MIA to perform in October
Judging from the line-up, the club seems like a pretty big deal. [hat tip BrooklynVegan]
The Bowery Presents, an independent New York concert-promotion company, today announced Terminal 5 will open in early October and will be the largest midtown venue to open in more than ten years. Terminal 5 will be located at 610 West 56th Street between 11th and 12th Avenues, and will provide a new 3,000-capacity midtown music, art and event venue. OCTOBER
11: The National
19: M.I.A.
20: Justice
23-24: The Shins with Vetiver NOVEMBER
1-2: The Decemberists
23: State Radio with The Beautiful Girls
30 – 12/1: Ween
image c/o Gearbits
It’s Time Warner’s fault. The rumors are true, they are totally incompetent as a cable provider. For now, the FREEwilliamsburg office has become our local internet cafe.
And we’ll kind of miss hating him. Rove says he expects the president’s approval rating to get better, perhaps not coincidentally? Wall Street Journal has the story. Later fuckhead.
Our friend Kevin turned us onto this band and we’ve been loving what we’ve heard thus far. They remind us of Beirut, only better. Somebody, please go sign them now. We want to hear more. You can check out some La Strada tracks on myspace at www.myspace.com/lastradanyc. La Strada will be playing at Soundfix in Williamsburg on August 11 at 10pm.
by Dave Thomas Rocket Science
In spite of overcrowded weekends and the fact that this is August, there’s actually quite a bit to look forward to this month. AUGUST 3 UNDERDOG WHAT’S THE PITCH?
Dog gets superpowers. WILL IT SUCK?
The director did Racing Stripes and one of the three writers did Zoom, so I’m not optimistic. Nice cast, tho, with Jason Lee as the voice of Underdog and Peter Dinklage and Patrick Warburton as the bad guys. Also, keep an eye out for Samantha Bee. HOW WELL WILL IT DO?
All the family-ish crap is coming out now. You’ve got the second frame of Simpsons and this week Bratz, Charlie Bartlett, El Cantate and Hot Rod, all of which will pull on diff. sectors of this demo. – and then next week, Daddy Day Camp and Stardust. Still, people love them some talking animals. $50mil.
——————————– CHARLIE BARTLETT WHAT’S THE PITCH?
Kind of like that part in Rushmore where he goes to public school if he then started giving psychiatric advice and drugs to students. WILL IT SUCK?
I’m not the only one making Rushmore comparisons. Richard Horgan over at FilmStew compares Robert Downey, Jr. in this film to Bill Murray in the other. Hope Davis is up in here, too, as Bartlett’s mom. Early buzz is very good.
