MUSIC

 » Kickstart My Art - Will fan-financed funding change the music industry? As more than a few artists have shown, thanks social-networking-styled venture capitalist schemes, both self-contained and through third party groups like the site Kickstarter, it is a real possibility.

FESTIVALS

 » 2009 Jelly Pool Party #7 - Schools may already be ringing in the fall session, but it is still hot and sweaty in New York. For week seven of their free summer concert series at East River State Park in Brooklyn, JellyNYC brought in some talent from Steel City USA.

FESTIVALS

 » All Points West 2009 - Like most festivals, the tickets for this East Coast beheamoth make 'Rain or Shine' claims. With the New York area in the throws of a wet and wild summer, APW's boasts were put to the test over the weekend. Continuing her domination of tri-state event reporting, Lara Longo was there to cover three days of mud, music, and marketing.

FESTIVALS

 » 2009 Jelly Pool Party #3 - With more tattoos and horn-rimmed glasses per square inch than a Class of 1959 Reunion, the Jelly concert at East River State Park in Williamsburg is the place to be on a Sunday in Brooklyn. Week two featured Crystal Antlers, Magnolia Electric Co, and Dirty Projectors. Week three was slated for HEALTH, Black Lips, and Trail of Dead.

FESTIVALS

 » 2009 Jelly Pool Party #2 - Having begun hosting free music shows three summers ago "in what was once the largest functioning swimming pool in North America," for 2009 the NYC tastemakers Jelly have moved their hipster magnet operation to the riverfront in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Week two featured Crystal Antlers, Magnolia Electric Co, and Dirty Projectors.

MUSIC

 » Faunts - Touted as "a fluidic expression of Faunts' painstaking attention to instrumentation and arrangement" this Canadian quintet's new album, Feel.Love.Thinking.Of., captures the zeitgeist of 80's new wave and giving it a gloss fit for 2009.

MUSIC

 » Theresa Andersson: Live - Performing at The Living Room in New York as part of the CMJ Music Festival, last week the Swedish-born, New Orleans-transplanted multi-instrumentalist delivered her one-woman orchestrations in an almost-dance of pedal stomping, instrument switching, and percussion cueing.