Posts Tagged ‘punk’
Iconicide presents Puke Island 2012
July 5th, 2012 by chocko
The anti-Punk Island event organized by the NY hardcore band ICONICIDE went down at Tompkins Square Park last month with many bands bringing the ruckus. Chocko thinks Punk Island is cool, it’s a free event that happens once a year on Governors Island and features punk rock music. I guess Chris from ICONICIDE feels that […]
Tags: 2012, alekhine's gun, l.e.s., mongrel bitch, new york city, nyc, puke island, punk, punk rock, tompkins square park, truth in needles
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The Swaggerin’ Growlers played Tompkins Square Park NYC
June 12th, 2012 by chocko
The 5th Annual BIKE NOISE Show went down in Tompkins Square Park in the Lower East Side NYC a couple of weekends ago on May 27. The show celebrated bike punks, the right to assemble and free punk rock music! Do we lose some of our punk cred if we drove a car to the […]
Tags: 2012, bike noise show, punk, show, the swaggerin' growlers, tompkins square park
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OFF! played The Bell House
May 31st, 2012 by chocko
OFF! played a last minute show with The Bronx at the Bell House in Brooklyn, NYC last night. It was a day after they played the Bowery Ballroom and the show was easy on the wallet…FREE! All you had to do was show up and pick up a wristband to get you in. Chocko had […]
Tags: black flag, brooklyn, circle jerks, keith morris, new york city, nyc, off!, punk, show, the bell house
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Zigtebra, Joey Molinaro, Dead//Beat and Cauldron played ABC No Rio
March 20th, 2012 by chocko
(from top to bottom: Zigtebra, Joey Molinaro, Dead//Beat and Cauldron) Last Saturday, Chocko bum rushed the lower east side to see what was going on at ABC No Rio, the “collectively run center for art and activism.” Most Saturday afternoons, they hold a hardcore matinee where you can check out a bunch of punk bands […]
Tags: abc no rio, cauldron, dead//beat, joey molinaro, punk, zigtebra
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Fred Armisen played Other Music
December 17th, 2011 by chocko
Last Sunday, Fred Armisen was scheduled to make an appearance at Other Music, a local NYC record store for what was billed as Fred Armisen’s Playlist LIVE. I was totally expecting the well known comedian of Saturday Night Live and Portlandia to just show up to the store, plug in an ipod and press play. […]
Tags: drum buddy, fred armisen, in store performance, nyc new york city, portlandia, punk, saturday night live, snl
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Night Birds
November 1st, 2011 by chocko
2011 has been a busy year for East Coast’s Night Birds. They played a ton of shows including a European tour and released their killer 7″ featuring their tribute to sleazy films titled “Midnight Movies”, an album titled Fresh Kills Vol. 1 featuring all their vinyl recordings since 2009 and the brand spankin’ new album […]
Tags: interview, night birds, punk, punk rock
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John Doe played Sound Fix
September 8th, 2011 by chocko
John Doe played an intimate show to a few dozen people last night at a Brooklyn record store, Sound Fix Records. John is an original member of the legendary California punk band, X. You best get to steppin’ if you don’t own their first 2 albums…Los Angeles and Wild Gift. At least have those in […]
Tags: cindy wasserman, dead rock west, in-store, john doe, performance, punk, show, x
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Tompkins Square Park Riot Reunion
August 14th, 2011 by chocko
Triangle Fire Wombat In Combat Hammerbrain Last weekend marked the infamous 1988 Tompkins Square Riots where NYPD’s worst swarmed in on a downtown park, enforcing a midnight curfew that didn’t exist…clubbing away at the homeless park residents and bystanders that stood in the way. Tompkins Square park became a warzone and police brutality ran rampant. […]
Tags: hammerbrain, hardcore punk, punk, triangle fire, wombat in combat
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Tragedy played Europa w/ Citizens Arrest, Teargas and Night Birds
June 1st, 2011 by chocko
TRAGEDY CITIZENS ARREST TEARGAS NIGHT BIRDS Starting off last night’s punk rock invasion of Greenpoint, Brooklyn was Night Birds…a band that features former members of the Ergs! and Hunchback and sounds like they’re inspired by surfer music and old school Cali punk bands like Dead Kennedys and Black Flag. These guys were full of energy […]
Tags: brooklyn, hardcore punk, new york city, punk, show
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Our Concert Could Be Your Life
May 25th, 2011 by chocko
Last Sunday’s show at Bowery Ballroom in New York City was a special one and it featured 14 bands paying tribute to the book by Michael Azerrad titled “Our Band Could Be Your Life” which chronicled the American punk and indie rock scene in the 1980’s. Every band on the bill covered a band written […]
Tags: bowery ballroom, buke and gass, callers, citay, concert, dan deacon, delicate steve, grooms, indie, mike azzerad, new york, new york city, nyc, punk, st. vincent dirty projectors, ted leo, this band could be your life, titus andronicus, white hills, wye oak, yellow ostrich
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Seaweed played the Bell House
April 27th, 2011 by chocko
Last Friday, April 22, 2011 marked the triumphant return of Tacoma, Washington’s Seaweed to NYC where they have not played in over ten years. Their show at Bell House was their first show in Brooklyn and to say that I was totally psyched for this show, would be kind of an understatement. Seaweed formed in […]
Tags: bell house, brooklyn, grunge, punk, records, seaweed, show, sub pop
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Kathleen Hanna Project at Knitting Factory
December 17th, 2010 by chocko
Last Saturday at Knitting Factory in Brooklyn NYC was a night to honor and appreciate Kathleen Hanna, founding member of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre, and an outspoken feminist who was instrumental in shaping the riot grrrl movement through punk rock music and ‘zines since the early 90’s. The sold out show was also being […]
Tags: bikini kill, feminist, jd samson, kaia wilson, kathi wilcox, kathleen hanna, le tigre, punk, punk rock, riot grrrl, team dresch, the butchies, toshi reagon
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