Weekend

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 9/21/12

By Nick Lucchesi Fri., Sep. 21 2012 at 12:10 PM
Categories: Afghan Whigs, All Tomorrow's Parties, Bon Iver, Frank Ocean, Gang Gang Dance, Metric, Weekend

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Frank Ocean goes on at 11:45 p.m. Friday on Stage 1 at Pier 36.
In no particular order, here are ten can't-miss shows in New York this weekend. For the Voice's full rundown of New York concerts, hit up villagevoice.com/concerts.

See Also:
- All Tomorrow's Parties Preview: Founder Barry Hogan on the Festival's Move to New York City
- Fear of a Talibam! Planet
- Three Reasons Why Old Records Are Bigger Than Ever


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Afghan Whigs, All Tomrrow's Parties, Bon Iver, Frank Ocean, Gang Gang Dance, Wayne Krantz
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Live

Live: Gang Gang Dance And Lunice Work Up A Sweat At P.S. 1

By Nick Murray Mon., Jul. 25 2011 at 8:00 AM
Categories: Gang Gang Dance, Last Night, Live, Lunice, Nick Murray, P.S.1, Warm Up

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Gang Gang Dance (DJ Set) w/ Lunice, Miracles Club, Laurel Halo
P.S. 1
Saturday, July 23

Better than: Your average art-museum function.

Most show reviews you've been reading over the last week have probably begun with, or at least nodded towards, the extreme heat we've been working through. If you're sick of this trope, I get it, but it's an easy lede and turnover is fast on these type of blog posts. Plus, this weekend had some Weekend at Bernie's-type heat, and most of us New Yorkers were stuck in the city without an evil boss throwing away invites to his crib in the Hamptons.

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Upcoming Shows

Gang Gang Dance To Headline Mad Decent Block Party At South Street Seaport

By Maura Johnston Tue., Jul. 12 2011 at 8:30 AM
Categories: Gang Gang Dance, The Hood Internet, Upcoming Shows

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The crew of serial partiers known as Mad Decent has announced the lineups for its annual Mad Decent Block Parties, a sort of traveling road show of perspiration-inducing bands that hits New York City on July 30. Headlining that day's free concert, which will take place at Pier 17 at the South Street Seaport, is the New York outfit Gang Gang Dance (left), whose fifth album Eye Contact seems like an avant-gardist's Lite-FM rescue mission at times; GGD also headline a Rocks Off Concert Cruise on July 21 and DJ at P.S. 1's Warm Up series on July 23. Full lineup for the July 30 party after the jump.

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Year In Review

2010: The Year In Music Photos

By Rebecca Smeyne Wed., Dec. 22 2010 at 12:15 PM
Categories: A Tribe Called Quest, Andrew W.K., Ariel Panero, Beyoncé, Big Freedia, Bob Log III, Curren$y, Damon Dash, Dead Weather, Die Antwoord, Dâm-Funk, Erykah Badu, Featured, Florence and the Machine, Gang Gang Dance, Ghostface Killah, Golden Triangle, Jack White, Jay-Z, Jim Jones, LCD Soundsystem, Les Savy Fav, Less Artists More Condos, Live, Ludacris, M.I.A., Major Lazer, Mary J. Blige, Matt & Kim, Naughty By Nature, Nightlife, Of Montreal, Paramore, Pavement, Photos, Real Estate, Reasons Why We Still Live in New York, Rebecca Smeyne, Salem, Salt-N-Pepa, Screaming Females, Sleigh Bells, Snoop Dogg, Spank Rock, The Beets, Thee Oh Sees, Todd P, Wu-Tang, Year In Review, Yeasayer

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The year in music, circa 2010, started at the Cake Shop, with a shred-down to the New Year courtesy of Siren Festival MVP-to-be Marissa Paternoster and her band Screaming Females. After a tour through the NYE fetes of the Lower East Side and Williamsburg, that night ended amidst a marathon show at Bushwick's Shea Stadium, right around the time the Blastoids' drummer poured paint on his kit and started splattering away.

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Photo-Blogging

Photos: Hello From Vice's Ridiculously Grandiose Creators Project Fete At Milk Studios Saturday Night, Starring M.I.A., Sleigh Bells, And The Victorious Die Antwoord

By Rob Harvilla Mon., Jun. 28 2010 at 8:15 AM
Categories: Die Antwoord, Featured, Gang Gang Dance, Harvilla, Interpol, Last Night, Live, M.I.A., Milk Studios, Photo-Blogging, Rebecca Smeyne, Salem, Sleigh Bells, Vice

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M.I.A. and Die Antwoord, respectively; you'll never guess who was better. All pics by Rebecca Smeyne, way more below.
I'm still not 100 percent sure what the Creators Project is, exactly, other than a perfectly fine excuse to cram a ton of big-shot artists (and Salem!), a few film screenings (Spike Jonze!), and multiple tremendously colorful and technologically imposing art exhibits (The xx: A Sculpture of the Album!) into multiple floors of Milk Studios Saturday, providing lucky guests with plenty of shit to point their iPhones at. Luckily our own Rebecca Smeyne has a slightly better camera. Here, a mostly visual recap of the overwhelmingly hip proceedings.

