Nominations for the Tony Awards were announced this morning, and the NYC-set musical "In The Heights" leads the field with 13 nominations. "South Pacific," "Sunday in the Park With George," "Gypsy" and "August: Osage County" also scored multiple nods. Prizes will be handed out June 15 at Radio City Music Hall.
The Cure have posted the single "The Only One" on their web site. The band will post a new single on the 13th of each month ahead of their still-untitled 13th studio album, due September 13. The band will play back-to-back shows at MSG and Radio City next month.
The 125th anniversary of the Brooklyn Bridge will be celebrated with a week-long party, kicking off May 22, with concerts including a performance by the Brooklyn Philharmonic, a Grucci fireworks show and other family events.
New York City might have been the fifth star of the show, but when it came time for the world premiere of the "Sex and the City" movie, Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte and Samantha walked the red carpet in London.
Stranger than fiction: The Daily News reports that Remy Ma and Papoose's Rikers Island wedding was called off on Monday after Papoose allegedly smuggled a handcuff key into the jail.
My Chemical Romance played Madison Square Garden on Friday night, with Taking Back Sunday and Drive By. The show was a big deal for the Jersey boys — they even called it their Super Bowl.
Hey you guuuyyyss ... "The Electric Company" is returning?! Gawker reports that taping on the revamped children's series will begin in Washington Heights and the Lower East Side this week.
David Byrne is turning the Great Hall of the Battery Maritime Building into one huge musical instrument. The temporary installation, called Playing the Building, will make music from the devices installed within the building's architecture and plumbing. It opens later this month.
N*E*R*D will be at the Billionaire Boys Club flagship store on Tuesday from 4-6PM, signing their BBC/N*E*R*D shirt before their performance at Madison Square Garden, supporting Kanye West.
Rappers Remy Ma and Papoose plan to marry today at Rikers Island, the Daily News reports. Remy Ma is currently incarcerated for her role in a 2007 shooting. She is scheduled to be sentenced tomorrow.
What is the higher honor, a Jammy or a Grammy? Which jam band has the funniest name? And what is a Jammy, anyway?
Alex Iglesias brought the FanCam to the WaMu Theater at MSG on Wednesday for The 7th Annual Jammy Awards and got the answers to these questions while rubbing elbows with the jam scene's greatest asset: music lovers.
Were you at the big show? Which performances were unforgettable? Did you expect Phish to get together for one last jam? Tell us about it!
McCarren Pool is hosting Jane's Favorite Movies, the SummerScreen festival. If you like watching excellent films (we're talking "Rushmore" and "Desperately Seeking Susan") for free, you can check out the full schedule here.
New Yorkers of the Week: Bees! Not only are they exceedingly photogenic, they are also taking over Learning Annex boxes. (It was probably a little scary to catch this scene on 75th and 2nd in person, but it looks pretty awesome on camera).
Various commitments have been getting in the way of our "One Life to Live" viewing (a shame, really, as we should support soaps still shot in NYC). Good thing Videogum is there to remind us what we're missing in Llanview, namely Snoop Dogg.
Playing to a full house at Madison Square Garden is pretty exciting for any band (come on, that's a whole lot of people listening to your music) but it is especially a thrill for Jersey boys My Chemical Romance.
Find out why the band says that playing The Garden is their version of playing the Super Bowl ... and get a peek at what to expect at Friday night's big show.
When The Heart of the City Tour hit MSG on Friday night, Jay-Z and Mary J. Blige fans came to The Garden very excited for the big show ... and they were not afraid to show it.
Meet the very talented audience that stepped out to enjoy a night of music ... and share the songs in their hearts:
Were you there? Tell us all about it! Missed the show? You have two more chances to rock with Jay and Mary J. — tonight and tomorrow at The Garden.
Fan site Dolly On-Line posted a full set list from the concert, which included a mix of classic hits and new music from her latest album, Backwoods Barbie.
Gospel Medley: "Brother Love's Travelin' Salvation Show"/ "I'll Fly Away"/ "When the Saints Go Marching In"/ "Old Time Religion"/ "Calm on the Water"/ "Daddy Was an Old Time Preacher Man"
(Intermission)
"Baby, I'm Burning"
"Better Get to Livin' "
"The Lonesomes"
"Puppy Love"
Band Medley: "Great Balls of Fire"/ "Bye Bye Love"/ "Johnny B. Goode"/ "I Wanna Hold Your Hand"/ "My Girl"/ "I'm Sorry"/ "Respect
"
Closer to home (and not in the past) is the Virgin Mobile Festival, which will bring artists including Kanye West, Foo Fighters, Bob Dylan, Lil Wayne and the reunited Stone Temple Pilots to Baltimore's Pimlico Race Course in August.
