CMJ LES Tuesday Night

CMJ, College Music Journal, showcase has arrived in New York City. Stay tuned to the week's reviews...

Shannon and I went to support a friend's band play this evening and found ourselves on the Lower East Side after a very long day of work. We rocked, we laughed, we had a great time (and all before 12:00am, thank you newly routed M train!!).

We began at The Delancey and ended up at St. Jerome's. Tuesday night, whatevs y'all.

Intermission

Some of the best, worst, strange, absurd, beautiful, bizarre and amazing things happen on the subway. This weekend was no exception.

Mariachi, anyone?

Guten Freitag

Happy Friday my dearest friends! Fall has officially arrived with the help from the Nor'easter that hit last night and will continue to linger all weekend. It's cold today! I'm celebrating the weekend with a mellow evening consisting of wine, records and sitting Indian style tonight (yay!), volunteering at MoMA all day tomorrow (stop by and say hello if you are in Manhattan) and then Sunday will be Farmer's Market, cooking, sharing, laughing and being lazy for once in a long time. I may paint my hallway trim but I have a feeling that may not happen.

Photo above is from last Saturday night at the Bushwick Country Club. It's such a fancy place, trust me. Have a wonderful weekend everyone!! XO, Nanny.

The Cosmos, Humans & Animals

EL GUINCHO | Bombay from MGdM | Marc Gómez del Moral on Vimeo.

Check out El Guincho's new brilliant video for Bombay. This is video of the year. It's really something else. Who doesn't love, ahem, sparklers?

Cheers y'all and I hope this added a little magic to the dreary rainy night. XO, Nanook.

Double Happiness

October 13, 2010 - sparkle, sparkle in New York City

Rock Hammer Hard On

I run across oh so so many blogs on a daily basis and some definitely stand out more than others. My new little favorite to browse when I feel like looking at random images of rock climbing hippies and mountainscapes is Rock Hammer Hard On. God - van? west? anyone?

Enjoy digging with Can's 1971 jam Do Turtles Have Legs. Rock On.

Peter Wolf Crier

Peter Wolf Crier are a duo from Minneapolis, Minnesota that mix fuzzy percussion and haunted vocals in a perfect blend of rock and cascading falsetto gasps. They are currently making the most beautiful heavy soft sabbath lullabies.

Enjoy the video Hard As Nails directed by the talented Kevin Russell. Cool fact: the video's lighting was primarily filmed with ordinary household flashlights. I really love that.

Haunted New York

Thanks to Shannon's organization we went on our first annual haunted bar crawl in Manhattan yesterday. We hit up three bars The White Horse Tavern (only haunted by yuppies), The EAR bar (that was my favorite) and a third one in the East Village (can't remember the name). It was a perfect fall day to hop around the city and learn some history.

Did you know the EAR bar was built in 1812? Amazing right - ancient history by American standards.

Canadian Tuxedos & Austin

INNERGAZE

Here is some badassness from Brooklyn (naturally) that you should be listening to. Tracks No Shame and Perception-Reception are some of the best songs I've heard in a long long time.

No Shame is a muffled-post apocalyptic-1980s-dreamesque-John Carpenter-glitter jam sound that is really something else.

This is damn near perfection kids.