Did you catch that Radio Happy Hour released their second annual mixtape recently? Almost the whole thing was recorded live at LPR and features acts like Island, Norah Jones, Cloud Cult, The Postelles, Tim Kasher, Suckers, and more. You can download the mixtape for free here.
In other Radio Happy Hour related news, the show has announced their final episode ever, and it's going to be at LPR! Tickets are only $5 and are already going really fast. Guests on this episode will include Twin Sister, Mike Doughty, Franz Nicolay, Matt Pond PA, Arthur Phillips, John & Molly Knefel, air-guitarist William Ocean and many more TBA. Get your tickets now because this is going to sell out.
Radio Happy Hour has just released Episode #17 featuring Elizabeth & the Catapult, Dave Hill, and Arthur Phillips. Listen to the podcast here. A little from Radio Happy Hour on the show:
In Episode #17 of Radio Happy Hour Sam moves to Montana to ref the Montana Three Way, a three way professional wrestling bout between Rusty Trombone, The Shakespearean Punisher (Arthur Phillips) with his inept manager Dave Hill, and Osama bin Droppin’ Elbows. But when Osama’s manager, Elizabeth Ziman of Elizabeth & the Catapult, comes out to tell everyone that Osama is missing the crowd gets pissed and the mystery gets hot ‘n heavy. And by “crowd” I mean Steve, the one guy who comes to the Montana Three Way every year.
...won't you and your lover join us for Radio Happy Hour w/ Abe Vigoda, Marcellus Hall, and Ted Alexandro on Friday, February 14th! To purchase tickets, click here!
Radio Happy Hour's online video series (shot at LPR) comes to a conclusion today with the final episode of The Fall of Keith. The series guests stars comedians Sean Patton, Ali Wong, and John & Molly Knefel (of John & Molly Get Along at LPR). Watch the final video and then come out to see the live show at LPR on Dec. 4 with special guests Suckers.
Radio Happy Hour with Norah Jones and Gabe Liedman (and surprise guest Cloud Cult) sold out on SAturday, but you can see them again on December 4th with Suckers and more guests TBA. Get your tickets here.
Born Ruffians have just released a Daytrotter session featuring four great tracks. The band will be performing at LPR on Saturday afternoon along side director Andrew Bujalski, and comedians Hannibal Buress, Ali Wong, and Ted Alexandro as a part of Radio Happy Hour. Get your tickets here.
Together John and Molly have written for The Onion, the Huffingtonpost, and have had video sketches featured on The New York Times’ website and CNN. They bring their show to The Gallery at LPR every month with a variety of special guests, and on August 25th they'll be joined by Hannibal Buress, Nick Turner, Liz Miele, Andy Haynes, Matt Goldich, and Leo Allen. Check out Hannibal Buress on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson below.
Linda Simpson and Murray Hill host Le Bingo in The Gallery at LPR every Saturday at 6:30pm. There are food and drink specials throughout the night, plus some of the most fabulous prizes you'll ever have the chance to win. There are also all sorts of special games (Good Neighbor, speed rounds, etc.) and a dazzling array of colorful spokesmodels, such as feisty drag starlet Violet Temper and burlesque babe Lil’ Miss Lixx. Check out some photos from past nights over at their Facebook page.
THE BIG QUIZ THING file under: trivia
The Onion calls The Big Quiz Thing “a live game show that favors the idiosyncratic and strange, offering several immersive hours that add up to something more than a middlebrow excuse to drink beer.” The Big Quiz Thing is New York's ultimate live multimedia trivia experience with unique video and audio puzzles, the Lightning Round, the Three-Way Finale, clever banter, audience smack-talking, prizes (including $250 cash) and much more. Check out some sample questions below.
The Big Quiz Thing returns to LPR on August 30th. Tickets are $7 at the door.
MELODY SWEEETS & THE LADIES OF LA ROGUE COQUETTE file under: burlesque
Rouge Coquette is burlesque nouveau starring The Shimmering Chanteuse of Burlesque Melody Sweets, and featuring The World Famous Pontani Sisters!, Miss Exotic World 2008 Angie Pontani, The Tappin Tornado Helen Pontani,The Mystical Mistress of Tease MsTickle, The Bendable Beauty Harvest Moon,The Nubian Lucille Ball of Burlesque theMAINEattraction, and The Neked Girl Stormy Leather. Penthouse calls Melody Sweets "...a dynamite little package ready to explode in a big way!" Check out a video of her performing below.
RADIO HAPPY HOUR w/ BORN RUFFIANS file under: comedy, indie, alternative
Radio Happy Hour is a live variety show featuring an old-time radio comedy/drama and your favorite guest stars from the worlds of film, music, and letters. Hosted by Sam Osterhout, the show engages its guests in a wildly right-angled conversation that careens between interviews, performances, and trivia. October's show features Toronto's Born Ruffians. Check out their video for "What to Say," a track off of their sophomore release Say It, which was released by Warp Records on April 22nd, 2010.
