking photographer now. You look at shots, and it’s hard to keep the photographers out of the shot, you know? It kind of seems like the same thing with indie rock; everyone’s got a fucking camera in their hand and, I don’t know, is there no sanctity left for live performance with going to a show and seeing it with your own eyes and remembering it? Do you have to tape every second, or even just your favorite song? I understand it, but it’s becoming annoying.

Get over yourself, fuckhead.

Watch Bush’s college-aged base explain how a.) The war in Iraq is totally necessary and b.) how they won’t be enlisting. C/O Max Blumenthal of Huff Po and Media Matters.

Is it wrong that we find this funny? From Defamer

LOVITZ: “I realized, ooh, ‘here’s my chance,’ so I pulled him back by the shirt and I then I just pushed him almost as hard as I could, really hard, and, you know, I smashed his back and his head into the bar and I just lost it. And then I kept doing it…I would’ve kept going…and when I did it the second time it was really hard and he went [untranscribable sound of unmanly anguish].”

Here’s the audio on dennismillerradio.com and here’s the back story.

We’re speechless. via Gawker

We knew there was a reason we loved Mark Ruffalo.

Via DailyMotion [Thanks Nick]
A pretty hilarious chase through a Brooklyn concert venue that was once abandoned. From the ’83 film Vigilante.
This weekend, The Ponderosa Stomp; a McCarren Park Pool Party.

Les Savy Fav
FREE, this Saturday from 1pm-10pm, at Stuyvesant Cove Park (located along the East River between 18th and 23rd Streets. Solar One sites in the north end of the park, near the 23rd Street entrance. Map here)
Les Savy Fav 8:30
Land of Talk 7:30
The Besnard Lakes 6:30
O’Death 5:30
OCDJ 4:30
These Are Powers 3:30
The Budos Band 2:30
Frankpollis 1:30
and DJs from WNYU 89.1 FM
1pm-8pm
Green product marketplace
co-presented by 3R Living and O2NYC
From Citysol’s website

Solar One presents Citysol 2007, a clean-energy-powered festival that aims to inspire interest and support for local sustainability intiatives through, music, interactive art installations, games and workshops, and numerous other elements meant to both entertain and educate.
Sustainability is at bottom a cultural project before it is a technical or political one, and cities — particularly New York City — are centers of constant transformation that reflect, invent and export civilization’s most progressive dreams. We’re beginning to learn that if the American way of life is to ultimately reconcile with Mother Earth, the journey is more likely to begin on a city street.
Citysol is at once a celebration of our potential as New Yorkers to redefine our expectations of quality of life, and a tribute to the creative community’s central role in revealing that potential. It is also, of course, an opportunity to have an enormous amount of fun.
Bring your electric bill and switch to a green energy package with ConEdison Solutions and receive free Brooklyn Brewery beer! ++ Bring your own reusable mug/glass and receive $1 off Brooklyn Brewery beer!

Of course, this should have been done about 2 years ago…
White House shill, Tony Snow, is relying on good old fashioned fear to silence the dissent: from ThinkProgress

To walk out of Iraq right now would plant a seed that ultimately would lead to destabilization there, hundreds of thousands of deaths, loss of our influence in the region, would create instability throughout the Middle East throughout East Asia, throughout Europe. And sooner or later it would come to our shores, to a shopping mall near you.

Think Progress has the video here.

From I Am Fuel

Jesse Harris is from New York City, and is probably most famous these days for being the guy who wrote much of the ubiquitous, breathy Norah Jones album Come Away With Me, and won a whole boatload of Grammy Awards (the year I was there, actually). Feel is his newest album in a string of seven, coming out July 10th on Velour Recordings.
Jesse Harris is also the man behind the entire soundtrack for Ethan Hawke’s new film The Hottest State. Jesse wrote all the songs in a continuous suite, which are then sung both by him and also artists such as The Black Keys, Bright Eyes, Willie Nelson, Cat Power, M. Ward, Emmylou Harris, and Feist.

You can download the new Feist and M. Ward tracks at I Am Fuel. She also has some tracks for the new Jesse Harris record.

Songs Illinois has the Bright Eyes track