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• Harry Connick Jr. to host daytime show with comedy, music

  13-10-2015 23:42
  
  Harry Connick Jr. to host daytime TV show next year; a variety mix for 'new millennium'
  
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• BrooklynVegan Friday day party lineup (Porches, The Album Leaf, Superheaven, Makthaverskan, Car Seat Headrest, Ezra Furman, free Bell's beer & more!)

  13-10-2015 23:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  FREE, THIS FRIDAY, noon-7pm at Baby's All Right....In addition to the BV + Collect Records CMJ showcase at Baby's All Right on Wednesday, BrooklynVegan is throwing free shows there on Friday (10/16) and Saturday (10/17). The Saturday show is an all-day party, going from noon to midnight. Friday goes from noon to 7 PM. Stay tuned for more details on Saturday but here's the Friday lineup.Friday, 10/17/2015 @ Baby's All Right12:15 Long Beard
  01:00 The Album Leaf02:00 Ezra Furman
  2:45 Car Seat Headr
  
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• an interview w/ Eternal Summers (on playing CMJ, touring Europe, their new album, videos, songwriting & more)

  13-10-2015 23:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  by Tatiana Tenreyro
  Nicole Yun photo by Thomas James Keywood
  Eternal Summers released their fifth album, Gold & Stone, via Kanine Records, fittingly, this past summer.This is their first self-produced album and one of their best.Gold & Stone is a vibrant, dreamlike record, yet it doesn't shy away from also combining punk elements that the band has previously used in other albums. Eternal Summers also experienced another first by going on their first-ever Europe/UK tour. Despite being bac
  
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• Clutch supporting 'Psychic Warfare' on tour, playing holiday shows with Crobot & Valkyrie (dates, video)

  13-10-2015 22:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  photo: Clutch in Austin in 2013 (more by Tim Griffin)
  Maryland stoner rock vets Clutch returned earlier this month with their eleventh album, Psychic Warfare, on Weathermaker Music. It includes the song "X-Ray Visions," which they've got a video for, and you can watch that below.Clutch are currently on a tour, which wraps up with a Halloween performance at Voodoo Fest in New Orleans. Later this year, they'll go on their annual holiday tour. It kicks off at DC's 9:30 Club on 12/27 and ends with a
  
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• The Gotobeds playing free BrooklynVegan party & other CMJ shows, talk new Sub Pop LP and more in BV Q&A

  13-10-2015 22:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  by Bill Pearisphoto: The Gotobeds @ Saint Vitus in August (more by Amanda Hatfield)
  Pittsburgh smartass post-punks The Gotobeds will take a break from recording their first album for Sub Pop to be a part of the mayhem that is CMJ. They play four shows this week, including BrooklynVegan's all-day party on Saturday (10/17) at Baby's All Right withStealing Sheep, and more to be announced any minute. We'll have bands from noon - midnight. Stay tuned! Here's The Gotobeds' CMJ schedule:10/15 - Kn
  
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• Donald Trump to host 'Saturday Night Live'

  13-10-2015 22:29
  
  NBC says Donald Trump will host 'Saturday Night Live' in November
  
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• Nielsen's top programs for Oct 5-11

  13-10-2015 22:02
  
  A list of the top 20 prime-time programs in the Nielsen ratings for Oct. 5-11
  
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• Is 'The Walking Dead' starting to stagger?

