When I was in high school, I would drive with my friends across the state line into Kansas to go to a club called Pogos where teenagers could dance until curfew. I vividly remember driving to Pogos one night and “A Little Respect” by Erasure came on the radio. I think I blew out the [...]
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I’ve lived in New York for four years now and the experience has been life-changing. I love music and I love New York. Blend the two and you get Blondie. What act is more quintessentially New York than Blondie? I think about them trailblazing new wave and punk music in their heyday, haunting venues in [...]
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I don’t know how or when I got turned on to Jessica 6, but I did. With their songs on heavy rotation on my iPod, I finally got to see them perform at Mercury Lounge last Saturday night. Their name inspired by the lead character in the book, Logan’s Run, the “nu disco” band is [...]
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Thank you, John Valentine Grande Pike. You know who you are. Inside the MAC cosmetics store in SoHo on Fashion’s Night Out, I was lucky to stand at the corner of a small stage while hot male models continuously refilled my champagne glass and see one of my favorite artists perform, Gossip’s feisty and fabulous frontwoman Beth Ditto. [...]
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I’ve seen the great rock goddess Stevie Nicks five times now. Three times solo since she released Trouble in Shangri-La back in 2001, and once with Fleetwood Mac two years ago. This weekend, she played Nikon Jones Beach Theater in the charming seaside hamlet that is, ahem, Wantagh, New York. It’s appropriate though as Stevie [...]
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