While Randall's Island transforms into a corporate-funded festival site every summer, there is one exception this year: the DIY fest called Punk Island. Typically the event takes place on Staten Island, but relocated its 7 stages and...

Jim Saah/Salad Days. The thing about D.C. is that for all its ostensible liberalism, it's a very buttoned-up town. It's a place fueled on J.Crew cable knits and happy hours of reasonable length; a city where...

Trying too hard. (Getty Images) While Lena Dunham, Psy, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kim and Kanye, and other people who are rich and famous will be at the annual Met Gala tonight, you will just be at home...

Joey Ramone Legendary Ramones singer Joey Ramone may have died in 2001, but he left behind a hoard of demos and incomplete songs—his brother Mickey Leigh took it upon himself to gather an all-star group of...

If you're like us and you desperately need something to distract you from the Knicks getting whooped by the Heat, it may be time to throw on Rocket To Russia and blast "Cretin Hop." Or even...

Today would have been punk legend (and very popular street sign namesake) Joey Ramone's 60th birthday, and there's a whole lot of Blitzkreig Bopping going on around town to celebrate (sorry, we had to). Whether you...

As one of the great 20th century philosophers put it, "Mondays Suck." But sometimes Sundays are just as bad: maybe you're hungover, maybe you have to catch up with work, but the whole time, you're carrying...

High-end auction houses aren't very punk rock, but Christie's is about to put some classic punk era memorabilia on the block. They announced the auction, which takes place November 24th, yesterday--and it will include more than 120...

NYMag calls the time of death 30 years ago this month: when Nancy Spungen was killed at the Hotel Chelsea. The story of her October 12th murder, followed by Sid Vicious's arrest and death, and years of...

Carrie and Keith Do MSG Two of the world's largest crossover Country stars joined forces this winter for a massive arena tour that came through NYC this week. Former American Idol and legitimate breakout star Carrie Underwood...

Where, like last year, we recap the biggest stories from the New York music scene of the year. Album of the Year: The National - Boxer What this album did better than any other coming out of...

Led Zeppelin Reunite, Songs Remain the Same Aside from a reanimated corpse Beatles reunion, there is not another dormant band in the world that could cause more excitement getting back together than Led Zeppelin. So, for the...

Brooklyn Ink tells us that the first rule of Punk Rock Pillow Fight is you do not talk about Punk Rock Pillow Fight. This is also the second rule, so you have most likely never heard of this underground feathered fight.The anonymous arena for this event is like Fight Club for hipsters. We exaggerate (slightly) but were forewarned not to give away too much about the pillow fight’s underground location in Bushwick. Two rows of...

EVENT: Into anime? It's your lucky weekend, the New York Anime Festival is in town! There will be previews, screenings and panels galore. Check out their website for more details. All Weekend // Jacob Javits Convention Center [655 W 34th St] // $30 day pass, $55 weekend pass SHOP: FIT and the Design Mavens come together for a 3 day shopstravaganza. Tons of designers we're not cool enough to have ever heard of will be...

Is Mayor Bloomberg a big Grey's Anatomy fan? Because he was a witness to Grey's Anatomy star Ellen Pompeo's wedding at City Hall last week.* Pompeo, the squinty-eyed- sorta- Renee Zellweger- doppelganger, married her fiance Chris Ivery in a simple ceremony. According to the AP, the only witnesses were Bloomberg and Deputy Mayor Patricia Harris, and a city clerk's office official performed the ceremony last Friday. We hope that the ceremony was uneventful and happy,...

As GOP crank-yanker Roger Stone recently learned, most Broadway theaters are dark on Monday, so day three of the stagehands’ strike will have the least impact on the city’s economy. The Times has a funny photo in today’s article about stymied Broadway theatergoers; it depicts disappointed Spamalot ticket-holder Cecelia Pan taking her family to a slightly different show: St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Because, you know, with Broadway shuttered there’s simply no other family theater worth seeing...

MOVIE: Guess it's only fitting that Trey Parker and Matt Stone's Team America play somewhere tonight. This Bushwick theater is new and on an outdoor rooftop -- so check the sky before you head out. If it's...

Barefoot in the Park Central Park Film Festival Saturday, 8 pm To close out this year's Central Park Film Festival, five nights of free out door movies in the park, the organizers put it to the people...

THEATER: With his zany imagination and distinctive bass-baritone voice, Joseph Keckler (myspace) has been generating buzz throughout the gooey honeycomb of the downtown performance art cabaret scene. Tonight he sprinkles his particular blend of whimsical catnip at...

Disco Biscuts Bring Something Different to the Pool Sick of all that boring "indie" music polluting your fresh Greenpoint air this summer, Mr. cynical anonymous Gothamist commenter? Well maybe you prefer the jam-trance mania of the Disco...

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a bank robbery on 5th Ave. in Brooklyn, an electric shock at 25th Ave. and 49th St. in Queens, and a shooting on 101st St. and Columbus Ave. in Manhattan. Chazz...

READING: Check out today's interviewee, Peter Yarrow, tonight at Barnes and Noble where he'll be performing and signing the recently published Puff, the Magic Dragon book. C'mon, you know you've always wanted to hear that song live!...