ART: Come help open up the new Chelsea gallery, Honey Space, tonight. Check out their inaugural exhibition whilst you nosh on fondue. The space is unique in that it will present "regular programming of site-specific installations and special events...and during normal daytime hours, the space will be open to the public, and unmonitored." Suggested attire for the evening is red (well that's not very creative!). 6pm to midnight // Honey Space [148 11th Ave]......

EVENT: Come feel the love at the hotel QT tonight, as the Love party returns. Get those swimsuits out of storage, because there's a pool! And don't worry, the open vodka bar (8-9) will help you warm up. Friday // 7pm to 2am // Hotel QT [125 W 45th St] // Free MUSIC: There's a lot of music options for your Friday night. First up, at Bowery Ballroom, Brooklynites A Place to Bury Strangers and......

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're starting a new feature here called Tour-ist. Get it? Okay, let us explain. A New York band hits the road for a tour. They keep a tour diary for us. We post it here, there may or may not be YouTube videos from the road included, and we call it Tour-ist. Does that make more sense? We have some bands lined up for the Fall already, but would love some more, so if you're......

FASHION: This is an early one, fashionistas. The Brooklyn Public Library is hosting a round table discussion today on Fashion and Beauty trends. Come. Learn. Be pretty. 3:30pm // Central Library at Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn // Free ART: Graffiti artist Joe Joe Webb will unveil his newest collection of urban art at $treet Credit. Each image serves as a symbol for urban culture and materialism, with rare collector sneakers, money clips and brass knuckles......

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......

We'd been gearing up for SXSW this year for months, with shows to plan and afterparties to help out with - it took up a lot of our time, even when we weren't there yet. Now that it's over, we're not quite sure what to do with ourselves, or how to recap it all. We also haven't been near a computer in a week, so bear with our slow typing. THE PRECAP: Last year we......

Photo via Jasper Coolidge The Big Sleep is: Danny - guitar Sonya - bass Gabe - drums Everybody loves The Big Sleep. Honestly. We have yet to meet someone or read something who has lead us to believe that these guys aren't the best thing floating around under the radar in New York right now. This noisy psychedelic trio has been making waves in the local scene for the last few months now, including......

Last year Gothamist headed down to Austin for SXSW to help launch Austinist amongst other things. This year we're headed back down to throw our own Austinist + Gothamist day party. We'll have a pretty flyer and more details to post on that soon, but for now we're going to tell you about the afterparty... Austinist and Gothamist have helped put together a big big afterparty, called Absolute Debauchery. The full roster of who we......

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......

Come join us TONIGHT at our Movable Hype Anniversary Show. Just a year ago we threw our first show/concert/party at the Knitting Factory. Since then we've actually thrown 4 more there, tonight is the 5th. In addition we've had a slightly smaller version of the show at Pianos and one comedy (Laughable Hype) show at Tonic. Technically that means this is lucky number 7, but we'll still call it 5 (because we never were very......

"Last year Elton John declared that Rufus Wainwright was the greatest songwriter on the planet. Quite a profound statement from the king of pop himself. This was presumably based on hearing 2004's Want One, followed earlier this year by the groundbreaking opus, Want Two." Elly Roberts goes on to say that Wainwright's recent show at The Lowry was "An epic night, and a high watermark of a musician on top of his game, who......

We'd like to take this time to remind you that Movable Hype 5.0 is TOMORROW! Here are the details, because we're betting you forgot already... Movable Hype 5.0 (The One Year Anniversary Show) Knitting Factory main space Wednesday November 2nd Show starts at 8pm sharp! Hosted by: Aziz Ansari and Rob Huebel Bands: The Capitol Years, The Cloud Room, Snowden, Bravo Silva DJs: Husky Gentleman (Spin) and Brother Lawrence $3 Bud Selects all night......

We just got word in that two of our favorite comedians will be hosting the Movable Hype 5.0 Anniversary Special Show (we're trying to make that title as long as possible)...so we thought we'd share the news with you: Aziz Ansari and Rob Huebel will be hosting! They are pictured all the way to the left and all the way to the right in this photo (which was taken at our Laughable Hype comedy show......

So we've been waiting to confirm our last band for Movable Hype 5.0 and we can now do so. Since we wanted to bring back 3 acts from previous shows we chose our favorites, one of which was so busy touring Europe with the Editors and We Are Scientists, playing shows with Maximo Park and hosting Mtv's Subterranean that it took them a while to fit us in, but alas, they finally have...so here's who......

