Archive for November, 2013

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  • Don’t Call It A Comeback
  • History of PUNK in Playlist Form
  • Shriek of the Week: The Hives, “Hate to Say I Told You So”
  • Shriek of the Week: Talking Heads, “Psycho Killer”
  • Reading Bingo Challenge Mid-2014 Update
  • LitMonkey – July 2014
  • Shriek of the Week: Bruce Springsteen, “Born in the U.S.A.”
  • Concert Review: Beck at Hammerstein Ballroom: June 30, 2014
  • Hey Internet – They Might Be Giants Has a Special Gift For You
  • Shriek of the Week: Beck, “I Just Started Hating Some People Today”

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• Top Posts

  • Guilty pleasures of the '80s: Songs I (secretly) still enjoy
  • On Musical Influences: An Open Letter to Brian Fallon of the Gaslight Anthem
  • Record Store Review: Hold Fast (Asbury Park, NJ)
  • Video: Joe Cocker at Woodstock: "With a Little Help From My Friends"
  • 10 Beatles Covers from Alternative/ Indie/ Punk Artists
  • Amanda Palmer: Ukulele Anthem
  • Top 5 "Wall Street" Movies ... Is "The Wolf Of Wall Street" Next?
  • Record Store Review: Jack's Music Shoppe (Red Bank, NJ)
  • Nine Books Recommended by Chuck Palahniuk
  • Concert Review: Parquet Courts @ Sugarhill Supper Club, June 11, 2014

• 2bitMonkey Concert Reviews

  • Arcade Fire (The Reflektors)
  • Atlas Genius at Music Hall of Williamsburg
  • Atlas Genius at the Studio at Webster Hall
  • Beck (Hammerstein Ballroom)
  • Beck (Prospect Park Bandshell)
  • Blondie
  • Courtney Love
  • Dinosaur Jr. & Screaming Females
  • Dinosaur Jr. ("You're Living All OverMe" 20th Anniversary)
  • Dum Dum Girls (Mercury Lounge)
  • Dum Dum Girls (Music Hall of Williamsburg)
  • Friends
  • Hollerado
  • Howler and Frankie Teardrop
  • Kaiser Chiefs & Honduras
  • Kidrockers! DIIV and Widowspeak
  • Metric
  • Mudhoney
  • New Order
  • Nine Inch Nails
  • Parquet Courts
  • Phoenix and the Vaccines
  • Pixies
  • PUP
  • Skaters & The So So Glos
  • Sleigh Bells (le poisson rouge)
  • Sleigh Bells (Terminal 5)
  • Stones Fest 2013
  • Sublime with Rome
  • Surfer Blood
  • The Drums, Pearl and the Beard, and AVAN LAVA
  • The Hives
  • The Limousines & Dresses // Deer Tick
  • The National (Barclays Center)
  • The National (Prospect Park Bandshell 6/17/14)
  • The National (Prospect Park Bandshell 6/18/14)
  • The Thermals & Screaming Females
  • The Vaccines, DIIV, and San Cisco
  • They Might Be Giants (Academy Records in-store performance)
  • They Might Be Giants (Music Hall of Williamsburg)
  • They Might Be Giants (Stone Pony)
  • Tokyo Police Club
  • Vampire Weekend
  • Wavves and FIDLAR
  • We Were Promised Jetpacks (Maxwell's)
  • We Were Promised Jetpacks (Webster Hall)

• 2bitMonkey Record Store Reviews

  • A-1 Records
  • Academy Records & CDs (Flatiron)
  • Academy Records Annex (Williamsburg)
  • Black Gold Records
  • Bleecker Bob's
  • Captured Tracks Shop
  • Collect-I-Bowl Record Show (Brooklyn Bowl)
  • Fifth Avenue Record & Tape Center
  • Hold Fast (Asbury Park, NJ)
  • House of Oldies
  • Human Head Records
  • In Living Stereo
  • Jack's Music Shoppe (Red Bank, NJ)
  • Kim's Video & Music
  • Music Matters
  • Other Music
  • Permanent Records
  • Record Grouch
  • Second Hand Rose
  • The Crate
  • Trionfo-Jerusalem (Israel)
  • Turntable Lab
  • Vinyl Revolution Record Show (Littlefield)

• Fun With Lists

  • 2013 Holiday Gift List (Music)
  • Best Albums from Brooklyn Artists
  • Best Debut Albums of All-Time
  • Most New York Albums
  • Top 10 Songs from The National
  • Top 20 Albums of 2009
  • Top 25 Albums of 1988
  • Top 25 Albums of 2010
  • Top 25 Books Read in 2013
  • Top 40 (or so) ‘80s Songs I (Shamefully) Admit to Enjoying
  • Top 45 Songs of 2013
  • Top 5 "Wall Street" Movies

• Music-Specific Sites I Like

  • A Heart is a Spade
  • AllMusicBooks
  • Analog.am
  • Aquarium Drunkard
  • Brooklyn Vegan
  • Consequence of Sound
  • Daytrotter
  • NYCTaper
  • Slicing Up Eyeballs
  • Songza
  • Stereogum
  • Stupefaction
  • The Covers Project
  • We All Want Someone To Shout For

• Other Sites I Enjoy

  • FlipCollective
  • Football Outsiders
  • Grantland
  • Harvard Sports Analysis Collective
  • Low Times
  • Paste Magazine
  • Sports On Earth
  • Television Without Pity
  • The A.V. Club
  • Yellow Bird Project

• Shriek of the Week!

  • 1/29/14: Peter Gabriel, “Solsbury Hill”
  • 2/05/14: Parquet Courts, “You’ve Got Me Wonderin Now”
  • 2/12/14: Screaming Females, “Expire”
  • 2/19/14: The Replacements, “Kids Don't Follow”
  • 2/26/14: Beck, “Blue Moon”
  • 3/05/14: The Decemberists, “The Rake's Song”
  • 3/12/14: Drowners, “Long Hair”
  • 3/19/14: Sex Pistols, “Pretty Vacant”
  • 3/25/14: Green Day, “Longview”
  • 4/03/14: The Shins, “Phantom Limb”
  • 4/10/14: Foxygen, “Shuggie”
  • 4/17/14: MC5, “Kick Out the Jams”
  • 4/24/14: Blondie, “One Way or Another”
  • 5/01/14: Adam and the Ants, “Kings of the Wild Frontier"
  • 5/07/14: The Cure, “In Between Days"
  • 5/15/14: The White Stripes, “Seven Nation Army"
  • 5/21/14: Joy Division, “Atmosphere"
  • 5/28/14: Dinosaur Jr., “Little Fury Things"
  • 6/06/14: Mott the Hoople, “All the Young Dudes"
  • 6/11/14: Deee-Lite, "Groove Is in the Heart"
  • 6/20/14: Alice Cooper, “School's Out"
  • 6/27/14: Beck, "I Just Started Hating Some People Today"
  • 7/04/14: Bruce Springsteen, “Born in the U.S.A."
  • 7/11/14: Talking Heads, “Psycho Killer"

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