  13-10-2015 21:56
  
  Premiere numbers for 'The Walking Dead' down from last year's opener
  
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• Suge Knight, Katt Williams, ordered to trial in robbery case

  13-10-2015 21:53
  
  Judge orders Suge Knight and Katt Williams to stand trial in robbery case
  
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• A look at famous models from Playboy's naked past

  13-10-2015 21:46
  
  A look at some of the famous models who have bared all _ or most _ for Playboy
  
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• Mitski adds dates, including a CMJ show w/ Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Long Beard and more

  13-10-2015 21:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  photo: Mitski at Hopscotch Fest 2015 (more by Kenneth Bachor)
  NYC's Mitski was one of the artists we were excited about last CMJ, and she's only gotten bigger and better since. This year she's playing CMJ again, with just two shows scheduled, both of which are solo sets. One is the High Road Touring showcase on Thursday (10/15) at Mercury Lounge with The Maccabees and more, which is sold out, and the other is the Portals + Stadiums & Shrines show happening Friday (10/16) at the Lutheran Chur
  
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• Journey drummer pleads guilty to domestic violence

  13-10-2015 21:22
  
  Journey drummer pleads guilty to domestic violence charges, gets 4 years' probation
  
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• Porches sign to Domino, share "Hour" from new LP, playing CMJ shows including BrooklynVegan day party

  13-10-2015 21:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  by Bill PearisPorches, the musical moniker of Aaron Maine, has signed to Domino who will release his new album next year. They've just released the first track, "Hour," which with pulsing bass and glassine synths, is a sultry teaser for the LP and you can stream it below.
  If you need more, Porches will be playing a few CMJ shows this week, including BrooklynVegan's free Friday (10/16) day party at Baby's All Right with Car Seat Headrest and more. Here is Porches' full CMJ schedule:Wednesday, Oct
  
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• New films scrutinize Brazil's World Cup legacy

  13-10-2015 21:02
  
  2 new films scrutinize Brazil's World Cup legacy; both conclude event was harmful for Brazil
  
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• Judge agrees to delay Aaron Hernandez double murder trial

  13-10-2015 21:02
  Judge agrees to delay Aaron Hernandez double murder trial, moves it from December to January
  
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• Review: Larson, Tremblay illuminate the darkness of 'Room'

  13-10-2015 20:40
  
  Film review: Brie Larson and prodigy star Jacob Tremblay illuminate the darkness of 'Room'
  
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• Flavor Flav pleads guilty in NY court over 2014 traffic stop

  13-10-2015 20:18
  
  Flavor Flav pleads guilty in NY court over 2014 traffic stop while driving to mom's funeral
  
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• Cheatahs cancel Tuesday/Wednesday CMJ shows (visa issues)

  13-10-2015 20:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Cheatahs are due to fly in from the UK for this week's CMJ Festival here in NYC. They still are but are going to be a little late due to -- you guessed it -- visa issues. From their Facebook:We're disappointed to have to announce that due to slow visa processing, we're forced to delay our trip to NY, and will not be performing at tonight's CMJ showcase at Cameo, or at tomorrow's Pianos and Silent Barn showcases. Many apologies to those who were planning to come. We're hoping to resolve this as s
  
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• Taylor Swift leads American Music Awards nominations

  13-10-2015 19:51
  
  Swift, Sheeran, the Weeknd lead American Music Awards nominations
  
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• Unknown Mortal Orchestra remix SIlicon's "Cellphone," announces tour with Lower Dens (dates)

  13-10-2015 19:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  by Bill Pearisphoto: UMO @ ACL 2015 (more by Tim Griffin)
  Unknown Mortal Orchestra have announced more tour dates, including a coast-to-coast run with openers Lower Dens (who just played House of Vans in Brooklyn). The tour currently is scheduled to conclude with two NYC shows at Irving Plaza on February 19 & 20. Tickets for the NYC shows go on sale Friday at 10 AM with Music Geeks and Noisey presales starting Wednesday at 10 AM. All dates are listed below.In other news, UMO's Ruban Neilson
  
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• Last Call: Or How My Bartender Taught Me To Love The One Woman Show

  13-10-2015 19:45 via bkmag.com
  
  Photo courtesy of Last Call
  Terri Girvin has been serving alcoholic beverages to New Yorkers for twenty years. In Last Call, her one-woman show that starts this Thursday at IRT theater, Girvin tells the story of all your nights out from the other side of the bar.   
  Though a lot of material from Last Call was drawn from her time at WXOU Radio, The Magician, and Tile Bar in Manhattan, I got to know Terri at The Brooklyn Inn. In a neighborhood that is increasingly precious, the Broo
  
