[ “Royal Disorder Earth Mutiny ” 2006 - Camille Rose Garcia ]
The Jonathan LeVine Gallery, one of New York’s best galleries for underground, outsider, and cutting edge art opens up the Fall season this weekend with a double header:
Camille Rose Garcia’s Ambien Somnambulants solo exhibition:
In Ambien Somnambulants, tragic sleepwalkers wander along beautifully bleak post-apocalyptic dreamscapes, […]

We’re going to start a weekly listing of our picks for Thursday - Sunday night… Say goodbye to Summer Fridays!
Here is our tentative schedule for Labor Day Weekend.
Thursday:Alan Braxe @ Santos Party House
Friday: Marko Nastic @ Bar 13
Saturday: James Chance, Matthew Dear, and Ryan Elliot @ PS1
Sunday Day: Metro Area @ The Yard
Sunday-Monday: Sunday […]

Sonic Youth “Teenage Riot”
Green Point Wines is giving away 4 VIP tickets to see Sonic Youth this Saturday at what will likely be the last McCarren Pool show ever. If you win, we expect you to come running in on platform shoes, with Marshall stacks to at least just give us a clue.
Tickets are still […]

[Consequence - The Good, The Bad, The Ugly ft. Kanye West]
Consequence and GLC will be playing the Knitting Factory on Tuesday, September 9th. Many of you may be familiar with Consequence from his work with Kanye West on songs such as Gone off of Late Registration or Spaceship off of The College Dropout. Cons will […]

ReSolute will be bringing Marko Nastic to Bar 13 this Friday night for a rare club event.
The ReSolute crew has been responsible for some fantastic parties in the past few months, including a transcendent afterhours at TV Bar during this year’s DEMF and Bunker resident DJ Derek Plaslaiko’s birthday party in June here in NYC.
Playing […]

Alan Braxe & Fred Falke - Rubicon
Alan Braxe will be playing at this week’s Été D’Amour party. Alan is well known for his original material with Fred Falke as well as being an incredibly prolific remixer. Braxe also collaborated with Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter on everybody’s favorite French house track, Music Sounds Better With You, […]

The 2008 Art Parade is coming up on Saturday, September 6th! The parade starts at 4pm and runs along West Broadway from Houston to Grand.
We strongly recommend coming out and watching the procession. This has consistently been our favorite free event for the past 3 years. If you’re not really sure what to expect, […]

I don’t know how we missed this the first go around, but check out Pretty Ugly at Gavin Brown’s enterprise. GBE’s website isn’t the most informative — here’s a link to the address (620 Greenwich St.) The show runs until Friday, August 29th.

[photo by dave/ObsceneNYC]
Matthew Dear spun for four hours last week at Été D’amour Thursdays. The set started off kind of slow and mellow, but by 2:30am Matt was dropping some pretty nasty techno tracks.
This was our first time at Santos Party House and overall, we were very impressed. At times, the venue felt a […]

[Eric Cloutier spinning at Resolute Detroit]

ObsceneNYC family friend Eric Cloutier will be starting DOWN, his new monthly which will focus on the deeper side of minimal, techno, and house. The first DOWN takes place on Thursday, July 17th 2008 at Oulu Lounge in Williamsburg.
MP3: Eric Cloutier - Bar 13 Roof set (3 hours/284.6M)
May God have […]

Every Thursday from now until September 25th you’ll be able to see djs such as Dave 1 from Chromeo, The Rapture DJs, Matthew Dear, Alan Braxe, Ed Banger, and Micheal Mayer spin at ÉTÉ D’AMOUR (which translates to “summer of love”) at Santos’ Party House.
Check out Rhythmism’s interview with Jerome Viger-Kohler of Ete D’Amour. […]

[Os Gemeos, Deith Projects, April 02, 2005]
Theres an Os Gemeos show right around the corner at Deitch Projects. Too Far Too Close runs from June 28th to August 9th, 2008 at the 18 Wooster location. The Opening is on Saturday June 28th from 6pm to 9pm.
From the press release:
Os Gemeos (pronounced “ose zhe’-mee-ose.”) are two […]

[Space Mouse by PureEVA]
Bowery Presents just sent out an email blast for a last minute Modest Mouse show tonight (June 19th)! They are opening up for REM with The National at MSG earlier tonight.
Modest Mouse
Music Hall of Williamsburg
1:00am doors / 1:30am show
$20 (no service charge!)
Tickets

We were pleasantly surprised at the ReSOLUTE Detroit party by Henry of AirDrop spotting and recognizing us (do we even have pictures up?!) as the kids behind ObsceneNYC. After listening to some of his Airpods we’re going to have to recommend hitting up the event he’s throwing on Friday. Airdrop take oves Bar 13 Boston […]

[Max Knight’s “Walking Bike.” Part of the Bicycle Film Festival’s Dear Velo Art Show]
The Bicycle Film Festival, an international festival celebrating the bicycle, begins its New York City run on Wednesday, May 28th. The program features an art exhibit, films, and dance parties through Sunday June 1st.
We suggest hitting up the Dear Velo Art Opening […]

[Magda and the M_NUS posse in a special WTF photoshoot for Contakt]
Derek Plaslaiko’s monthly GO!!!! series features Magda off of Richie Hawtin’s m_nus label taking over the decks at APT Thursday, May 22nd. We highly recommend going as this is a great opportunity to see Magda in an intimate setting for 10$. We’ll be showing […]

[photos from last month’s french themed Kiss and Tell]
Seze and Deanna are rolling back into Rose Bar on May 7th for their monthly Kiss and Tell party. Dethlab is flying in from Detroit, and the Obscene NYC crew plans to get messy and drunk at what is currently our favorite low-key, mid-week drink session.
Click […]

[photo by from-the-land-o-plenty]
We first became aware of hobo and train graffiti through old interviews with Margaret Kilgallen and Barry Mcgee. One of the influences they made specific references to was Bozo Texino, a mysterious train artist who scrawled simple, intriguing messages and imagery onto railroad surfaces across America.
Bill Daniel will be screening Who is […]

We last saw Jay at Death by Audio in October and then successfully missed all ten of his CMJ showcases. He plays a furious non-stop 30 minute set leaving you a big sweaty mess, Pitchfork.tv graciously posted his entire set at Cake Shop during CMJ last year. We’ll definitely be checking him next […]

Buff Monster, the ice cream and heavy metal inspired artist, has a show opening up this weekend at the Giant Robot gallery in the East Village. More Details.