Our favorite Icelandic icon was in Bushwick this week, visiting Tradesman and The Well!: The wonderful, explosive, innovative, immortal Björk was seen at Tradesman bar and subsequently disappeared in the depths of The Well on Meserole St. Update: A representative of The Wick/The Well has informed us that Björk popped in to see the third […]
Governors Ball 2015 Lineup, now with day schedules
UPDATE 2/17/2015 The by-day lineup has been released, which you can see above. Drake will headline Friday (and Florence + the Machine, who are playing their first NYC show since 2012!), Deadmau5 (and Bjork!) Saturday, and The Black Keys and Lana Del Ray on Sunday. Single day tickets will be on sale this Friday, the […]
Opening Tonight: Nature is Ancient at The Yard
Inspired by the sounds of Björk, Meg Wachter brings the Icelandic landscape to photographic life in Nature is Ancient, a hyperballad of big time sensuality in hidden places, somewhere between human behavior and pagan poetry. Did you get all those greatest hit references? Did you? When she’s not trekking along mountains and volcanoes, Wachter has […]
The Most Blogged About Shows This Week
This installment of The Week’s Most Blogged About Shows won’t focus on the bands playing the next 7 days (though some of them are pretty awesome), but instead on the ridiculous amount of shows going on sale. The floodgates have finally opened, and from buzz bands to old favorites to Central Park Summerstage, there are a […]
Bon Iver Covered Björk and it is possibly the Best Thing Ever
As part of Bon Iver Day (A real thing! At least in Milwaukee), Justin Vernon and crew played a show of mostly jams from this year’s self-titled record. But throw into the mix a cover of Björk’s “Who Is It (Carry My Joy On The Left, Carry My Pain On The Right),” and something really […]