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The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Week, 2/18/13

Here are the 10 best concerts to check out around the city this week, in no particular order.

FLIP THE SWITCH

Dan Friel hits the Knitting Factory

Introducing Former Parts & Labor Dude Dan Friel's Electroni-commuter Rock

This Week In The Voice: Hunters Kill, Dan Friel Feels, and Musto Hates Music

In this week's Village Voice, which you'll find in beat up, plastic red boxes across the city right. fucking. now.: >> I use words like "raw, sexy, scary, fuzzy, fun, fucked up" to describe Brooklyn's Hunters for this week's cover story. The quick highlights: champagne bottle to the face, blood, p ... More >>

Q&A: Bettina Richards of Thrill Jockey Records On The 20th Anniversary Of Her Label

The iconic and staunchly independent label Thrill Jockey Records may be Chicago-based since the mid '90s, but its roots lie here in New York and along the grimy Path train tunnel where Hoboken stands. Two decades ago, L.E.S. resident Bettina Richards founded Thrill Jockey while working the rounds at ... More >>

Live: Starring Drops Caps, Sparkle Prog At Spy Music Fest

Starring, Dustin Wong & Dan Friel, White Out, PC Worship 285 Kent Saturday, July 7 Better than: Next week's Crimson ProjeKct appearance, perhaps? It may have ended with a dazzle, but this Northern Spy Records-curated night of intriguingly difficult music did not commence auspiciously, at least for ... More >>

Live: Free Kitten[esque], Corn Mo, And Assorted Comedians And Noiseniks Pay Homage To Kraftwerk

Krautwork 1-8 Condensed: Kraftwerk Covered Littlefield Tuesday, April 10 Better than: Waiting in the queue. "Intellectual property" is the hot Hollywood buzzword this season for content with which potential audiences might have some previous and preciously guileless associations—enough to ... More >>

This Weekend In New York: Parts & Labor Bid Farewell, Seapunk Washes Ashore

​ In Waste Of Paint, our writer/artist team of Jamie Peck and Debbie Allen will review goings-on about town in words and images. This weekend brought the end of one driving force in underground music and the beginnings of a new one, all within the confines of 285 Kent. But I'm not going to tu ... More >>

Q&A: Parts & Labor On Remembering Whitney Houston, Their Indefinite Hiatus, And Possibly Reuniting At Coachella in 2020

Brooklyn's econo-electronics-mishmashing, art-rocking noisemakers Parts & Labor are calling it a day and throwing a farewell jamz bash to ring in the band's indefinite hiatus on Friday at 285 Kent. Conceived in the early aughts by electronic gnaw artists and dueling vocalists Dan Friel and (bassist) ... More >>

This Weekend In New York: Brooklyn Gets Into The Seasonal Spirit With Solo Projects And Post-Punk

​ In Waste Of Paint, our writer/artist team of Jamie Peck and Debbie Allen will review goings-on about town in words and images. This weekend we learned Manhattan has no monopoly on holiday cheer. Sure, the decorations on Fifth Avenue might cost a little more, but not even the gaudiest depart ... More >>

This Weekend In New York: Parts And Labor Begin To Bid Farewell

In Waste Of Paint, our writer/artist team of Jamie Peck and Debbie Allen will review goings-on about town in words and images. What is it about the area around South 2nd Street and Kent Avenue that makes it a magnet for good D.I.Y. venues? Is it the tidal pull of the moon? Some type of harmonic con ... More >>

Live: Tyondai Braxton And The Wordless Music Orchestra Entrance A Sea Of Turtlenecks At Lincoln Center

Not as many hoodies in this crowd as you might expect. Pic by Jenn.​Tyondai Braxton with the Wordless Music Orchestra Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center Monday, March 7 Better Than: Watching Fantasia alone in the dark on a Monday night Tyondai Braxton's 2009 solo record Central Market rightfu ... More >>

