Chuck Berry at The Virgin Mobile Festival (08/09/08) Photos: Tim Griffin Even if you’re reading this at midnight, it’s still not too late to make it to the NYE after party at BB Kings with Surprise Me Mr. Davis (featuring Nathan Moore and The Slip). The show starts at 1:30 am, after the two Chuck…
Month: December 2008
The Kennedy Centers Honors The Who + Live at Kilburn 1977 Giveaway
Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend The last surviving members of The Who (Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend and Roger Harry Daltrey) were honored by The Kennedy Center on December 7th, 2008 and tonight (December 30th, 2008) that gala will be broadcast on CBS at 9 PM EST. To their credit, The Who still keep up…
NYE in NYC (Musically Speaking)
After The Jump and Knitting Factory Present: NYE 2008 at Knitting Factory Buy Knitting Factory NYE VIP Tickets Now! Hey, as usual, there are a lot of things going on in New York this New Year’s Eve, so I thought I would run them down as comprehensively as possible. Thankfully, a lot of people have…
Live Nation Ticketing Goes Exclusive on Jan 1, 2009
File under worst news ever: Starting January 1, 2009, all tickets for concerts and events produced by Live Nation and presented at Live Nation Venues will be available for online purchase exclusively through LiveNation.com. Though at first blush, this statement seems to indicate that all online tickets for Live Nation shows will only be available…
NHL Winter Classic Rides Again
Just like they did last year, the NHL is going to have another old fashioned game of shinny on New Year’s Day, but this time it will be at Wrigley Field in Chicago. This year’s NHL Winter Classic will feature the Chicago Blackhawks and the Detroit Red Wings in their 701st matchup. The game will…
RIP Eartha Kitt
“The only true Catwoman is Julie Newmar, Lee Merriwether or Eartha Kitt.” –Adam West on The Simpsons Eartha Kitt, who purred and pounced her way across Broadway stages, recording studios and movie and television screens in a show-business career that lasted more than six decades, died on Thursday. She was 81 and lived in Connecticut….