We love our buddy NickyDigital so much that we gave him his own feature. Every few days we’ll feature something music related that he put up on his site. It’s fun to share things that friends are up to.

Nicky went to see Duran Duran with the rest of the Lower East Side and got this fantastic video:

Check out Nicky’s photos of Duran Duran.

Rob Dickenson, the singer of the incredibly famous 80s band, Catherine Wheel, is back on tour. He looks a bit older but his voice is fucking incredible. I got some video that I’ll try to post later, but in the meantime, here’s photos:

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I guess it’s no secret that I love Nightmare of You. I hadn’t been able to see any of their shows on The Bang Tour with Edison Glass, so I trekked all the way to Long Island to see the bands play at Temple Beth-Am. It’s very weird to me to go to Shul on a Saturday and not for services… but I guess stranger things have happened.

Nightmare of You:

Edison Glass:

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The Futureheads played a secret show for BrooklynVegan’s Rock’n'ROFL at Pianos. Only about 100 lucky people got to go, and I was one of them!

My favorite parts were when one of the supremely drunken audience members jumped on stage to take over the mic and scream some jibberish, and when Ross from FH asked an audience member, if like him, he got mistaken for the singer of the Decemberists.

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Even if the Young Knives sucked (which they most certainly don’t) I would go see them for the in-between song banter alone. The brothers, Henry Dartnall and House of Lords, appear to hate each other and find the stage a prime time to point out the flaws of the other in ways that basically shock and awe.

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I love love LOVE the Futureheads. They remind me of bands that I would’ve discovered while going through my older brother’s vinyl collection, sandwiched between his Jam and Clash records. Their new single, “The Beginning of the Twist” can be downloaded for free (and legally) here. Their live show is filled with a ton of spastic energy and coordinated dance moves that makes you wish watching them would never end.

Opening band, Chief, are one of my new favorite bands. They all live in NYC for college I think, but they’re from LA. When I watch them I feel transcended and stoned (even when not smoking the reefer)… they just have that nice sunny LA-vibe that is such a delight to hear in NYC. Their sound is a mix of Kings of Leon and Tom Petty. You can hear their songs, and download their songs on their myspace.

THE FUTUREHEADS:

CHIEF:

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Ludo are one of the bands I would least likely be suspected of liking. Their music is a quirky mix of They Might Be Giants meets Liam Lynch. Now, I know that Liam Lynch is like the most obscure reference I could pull out of my ass, but much like Lynch, you really never know what you’re going to get from Ludo with each song. It could be a rock opera about dinosaurs a la Queen, or a power pop song about God knows what. Either way, they have easily the best merch ever: PILLOW CASES!

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Sorry for the horrific delay in back posts… I’ve been busy with my new job/company at an actual office, so I sometimes can’t update as often as I’d like. But that’s going to change, I can promise you that.

Here’s photos of Apache Beat that I took at MisShapes on June 7th. They were a great mix of Bauhaus and Siouxie and the Banshees… definitely a band to keep your eye on in the future (more photos after the jump):

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The incredible live photographer, Alyssa Scheinson, went to Terminal 5 last week to check out the Kooks. Her photos were great and she gave them to us to run.

The Kooks

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The delightful Lauren Mooney went to see Dawn Landes at Mercury Lounge on June 15th. It was raining like a mofo, so she’s obviously a super trooper. Here is her review:

NOTE: If you were walking around Williamsburg on Saturday and wondered where all the hipsters were — they were either in Central Park getting soaked or holed up in nooks and crannies uptown trying to stay dry. VAMPIRE WEEKEND and a rainstorm. The things people do to be cool — but not me, not me. Aha.

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Lauren Mooney is one lucky girl: She some how, by some miracle or divine intervention, obtained tickets to MIA’s show at the MOMA. OMFG, right?

Well, under the cut is her hilarious review and some pics she took.

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So I imagine that the appropriate thing for me to do would be to write a review about the Duran Duran show at Central Park’s Summerstage last week. But to be honest, I would come across as the biggest fan girl on the face of the earth since I was kinda screaming the whole time in pure “Ohmygod! this is too great!!!!!” delight.

The band sounded fucking incredible. If you gave me an audio of their performance and told me it was super vintage, I definitely would’ve believed you.

But instead, I’m going to be presenting you with a bunch of photos. My friend Paul is their manager and apart from letting me and my friend Karen throw the Duran Duran afterparty for the first of the two shows (by the way, we were also once hired to DJ their afterparty a couple years ago and they came up to us and said they loved our set!!!!), Paul also gave me a photo pass so I could shoot the show for this blog. So I was pretty much smiling ear to ear like a four year old who just got a pony for about 15 minutes while I stood in their photo pit. I’m surprised I didn’t make them LOL.

Here are the photos (more after the jump, by the way):

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