Tag Archive for the term: nyc

MMMMMmmmm Mice Parade, it’s time to feature you in my love-list of indie music videos. The beautiful layered indie electro of Mice Parade are like the sounds I imagine my house makes for it’s own fun when I’m not looking.
Here’s their song Double Dolphin on the Nickle for you to taste test:
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Other reasons [...]

Tis the season for church bazaars and craft fairs and, thankfully, fortunately, increasingly, for indie and handmade art access of all kinds. A few events are being planned for the coming months that sound a bit extra interesting, hence the blog post:
First there’s a little one this weekend at the Whole Foods in New Orleans [...]

While we’re remembering some of the good indie fun had in 2008, let’s flash back to September 2008, NYC, Fashion week madness. For me one event in particular is worth revisting for it’s epicness (I do love a large scale indie art event) and that’s the Fashion Indie show where over 20 independent designers showed [...]

Please file this under “Americans being Awesome” (you’ve been keeping that file up to date right?) A NYC boutique called The 1929 in honour of the new depression has sprouted up in SoHo featuring indie artists, performers and independent fashion designers.
The 1929 will be up for a month or so in a vacant spot [...]

Two sets of brothers and one brotherly, baritone friend came together from Ohio to Brooklyn to be The National, except first they were American Mary. “Discovered” by Rolling Stone last year, they have been building their marching mumbled, low rider, soft thunder rock and making it roll since 1999, stayed in the indie area, and [...]

Ah Get Your War On… I remember disctintly discovering the comic and feeling like finally it met the level of awful I needed to unthaw a bit. Thanks David Rees for teaching us to laugh at the nauseating ironyhorror that has been international and dometic policy since 9/11. I swear the laughter was healing and [...]

It costs vendors well over $1000 to enter the show and customers $6-$12 to get in but word is it’s well worth it all around. Lots of our Indyish friends are heading down to Toronto to sit behind a table and talk with strangers from 9am to 9pm every day for 2 weeks about their [...]

For seriously sexy stacks of indie rock songs check out Indie Rock Cafe’s series - Best Songs of 2008. They’re on to volume 7, which features tracks from Wolf Parade and The Stills, so Montreal still rules the indie rock clearly, but also great songs from Firewater (Brooklyn via the World), The Black Keys (Akron [...]

Just a quickie heads up for those of you looking to sell your wares this holiday season. Bust is tripling it’s craft fair power this year with events in NYC, London UK, and LA. Go indie entrepreneur ladies go!
NEW YORK, NY
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2008
10:00 AM – 8:00 PM
Penn Plaza Pavillion
201 Seventh Avenue, NYC
LOS ANGELES, [...]

File this under, “Say it ain’t so”:
Kim’s Video, a 20-year veteran of New York’s video rental scene, with a stash of 55,000 titles, is now facing the same threat that drove many of the Big Apple’s beloved neighborhood retail institutions out of business.
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Over the last two years, the graveyard of Manhattan’s neighborhood indie video shops, [...]