Monday Night Music Picks
It's an exciting night for hip-hop in NYC. There's a big who's-who Katrina benefit show at BB King Blues Club with M1, Talib Kweli, Q-Tip, the Beatnuts, and many more. Multiple members of Wu-Tang will be at Northsix in Brooklyn, and hip-hop meets indie-rock-electronica at Irving Plaza tonight with Notwist and Themselves as 13 & God. "Take a rock band that isn't really a rock band and a hip-hop group that isn't really hip-hop, and what you end up with is an experimental post-everything collaboration that succeeds by not adhering to convention. And when your 'rock' band is German knob-twiddlers The Notwist and your hip-hop group is Bay Area weirdos Themselves, you end up with a hell of a combination." [Treblezine]
The 2100 capacity Nokia Theatre opens tonight in Times Square. You can join the Bon Jovi concert celebration for only $75. The ticket price is high because, for Bon Jovi, this is a small venue show. Tickets are on sale at Ticketmaster, where you'll also find a list of all the shows coming up at the same place.
The rest below...
"This month we will be releasing 'Patience is Proving' in the USofA. It's a limited release of 250 copies and is on a project called 'Stolen Transmission vs Fierce Panda'. Stolen Transmission is Sarah Lewitinn's label (aka http://www.ultragrrrl.com, aka 50% of the infamous DJing duo The TARTS OF PLEASURE), and she'll be hand customising every copy. It will be a collectors edition and will only be available through her website.... Our official release party/gig will be on the 19th of September at the Mercury Lounge, after which will be embarking on a little stint down the East Coast with Towers of London. [Apartment] (Apartment @ Mercury Lounge)
BY VENUE
BB King Blues Club - HURRICANE RELIEF BENEFIT Featuring:
M1 of DEAD PREZ * TALIB KWELI * MEMPHIS BLEEK * Q-TIP * THE BEATNUTS * THE X-ECUTIONERS * DAVID BANNER * REMY MARTIN * SMIFF-N-WESSUN * DJ ASSASSIN & Special Invited Guests
Nokia Theater - Bon Jovi
Irving Plaza - Notwist & Themselves as 13 & God, Boy in Static
Knitting Factory (Tap Bar) - Measles Mumps Rubella, Nisennen Mondai, Bloodlines
Maxwell's - The dB's (reunion)
Northsix - Cappadonna (Wu-Tang Clan), Killah Priest (Wu-Tang Clan), RA the Rugged Man
Rothko - The Morning After Girls, Monsters Are Waiting, Sam Winch
The Delancey - Spalding Rockwell, The Twenty-Twos, Apollo Heights
Trash - Autumn Thieves, The Invisible Kid, Dream Into Dust, Dead Leaf Echo, Sans Souci (formerly Blackites)
Mercury Lounge - The Primms UK, APARTMENT, The Strays, Cipher
We'll continue recovering from CMJ now. See you tomorrow with more shows.
