READING: The BRIC Rotunda Gallery and New York Magazine are having another of their Stoop Series tonight. New York Magazine's contributing editor, Logan Hill, will talk with New York's newest young filmmakers: Ramin Bahrani, Julia Loktev and Chris Zalla. What else? Free drinks! Beer and Johnny Walker Blue Label, to be exact. 7pm // Rotunda Gallery [33 Clinton St, Brooklyn] // Free THEATER: Charles Mee’s Orestes 2.0 is at HERE again (a 2001 production was......

We love music videos that show pieces of the city. Lucky for us, with all of the bands in this city - many have produced NY-centric videos. Levy has a scandalous one filmed in the Hotel on Rivington. The Cloud Room has a cool one for their song Hey Now Now. And now +/- has some great time lapse videos for their songs, all shot in New York. Check this one out for their song......

In February of 2005, we booked New York band The Cloud Room to play our 2nd Movable Hype show. We had heard their song Hey Now Now and it instantly stuck in our head like peanut butter to the roof of one's mouth. This is how it was for everyone we talked to. We'd even venture to say that a song hasn't stuck in our head like that since. This week, Pitchfork took a stab......

Gothamist returned from Austin last night and headed straight to the Mercury Lounge for the Go! Team (who were fun - but not as good live as on their album). Needless to say we are tired, exhausted and sad to not be wearing flip flops and tank tops anymore. While down at South By (as the locals call it) we caught Fractious, The Prix, Idlewild, MC Chris and Maximo Park at the aforementioned party which......

Gothamist's Movable Hype 2.0 is tomorrow! It's our birthday as well, so come down to the Knitting Factory (main space) around 8pm tomorrow night and help us enter our terrible two's. Here's the lineup: 8:45 The Cloud Room [Gigantic Music] 9:30 Other Passengers [Sister Records] 10:30 The Information [Primary Voltage Records] 11:30 Elkland [Columbia Records] [Coolfer and Stereogum are deejaying between sets] You can still buy tickets here, and remember to get there early for......