When They Might Be Giants released their twelfth album, The Else, over the summer, The Village Voice called it “as tuneful and rockin' as all the rest, from the withering ‘I'm Impressed’ to the female-empowerment anthem ‘Take Out the Trash.’” Keeping it fresh is no small feat for a band with such an impressive body of work, accumulated over the course of the past 25-plus years. But a listen to The Else or, even better,......

EVENT: If you haven't taken a trip back to the Summer of Love yet, head over to the Whitney tonight for the exhibit and enjoy their Whitney Live event. DJ Scientific and Dana Leong will be providing the tunes. Friday // 6pm // The Whitney [945 Madison Ave] // Free with museum admission MUSIC: Tonight at the Seaport Music Festival Menomena and Beat the Devil will rock the sun down. Menomena "makes experimental rock that......

LAist is experimenting with blogging dates from J-Date, but finds the best men are found offline. Some date vicariously online and that is one reason why porn is big -- really freaking big -- so they ask if they should cover XXX since the heart of it lays in the city's San Fernando Valley. A writer grapples with her food porn photography obsession, another gets censored on Flickr, one gets scooped by the LA......

Over the past quarter-century They Might Be Giants have become such a consistent presence in the indie rock solar system that it’s quite possible to take them for granted. Because they were there at the ignition of "alternative" rock and never took their feet off the gas, one assumes they'll keep rocking all the way to the end, with "Don't Let's Start" providing the dance music for cockroaches' post-apocalyptic revelries. But despite their expansive musical......

Videographer Kelly Loudenberg went downtown to see how man and technology were making music together. League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots (LEMUR) presents its first concert series consisting entirely of works commissioned for LEMUR's musical robots. Titled "Robosonic Eclectic: Live Music by Robots and Humans," the program will be performed during a three-night run, from Thursday May 31 through Saturday June 2, 2007, each night with a start time of 8 pm. The series......

May 3: Cheezapolooza III: Naked vs Cooked Nolita House hosts cheese gurus Waldemar & Nadia as they feature six of spring's best artisanal cheese both unadulterated and then all hot and melty. Nibbles include Piave Vecchio and Pancetta Mini Grilled Cheese Sandwiches; Mini Valdeon Blue Cheese Burgers on Brioche and Four Year Aged Gouda Mini Mac & Cheese. You'll get drink tickets for a glass of wine or beer selected to pair with the each......

"If you will it, it is no dream." Four years ago Scott Shuffitt and Will Russell were just a couple of bums the square community didn't give a shit about, trading dialogue from the Coen brothers' comic masterpiece The Big Lebowski, when they decided to found a festival in honor of all things Duder. (Others have since gone on to make it their religion; called "Dudeism", adherents describe it as "your answer to everything".) Since......

THEATER: Jude Narita's one-woman show, Walk the Mountain, is about the hellish effects of the Vietnam War. In the wrong hands, this might make for an unbearably ponderous evening, but the Times review puts us at ease: “In dramatizing unspeakably horrific events, must an artist end up brutalizing her audience as well? [Jude Narita] reminds us that it's possible for a performer to treat both her material and her audience with respect.” For Walk the......

Tonight 826NYC is back with another benefit, this one is their Art Show, with all money raised from the auction going to the charity. You know about 826NYC, right? The nonprofit is dedicated to supporting kids from 6–18 with their creative writing skills, while helping teachers inspire their students to write. Just think of all the future bloggers in that place. Check out the pieces on auction, here, where you can also check out the......

So we love They Might Be Giants as much as the next blog. And of course we've occasionally thought "gee, it'd be fun to paint lyrics to a TMBG song onto a silver cardboard box," but we never actually went through with it or anything. But it seems that somebody did. Contributer vermillonink caught this photo out in Park Slope and it has us scratching our heads. Yes, Robot Parade is a fun song,......

Forget arguing over whether uptown or downtown Manhattan is better - the new fighting is about what's better, Williamsburg or Park Slope. There's a hilarious Observer article about the psychological divide between residents of hipper, edgier enclaves like Williamsburg and Greenpoint and those of Park Slope, Carroll Gardens, and Boerum Hill. Yes, hipsters may lives in South (Gentrified) Brooklyn and yuppies may have condos in North (Gentrified) Brooklyn, but that doesn't matter - it's all......

The fans of Brooklyn's supergroup They Might Be Giants love to make tribute videos. We're particularly partial to the Scrubs mashup we've linked here, but some of these are also pretty amusing/inexplicable/absurd/awesome: Minimum Wage Rabid Child She's an Angel Particle Man Clap Your Hands-- There.com Version Clap Your Hands -- Baby Version Another Experimental Film Sleeping in the Flowers......

Here's a perfect clip for all of our brother and sister nerds out there: Tron clips remixed to They Might Be Giants' amazing techno-inflected song "Am I Awake." It's just like living in the future!......

Parts of Co-Op City, the Bronx development with 55,000 residents, have lost power this morning at 2:30AM. And before you can blame it on Con Ed, Co-Op City produces its own power. CBS 2 reported that residents are "without electricity, heat or hot water," which is no good on this cold work morning. City agencies and utilities are working on the problem this morning. Wikipedia Co-Op City, which was built on the former grounds of......

