Live: The 4 Knots Festival moved to the much larger larger Pier 84 this year and on a gorgeous afternoon with an astounding line-up art rock guitar bands, the larger area made it much easier to enjoy after overcrowding was a problem last year. A spectacular even, a ten minute walk from Time Square, it was a quintessential New York even. Standout? Stephen Malkmus was great and Twin Peaks were a revelation. Full review to follow.
Charts: Round are way, confusion rules as to when the charts, It looks like Fridays in the UK, Tuesdays in the US.From Billboard: “The first Billboard 200 chart impacted by this shift will see its top 10 revealed in a news story on Saturday, July 11, followed by a full posting of the chart on Tuesday, July 14.” Well, it is July 12th, and I still don’t see a thing..
News: Cherie Currie on Jackie Fox’s rape allegations: “if Joan, Sandy and I saw an unconscious girl being brutally raped in front of us, we would have hit him over the head with a chair.”
New York: Yesterday, the New York Post had a picture of a homeless man urinating in the middle of Broadway in the broad daylight on the cover with the headline “Pissed Off”. Horrible picture (so horrible I won’t post it here), I think it went too far and while he has proven himself an iffy politician at best, unable to work with Albany, even still… unable to hammer Bill De Blasio over crime statistics (they’ve dropped) the New York Post quality of life stuff reeks of overkill. After a year of relentless hammering of the Mayor, I don’t trust the New York Post in the slightest.
Numbers: The new Neil Young album sold 18,000 copies.