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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Goodbyes

Remembering Ariel Panero: Damon Dash, These Are Powers, Grooms, and More on the Man Behind Less Artists More Condos

By Zach Baron Thu., Dec. 9 2010 at 11:15 AM
Categories: Ariel Panero, Damon Dash, Featured, Goodbyes, Grooms, Less Artists More Condos, These Are Powers, Under 100

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Ariel Panero, doing what he did. Photo via Facebook.
The news began to circulate on Tuesday--Ariel Panero, the audacious NYC promoter behind Less Artists More Condos, had passed away suddenly, at the age of 25. Two days later, the details of what exactly happened are still in part unknown. But the farewells have already begun. (A service, set for Sunday, will be held at the Montauk Club in Park Slope.) The Brooklyn-born Panero, young as he was, had fashioned himself into a New York institution, a bold promoter and a hard worker, a guy who in life earned the trust of both former Roc-a-Fella mogul Damon Dash and Brooklyn DIY institutions ranging from Death By Audio to Showpaper to Jelly NYC.

I didn't know him well, but I did know him--every once in while my phone would ring and it would be Ariel, calling either to castigate me for getting another outlandish show of his inadvertently shut down, or, more frequently, to tell me about the next one. The last time we spoke it was when he phoned to tell me that he had somehow persuaded Dipset's Jim Jones to make the trek over the East River to perform at Death By Audio with Philly art-rockers Snakes Say Hisss and Panero's own band, Tough Knuckles.

It was this kind of spectacle that he was best at. He managed the band Grooms. He helped out with the label Famous Class. He booked shows in Damon Dash's Tribeca basement, in parking lots and on boats, in churches, under bridges, and in condos in the West Village. Sometimes, his parents would come to his events. "If you told me two years ago that I would be doing this," he told Ben Westhoff last year. "I wouldn't have believed you." But he did it, and did it well, and over the past couple years, few in the DIY community have done more memorable things in New York City. Below, we've asked some friends of his--Dame Dash, members of These Are Powers, Cyrus from Famous Class, and others--to remember him. Their recollections of Ariel are below:

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Announcements

Tickets On Sale at Noon for "Secret" Erykah Badu New Amerykah Part Two Release Party This Saturday at the Hudson Hotel's Good Units Space

By Zach Baron Thu., Mar. 25 2010 at 11:45 AM
Categories: Announcements, Damon Dash, Erykah Badu, Featured, Good Units, Less Artists More Condos, Under 100

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Also on the bill? Spank Rock, MNDR, and the Tony Castles, as presented by our old friends Less Artists More Condos, their Damon Dash-assisted alter ego Under 100, Under 100's more politically correct cover name--The Dash Gallery--and the Giant Step dudes. 9pm--tickets are only available in advance, and not at the door. Good Units is an enormous and essentially vacant space beneath the Hudson Hotel that hosted a few things back in February and during fashion week; right now the gist seems to be that there's no cell phone service down there, which people complained about during an Interview Magazine party last month but actually is probably an asset if you're trying to make some cool new semi-covert space pop off. Otherwise it's just Twitpics for days, right?

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Catholics Not At All Pleased With That Less Artists More Condos Show at St. James Church with the Beets and Tony Castles

By Zach Baron Tue., Jan. 26 2010 at 10:00 AM
Categories: 'Secret' Shows, Featured, Less Artists More Condos, Scandal, St. James Church, The Beets

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Probably the first and last time local pop trio the Beets will find themselves with a YouTube embed on Notes on the Culture Wars. There is evidently no small amount of outrage brewing over a show staged by Less Artists More Condos and company at St. James Church a couple of Fridays ago. Brooklyn Vegan appears to be their primary source here: "Beer cans decorated pews, as did people standing and dancing on them. The lively all ages audience crowd-surfed down the center aisle where priests, funeral and wedding processions walk." Etc. Hm. Well, when you put it that way, it doesn't sound too good, does it? Aufer A Nobis, a blog about "Catholicism and East Coast Living," calls news of the show "exceedingly disturbing" and encourages you to write the church's pastor, Fr. Walter Tonelotto. American Papist takes things a step further:

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Cancel That: Under 100 Is Officially Not Back, Tonight's Ava Luna Show Has Been Called Off Moved to the Silent Barn

By Zach Baron Fri., Jan. 22 2010 at 2:50 PM
Categories: Ava Luna, Featured, Less Artists More Condos, Saying Sorry, Under 100



Less Artists More Condos promoter Ariel Panero brings word: tonight's Ava Luna show with Suckers and Marnie Stern, heralded here just hours ago as the epic return of Damon Dash's Under 100 wonderland, has been shut down. Like we say around here, mea culpa.

[Update: Silent Barn picked this one up. See below.]


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Less Artists More Condos Flee Under 100, Land at New Venue: St. James Church in Chinatown

By Zach Baron Thu., Jan. 14 2010 at 3:30 PM
Categories: Featured, Less Artists More Condos, St. James Church, Under 100

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St. James Church. Photo via
It was Ariel Panero's Less Artists More Condos that was putting on the shows down in Damon Dash's Under 100 basement, at least until Dame shut everything down and rebranded the entire enterprise as DD172. Before that, LAMC called an actual West Village condo on West 3rd Street home--there, Panero et al booked High Places, Wavves, Crystal Stilts, etc. until problems with neighbors, cops, and too much press got that place shut down as well. Between the two venues, LAMC did shows at the ill-fated Shank, on a old pirate ship, and in Chelsea, beneath the renovated High Line. Now, Panero and crew seem to be trying their hand at this Manhattan DIY thing once more, surfacing at Chinatown's St. James Church, where Brooklyn Vegan points out they have a show booked this Friday with the Beets, Tony Castles, Beach Fossils, and Total Slacker.

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