On Wednesday, get a taste of Brooklyn's best food and drinks — including Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory, Palo Santo, Blue Ribbon Sushi, Brooklyn Brewery and Sixpoint Craft Ales — at Brooklyn Eats, a tasting event hosted at Steiner Studios, located in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Papoose's video for "Ambulance," a dis track targeting a rival artist, features a truck from the Bed-Stuy Volunteer Ambulance Corp. But founder Rocky Robinson tells the Daily News that his organization was duped into the video. "His people told us the video would be about the neighborhood and how we respond to save lives."
Warning: Photos from the Tribeca Film Festival's "Thriller" Zombie Disco might make you really wish you were there.
Hey, remember that time Whitney Houston was on "Silver Spoons," and she sang in the nightclub to Dexter, except she changed the words to "Saving All My Love for You" to make it more family friendly? We do.
Sure, you see them on Letterman, Leno, Kimmel, "Idol" and "SNL," but once in a while, musicians will put on a show where you least expect them. In honor of TV Week and Concerts day, we present the Top 10 Unconventional Musical Guest Appearances.
3. The Who on "The Simpsons" (Sorry, no video. Add to the list.)
2. Whitney Houston on "Silver Spoons"
1. Davy Jones on "The Brady Bunch"
Did the Flaming Lips on "90210" blow your mind back in the day? Did you realize that "iCarly" was following a long tradition of bands on sitcoms? What's your favorite musical TV moment? Let us know.
Every time The Garden announces an addition to the concert lineup I gear up. How so, you may ask? I gear up with my iTunes. Let me put it this way — if a civilization from a galaxy far, far away were ever to find my iTunes library many years from now, they would not be able to tell my age, gender, cultural background or whether I was even a member of the human race.
In honor of my iTuning conquest, and a countdown to the Jay-Z/Mary J. Blige shows coming up in May, here is what I've decided are a MUST FIVE on the list. (Sorry, Mary J. but I'm all about the J — the Jay-Z).
One trip to the Santana Cafe fan forum will tell you that you missed a lot if you missed this concert. "All in all, an awesome show. Such energy and passion. Carlos
acknowledged New York's "center of the country" status and you could
tell they loved playing here and loved the reaction they got,"according to Dardo, while Jose B. Cruz's bulletin announces, "DO NOT MISS THIS TOUR !!! Santana is and will always be, the King of Live Performance.The music was Heavenly."
Sounds like a great night. Were you there? Share your stories right here!
Never in the history of the concert FanCam have we experienced so much devotion, enthusiasm and good ol' love for one man. Way back in January we ran into these citizens of Mr. Brown's empire and realized there just wasn't enough room for everyone to make the cut.
Well, my oh my... Based on the responses from people who weren't even at the show, if I ever had the chance to be one man for a day, do you know who it would be? It would be Chris Brown. In honor of his dancing majesty and his fans (the greatest FanCamatics to date), I present the Top Five Greatest Chris Brown Fan Comments, Ever.
1. "chris brown u r so ♥ SEXY ♥ I am your BIGGEST fan u r all over my
wall in my bed room u just so fine to me and i love your new song With
U its hot just like u !!!! :) :):):)
♥Love♥ your gurl LEXCIE BOO don't forget about me.♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ luv u 4 life♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥" — Thanks to Lexcie Boo (It's the hearts that got us)
2. "CHRiS BR0WN WAS 0N FiRE AT THAT
C0NCERT! i FRiGGEN L0VE Y0U S0 MUCH B00!! you are so sexy &
talented. damn i love you sooo much!! cant wait til the next time i
could see you!! — breezysbabyy*" — Thanks to Linda (We love you for your enthusiastic exclamation marks)
3. "Chris Brown, I don't know what to believe. It's like you never even
read this page. It's like you have nothing to do with this page. Chris
Brown, that cannot be. Chris Brown, please give me a sign. Chris Brown,
I am left with no choice but to love you less because you don't refresh
2+ month old blog posts you never knew existed so that you can see
this, my personal message to you. Chris Brown. Don't do me like that." — Thanks to CRZ (Chris, are you reading this? We are not passing anymore notes in class, so step up!)
4."h3y sexy***(dis yo wify treasure also yo number 1 fan)i knw u get dat alot but i mean it*i was jus dropin so lines 2 say was up n good with
you^^**much love from yo wify treasure aka MRS>BROWM da one n
only!!!!!!!" — Thanks to Treasure (This is a lesson people: If you want something, just get it ... or say it!)
5."GO CHRIS GO CHRIS YOUR AWSOME YOUR AWSOME I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU GO CHRIS GO CHRIS!!! WOOOO!" — Thanks to Mrz. Brown (Thanks to Mrz. Brown)
Think you can make the next list of Fan Faves? Tell us why!
