Photo via perhapsslam's flickr. A few years ago Langhorne Slim played our Movable Hype show, and even got the typical New York still-standing, arms-crossed audience to dance. His charismatic country-rock makes you want to join a jug band, and tomorrow you can be a part of it all for a few fleeting hours.Langhorne Slim is shooting a video for "Rebel Side of Heaven" this Monday, March 31st at The Box (189 Chrystie, between Rivington......

SHOP: Tonight head to Dumbo for an “Evening of Cheer,” where three neighborhood events coordinated by the Dumbo Improvement District will be taking place. "The night’s events combine Dumbo’s monthly cultural event, First Thursdays, with extended shopping hours and promotions by local retailers and the illumination of the Empire Stores in Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park by famed lighting designer Brendon Boyd." 6pm // Various location details here EVENT: Tonight some experts gather around to celebrate......

Bonnaroo Has Begun While we couldn't make it down this year (a bit festivaled out between SXSW and Coachella and Sasquatch so far this year), Bonnaroo kicked off last night with a couple local favorites warming up the early arrivers. The National, Langhorne Slim and Apollo Sunshine among others took the stage for the Thursday night festivities. Much much more on the way for the rest of the week, including hometowners Sam Champion, El-P and......

THEATER: Theodora Skipitares is a Greek-American playwright, director and puppeteer who uses near life-size puppets and Greek tragedies to look at our current situation in Iraq. (Her rendition of the Iliad and the Odyssey was a sold-out hit at La MaMa last year.) Her new show, which features puppetry and video, is The Exiles, an adaptation of the Orestes/Electra myth. “In this particular story of betrayal and vengeance, these puppets are an eerie construction of......

THEATER: At the end of December 2003, with her daughter in an induced-coma brought on by septic shock from a fatal bout with pneumonia, Joan Didion’s husband John Gregory Dunne unexpectedly died during dinner. Her struggle to navigate the subsequent minefields of grief formed the basis for her best-selling memoir, The Year of Magical Thinking. She’s now adapted the book into a one-woman play of the same name, directed by David Hare and starring Vanessa......

THEATER: Teflon war criminal and Nobel laureate Henry Kissinger made news again this week with the revelation that Dr. Strangelove has secretly cautioned against any troop withdrawal from Iraq because, just like ‘Nam, such action would “become like salted peanuts to the American public; the more troops come home, the more will be demanded.” Kissinger’s breathtaking contempt for democracy is matched only by his Machiavellian genius; both attributes are skewered to great effect in this......

Frog Eyes and Sunset Rubdown (despite having border problems) will be taking over Mercury Lounge two nights this week. Sunset Rubdown is Wolf Parade keyboardist Spencer Krug's side project, and he produced a beautiful album this year entitled, Shut Up I Am Dreaming. It got an 8.6 on Pitchfork, just a few points below last years Wolf Parade rating. Anyway, point is...it's good. If you go to the show tonight you can catch Beirut as......

The Plug Awards are coming up next week (February 2nd @ Webster Hall). "What the hell are those?," you may be asking. Well, they're independent music awards celebrating "artists who live and flourish in the margins." And YOU can vote on everything from Album of the Year to Music Blog of the Year to Internet Radio Station of the Year. So vote now! Langhorne Slim, Gang Gang Dance, Matisyahu (and more) will be on hand......

ART: Brooklyn Fire Proof will be presenting the final installment of curator Marc Gartman's series of exhibitions featuring successful contemporary independent musicians who are also visual artists. Previous series included the work of, among others, Bill Callahan (Smog), Devendra Banhart and David Pajo (Slint). This series (the fourth) will include artwork from DC Berman (Silver Jews), John Darnielle (The Mountain Goats), Pall Jenkins (The Black Heart Procession), Jason Molina (Magnolia Electric Co.) and Archer Prewitt......

Thanks to everyone who came out last night, we hope you had a great time and were able to catch all the bands and also catch the raffle prizes we threw into the audience. And if you stayed to the end you likely got a gift bag (courtesy of Neighborhoodies). We also want to thank the bands: Langhorne Slim, Bravo Silva, Raising the Fawn and Doveman. If you missed any of them be sure......

We hope to see you all out at Movable Hype tonight. We're really excited about the lineup: 8pm Langhorne Slim 8:45pm Bravo Silva 9:45pm Raising the Fawn 10:45pm Doveman And on top of the music, we'll have a raffle (be sure to get your free raffle ticket with admission) and Neighborhoodies has gift bags! [Movable Hype 4.0 @ the Knitting Factory main space (74 Leonard Street) doors 7pm/show 8pm] See you there!......

Tonight is Gothamist's Movable Hype 4.0 show at Knitting Factory with Doveman, Raising the Fawn, Bravo Silva, and Langhorne Slim. In case you missed it, we interviewed Langhorne, Doveman, and Raising the Fawn. The free shows of summer are drawing to a close, but not without a bang. Spend nothing but your time at a show almost every night this week. "The Sugarhill Gang is an American hip hop group, known mostly for one hit,......

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PARTY: Good Peoples and Beautiful/Decay magazine bring you "the sickest party of the summer"! Or so they say. Here are some of the ingredients: -2 hour open Bacardi & Mountain Dew Bar -Gift bags -the legendary PRINCE PAUL on the tables -Screening of Bomb the System and music videos from Culturama, Mockumentaries from Prince Paul RSVP for the guest list at rsvp@good-peoples.com Friday // 9pm to 4am // TriBeCa Cinemas [54 Varick St] // $5,......

We're proud to announce that Neighborhoodies is sponsoring the Movable Hype 4.0 show on Monday. Amongst other things they'll be giving out goodie bags stuffed with treats! So get there early before they run out, it's first come first served. As if that weren't enough, we're also having a raffle. With admission you automatically get one raffle ticket and if you want to up your chances it'll only cost $1 for each additional ticket. The......

Movable Hype 4.0 is about a week and a half away! And we're here to remind you about it, because that's what we do. We're really excited about the lineup this time around, but hey - we're always excited about our lineups. Check it out: Bravo Silva Raising the Fawn Langhorne Slim Doveman with special backup band comprised of Oren Bloedow (leader of Elysian Fields) + Shannon Fields (leader of Stars Like Fleas) Show starts......

We still have one act that we'll announce at a later date, but since tickets go on sale today we wanted to announce the details for the next Movable Hype (4.0, for those keeping track). Movable Hype 4.0 @ the Knitting Factory (main space) Monday August 22nd, doors @ 7:30pm Lineup: Langhorne Slim (8:15pm) Bravo Silva (9:15pm) Raising the Fawn (10:15pm) [the last act will be announced at a later date] Tickets are $10, buy......

Comedy shows in New York this weekend are going to be just like Debra Messing’s hair– all over the place but still really good. Here’s the rundown of what not to miss: Saturday April 30 This Saturday night will be a one night only affair with Holiness, Sri Swami The Guru Pitka, who may or may not be Mike Myers. “A Dharma-Talk and Sutra: The Four Laws of Happiness" features Guru Pitka, an altar ego......

Every Tuesday night Jay Goettelmann and Wes Verhoeve (Liberated Matter Entertainment) take over the Apocalypse Lounge. Singers, songwriters, musicians and scenesters spill out onto 3rd Street creating a feel we can only imagine was going on below 14th Street when Gothamist wasn't quite old enough to walk yet. Cross-Pollination is the name of the weekly event that takes NYC's finest singer/songwriters and ultimately puts them together on stage for a collaborative set. At it's core......