After the Jump Heads to Canada with Musebox for Pop Montreal 2008!!

Bonjour!

After the Jump Fest has partnered with The Musebox to sponsor a party at Pop Montreal this year. Yay Canada. I wish I was going! Here are details below...

Stories in High Fidelity on October 20 @ Highline Ballroom

This special event titled Stories in High Fidelity was put together by Jason over at Product Shop NYC, and I don't know about you, but it sounds awesome. Amazing writers and songwriters together in a big room. LOVE IT.

And you know I love my Jaymay. She's the bestest.

And I love Dan Kennedy. Oh boy.

Here are the details below...

STORIES IN HIGH FIDELITY PRESENTS
A PRE-CMJ LAUNCH PARTY

OCTOBER 20, 2008
HIGHLINE BALLROOM
7PM DOORS
$12 ADV TICKETS

Tickets are now on sale.

An evening of stories with
>>Jaymay (Autumn Fallin')
>>Chuck Klosterman (Downtown Owl, Fargo Rock City)
>>Dan Kennedy (Rock On: An Office Power Ballad, GQ, The Moth)
>>Rob Sheffield (Love Is A Mix Tape, Rolling Stone, Blender)
>>Marc Spitz (A forthcoming biography of David Bowie, We Got The Neutron Bomb)
>>and amazing special guests tba

Stories In High Fidelity is a new website and Sirius Satellite Radio show from the founders of Product Shop NYC (Village Voice Best of NYC, PC Magazine's 100 Favorite Blogs, PLUG Music Award Best Specialty Radio Show). Stories will feature first-person essays, tour diaries and reviews from some of the biggest names in music and a ton of buzz acts. Think of it as the Huffington Post for the music industry. Blog Radio with Stories in High Fidelity will be a weekly radio show on Sirius Satellite Radio's Left of Center. Stories will officially launch on October 1st.

Margaret Cho --> Secret Standup Show via MySpace

Margaret Cho is doing a secret standup show with MySpace at Higher Ground in Burlington, VT on Wednesday, Oct. 1. I think this is the only time I wish I lived closer to Burlington... as beautiful an area as it is.

Check her out on MySpace here.

Kiss --> Much Better Than This

Rooftop Films and Soundfix Records Present Closing Night on Friday with Chairlift

Dirty on Purpose performed at the opening night of Rooftop Films this summer, and it was a magical evening on top of a roof in the Lower East Side. This will be equally as magical -- celebrating the beginning of fall and the end of a successful season of New York rooftops and amazing films by the lovely folks over at Rooftop Films and specially-curated music by Soundfix Records. How good is that?



The special musical guest is Chairlift, who currently have buzz due to the song "Bruise" in the latest iPod Nano commercial. Hotness. Here are all the details below...

Venue: on the roof of the Open Road Rooftop
Address: 350 Grand Street @ Essex (Lower East Side)
Directions: F/J/M/Z to Essex / Delancey

8:00: Doors Open
8:30PM: Sound Fix presents live music by Chairlift
9:00 PM: Films
11:30 PM: Open bar at Fontana's with complimentary beer courtesy of Radeberger Pilsner

Tickets: $9 on Going.com

Take the Handle Party Tonight @ Enids

My friends' literary magazine, Take the Handle, is having a party at Enids in Brooklyn tonight to inspire romance. Come and enjoy good music and who knows, maybe some kissing.

The Cho Show on VH1

I used to hate All-American Girl, that really horrible sitcom that Margaret Cho was on in the 90s. I resented the stereotypes it perpetuated about Asians and Asian Americans. But I did like Margaret Cho's stand up material, and have seen almost all of her touring comedy shows. I always related to her struggles. She was someone I could relate to so much that some of her material made me tear up a little.

Now she has her own scripted reality show (oxymoron, I know) called The Cho Show and what clips I have seen have me so excited!

Watch all the episodes online on VH1.com.

It's Been a Long Time, Shouldn't Left You, Without a Dope Beat To Step To

Can you believe it is already mid-September? The last signs of summer are egging us all to sip the last of our cold maragaritas and squeeze in the BBQs and picnics before the cold weather sets in. The JellyNYC Pool Parties feel like they have long been over. The South Street Seaport shows are over.

I don't know about you, but I'm SO READY for the summer to be over. It's been an insane wild one, where I've spent most of it couch surfing with friends and trying to get a handle on my life. Most of the summer has been about work, work, work and more work. It's been the only constant in my life, I suppose. I've also been twittering an indecent amount. Is twittering the new blogging? I think it's the end of intelligent society as we know. I feel like I should read a dictionary or something to up my vocab from the OMGLOLZ to today's word of the day on dictionary.com. I told myself last night I have to stop typing the word "totes" for "totally." The internet is surely making my brain mush.

CMJ Music Marathon is just around the corner, and I think I'm looking forward to checking out some "new" bands for the first time in a long time. I want to travel back in time to when I first started to go to shows obsessively almost every night of the week. I remember the camaraderie of running into friends at shows, snapping photos with one hand while I sipped a whiskey ginger in the other. Buying t-shirts at the show and wearing it the next day. Planning out my show schedule weeks ahead of time. Fall is always the time for nostalgia, but it's also the perfect time for new beginnings. Let's end 2008 with a bang, eh? (And please don't call it "two thousand great"...)

Tonight, I am heading to the Music Hall of Williamsburg for what is sure to be a fantastical lineup. I'm SUPER PSYCHED! Hope to see you there...

Monday, September 15
@ Music Hall of Williamsburg
66 N. 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY

A Place To Bury Strangers
Sian Alice Group
Amazing Baby
Artanker Convoy

Doors at 8pm / Show at 9pm

$15

Check out music from all of the bands on this show on RCRDLBL.com.

More show info here...