Results tagged “nyu”

Clear your schedule for Sunday evening, because Brooklyn trio The Antlers will make the Middle East Upstairs the only worthy destination for the night. Once a project composed of bedroom recordings by Peter Silberman while a student at NYU, the indie-rock group has taken off since Silberman received his diploma. After self-releasing Hospice earlier this year, The Antlers have experienced a wave of critical acclaim, and one that only looks to get bigger when Frenchkiss digitally re-releases the album next Tuesday.

We don't know about where you are, but it seems like spring can't decide whether or not to happen. Some days are warm, some days are cold, and sometimes you aren't sure which. Baseball may have started up (and soccer/football winding down) but it still seems cold out there. Unless it's not. Anyways, onto the -ists. Austinist happily anticipated fall's Austin City Limits, even though they're not fully recovered from South By Southwest. In...

We'd like to start this week's run-down by wishing a very happy birthday to parent blog Gothamist, which turned four on Friday. If it wasn't for them, the rest of us wouldn't be here. They celebrated their birthday by nabbing an interview with Entourage star Adrian Grenier, who misses NYC public transportation when he's working in LA. They also reported on NYU students protesting a band whose name is also known as a slur,...

Before we begin, we'd like to extend our deepest sympathies to the family of James Kim. We are not, by any means, trying to discount that tragedy by juxtaposing posts about the Kims with more light-hearted posts. It's the nature of doing a compilation such as this one: we're trying to give a full slice of the goings-on in the Ist-a-Verse: the good, the bad, and the ugly. Londonist wants you to know where to...