QOTSA, Radiohead, Modest Mouse, Television, Gang of Four, DFA 1979, CAN, Wire, Clipse, Wu-Tang, Ghostface, Talib, Common, Mos Def, Broadcast, Comets on Fire, Pavement, The Beatles, Dr. Dog, Broken Social Scene, Arcade Fire, Spoon, Fatal Film, Sonic Youth, Tom Waits, The New Pornographers, Thelonious Monk, Coltrane, Beethoven, you know the deal....
Sounds Like
The Great Unwashed, Dead Set On Destruction, Dead Rabbit, Murray, Hot Knives, The Delay, Budos Band, Ghostface Killah, The Counterframes, Heavy Weather, Dru Hepkins, Ingrid Michaelson, Trife Diesel, Curious Volume, Dead Men Dreaming, Paragraph, Avon Junkies, Therina Bella, The Ghost Armada, Captain Ahab and the Sea Crackens, Pablo, Kevin Devine, Wahoo Skiffle Crazies, Happy Anarchy, Hollywood Hangover, etc., etc., etc.
About Me:
I'm originally from New London Connecticut, where there is a pretty lively local music and arts scene. My father is a jazz pianist and my mother is a librarian. I'm in a band as well (www.myspace.com/ringers). Basically I'm into all sorts of different music, hard and soft, spiky and smooth.
I'm also the new music journalist at the Staten Island Advance Newspaper, hired to write about music on the Island and beyond. The Advance is a daily newspaper with a circulation of 100,000. If you are a band from the Island, South Brooklyn, or really anywhere in NYC, I invite you to contact me so we can be "friends," talk about music or whatever else we please. I'm happy to list your shows on my page, play your music on my song list, and try and get the word out about your band, in the paper and on myspace. Post comments on my blog or I'll get fired:
Hey Ben, If you're interested, we're playing a show at the Cup on July 2nd. It lasts from 8 to 10. It's two bucks to get passed the door. So, come on down and check us out. - Jeremy
First of all, my page is private so the children will not be effected. Second of all, Jodi and the Cocks would have headlined if YOU let us! Third of all, I was having a good hair day and finally I am in no way shape or form "trouble" and we shall be friends!
My children and I had an awesome time together. The weather didn't slow any of us down. Thank you for putting together a safe and well organized rock festival!
The event, the day, the bands, the anticipation, the aftermath . . . it was all so beautiful and will be remembered as a turning point in Staten Island's cultural history.
Ben..I had a great time and everybody I was with did too.. Thanks to you and those you worked with for making it a great success!! :) All the bands sounded Amazing!
Oh hai, any plans to let us in on the band line up? Since it is an ALL DAY festival, I would love to see who's going on when. I'm sure it's coming out in this thursday's AWE or something...
How goes the RTH promotions? Are you pulling in the masses Ben Johnson? I think we might need a mobile Ralph's Ices unit at the festival...or a Ben & Jerry's one. They do that you know.
