StereoactiveNYC

Announcement: After The Jump Fest Noise Stage Line-Up

 

2008 Noise Stage Lineup
@ Galapagos
June 21st, 2008 Noon

Featuring: Ponytail, Power Douglas, Fiasco, The Shackeltons, Extra Life, The Austerity Program, Cursillistas, Monotract, Dinowalrus, Autodrone, Alex and the Horribles, Noveller, Brilliant Sweater, and more!!!

After the Jump is the joint effort of 20 New York City music bloggers whose sites attract over one million readers a week. Founded last year in support of underfunded city school music programs, After the Jump has planned and staged concerts in association with the massive South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas and the CMJ Music Marathon in New York City as well as our own all day and night festival last summer in Brooklyn. This summer, on June 21st, After the Jump will be partnering with Make Music NY to throw our second annual festival, taking over the Music Hall of Williamsburg, Galapagos Art Space, and the North 6th Street itself with four stages and over 40 bands.

After the Jump Fest 2008 is brought to you by our awesome sponsors:
Metromix.com
Stereofame.com
Snoozer Loser
Gen Art Pulse

 

AFTER THE JUMP IS ORGANIZED BY:
themusicslut . batteringroom . disconap . earfarm . ryspace . irockiroll . merryswankster . softcommunication . musicisart . sitdownstandup . watercoolergossip . bumpershine . themodernage . productshopnyc . subinev . punkphoto . poptartssucktoasted . stereoactivenyc . jinners

 

For press opportunities such as interviews with the organizers or bands, please contact publicity@afterthejumpfest.com

For sponsorship and all other requests, contact producer Jennifer Kellas: jkellas@afterthejumpfest.com

After The Jump Fest: New Year’s Eve

curated by the people behind:
themusicslut . batteringroom . disconap . earfarm . ryspace . irockiroll . musicsnobbery . merryswankster . softcommunication . theunderratedblog . sitdownstandup . watercoolergossip . bumpershine . themodernage . productshopnyc . yetidontdance . slapyouinpublic . subinev . punkphoto . poptartssucktoasted . stereoactivenyc . fingeronthepulse

for more information, please email:

booking: booking@afterthejumpfest.com
charity: charity@afterthejumpfest.com
sponsors: sponsors@afterthejumpfest.com
publicity: publicity@afterthejumpfest.com

After The Jump Winter Festival – December 8th

New York City, December 8, 2007
taking over all three levels of the
Knitting Factory
www.afterthejumpfest.com

curated by the people behind:
themusicslut . batteringroom . disconap . earfarm . ryspace . irockiroll . musicsnobbery . merryswankster . softcommunication . theunderratedblog . sitdownstandup . watercoolergossip . bumpershine . themodernage . productshopnyc . yetidontdance . slapyouinpublic . subinev . punkphoto . poptartssucktoasted . stereoactivenyc . fingeronthepulse

for more information, please email:
booking: booking@afterthejumpfest.com
charity: charity@afterthejumpfest.com
sponsors: sponsors@afterthejumpfest.com
publicity: publicity@afterthejumpfest.com

Live Saturday: StereoactiveNYC Presents 2 From Boston, 2 From NYC

StereoactiveNYC is sponsoring a show on Saturday that involves two of our favorite local bands. If you’ve been paying attention over the last couple of months or so, you’ll likely have noticed quite a bit about Gold Streets on the site. Their first full-length, titled Looks Like Fireflies and released earlier this year, is one of our favorite albums of 2007 so far and we’ve worked with them on a number of shows, including a mini-tour last month.

Chop Shop is a band we were introduced to earlier this year. We were immediately impressed by their demo, which, as alluded to back then, may be the best set of demo recordings we’ve heard from a relatively new band. Hell, it sounds better than most first EPs. Throw in a great live show and we were hooked. This show may be the band’s last one for a little while, so we suggest you see them while you can.

Also playing are two bands from Boston. The Self Righteous Brothers (who recently played with The Meat Puppets) and Baker are two bands we’re really looking forward to seeing live. They’ve been doing well for themselves in their hometown, and with their various indie rock and alternative leanings, should find a responsive crowd here.

Oh, and we’ll be DJing throughout the night.

All the details:

Baker + Chop Shop + Gold Streets + The Self Righteous Brothers
@ The Delancey (STEREOACTIVENYC PRESENTS) / 8:30pm
168 Delancey Street
New York, NY

9pm-10pm – $3 PBR
12am-1am – $6 PBR + whiskey shot

Announcement: StereoactiveNYC Roadshow

StereoactiveNYC.com has, for a while now, been involved with booking both local and out of town bands at NYC and Brooklyn shows. Now, for the first time, we’ve helped set up out of town shows for two NYC bands. They’ll be kicking the mini-tour off in their own backyard at one of their favorite venues in the city: Union Hall in Park Slope, Brooklyn. From there it’s on to Norfolk, Virginia, then Raleigh and Charlotte, North Carolina.