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• Beach House streaming 3 songs off 'Thank Your Lucky Stars'

  13-10-2015 19:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  by Andrew Sacherphoto: Beach House at FYF 2013 (More by Wei Shi)
  In three days, Beach House will release their second album of 2015 and sixth overall, Thank Your Lucky Stars. Like they did earlier this year with Depression Cherry, they're now letting you hear three of the songs with the "Single Finder" on their website. You pick your three favorite Beach House songs, and it will play you either "She's So Lovely," "One Thing" or "Majorette" from the new album. So far, this one's sounding a little
  
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• METZ stream new song, announce tour with Bully (dates)

  13-10-2015 19:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  by Andrew Sacherphoto: METZ in England in September (more by Rachel Jaurez-Carr)
  METZ's new album II is just a few months old, but they're already ready to follow it with a new two-song single on January 22 via Three One G/Sub Pop (pre-order). It features the new songs "Pure Auto" and "Eraser," the latter of which is a blaring noise punk ripper that you can stream below.They've also got loads of international tour dates coming up, including a US run in January with Bully. That's a great double b
  
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• “It’s the Only World There Is”: Talking to Dustin Guy Defa

  13-10-2015 19:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Person to Person
  Dustin Guy Defa, currently of Greenpoint, has one feature to his name, the burrowing, wintry indie Bad Fevert from 2011, so at first glance it’s incongruous to see that the Film Society of Lincoln Center is mounting what’s effectively a career-spanning retrospective of his work. But the program of his short films which runs from the 14th to the 20th showcases a protean sensibility and wicked humor over the course of five shorts, none longer than twenty minutes.In the
  
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• Wilco announce 2016 tour dates, including 2 nights at Kings

  13-10-2015 18:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  photo: Wilco at Pitchfork Festival 2015 (more by James Richards IV)
  Wilco will continue their Star Wars tour in the new year with a whole bunch of just-announced dates, including two nights at Brooklyn's Kings Theatre on February 5 & 6. The 2/5 date is with Bill Frisell, and the 2/6 date is with Steve Gunn. Tickets for those Brooklyn shows go on sale Friday (10/16) at 11 AM with a venue presale starting Thursday (10/15) at 10 AM.
  Initially released digitally, vinyl copies of Star Wars will b
  
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• The 10 Things You Need to Hear and See at CMJ 2015

  13-10-2015 18:23 via bkmag.com
  
  Tonight, the 35th annual Hunger Games CMJ Music Marathon takes over most clubs in Manhattan and Brooklyn, the start of an eardrum overload that brings hundreds of national and international bands to join our city’s already overstuffed music scene for five days of untamable excess. Though its been a consistent point of focus for decades, there’s been a perception that the festival has been in recent trouble. College radio’s primacy has been challenged by online streaming servic
  
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• Hill Country's Marc Glosserman on Making It in BK

  13-10-2015 18:18
  Our Make It In BK + Brooklyn Education Innovation Network Pitch Contest on November 5, 2015 is taking place at Hill Country Barbecue Market here in Downtown Brooklyn. This isn’t just a fun location – the restaurant is part of Hill Country Hospitality, founded by successful serial entrepreneur Marc Glosserman.We spoke with Marc at length in this great interview about his story, his experience, and his best advice for entrepreneurs pitching at events.You are the founder of Hill Co
  
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• Screaming Females appearing on Brett Davis' public access show this week ahead of tour (updated dates)

  13-10-2015 18:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  photo: Screaming Females at Chris Gethard Fusion debut party (more by Ryan Muir)
  Screaming Females already announced a tour that has them covering X in Asbury Park on Halloween and playing NYC on 11/8 at MHOW, a show that Potty Mouth and Aye Nako were added to (tickets), but they'll appear in NYC sooner than that.They'll be the musical guests on this week's episode of The Special Without Brett Davis, Brett's public access show that took over Chris Gethard's timeslot (since Chris's show is now on
  
