Category Archives: Music

Notes on Patriotism

By hugh | Published: March 3, 2012

First of all, look up Emma Goldman’s screed about patriotism and give it a gander if you never have. Yesterday morning, WNYC’s “The Take Away” had a whole segment about whether you/we are proud to be Americans… based on something Tim Geithner said last week: that the way to be patriotic is to pay your [...]

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Blue Radio, Live Radio, WFMU

By hugh | Published: February 29, 2012

If you ever volunteer at WFMU (or live in the vicinity shhh), you will find this statue when getting off the PATH train. How can you not gaze on it and wonder about the stuff you were wondering about before and will wonder about? If you like WFMU, you are someone who is on your [...]

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East West Quintet

By hugh | Published: February 21, 2012

Looking for new stuff from these dudes.

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Me Gusta Mi Bicicleta

By hugh | Published: February 6, 2012

My friends Spanglish Fly are finalists in WNYC’s Battle of the Boroughs! I DJ’d for them one night a while back… Go here to see other finalists and VOTE!

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Deb Bowman at the Underground

By hugh | Published: May 15, 2011

Catching my pal Deb Bowman sing at a local pub. She is going places! She’s doing a luxury cruise circuit for a year and a half after this. (Sorry my phone camera is so crappy.)

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Eurotrash Cometh

By hugh | Published: November 26, 2010

I had the pleasure of DJing for a lot of Germans and some other Europeans on Thanksgiving night. This is nothing new but I am a bit jealous of the Eurotrash because the ones I talked to have really crappy jobs, yet they have healthcare and can afford to travel through their whole four-week vacation [...]

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Playing Games at Fat Cat

By hugh | Published: October 16, 2010

One of my favorite places in New York has to be Fat Cat. It’s a gigantic basement of games (pool, ping pong, scrabble, chess, shuffleboard) plus live jazz music all night long. A large percentage of the clientele is NYU students who don’t give a shit about the music but even so, the atmosphere is [...]

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Is This Thing On?

By hugh | Published: August 19, 2010

I haven’t posted in a while but I will. Thanks for sticking around. New Yorkers should know that I usually DJ Thursday nights at SIP Lounge on the Upper West Side. I play mostly soul but lots of other stuff gets thrown in. Small “mersh” playlist below.

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Rocks Off Boat Cruise Photos

By hugh | Published: July 27, 2010

On July 20th 2010, I went on a Rocks Off boat cruise that cost only $10! What a deal! I took some pictures of the bands (Miniboone, The Naked Heroes, and the Mess Around) but they were all pretty blurry. I’ve seen all the bands before and they’re all great local acts from New York [...]

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Grey Fox Bluegrass Fest

By hugh | Published: July 23, 2010

Last weekend I was at the Grey Fox bluegrass festival and despite most of my friends not showing up until the final day, I had a blast. I picked up a passenger from craigslist and her party was nice enough to let me camp with them in the shady trees that line the festival grounds. [...]

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Made a Slideshow

By hugh | Published: July 12, 2010

I was fooling around with iPhoto and made this slideshow of mostly reject photos although some are published already. The music is “Thunderbird” by The Whitefield Brothers. They may ask me to take it down at some point… enjoy.

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Fire Escape Performers

By hugh | Published: July 10, 2010

I caught this charming couple singing catchy tunes off a fire escape on 14th Street last night. This is on the stretch between 6th and 7th Avenue and across the street from the Salvation Army headquarters. I didn’t catch their names (their names escaped me?), but maybe they’ll see this and fill us in. The [...]

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