MUSIC: Tonight at Crash Mansion there's a free show and a free open bar...and for a good cause. Morning Theft, The Cloud Room, My Victoria, and The Rats will all perform for a second part of a benefit for Kia Nowotne. As an added bonus we hear our favorite artist, Michelle McShane, will be joining the Cloud Room for a few songs, playing autoharp. Open bar for 1 hour between 9-10pm. Stoli is sponsoring the......

This week is full of shows by some of our favorite new artists. On the high-profile end of the spectrum, The Hold Steady are back at Bowery Ballroom for a two night run Friday and Saturday. We're especially interested in checking out the openers on Friday. It's the Pitchfork-approved, Coldplay-tour-opening, Village Voice weird album of the week winning band called Black Mountain. On Sunday, M.I.A. plays her biggest and freeest NYC show yet at......

Happy Monday. Today's music post will only list tonight's shows. Check back tomorrow for the rest of the week's events. Happy Passover. I want to take this opportunity to talk a little bit about Matisyahu. He's the Hasidic Jewish reggae singer, rapper, and beatboxer from Crown Heights (Brooklyn) that you may have seen elsewhere in the media this past week. His new album and sold-out performance at Irving Plaza brought with it a firestorm of......

Hello Gothamist readers. Allow me to introduce myself. Some of you may know me as the music-obsessed blogger over at BrooklynVegan.com. Now you'll also know me as the music-obsessed blogger here at Gothamist. I'll attempt to keep you informed of the shows you don't want to miss each and every week. I'll try my best not to miss anything, not make mistakes, and bring you as much variety as possible, but unfortunately I'm only human.......

Here it is, our last piece of SXSW coverage. The warm sun has snuck out of our skin and we can barely taste the frozen avocado margaritas anymore, so for anything Austin related in the future you'll have to go here. The Cloud Room let you read all about their experience at South By, and now The National, a band we've recently been listening to more and more, opens up their diary to you. They......

Before heading down to Austin we asked a couple of New York bands if they could keep a tour diary of their experiences at SXSW for us. We ran into J, singer of Brooklyn band The Cloud Room, at the party on Friday night and he showed us some folded up papers filled with black ink scribblings. Below is what filled up those papers by the end of the weekend: Thursday We arrived around 10pm.......

Friday night Gothamist hung out at casa de Austinist for an exclusive list only party that was essentially put on by New York's own Ultragrrrl. Scanning over the list during the calm of the storm (ie: an hour before the house was invaded by Brit pop bands and the people who love them) we noticed one name that stuck out, Jay-Z. Check it out here. We just hoped he liked Sparks and Red Stripe......

Thanks to everyone who came out to the Knitting Factory last night to help us celebrate our 2nd birthday. The music was amazing (and the cupcakes were good too). Speaking of music, thanks to Coolfer and Stereogum for deejaying and The Cloud Room, Other Passengers, The Information and Elkland for playing. We hadn't seen Other Passengers live before and they totally blew us away, we even forgot to take pictures during their set, THAT is......

Hey, shorty, it's our birthday (shorty)! Gothamist is very happy that we're at this tremendous milestone, the Terrible Twos, and want to thank all of you for your support and encouragement. We didn't know what we were getting ourselves into on that fateful day(s - we had a beta period), and we're glad, because it's been an incomparable two years. For starters, Gothamist is just getting comfortable in talking English better - maybe someday......

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......

Movable Hype 2 is coming up on February 16th. This time around we'll be back at the Knitting Factory main space and you get Elkland, The Information, Other Passengers and The Cloud Room for only $10! Tickets are on sale now, buy them here. [Top Left to Right: Other Passengers (img via Jenyk), The Information, Elkland, The Cloud Room] Movable Hype 3 is in the process of being booked, and it's going to be hilarious!......

Last night was our Movable Hype 1.5 show at Pianos. Thanks to the bands and everyone who came out! We all had a lot of fun despite Pianos double booking problems, but hey, that stuff happens. Luckily, we already have Movable Hype 2.0 all set up and it's back at the Knitting Factory. We're really excited about the lineup which is as follows: Elkland, The Information, Other Passengers and The Cloud Room. Deejay to be......

So it's almost time to go home for the holidays, and you as a New Yorker have to bring the best presents. You know that right? The rest of your non-New Yorker friends and family look to you for your urban hipness, don't let them down. We, of course, suggest the gift of music. Local music. Music that isn't on MTV, because they get that outside of New York. We went to the local music......

A few weeks ago someone told Gothamist about this band called The Cloud Room. We went to their site, gave them a listen...and immediately asked them if they'd like to play at our show coming up in November. They couldn't do it this time around...but we still love them. They give the 80's pop resurgence we're hearing from so many bands right now a bit of a darker edge. A thickly lined beat and......