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• Feeling Grand: Wolves top Lincoln to reamain unbeaten

  13-10-2015 18:07
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joseph StaszewskiBrooklyn DailyGrand Street returned last Friday night to the place where its championship run ended with a humbling thud last year, and cement itself as one of the favorites for the title this time around.The undefeated Wolves scored the longest touchdown of the second half and turned over two-time defending champion Abraham Lincoln four times during a statement 30–21 win in Public School Athletic League City conference football Oct.
  
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• 'The Village Voice' has been sold again

  13-10-2015 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In other publishing turnover news, Voice Media has sold The Village Voice:Voice Media Group announced Monday that it has sold its flagship title to a company controlled by investor Peter Barbey of the Reading Eagle Company, a family-owned business that says it has been publishing newspapers since 1796. The announcement was made jointly with Barbey's investment company, Black Walnut Holdings.An acquisition price was not disclosed.The sale caps months of speculation about the future of the Voice s
  
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• Good News: Black Tree’s Back in Brooklyn!

  13-10-2015 16:51 via bkmag.com
  
  photos courtesy of Black Tree
  The last time we saw Black Tree, they were serving sustainably sourced sandwiches in Crown Heights, many with a veggie-focused bent. They decamped to the Lower East Side in 2013, nipping and tweaking their local/seasonal concept, and as of last week, they’re back in a big way in Williamsburg, with a menu that’s both farm-to-table and nose-to-tail.
  Divided into “Small Things,” “Salad Things,” and “Animal Things,” offeri
  
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• Mamie Gummer 'recalibrates' her career, returns to stage

  13-10-2015 16:42
  
  Mamie Gummer plays a war vet in 'Ugly Lies the Bone' after 'recalibrating' her career
  
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• H.R. Pufnstuf, child of the '60s, visits Nickelodeon show

  13-10-2015 16:15
  
  Child of the '60s H.R. Pufnstuf visits 'Mutt & Stuff' to entertain 21st-century preschoolers
  
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• Daniel Craig inspects the UN's demining work in Cyprus

  13-10-2015 15:57
  
  Daniel Craig gives his James Bond persona a break to inspect UN's demining work in Cyprus
  
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• Opposition head: no leniency for Roman Polanski if we rule

  13-10-2015 15:45
  
  Opposition leader: no leniency for filmmaker Roman Polanski if we rule after Oct.25 elections
  
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• Sting, Mylene Farmer play lovers in 'hot' new music video

  13-10-2015 15:25
  
  Sting and French singer Mylene Farmer play lovers in 'hot' new music video for 'Stolen Car'
  
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• Kirill Petrenko to take over Berlin Philharmonic in 2019

  13-10-2015 15:24
  
  Kirill Petrenko to take over as Berlin Philharmonic's chief conductor in 2019, keep Munich job
  
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• Cabs, Car Services and the Apps That Hail Them

  13-10-2015 15:20
  
  The way we get around the city when we decide to take a car service or taxi has changed dramatically over the past year. For one, green cabs now pepper intersections in Brooklyn where hailing a taxi would have once been a fool’s errand. Hiring a car service, and paying for it with a credit card, is faster and easier than ever, and ride-sharing services and apps have popped up to save us all cash.
  To figure out who offers the best ride, I downloaded Uber, Lyft, and the new NYC taxi cab app
  
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• The Best Old Movies on a Big Screen This Week: NYC Repertory Cinema Picks, October 13-20

  13-10-2015 15:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Polyester (1981)Directed by John WatersOnly Waters would think to combine campy melodrama with huckster gimmickry. That said, he’s also the only one to incorporate foot fetishism, glue sniffing, smut peddling, abortions, and (be still, your hearts) former teen heartthrob Tab Hunter. Presented in glorious Odorama, Polyester marks when, as the Prince of Puke himself posits, “Hollywood and my underground met for the first time”—when his greatest commercial successes, which
  