Spend one day away from the computer and look what happens: Brooklyn Vegan gives us the goods on a whole mess of free summer music, including South Street Seaport's concert series (ranging from A Place To Bury Strangers to Mary Weiss of the Shangri-Las), Sonic Youth and the reunited Feelies at Battery Park and Celebrate Brooklyn at Prospect Park (Isaac Hayes, Cold War Kids, Beth Orton and Chubb Rock).
It was supposed to begin last week, but don't expect to see calorie counts on all NYC menus soon as a restaurant industry lawsuit — First Amendment rights? Really? — has it in a holding pattern.
Our tireless fascination with the stroller by-laws of many a Park Slope business led us to this interesting Gowanus Lounge post: Welcome to 'Snice, where strollers are OK, but your computer is unwelcome on weekends.
B.B. King, Bonnie Raitt, Buddy Guy, Aerosmith, Mos Def ... these artists and many more took the stage at Radio City Music Hall on February 7, 2003, to play tribute to the blues. This once-in-a-lifetime benefit concert was captured on film by director Antoine Fuqua and executive producer Martin Scorsese in "Lightning in a Bottle," the first film featured in the "MSG at the Movies" series.
The series will air a different movie or documentary every other Monday at 7:30p.m. throughout the summer. "Lightning in a Bottle" will be followed by the Brooklyn-set boxing film "Girl Fight" and the Harlem Globetrotters classic "Go Man Go."
Thanks to Bob Weir and RatDog's upcoming three-night run at the Beacon Theater, May's Jammy Awards and the fun of last week's Clown Name Generator,The Monitor has been thinking a lot about what we'd name our jam band (you know, if we had a jam band).
Rum and Monkey's Jam Band Name Generator came up with Rare Noodle Odyssey, which is just perfect, but it doesn't quite make our list of the Top 10 Most Amazing Jam Band Names:
Jonas Brothers fans are serious about representing their devotion to the band — creating hundredsofamazingfansites and sporting some of the best accessories on the market.
Sure, there are the calendars, posters and (really quite nice) hoodies. But what band doesn't offer those?
The Monitor took a look at the JB merch over at their store site and left impressed by the options. When the Jonas Brothers tour arrives at The Garden on August 10, we expect to see thousands of really excited fans ... and a whole lot of really exciting gear.
Check out our five favorite Jonas Brothers products — and why we've put 'em on our conceptual shopping list:
What can you say about Tuesday? It beats Monday? It can't hold a candle to Friday? It's a good day to watch a mouse be cute. Yes, that one. Check out a little bit of NYC news to start your day, then enjoy the mouse.
Has your local deli taken to posting apologetic signs about price increases? New York magazine's Intelligencer has a rundown of what some NYC favorites — including matzo ball soup and pizza — are going to set you back in our current financial times.
Gridskipper has posted a guide to the "semi-private" (a.k.a. no-sign-on-the-door) clubs that we are afraid to attempt to visit. (The Monitor has been strictly signs-only since The Stinger closed.) If you try your luck at one of these not-so-secret spots, let us know how it goes.
Aretha Franklin reigned over Radio City Music Hall for two nights this weekend. Were you there? Want to relive the magic? Or did you miss it and want to see what went down? See photos of the diva on stage right here.
In the days leading up to St. Patrick's Day, The Monitor will be honoring pop culture's
most venerable Irish figures with Patron Saints Week.
I love Michael Flatley -- not, like, love him, but he's the epitome of male machismo from a long time ago (let's say the '80s). So how can I not love his ability to employ gay men alongside some of the sexiest female dancers in step-dancing history? Which leaves him as the sole, shirtless leader of his Irish dancing stage phenomenon -- Lord of The Dance.
You would think his amazing powers to captivate audiences of all ages (my drunk roomies and I back in college would actually watch LOTD just to watch these girls and master the company front arm fold) could make him the Patron Saint of Young People (there are already 11 of them). Or maybe it's his ability to out-step, out-chest-wax and out-muscle any dance opponent on stage that could qualify him as the Patron Saint of Invincibility (Saint Drausinus) or Dance (Saint Vitus). Could he be the master of women everywhere, making him the Saint of Women and knocking Mary Magdalene off the pedestal?
No, he is none of those. He is more, baby! The Monitor officially dubs Michael Flatley, "Lord of the Dance " king, the Patron Saint of Irish Step Dance Performance.
At the end of the day, wouldn't you want to trade places for ... an hour?
Now if you really want to understand what Coheed and Cambria are all about, you're going to have to dive into "The Amory Wars," singer/guitarist/mastermind Claudio Sanchez's graphic novel series explaining the origin of the band's name (they are a couple) and the story played out in the music (something about their children having the power to destroy the universe? — seriously, you'll have to do the reading yourself ... Or watch this for a hint):
But you don't have to dig too deep to appreciate the band's way with words. Here's a list of our top 10 favorite Coheed song titles:
