Iron Maiden

scored some comp orchestra section tickets for Iron Maiden in NJ with the Earache and Skateboard Marketing homies.  fyi, new material from The Last Frontier album...was meh.
As usual the classics are what we wanted to hear: wrathchild, running free, number of the beast, iron maiden, hallowed be thy name, all delivered!

The Creators Project

Awhile back I went to this excellent event put together by VICE mag and INTEL at MILK studios in manhattan: The Creators Project
great art, good music, free foood & booze all day...I mean, you couldn't walk into any room without seeing 2-3 open bars. friggin awesome! reportedly there were 4k people in attendance...it was packed.
got to see up-close performances by The Rapture and Interpol, along with Sleigh Bells (killer set complete with Slayer's South of Heaven intro) Gang Gang Dance, South Africa's Die Antwoord and even my ultimate boner (Kirsten Dunst) was in the same room watching M.I.A.
epic day!

lyrics sunday

Saint Jerome's 4 year Anniversary Party

Tonight @ St. JEROME!!! 4 year ANNIVERSARY PARTY!! DJ's, GO GO Girls!! Crazyness!! Come on down! Party goes from 6pm to 4am!! Lets do this!!

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announced! Smell The Glove 4 - The Drunk Diet edition: Luc Carl to Dj again!

So stoked to announce the fourth installment of my party: Smell The Glove.
Hosted by my homie Brooklyn Ski Club and yours truly Nickels and Dimes.
Poof up your hair, dust off your leather pants and leave your sleeves at home because the only hair metal, hard rock, and glam punk party in NYC is back on July 22nd at St. Jerome's (155 Rivington). DJs Leather Rachael (Heavy Leather NYC), Luc Carl (DrunkDiet.com) and special guest Marty Concussion from (The Dirty Pearls) spin the likes of Motley Crue, AC/DC, Warrant, Guns N' Roses, New York Dolls, KISS, Motorhead, and much more.

And what kind of party would it be without free booze? We've got free vodka drinks from 2-3am courtesy of The Drunk Diet.com But get there early for $2 Bud & Bud Lite until midnight, plus beer+shot combo deals all night.

Amber Star and Blue Boom Boom will be rocking a go-go all nite! and we'll pass around some goodies throughout the nite. It'll be fun as hell, so you better be there!

Hosted by:
Zeena Koda (Sirius XM Liquid Metal)
Luc Carl (The Drunk Diet)

Photos by:
Driven By Boredom
Dokter Photog



Thanks to the homies for all their support!
Live Fast (http://www.livefastnyc.com/)
The Drunk Diet (http://thedrunkdiet.com/)
Heavy Leather NYC (http://heavyleathernyc.com/)
Sirius XM Liquid Metal (http://www.xmradio.com/liquidmetal)

no blog no love!

took a quick vacay from posting anything. so this is a place holder til I come back.

just announced: Smell The Glove 3

Brooklyn Ski Club and Nickels & Dimes NYC bring you the third installment of Smell The Glove on Thursday, June 24th at St. Jerome's in NYC.

STG 3 will be a special birthday edition for Eric Jayk, lead singer of glam band WildStreet. Eric will host it alongside our homie Luc Carl, from The Drunk Diet.
WildStreet will Dj a 2hr set, followed by Dj Ian El Dorado (Club Calco) and a surprise guest Dj to be announced the day of the party.

Apathy Aoki and Debbie Delirium will Go Go dance all nite, while Dokter Photog takes pictures of all the fun.
The Drunk Diet sponsors a Vodka Open Bar at 2am to keep our broke asses partying til we drop!

Special thanks to our rad group of friends helping us put this party together:

US Air Guitar
Freddie Matara Custom Leather
Midnight Dreams Productions
MetalSucks
The Drunk Diet
Kill Shop Kill

RSVP here

Come get awesome!

found: bathroom wall series

Smell The Glove v.3 in the works...stay tuned!

@St. Jerome's #sexiestbarintown

She's a dancer, a romancer
I'm a Capricorn and she's a Cancer
She saw my picture in a music magazine

cuz it's sunday funday

free Cerebral Ballzy show tonite

this will rule tonite!
at the new metal venue Acheron in Brooklyn owned by one of the cool dudes from Mutant Supremacy.
homies Cerebral Ballzy will kill it along Trash Talk and La Dispute.

SOULFLY's new album OMEN

Sweet hookup from RoadRunner Records!
they're streaming SOULFLY's new album OMEN in full. Dig it.

check it out here:

There's also behind scenes footage for Rise Of The Fallen video filmed in upstate NY

R.I.P. Ronnie James Dio

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Autumn Bowl's Skate Punk Bash

3 punk bands, 1 half pipe and 1 kidney shaped bowl, 40's, firecrackers, moshpit, flying beers, skate dudes...where is this? at the Autumn Bowl in Greenpoint of course.

It was a pretty wild nite packed with skate kids and a bunch of familiar faces in attendance...Vice, aNYthing, Neckface, Reciprocal skates, etc.
The bands Razor Tail, Bad Shit and The Goat- all killed it; specially Bad Shit with their hottie drummer chick in shorts and bra, bangin those drums pretty fucken hard and fast. Their singer with the mike duct taped pretty tight around his head was rather amusing to see, and am sure it proved to be a bitch to taking off.

Beer cans and bottles flying in and out of the pit, boards diving off the halp pipe into the pit and towards the band, smoky firecrakers popping in the midst of it all...rather hilarious and made sense at the same time. The vibe and place was just right for it. A rad nite for sure.

Vice wrote some stuff about it.

here are some pics

Smell The Glove 2 was banging!

The second installment of Smell The Glove at St. Jerome's in LES was a powerhouse. It was presented by Earache Records and hosted by Nickels and Dimes along Brooklyn Ski Club.
Noisecreep's Power Hour kicked things off with the official listening of the new RATT album Infestation. Their latest album in over 10 yrs! The place was hella packed and the young guns really got into it...with a little help from the open bar, thnx PBR!

After the listening hour, Fanelli from SHAPES took over Dj duties and spun a hella fun set, complete with golden gems from Hanoi Rocks, Twisted Sister, Dio to Danzig, while the sexy Victoria Privates did her thing Go-Go style.

The next Dj was Prince Terrence (popular local dj from Circa party) he got some good mixes in, most notably a guns n' roses/cramps/slayer/ metallica mash-up...pretty effin good! The crowd was definitely feeling it and some of the girls in attendance just took over the stage en-masse to go-go...which is aces in my book.

Right after that, Dj Matt Kepler from Precious Metal Mondays was up. Bodacious Amber Star joined the party too and danced to the likes of Motorhead, Maiden, White Wizzard, Ozzy, Cauldron to much delight of the die-hard drunken surly mugs like myself still not ready to go home.

The crowd was pretty great, from metal heads, punk dudes, hot girls to college kids. Our homies from MetalSucks, Metal Injection, Sirius Liquid Metal, Royalflush mag, RoadRunner, Heavy Metal Happy Hour, among other industry peeps came out to party with us 4:20 style!
oh, and we gave out rad Gift bags throughout the night with a bunch of goodies from all the sponsors too!

It was a fun boozy night to say the least and we're starting to work on the third installment. In the meantime, here are some pics to gawk at. (pics by Dr. Photog and Nickels n Dimes)

linkage:
more photos on Nicks n Dimes FB / Smell The Glove FB page
follow SMELL THE GLOVE on TWITTER

Shangri La Studio party in greenpoint

Went to this rad party in Greenpoint at this huge loft. There was free booze all night with a door price of 12 bones.
They had done some renovations and the place looked a bit spiffy...as opposed to the DIY feel it had before. A bunch of bands including classy Brian Newman Trio played and the fire breathing burlesque chicks were tops.
The whole night was an epic win until Jon Toubin started setting up for his dj set...that's when the announcement came to leave cuz the cops were outside...apparently something really bad went down on the street.
That pretty much sobered us, so we moved the party to our friend's rooftop, zig zagging our way thru the police shit show at 4am.

Amon Amarth kinda sunday

So, there I was chillen at home being lazy and a bit hungover, knee deep in metalocalypse/futurama/southpark/aqua teen marathon, plus some PS3 and delivery, when I received a call to see Am0n Amarth and Holy Grail within an hour...of course I said, yes. Who am I to turn down a free viking metal show on a rainy nite.
Amon Amarth, they're pretty fucken tight live, wall of sound and tempos always in-synch that only seasoned veterans possess...their songs are long sometimes but they can rock shit out pretty epicly. good times. I took a couple pics.