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• Room, the Unadaptable Novel that Wasn’t

  13-10-2015 15:00 via bkmag.com
  
  RoomDirected by Lenny AbrahamsonOpens October 16
  The first time we see the woman (Brie Larson) and her son Jack (Jacob Tremblay), it is not immediately clear that something is wrong. The evidence quickly accumulates, but for a few moments, the mother-son bonding obscures the terrifying situation: The woman was abducted at seventeen, stuck in a locked, modified, and soundproofed shed, and kept as a sexual slave with what appears to be an air of domestication, as if Old Nick (Sean Bridgers), as s
  
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• US writer Hanya Yanagihara favorite for Booker Prize

  13-10-2015 13:26
  
  The Booker fiction prize could get a US accent as Hanya Yanagihara named bookies' favorite
  
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• US writer Hanya Yanigahara favorite for Booker Prize

  13-10-2015 12:28
  
  The Booker fiction prize could get a US accent as Hanya Yanigahara named bookies' favorite
  
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• APNewsBreak: Bobby Brown working on 'unvarnished' memoir

  13-10-2015 12:05
  
  APNewsBreak: Bobby Brown working on 'raw and unvarnished' memoir, scheduled for June release
  
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• Lleyton Hewitt to be honored at 2016 Australian Open

  13-10-2015 09:37
  
  Lleyton Hewitt handed wild card, to be honored at 2016 Australian Open
  
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• Former rap mogul Suge Knight scheduled to return to court

  13-10-2015 09:31
  
  Former rap mogul Suge Knight due to return to court for hearings in robbery, murder cases
  
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• CLINTON HILL: Students: Pratt booting beloved recycled art shop off campus over chain-store contract

  13-10-2015 07:39
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Allegra HobbsThe Brooklyn PaperCall it a brush off.Pratt Institute is short-changing its students by booting a beloved store that sells recycled art materials off its Clinton Hill campus because it already has a contract with a national art-store chain, claim cash-strapped scholars of the prestigious art and architecture school.“I’m paying for school on my own with student loans, and finding low-cost art supplies is really important to me,&rdquo
  
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• Aaron Hernandez due in court as DA seeks access to evidence

  13-10-2015 06:48
  
  Aaron Hernandez due in court in double murder case as prosecutors seeks access to evidence
  
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• WINDSOR TERRACE: Split wood: Cemetery officials, activists differ on Green-Wood landmarking

  13-10-2015 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Max JaegerBrooklyn DailyThey don’t want to landmark the grave markers.Honchos at Green-Wood Cemetery want the city to reject a proposal to landmark the historic burial ground, but preservationists say portions of the boneyard need city protection. The Landmarks Preservation Commission is considering designating the entirety of the city’s oldest graveyard, but cemetery leaders say the wholesale designation — proposed in 1981 but never acted
  
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• Stringer zingers: Comptroller criticizes mayor, but supports Coney land-grab

  13-10-2015 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Max JaegerBrooklyn DailyThe city’s top financial watchdog supports Mayor DeBlasio’s plan to seize private land in Coney Island from hold-out landlords in order to expand the amusement district — but on other issues, he and Mayor Tall just don’t see eye to eye, Comptroller Scott Stringer recently told this paper.The plan announced last month to force the sale of three empty seaside lots to the city through eminent domain so it can sel
  
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• Jacobs, Quillin bout to be game-changer for victor

  13-10-2015 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joseph StaszewskiBrooklyn DailyDanny Jacobs and Peter Quillin understand just how high the stakes will be when the two finally meet in the ring at Barclays Center on Dec. 5.
  The winner gets the World Boxing Association middleweight title, Brooklyn bragging rights, and the opportunity to be a megastar in the sport of boxing — with all the wealth and glory that entails.
  The loser will have to claw his way back into the elite tier of fighters after the B
  
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