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Hot Tickets: The Cure, The Raveonettes, Be Your Own Pet
CONCERTS: For a band whose members are barely old enough to vote, let alone drink, the Nashville-based garage-punk quartet Be Your Own Pet has made quite a name for itself, garnering praise from Sonic...
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Hot Tickets: Destroyer, Boris, the Vines, Chris Rock
MUSIC: People just loooove indie musicians who bill themselves under catchy band-name monikers: Cat Power, Bright Eyes, Beirut, etc. And Vancouver’s Destroyer (nee Dan Bejar, of the New Pornographers)...
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Hot Tickets: The Zombies, The Breeders, Elvis Costello
CONCERTS: The Zombies (file under hip ’60s rock bands made popular anew by Wes Anderson movies and TV commercials) are playing Irving Plaza on July 11. The group will have just come off an extensive...
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Hot Tickets: Kathy Griffin, Wu-Tang Clan, Counting Crows, Swervedriver
COMEDY Kathy Griffin—in appreciation of her gays, the fans of her hit Bravo reality series and anyone who just loves watching a hilarious comedian verbally brutalize celebrities who are more famous...
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Hot Tickets: Gypsy, Lou Reed, Cyndi Lauper, Killing Joke
CONCERTS Cyndi Lauper is bringing her True Colors to Radio City Music Hall on June 1 (and to Jones Beach on June 3), along with fellow new wavers the B-52s, Rosie O’Donnell, and the Indigo Girls, in a...
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Hot Tickets: Gnarls Barkley, R.E.M., The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Cry-Baby
CONCERTS As if it wasn’t exciting enough that power-duo Gnarls Barkley has released its much-anticipated followup to 2006′s St. Elsewhere (just in time to get the hype rolling for some summer jams),...
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Hot Tickets: Bang Camaro, Pearl Jam, Mission of Burma, Equus
CONCERTS If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to see about 20 dudes on a single stage pumping out feel good rock ‘n’ roll anthems that would make Axl Rose jealous, then you don’t want to miss...
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Hot Tickets: Making the Band, Bon Jovi, Thurgood and Port Authority
CONCERTSDon’t act like you didn’t watch MTV’s Making the Band 4, like you weren’t right there with the girls of Danity Kane and the guys of Day26 (and that other kid no one really seemed to care about)...
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Hot Tickets: All Tomorrow's Parties, Jarvis Cocker, Devo, Wire, Summer Jam 2008
In case you haven’t heard, a lineup has been announced for this year’s New York installment of the All Tomorrow’s Parties festival, and it’s the kind of lineup that makes the Pitchfork set scream. The...
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Hot Tickets: Neil Diamond, Bloc Party, Wolf Parade, The Butthole Surfers
It seemed odd enough when the 80′s Texas psych-punk band The Butthole Surfers made something of comeback in 1996 with an album that got lots of mainstream airplay. Now they’re making a comeback from...
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Hot Tickets: New Kids On the Block, Smoking Popes, Echo and the Bunnymen, Saved
CONCERTS In case you were wondering what this year’s official summer jam might be, wonder no more: A few days ago, People unveiled a taste of New Kids On the Block’s comeback single, "Summertime," and...
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Williamsburg’s McCarren Park Pool Debut: $150 a Ticket
Williamsburg’s McCarren Park once had a pool. The pool gained some notoriety when—after being drained and going unused for several years—it turned into a summertime concert venue (and a pretty popular...
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