SATURDAY 6
Housing Works Open Air Street Fair

The Fifth Annual Housing Works Open Air Street Fair! Cobblestoned Crosby Street between Prince and Houston in SoHo is closed to cars and thousands of donated books, records, and CDs will be sold for $1 a piece- including a silent auction for an 1869 copy of Victor Hugo’s The […]

FRIDAY 5

Amanda Palmer is best known as the screaming, tortured soul in vaudevillian punk group The Dresden Dolls. Now she’s singing solo on brilliant debut album Who Killed Amanda Palmer, produced by Ben Folds…don’t worry, all that dharmatic piano passion is still there! The Lisps open.

Highline Ballroom, 431 W 16th St bet Ninth and Tenth […]

WEDNESDAY 3

The Ballroom Scene has grown stale…
Legendary battles are a thing of the past…
The Scene as you know it, no longer exists…
Tonight a Phoenix will rise…
They will destroy the weak…
They will teach the scene “how it’s done”…
And a new era of ballroom battle cats and divas will emerge…
Will you be the Phoenix?
Will you be our […]

Former beatboxer Mr Mouth now goes by the hipper name Frankmusik. His latest hit single Better Off As 2 remains at the top of the UK pop charts. Now his debut album Complete Me is set for release July 27…Oh…and he’s a real cutie-pie!

www.myspace.com/frankmusik

TUESDAY 2

Post-punx group Love Is All sound like The Slits, The Pop Group, and X Ray Spex…If you have no idea who these bands are, you probably shouldn’t come to this gig. Cold Case and The King Left open.
love is all playing wishing well on the beach in ravenna.

Maxwell’s, 1039 Washington St at 11th St, […]

Second video release/single from new YYY’s album It’s Blitz. Directed by original The Mighty Boosh cast member Richard Ayoade, Karen O finds herself decapitated by a dancing, possessed wolfman, after a bloody, glitter-filled massacre.