Author Archives: Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi

Music Listings – 6/3 through 6/9

1. Landlady

Date: Monday,  June 3, 2013
Time: 9pm 
Venue: PIANOS (158 Ludlow St., New York, NY 10002
Ticket: $8
Genre: indie rock

Landlady, a 6 piece dynamic pop explosion. Adam Schatz plays farfisa and sings. Renata Zeiguer plays casio, violin, guitar and sings, Indigo Street plays guitar and sings, Ian Davis plays bass and sings, Ian Chang plays drums and guitar and Booker Stardrum plays drums and drums

 

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Recommended Event: Questions, Challenges And New Visions In A Conversation Between Fred Ho & Eric Mann

PrintDate: Monday, June 3, 2013
Time: 7pm to 9pm
Venue: The National Black Theater (2031-2033 5th Avenue @ 125th Street, New York, NY 10035)
Ticket: free admission

Moderators

Dequi Kioni-Sadiki (Scientific Soul Sessions) and Matt Meyer (Campaign to FreeRussell Maroon Shoatz and Resistance in Brooklyn) Continue reading →

Music Still Dangerous In China: Swat Teams Raid Live Music Venues In Shanghai Looking For Western Musicians!

metal_postcard_anim.2Special Report by Metal Postcards Rec‘s Sean Hockings

Here’s the story from our Metal Postcard correspondent on the ground in Shanghai. Obviously we can’t and won’t name the correspondent but it appears that the Shanghai authorities have decided that “western musicians” might be spreading subversive ideas or just encouraging people to listen to and do something a little different and this is the result. Luckily the Hong Kong music scene is so apathetic that there’s no worries here that the police will deal with them .. bands would only feel threatened if someone took their beer away !

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Film Documentary: THE GIRLS IN THE BAND – the history of the all-girl bands and the talented female jazz and big band instrumentalists who continue to struggle for recognition in a man’s world.

632Text by Local 802/J4JA

THE GIRLS IN THE BAND is a new film that tells the poignant, untold stories of female jazz and big band instrumentalists and their fascinating, groundbreaking journeys from the late 1930s to the present day. 

Directed by Judy Chaikin
Genre: Documentary
Time: 81 minutes
Language: English
Country: USA

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