You can get tickets to Radio Happy Hour with Born Ruffians on October 2nd over here, and while you're at it, pick up your tickets to the Radio Happy Hour on December 4th with Suckers!
Nick Diamonds of Islands performed three new songs at Radio Happy Hour last month which he said would likely go on to become Islands songs. Check them out below!
Radio Happy Hour celebrated its one-year anniversary on June 15th at LPR with Nick Diamonds of Islands, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Murray Hill, and surprise guests Max Silvestri and Jessi Klein. The show features some new songs by Nick Diamonds and the Radio Happy Hour crew in solving the mystery of the little Peter Gabriel and the murder of Reverend Jimmy.
You can listen to the whole thing here or you can download it for free at iTunes when you subscribe to the podcast.
REAL ESTATE file under: indie, psychedelic, lo-fi, dream pop
Think sundrenched, think sentimental, and—yes—think subtle. On Real Estate’s eponymous debut album, fittingly released by buzz label Woodsist last week, the songs are in no rush. The hooks are there—and enough “uh oh” choruses to have you singing along—but they take their time. –Nylon Magazine
...Daniels, White and the band mixed and matched sounds to the point where genre became irrelevant. Their twangy ballads segue to polyphonic New Orleans jazz ("Though All the Fates"), songs that build from a beautiful chorale to roots-rock and then an improv jam filled with woody percussion ("October Airs" and "On Fields"), slow burns where a single mantra builds, achingly, over the course of eight minutes ("Each Summer Sound"). There are rock beats, swirling flute, "Penny Lane" trumpet, atonal free-jazz solos, jump cuts which explode into colors — all of which serve well-constructed pop songs ("The Funeral Bell," "Die and Be Buried" and so on).
You can stream the whole album right now over at NPR.
Click here to get tickets for the David Karsten Daniels performance with Fight the Big Bull on July 12th.
ON FILLMORE file under: jazz, indie, experimental, post-rock
On Fillmore is duo comprised of upright bassist Darin Gray and drummer Glenn Kotche who create compositions using field recordings in addition to their respective instruments. While their commitments to other projects (Jim O'Rourke, Wilco, and solo work) have limited their time to record together, they have still released four albums and scored several films since forming in 2000. Pitchfork on their latest album, Extended Vacation:
These seven interwoven pieces delight: Accessible but not pedestrian, complex but not esoteric, Extended Vacation feels improvised in spirit, but, in both structure and sound, it reveals two focused, imaginative composers and performers. The melodies and the warped sounds-- a vibraphone blurred into an organ, animal samples sculpted into a symphony, xylophone lines fashioned into music box tunes-- make Extended Vacation the most instantly likable On Fillmore album yet.
Click here to get tickets for their July 15th performance with Rachel Grimes.
THE POSTELLES file under: alternative, indie, pop
The Postelles channel Joe Jackson and Elvis Costello and – more recently – the Arctic Monkeys and the Strokes, building songs from brief guitar stabs and sounding like the wound-up early hours of what will be a long Saturday night on the town. There are elements of both mod and post-punk, but The Postelles have a sneering attitude all their own… –Rolling Stone
In celebration of their one-year anniversary, Radio Happy Hour put together a mixtape of some of their best musical performances from the past year. It features tracks from Cursive, The Hold Steady, Tunde Adebimpe, Norah Jones, Andrew WK, and many more. Head over here to download the free MP3s, most of which were recorded live at LPR!
Today Stereogum posted a video of David Bazan covering Vic Chestnutt's "Flirted With You All My Life" at Radio Happy Hour. Check it out, along with Bazan playing the Pedro The Lion Song "Transcontinental," below.
The folks behind the new film The Living Wake have been doing a series of short films based on the movie featuring Jesse Eisenberg, who will be appearing at LPR on Saturday as a part of Radio Happy Hour. This, below, is my favorite. Amazing.
On March 9th Cursive will release "Discovering America," their first track since last year's Mama, I'm Swollen. All profits from the single will go to benefit the Denver-based American Indian College Fund. You can listen to the track, which looks at the mistreatment of that community by the folks “discovering” America, over at Stereogum.
Radio Happy Hour, the monthly live radio show at (le) Poisson Rouge, has posted it's February episode online as a free MP3 download at radiohappyhour.com and also on iTunes as a free podcast download.
The next installment of Radio Happy Hour features Cursive, author Arthur Phillips, and comedians John & Molly Knefel. You can get tickets here.
Next month's Radio Happy Hour features Cursive, author Arthur Phillips, and comedians John & Molly Knefel of John & Molly Get Along (which is this Wednesday in The Gallery at LPR). Get tickets here.
