Hold on to your hats! Exclamation point! Sorry. Had a lot of fun with this one. From the etsy listing: FOUR OF A KIND: For your coffee mug’s enjoyment: 4 patchwork coasters riffing on red-orange, brown and green, with recycled green cotton backs and a thin layer of batting. They’re sewn ...

It's time again for Take Five Friday, a relatively recurring post here on Jazz@Rochester collecting links about an assortment of things that you might find interesting, entertaining or even useful: Local group Hard Logic won 1st place in the 2008 Billboard World Song Contest in the Jazz category for...

There so many awesome shows going down this weekend, I thought I woud give you my recommendations: FRIDAY: Tindersticks at Brooklyn Masonic Temple Gil Mantera’s Party Dream at Europa Handsome Furs, Iran, Hundred In The Hands at Mercury Lounge Pete and J, The XYZ Affair, Young Galaxy at Music H...

Cisco and Nokia want to assure you that the economic crunch won't prevent them from flooding Saudi Arabia with computers and cell phones. Which is interesting because many jihadists avoid Facebook lest their networks get infiltrated. And Saudi women who want to avail themselves of Faccebook - they f...

Since you’re here, I already know you love New York and it’s world famous music scene. But more likely than not you also enjoy music from other cities and other genres I haven’t even touched on here at Big Apple Music Scene. But fear not, BAMS is part of the b5 Media blog network, ...

Sonic Youth will be headlining this year’s No Fun Fest, which is May 15-17 at Music Hall of Williamsburg. Here is the full schedule (thx Brooklynvegan): No Fun Fest 5/15/2009 Bastard Noise / Thrones / Grey Wolves / Xeno and Oaklander / Carlos Giffoni / Chris Corsano / Axolotl / Raglani / Novel...

VDay, or as some are calling it this year, “Black Saturday” is almost here. Whether you have someone special or not, there are lots of shows going on this weekend. But first, Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears are providing you with an awesome VDay card for your loved one. With their new...

many, many moons ago, i wrote about burdastyle. for those who weren’t around the first time to hear me babble about it, i’ll reinterate: …burdastyle is a genius online sewing/fashion/DIY community that’s centered around publishing open-source, easily downloadable sewing patte...

Image: Amazon If you haven’t heard of it yet, get ready to be really excited. Dark Was The Night is a compilation being put out to benefit the Red Hot Organization–an international charity dedicated to raising money and awareness for HIV and AIDS through popular culture. This album will ...

Dan Deacon at Baltimore Round Robin at (le) Poisson Rouge Image: Devorah Klein Here is the final line-up for tonight’s Baltimore Bands vs. Brooklyn Bands $3 show: :: B-MORE :: :: DAN DEACON :::: Double Dagger :::::: Future Islands :::::::: dj Dog Dick :: BKLYN :: :: Woods :::: These Are Powers...