Live: Dan Friel And Happy New Year Steam Up The Showpaper 42nd St. Gallery

Please, touch the bears. All pics by Rebecca.​Happy New Year/Dan Friel Showpaper 42nd St. Gallery Saturday, January 22 Since October, nestled among imposing buildings like Pfizer headquarters and the Helmsley Hotel, an East 42nd Street storefront has hosted an unlikely tenant: the Showpaper ... More >>

Week in Review: Uniformly Awful

In yr face. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne​In the week the world learned how dangerous a truffle-flavored french fry really can be, we watched in horror as the New York Times Magazine penned a brutal takedown of M.I.A.--who retaliated by going after the journalist who wrote it, of course. Were you pe ... More >>

Live: Showpaper Hosts a Benefit at Silent Barn with Dan Friel and Starring

Starring. All photos by Georgia Kral​While Baltimore-based one-man guitar chorus Ecstatic Sunshine never made it to Ridgewood, Queens for Friday's Silent Barn-hosted benefit for the local DIY broadsheet Showpaper, Dan Friel of experimental Brooklyn act Parts and Labor did. Those in attendance ... More >>

Impose Test Patterns Party With Aa, Liturgy, and Dan Friel

all photos by Rebecca SmeyneLiturgy Last night was another installment of Test Patterns, the showcase of our pals over at Impose throw every month. This round featured drum tribe Aa, YIMBY faves Liturgy, and the solo work of Parts & Labor's Dan Friel. Apparently they're all too hungover to post any ... More >>

Welcome to Damon Dash's DD172, New York's Last Line of Defense Against "Wack World"

The Under 100 office, not to be confused with this new DD172 thing. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​Under 100, the DIY showspace run out of rap mogul Dame Dash's basement, may have disappeared into a December maelstrom of unwanted publicity, never to be spoken of again. But DD172--the suspiciously si ... More >>

Photos of the Dame Dash DIY Hideout Under 100

Somewhere downstairs Erykah Badu is covering Pavement. All photos of Under 100 by Rebecca Smeyne.​Brief recap, from yesterday: Under 100, the city's newest and potentially only Manhattan-based DIY showspace, just happens to be located in the basement of one Damon Dash, former Jay-Z partner and ... More >>

The Wild and Wonderful Story of Under 100, the DIY Show Space in Dame Dash's Basement

Sleigh Bells perform at Under 100 in front of an extremely focused Ryan Schreiber. Photo by Rez Avissar/Pitchfork. Used by permission.​Greg Finch is the 20-year-old Pitchfork.tv intern who, along with Less Artists More Condos' Ariel Panero, runs Under 100, the DIY show space located in former ... More >>

News Roundup: Fucked Up's Chemistry of Common Life Show, Death By Audio's Maze Opens, Superstar DJ Record Fair in DUMBO

​--Further details have been revealed about Fucked Up's November 5th live reprise of their entire Chemistry of Common Life at Brooklyn Masonic Temple. The band has revealed the special guests they'd teased earlier this week: Andrew W.K., the Vivian Girls, Titus Andronicus, and Katie Stelmanis ... More >>

Photos: The Maze at Death by Audio's Opening Night With Dan Friel, Gowns, and Pterodactyl

There may or may not be a rock critic in this photograph. Credit, here and below: Rebecca Smeyne.​As we noted earlier today, the Maze at Death By Audio--a life-sized sculptural maze of narrow corridors, unexpected turns, and actual dead-ends, plus alcohol--opened last night with a overstuffed ... More >>

Death By Audio Turns Into a Sculptural Maze for Three Weeks This Fall

For three weeks this fall, everybody's favorite 40-oz-frenzied noise den Death By Audio will consist almost entirely of a life-sized sculptural maze of narrow corridors, unexpected turns, and actual dead-ends. It's an elaborate construction made specifically for a self-contained 23-day-long instal ... More >>

POSITIVE FEEDBACK

Follow the rainbow to a pot of mutant fuzz

Parts & Labor Mellow Out for Receivers

Indie Cribz Episode 2, Part 2: Parts & Labor's Dan Friel, Plus "Burt"

Feel the Noise

Melody lurks in Parts & Labor's restless beards