What? No New Year's plans? Leaving it a bit late, no? Forget the overcrowded bars, the swarms of amateurs, the lame-o house parties. There are a ridiculous number of shows happening around town, some of which are worth your time and some of which not so much. Many of them are sold out, but it's highly possible you could score with the scalpers. Let's have a little look-see, shall we? 2005 was a big year......

It's that time of year again. The time of year we spend entirely too much money on going to a bar or party or club that any other night would cost nothing to enter. But we go, we pay and we fight the Bridge & Tunnel crowd for a spot at the bar. Why? We don't know. It's just part of NYE in NYC. This year we're fleeing the country, but for those of you......

Yuck! New Year's Eve is only two weeks away, and that means everyone you know will soon be asking about your plans. Normally we stay indoors on December 31, better to avoid being vomitted on by drunken tourists streaming towards Times Square. The Ask.Mefites seem to have similar feelings-- you won't be seeing them anywhere near 42nd Street. Upcoming.org has a growing list of NYE activities-- but nothing seems all that appetizing. If you......

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......

EVENT/MUSIC: It's Children's Day at South Street Seaport this Saturday. With Gordon from Sesame Street, The School House Rock Stage Show and They Might Be Giants! Wait...AND fireworks! [via FreeNYC] Details: Saturday, June 11th // Noon - 10pm (kids stay up that late?) // South Street Seaport Pier 17 // Free After hearing Ana Ng head over to one of these shows this weekend. You could also pre-purchase your ticket for Movable Hype 3.0. All......

John Flansburgh, Songwriter/Performer...

For a while now Music For America has been providing us with endless amounts of entertainment, events and information. Tonight is no different, and if you're in NY (and c'mon, who of us aren't?) then The Songwriter's Beat will entertain you in the name of Democracy over at one of Gothamist's favorite establishments, Cornelia Street Cafe. For those not privy, The Songwriters Beat is an all-acoustic show with 4 singer songwriters all given a......

There are a lot of free concerts in New York this summer. So many, in fact, we're struggling to keep up with all the festivals and park performances. Luckily, the folks over at Prefix have distilled a list of this summer's free-or-really-cheap shows. It's not comprehensive, but this hand-picked list could keep you busy most evenings throughout the summer. Also, it appears to have been pre-screened for that indie-credibility thing the kids these days like......

Sam Potts, Graphic Designer...

Get your laugh on: This American Life contributor Sarah Vowell hosts an evening of humorous music and hilarious comedy this Friday at Southpaw. Performances by musical tag-team They Might Be Giants, comedians David Cross and Todd Barry, as well as musical theater collaborative People Are Wrong (featuring John Flansburgh of TMBG). Tickets are $50, and proceeds will benefit 826NYC, an educational laboratory opening this summer in Brooklyn. 826NYC - the east-coast iteration of its......

Today's story in the Post about the pitfalls of blogging about one's life is so last year, as in we covered it last year. The Post notes how people have lost their jobs, friendships, had their serious drinking problems revealed because of their propensity to detail every little thing on their blogs. Boo hoo. Lia, who runs cheesedip, mentions getting bizarre email from dudes with Asian festishes and adds, "Also, stalkers I had in college......

Gothamist will be publishing on a lighter holiday schedule for the next two weeks. We're accounting for latke overdose, too much eggnog, and that New Year's resolution of "spend more time away from the computer." Gothamist will have new posts daily, but we'll be back at full strength (whatever that means) on January 5. And Jake will be spending the holidays in New York while Jen is covering them from halfway around the world in......

A glimpse into the musical tastes of some bloggers can be seen at Professor Barnhardt's Journal, where Bob Sassone asked a few for their ultimate mix of 20 songs from the past 25 years, including me. Bob told us to "list your favorites, not some list of 'best' or 'popular' or 'influential,' or whatever VH-1 was doing with that thing." Lots of bloggers seem to be They Might Be Giants fans. Even so, fellow contributor,......

- Dating and blogging - Should animals wear shoes, or just humans? - Segways in Paris - Stuyvesant's dirty secret - Buffy Slayed - They Might Be Giants, Cinematically Speaking - Making a movie compromise with your boy/girlfriend - Law & Order - 300 episodes young - New York Times fashion alert - Since Sex & the City is wrapping up its last season... - Requisite Jayson Blair story: Pappu and the Laughing Blair (also......

Aaron at 601am inspired us with his suggestions for an indoor Memorial Day weekend for guests. Since lousy weather makes getting past the front door even harder, we have included many things that are great stay-at-home activities: - Go see a movie (Sweet Sixteen, A Woman Is A Woman, Matrix: Reloaded again to better defend position) - Watch Sex and the City and the Jack Ryan Collection on DVD - Clean out the closet -......

Hometown favorites They Might Be Giants are getting the New York media blitz with the opening of Gigantic, a documentary about them and their rise to nerd-rock fame, coming this Friday. The Post mentions how they will be celebrating the opening of the film at the Bowery Ballroom on Thursday (sold out - sorry). The Daily News gives New York an idea of who they are. However, Gothamist has its own They Might Be......