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Announcements

Die Antwoord, Mark Ronson, Interpol, and Sleigh Bells Are Playing Vice's Free Creators Project Thing

By Zach Baron Tue., Jun. 8 2010 at 5:15 PM
Categories: Announcements, Die Antwoord, Featured, Gang Gang Dance, Interpol, Neon Indian, Salem, Sleigh Bells, Vice

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Last time this happened, Vice blew threw $250,000 and Titus Andronicus's Patrick Stickles ended up with red handprints on his neck and a sad, outraged story to tell. This time, semiconductor manufacturing unit Intel will foot the bill, and it's hard to imagine crazed South African rappers Die Antwoord being much fazed by a surly bouncer. Those dudes would seem to be the most exotic musicians on the bill for Vice's free Creators Project New York show June 26th, which also features locals Gang Gang Dance and Sleigh Bells, a newly revamped Interpol, Mark Ronson, Neon Indian, the Rapture, Salem, and "very special guests." Why not guess M.I.A. for that last one, in order to complete the chillwave-downtown-joke rap zeitgeist trifecta? Register here; ogle endless pictures of cute girls from the announcement event over at Brooklyn Vegan, where the hipsters/coke/Rapture-are-still-a-band? jokes are already well underway down in the comments section. [Creators Project]

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Featured

Max Fish Went South For the Winter, Hosted Gang Gang Dance at Art Basel Miami Beach

By Zach Baron Tue., Dec. 8 2009 at 1:00 PM
Categories: Art, Featured, Foreign Affairs, Gang Gang Dance, Max Fish

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Here is a photo of Gang Gang Dance by Jipsy in which no one looks the way they do back in NYC
If the itinerant art collective O.H.W.O.W.--led in part by downtown gadfly Aaron Bondaroff (better known as A-ron The Downtown Don, except maybe not so much anymore)--is about anything, it's Max Fish, the bar that's served as a nexus for this clique since back when they were getting thrown out of galleries, not invited into them. So no surprise that when Art Basel Miami Beach rolled around again this year, dudes said fuck it and brought the Ludlow Street bar along for the trip. O.H.W.O.W.'s second-year edition of their It Ain't Fair guerilla exhibition was rife with Max Fish regulars--among them the Gang Gang Dance crew, Andrew Kuo, Scott Campbell, Neck Face, et al--and so was the transplanted Max Fish itself, which took up residence for the week at the old PS14 space in Miami. Photographs reveal more than a few familiar faces. Among them? Gang Gang Dance (above), who performed down in the transplant bar last Friday. Our Miami New Times brethren were there, taking in Lizzie Bougatsos' previously undetected but apparently very cute New York accent (read: not from Brooklyn!) and the band's usual live pyrotechnics. Our photographer was there too; see the photos here.

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Dash Snow Memorial Happening Now Through 7pm at the East River Amphitheater

By Zach Baron Thu., Oct. 1 2009 at 4:19 PM
Categories: A.R.E. Weapons, Dash Snow, Featured, Gang Gang Dance, Goodbyes

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This will probably be the last chance anybody gets to mourn this guy publicly, so consider heading down there. Dash's friends Gang Gang Dance and A.R.E. Weapons are slated to perform, according to PAPER; if that's the case, things are about to get pretty complicated and emotional inside an already somewhat haunted amphitheater. Now till 7pm.

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Gang Gang Dance Assaulted at Belgium's Pukkelpop Festival

By Zach Baron Wed., Aug. 26 2009 at 10:30 AM
Categories: Featured, Foreign Affairs, Gang Gang Dance, Violence

After premiering a bunch of mind-bogglingly shiny new jams at the Pukkelpop festival in Belgium, Gang Gang Dance apparently had a violent run-in with the bouncers in that country. On Saturday night, drummer Jesse Lee attempted to go backstage at his own concert and was instead dragged to a dark area off the security camera grid, handcuffed, and beaten by three security guards, according to the band's publicist. Terrifyingly, they seemed to be trying to break Lee's arms, and at one point collectively shouted, "We are going to show you what real pain is!" Let those motherfuckers come to New York, and we'd be happy to return to favor. Full publicist statement, via Pitchfork, below:

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