Coney Island USA has announced that Amanda Palmer and Alt Variety Magazine have joined forces for a concert on May 25th at 7pm at the Bowery Ballroom. All proceeds from this benefit will support Coney Island USA's Kickstarter campaign to save the Mermaid Parade. Ticket prices start at $25.
Cabaret and physics? Who would have thought? Yet, Gia Mora makes it all work.
MATILDA THE MUSICAL, produced by The Royal Shakespeare Company and The Dodgers, opened last night April 11, 2013 at Broadway's Shubert Theatre (225 West 44th Street). Check out photos of the red carpet arrivals below!
Occupy This Album: A compilation of music by, for and inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement and the 99% was NOMINATED FOR “BEST COMPILATION ALBUM” By Independent Music Awards.
Bustier-clad, singing sensation Meow Meow has wowed audiences globally with her provocative brand of post-post-postmodern performance. Expect sequins and satire; witty wicked Weimar; 60's French pop; Brel, Brecht, Kitt, and more, tonight, March 27 and March 28, 2013 at 8:00pm at The Cabaret at the Columbia Club, 121 Monument Circle, Indianapolis, IN.
Nightlife impresario Daniel Nardicio brings Liza Minnelli and Alan Cumming to the Manhattan stage for the first time when the two perform live at Town Hall tonight, March 13, and tomorrow, March 14. This is a transfer of their two sold-out shows in Fire Island. The concert takes place a day after Minnelli's 67th birthday.
Unconventional is probably the most succinct way of putting it. Obsessive, eccentric, indulgent: they're all equally fair. If Parenthetical Girls have learned anything over the course of their bewilderingly unorthodox discography, it's that they are-for richer or for poorer-a necessarily singular pop group. It's a peculiarity that they've learned to embrace-a single-minded conviction that pours itself over every corner of their latest album, Privilege. Parenthetical Girls just released the video for their single 'A Note to Self'. Watch it below!
Amanda Palmer received a standing ovation for her TED Talk at TED2013, during which she compared crowd-funding to crowd-surfing. Watch Palmer's TED Talk, 'The Art of Asking' below!
MTV's 24-hour college network, mtvU, today announced that “2013 mtvU Woodie Award” nominee Macklemore & Ryan Lewis will perform at the “mtvU Woodie Awards” on Thursday, March 14, 2013 during the SXSW Music Festival.
Firefly Music Festival is returning to The Woodlands at Dover International Speedway for the second year, June 21-23. The 2013 lineup includes Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Vampire Weekend, Foster the People, The Avett Brothers, Calvin Harris, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and 64 additional acts performing across four stages.
MTV's 24-hour college network, mtvU, today revealed the categories and nominees for the 2013 WOODIE AWARDS. The annual musical moment of truth honors the artists who are infiltrating the music landscape, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, MGK, Jack White, fun., Avicii, Kendrick Lamar, Skrillex, Best Coast, Grimes, A$AP Rocky, Frank Ocean, Zedd, twenty|one|pilots and more are vying for chunks of wood this year.
Nightlife impresario Daniel Nardicio is bringing Liza Minnelli and Alan Cumming to the Manhattan stage for the first time when the two perform live at Town Hall on Wednesday, March 13, and now Thursday, March 14 (just added!). This is a transfer of their two sold-out shows in Fire Island. The concert takes place a day after Minnelli's 67th birthday.
Bustier-clad, singing sensation Meow Meow has wowed audiences globally with her provocative brand of post-post-postmodern performance. Expect sequins and satire; witty wicked Weimar; 60's French pop; Brel, Brecht, Kitt, and more, March 27 & 28, 2013 at 8:00pm at The Cabaret at the Columbia Club, 121 Monument Circle, Indianapolis, IN.
Parenthetical Girls will tour the US this Spring (including a stop at SXSW) in support of their forthcoming album, Privilege, which is out Feb. 19 via Marriage Records and the band's own Slender Means Society label. See full tour dates, and check out the first in a series of commercials for the album, below!
Transporting audiences to an era of mobsters, moonshine, and murder, one of the city's most unique theater experiences will return by popular demand for an extended run through June 2013.
Beth Morrison Projects (BMP) and HERE announce programming for the inaugural PROTOTYPE: Opera/Theatre/Now, running today, January 9-19, 2013, in New York City.
Nightlife impresario Daniel Nardicio is bringing Liza Minnelli and Alan Cumming to the Manhattan stage for the first time when the two perform live at Town Hall on Wednesday, March 13. This is a transfer of their two sold-out shows in Fire Island. The concert takes place a day after Minnelli's 67th birthday.
The short animation 'I Have Your Heart' is a collaboration between New York illustratorMolly Crabapple, international rockstar Kim Boekbinder, and animator Jim Batt (the director behind recent popular stopmotion music video 'Want It Back' for Amanda Palmer.) The film is the story of a good girl with a bad heart, and the boy whose death will save her life. Told through darkly whimsical stopmotion, the film was inspired by Kim Boekbinder's rollicking, accordion sing-a-long song about love, loss, and open-heart surgery - "The Organ Donor's March."
Casting is complete for the world premiere of Amandine, the new musical from writer Winter Miller, 13P founding member who penned In Darfur (The Public Theater), among other acclaimed plays; Emmy Award-winning composer Lance Horne, who is known for his own work and collaborations with Alan Cumming, Amanda Palmer, Meow Meow, Sandra Bernhard and Justin Vivian Bond; and Drama Desk Award-winning director Josh Hecht (Christine Jorgensen Reveals). The production will run January 9-26, 2013 at the Cherry Lane Theatre (38 Commerce Street) main stage. Critics are welcome as of January 13 for an official opening on January 16.
OUT Magazine continued their roll-out of the coveted OUT100 today with the additions of newlyweds Thomas Roberts & Patrick Abner, Gayby actor Matthew Wilkas, and a number of musicians - including Amanda Palmer, Perfume Genius, Ed Droeste, Jana Hunter, Leif, Light Asylum and John O'Regan of Diamond Rings.
