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Preview: A Place To Bury Strangers

Image by Amanda Farah. Brooklyn’s A Place To Bury Strangers have developed quite a bit of notoriety for the volume of their shows, which they happily hint at it themselves. Their new album is aptly titled Exploding Head. Their effects are created by frontman Oliver …

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Preview: Yeasayer @ Kings College, 20th August

Clap your hands and say “YEA”, because Brooklyn bizarrists Yeasayer are on their way to town. Fresh from touring with electro-indie weirdos MGMT, the experimental 4-piece will play Club Uncut at King’s College later this month. Entertainment is guaranteed in the form of lead singer …

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Thrice Spice Baby

Lasers, screens, explosions, giant mutant zombie mummies (hmm, we may have inadvertently made a cruel pun there), apparently the latest gig gizmo is to parade your offspring, as opposed to The Offspring, which in this case might actually have been better. Brooklyn, Romeo, and Cruz …

Week Around the -ists

The Holiday season is in full swing in NYC, with holiday lights in Brooklyn, a giant snow globe in Bryan Park and Chanukah specials for ham. One citizen decided to go vigilante on annoying car alarms, a murder suspect used a fake Asian accent on …

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Music Choice: Monday 5 – Friday 9 November

As reported last week, Monday should see you going crazy to hear that one good song (are there others) by

Elsewhere In The Ist-a-verse

Gothamist learned about the craziest urban nightmare come true: A huge python found in the bathroom pipes. It was also a nightmare for some Yankees fans, as manger Joe Torre declined to come back and manage the Bronx Bombers. At least the city’s attempt to …

Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse

Protest over national vs. regional chains, the never-ending debate over the place of cars and bicycles in our metropolises, professional sports scandals, remembering a solemn day, and being issued a search warrant – it all happened across our sites this week! Another banner week at …

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Music Choice: Monday 6th – Friday 10th August

Bit of a slow week for live music with most larger bands travelling around Europe doing the festival thing. However, what better time to go and see a band you haven’t heard of – you might get a nice surprise! Monday night sees Dwarves bring …

Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse

This week ended with the launch of the seventh and final Harry Potter installation. But while the world was consumed with Pottermania, it’s important to remember that there were more serious things going on in the world, too – two of them in -Ist cities. …

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Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse

Banner week for SFist as the site’s new editor introduced himself — hooray for Brock! While the NY Times weighed in on SF’s mayoral race, only SFist had the (insert tongue firmly into cheek) hard-hitting latest on candidate/activist Josh Wolf. Coverage of a protest vs. …

Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse

LAist was comped front row seats by the Dodgers due to Malingering being struck by a foul ball last week, and she came back with some great photos, and earlier made fun of 4th of July on Venice Beach. But the biggest stories of the …