Collection of People Running Like Idiots
Some videos need no explanation. This is not one of them, but we'll just have to do with the rough translation—"Collection of People Running Like Idiots."
Egyptian Hip-Hop
A band with little to do with Egypt or hip-hop, but rather four teens from Manchester who make quite good music. Take, for example, "Rad Pitt."
Troop Beverly Hills: The Experience
Filed under OMG we missed it: Troop Beverly Hills: The Experience. It was yesterday. Though looks like Jenny Lewis didn't make it, either.
Showpaper Benefit
Showpaper, the volunteer-run, DIY publication of all-ages shows and art listings, is hosting a benefit tonight at Brooklyn's Kidd-Yellin gallery in Red Hook. Admission is $8-$25 on a sliding scale, so show up and show support.
Simplefly Presents Amanda Blank
For Red Bull's Public Assembly, they challenged two local party promoters to throw the best party they could, and the winner gets the go-ahead to throw a no-holds-barred event in NYC. How does this affect you? As part of the contest, Simplefly is giving away 600 free tickets to an Amanda Blank show next Tuesday at Woody's.
Art Outside
Art Outside brings together hundreds of creative individuals for a three-day art show at the Apache Pass in Texas. Amidst the exhibits there will also be a clothing swap, workshops, mimes, and bands from around the country rocking out. Consider it a holdover for the next six months until SXSW rolls around again.
Amanda Blank In-Store Performance
If you're in NYC tonight, stop by our store at 14th St. and 6th Ave. to catch a free, in-store performance by Amanda Blank. The trash-talking Philly rapper is back on the East Coast before she starts touring with Matt & Kim, so you can see her on what's almost her home turf. Show starts at 7pm. Don't be late, or Amanda will be pissed! Kidding, kidding. She won't care, but you'll be mad at yourself.
Furry Puppet Studio
Furry Puppet Studio in Brooklyn is run by Zack Buchman and Maria Gurevich. These two mastermind puppets of all kinds, write a blog, and offer puppet-building workshops. They even post pictures of how they build their puppets. No strings attached.
Karaoke with Mr. Belding
If we could tag this post Bayside High, we would. Dennis Haskins, the actor who played Mr. Belding on Saved By the Bell, is a big karaoke circuit star (wtf?) and is coming out with a karaoke album on Sept 1st. "When I wake up in the morning and the alarm gives out a warning" is, sadly, not on the tracklist. (Via Flavorwire.)
Transfigurations
From the 13th to the 15th, celebrate the five-year anniversary of one of Asheville, NC's best indie shops, Harvest Records, at the Transfigurations music fest. Artists such as The Books, Espers, War on Drugs, Brightblack Morning Light and Kurt Vile perform at three small-capacity venues. As if you needed a reason to want to go to Asheville.
I Can Has Cheezburger: The MusicLOL
If you ever start to despair and think that modern-day life is a cultural dearth of reality TV and celebrity gossip, you need only think of one thing to remind yourself that all is not lost: I Can Has Cheezburger: The MusicLOL. Yes, that's right: A musical inspired by I Can Has Cheezburger and LOLcats. Catch it at this year's Fringe Festival. Tickets will go faster than a cheeseburger in a room full of noming cats. Or something like that.
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UO INTERVIEWS
MICACHU
AND THE SHAPES
CHBP: Micachu and the Shapes
In anticipation of their July 24 performance at the Capitol Hill Block Party in Seattle, we caught up with Mica Levi of Micachu and the Shapes to get the goods on grime and their homemade instruments.
Pangaea Pop-Up
The latest happening to occur at Space 15 Twenty is the Panagea pop-up shop. Featuring a special installation by Confettisystem and jewelry by AESA, All for the Mountain, Arielle de Pinto, ConfettiSystem, Daydream Nation, Deka Ray, Dragneva, Elana Estaun, Lizzie Fortunato Jewels, Maryam Nassir Zadeh and Samma. The opening reception also features a performance by Nite Jewel, appropriately.
Tiny Vipers
Hometown favorite Jesy Fortino, aka Tiny Vipers, brings her witchy, organic, Laura Palmer sounds to hometown favorite venue Wall of Sound tonight.
UO Profiles: Crocodiles
The fuzzy, lo-fi songs of San Diego duo Crocodiles are pure, catchy pop with surprising not-so-sunny side. Fortunately, they’re not nearly as angry as they (try to) look.
Free Energy at Mercury Lounge
You know how sometimes you really like a band, but they only have two songs on their MySpace and they don't have an album yet but you don't care and listen to those two songs over and over? We've been doing that with Philly upstarts Free Energy, who's first track, "Dream City" is a bonafide, feelgood beach jam. Catch them in NYC tonight at Mercury Lounge—the perfect way to celebrate the fact that it almost, kind of, actually feels like summer.
Freedom of Expression
On Friday, July 3 from 6-9pm at Urban Outfitters South Miami store in The Shops at Sunset Place, Freedom of Expression brings together local artists and craftarians to help raise money for the Del Portillo Family, a local Miami family battling lung cancer. Also catch The Killer Moon (7pm) and Spinlight City (above, 8pm) as part of the good-hearted festivities.
Win Tickets to See Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth roll through town on July 2nd for a show at the Electric Factory in support of their new album The Eternal, and we're giving you a chance to see them. For free! Enter to win tickets to the show at UO's two Philadelphia locations (110 South 36th St and 1627 Walnut St.). And don't say we never gave ya nuthin'.
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