Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'adamgreen'
May 9, 2008
You may know Adam Green as one half of The Moldy Peaches (the other half being Kimya Dawson), who recently got a lot of attention for the Juno soundtrack despite having gone on "hiatus" four years ago. Green also stands on his own as a solo performer; he just released his latest album Sixes & Sevens, and tomorrow night celebrates it with a performance at Town Hall (tickets). Recently he told us about some of......
Continue Reading "Adam Green, Musician"January 15, 2008
Kimya Dawson is best known for her collaboration with Adam Green in The Moldy Peaches, an oft-cited instigator of the anti-folk scene, which seeks to extract the self-seriousness of 60s folk while keeping the earnestness and emotion. Since the duo went on hiatus in 2004, Dawson has been busy cutting intimate, lo-fi solo albums, touring and raising a family (pictured). Some of her songs will be familiar to those who’ve seen the indie sleeper hit......
Continue Reading "Kimya Dawson, Musician"May 18, 2007
THEATER: A revival of Patrick Hamilton’s thriller Gaslight has just begun at Irish Rep; some may remember the award-winning 1944 film version starring Ingrid Bergman and Angela Lansbury. The chilling study in domestic domination to the max concerns a diabolical husband who, not satisfied in exploiting his wife’s savings to buy their house, plots her murder. But while he’s out the police inspector comes in to warn the poor bride that her husband is suspected......
Continue Reading "Pencil This In"October 3, 2005
Since it's late in the day, and the benefit show featuring Sufjan Stevens and Adam Green at Bowery Ballroom is sold out, we're going to quickly highlight one other show happening tonight in Brooklyn. The band is Architecture in Helsinki. The venue is Warsaw. "The best eight-piece art-hippie collective Australia has ever produced, Architecture in Helsinki, is all about some cultural mishmash. With a membership including a white dread, an unshod singer, a guy......
Continue Reading "Monday Night's Music Picks"April 27, 2005
First and foremost I'm sorry. I'm sorry that I offended the commenter in yesterday's post. I can't make any guarantees one way or another, but what do you think? Should this post be daily or weekly? Feel free to use the comment section. That said. here's what's happening Wednesday through Sunday. Last night I watched Stars headline the Darfur benefit show at Northsix in Williamsburg. It goes without saying that Stars (who are from Montreal,......
Continue Reading "This Week's (Wed-Sun) Music Picks"