For more info on the shows, click here.

And please enjoy this new video of Gold Streets performing “Funny Cry Happy” at the most recent Hot Rocks Party:

We also posted a new video of Man In Gray last week.

Hot Rocks Party Line-Up For July 20th

(clockwise from upper-left: Gold Streets, The Art Of Shooting, Frauke, Americans UK)

This Friday is another Hot Rock Party. In case you’re not yet familiar with it, Hot Rocks is a party that features live bands — all booked by StereoactiveNYC — with DJs playing Fifties and Sixties party music before, between, and after sets. It’s at The Delancey and we’ve got another exciting line-up in store for you this time:

8pm – Frauke

Okay, our first encounter with Frauke was earlier in the year when we started seeing them all over MySpace telling people to “dance. stop dancing.” Honestly, we weren’t sure what to make of them. Then we read this interview/review over at Ear Farm and were amused as frauke. So, we took a listen to their mp3s and ended up loving them. Yes, they’re clever and it’s fun to realize how clever they are. But beyond that, they’re also just damn good. It’s going to be an excellent start to the night.

9pm – Americans UK

According to legend (and the band’s old bio), Americans UK, “rocked their first gig at the stroke of midnight, January 1st, 2002, amongst twitching revelers and screaming girls. It was official: Americans UK were, as the kids say, the bee’s knees. Over the course of the next year, their followers became legion across the Austin, TX, music scene, as the band played everywhere from backyard parties to front yard cookouts.” Eventually, like oh so many Ausinites, they moved to New York where they stormed a new scene with their hard-rocking, energetic live shows. Then, in early 2006, the band went on an indefinite hiatus. Well, the hiatus is now over as the band has reformed and will be playing their first show in a year and a half. It’ll be a night to remember.

10pm – The Art Of Shooting

The Art Of Shooting has been one of our favorite NYC bands for quite a while. After we heard their Tyrant’s Black Eyes EP, how could they not be? They do the whole post-punk thing we hold so near and dear. And they’re female-fronted which, if you examine the list of bands we regularly follow here, we quite obviously have no aversion to — to say the least. They put on a hell of a show and we’re sure they’ll prove it yet again on Friday night.

11pm – Gold Streets

With such a big sound, we were surprised when we found out Gold Streets is made up of only three people… wait, we said that already. Okay, so we interviewed them last summer when they played at the Beg Yr Pardon party we sponsored and we reviewed their new full-length album — Looks Like Fireflies — when it came out in May. We’ve also posted videos of their live shows. What else can we say about Gold Streets? Well, we like them more every time we see or hear them, so we’re pretty sure Friday will be like totally our favorite Gold Streets show ever. And, whether you’ve seen them before or not, it will be your favorite, too.

To hear mp3s by the bands you can follow the above links. We’ve also made it easy for you by adding a track by each band to our own MySpace profile.

Drink Specials

• 7:30pm to 8:30pm – 2 for 1 well drinks
• Midnight to 1am – FREE Pabst Blue Ribbon beer

The dance party kicks into high gear right after the bands and usually lasts until around 3am or later. And, since it’s Summer, you can probably expect to hear a good deal of dancey, dancey surf rock mixed in with the usual garage rock, R&B, psychedelic, and freakbeat goodies.

Feel free to RSVP on Going.com if you’re into that sort of thing:

Announcement: Beg Yr Pardon #7 / StereoactiveNYC Presents

As you might have noticed, we here at StereoactiveNYC have really been enjoying the new Beg Yr Pardon party that began earlier this summer. So we’re especially glad to have booked and be cosponsoring one of the upcoming events. We’ve got three of our favorite local bands scheduled to perform, along with a great band from Alabama that we’ve really come to love. Together, we’re sure these four bands, along with the usual wonderful and free baked goods and beer, cheap BBQ, and DJed rock’n'roll dance sets before, after, and between the bands, will keep the good BYP times rolling and make for an extremely fun night. Here are all the details:

Tuesday, August 29th
@ The Delancey

8pm – Gold Streets
Official Website | MySpace

9pm – Western Civ
Official Website | MySpace

10pm – The Secret Life Of Sofia
Official Website | MySpace

11pm – A Place To Bury Strangers
Official Website | MySpace

DJ Sets By
Danny of The Big Sleep
StereoactiveNYC

Address + Map
168 Delancey Street, New York, NY [map]

Goodies

• Free baked goods all night (or until they’re gone)
• Free beer from 11:30pm-12:30am
• $5 BBQ on the roof deck

Any questions? Feel free to ask…