MOVIE: Freshly out on DVD and screening tonight at Pianos is the Ian Curtis biopic Control. Cool off in the A.C., watch the flick for free and maybe even win some prizes. The film was co-written by Deborah Curtis, and follows the life of the Joy Division singer who committed suicide at 23. Watch the trailer here. 7 p.m. // Pianos [158 Ludlow St] // Free MUSIC: That line you'll see outside of the Apple......

Over the weekend, we posted a link to a photograph Gammablog took of an open letter from the Cornelia Connelly Center school to whomever scrawled "Don't Walk Away In Silence" with spray paint on an outside wall. The school painted over the graffiti and then the graffiti returned. So they posted a letter, "Dear Political Graffiti Artist":While it's hard to disagree with your message, we wonder if you realize that you've written it on......

Everybody wants to be a rock star, perhaps none more ardently than theater folk, some of whom have been prodding the form toward rock since the sixties. Sam Shepard famously insisted that he wanted to be a rock and roll star, not a playwright; recently the likes of theater company Les Freres Corbusier and playwright Adam Rapp (who moonlights in a band) have expressed a sensible desire to tap into the Bowery Ballroom demographic.......

On the cusp of November, Music is a Better Noise opened up at P.S.1. The exhibit brings together musicians who make art and (you guessed it) artists who make music - or at the very least, use music as a creative motivator in their art. The exhibition is broken up in to two parts. The first part explores New York-based artists and musicians who emerged in the city during the mid-1970s to early 1980s, and......

Just the other day someone mentioned to us a rock photography exhibit at the Guggenheim. And we hadn't heard of it! Shocking, since a giant book of old rockstar images on glossy pages compose the top shelf of our nightstand. There is just something about the genre we love. So, needless to say, we'll surely be hitting up Slater Bradley's Doppleganger Trilogy. On exhibit through May 22nd at the Guggenheim, it has a different spin......

If the Beatles conceived a lovechild with The Kinks while Pet Sounds blasted in the background and then made him listen to a lot of 60's pop music - this lovechild would be Jeddediah Smith. He is the one man behind My Teenage Stride. With a voice that, from song to song, can go from one of those early mop tops to a more chipper Ian Curtis...MTS appeals to the masses. Chances are that......

Gothamist went to see Nada Surf at Southpaw last night. They mainly played songs from their wonderful (rocking, but with a pop sensibility) Let Go for a good ninety minutes until 1:20AM. For Gothamist, one highlight was when they broke into Joy Division's Love Will Tear Us Apart - lead singer-guitarist Matthew Caws does a spookily effective Ian Curtis, which then brought to mind that Caws' dancing style was Ian-Curtis-meets-Beck. Sorta (see 24 Hour......