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2015 Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival pics: ‘Bob’s Burgers’ songs, Reggie Watts, John Hodgman, Stephin Meritt & more

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photos by David Andrako

Eugene & Reggie / ‘Bob’s Burgers’ songfest / Stephin Merritt / John Hodgman
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The 2015 Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival happened over the weekend with events at The Bell House and Union Hall (and then a EMCF edition of StarTalk Live! on Monday at Beacon Theatre). Among this year’s festivities: Mirman’s ‘Pretty Good Friends’ show featured the work of Elegant Too, the production team behind the songs on Bob’s Burgers. They brought up different performers to sing the songs, including Jon Spencer & Cristina Martinez (Boss Hog, etc) who did “Sex Song” and a couple others, AC Newman and Eleanor Friedberger performed “Fart School for the Gifted” and “Electric Love” and Mirman sang “Gene’s Snake Song.” They brought out everyone at the end to cover Blondie’s “One Way or Another.”

On Sunday, since the Emmys were happening in real life at the same time, the EMCF hosted the Fake Emmys. It should be noted that there were a few past EMCF performers up for real awards, including Amy Schumer, Jon Glaser, Jessi Klein, John Oliver, Josh Gondelman, John Mulaney, Louis CK, not to mention Archer and Bob’s Burgers

Other fun things at this year’s fest: Mirman hired a mariachi band to play the crowd out; there was free ice cream for everyone on Saturday night; and there were curiosities like the “Eye Contact Booth with Eugene” booths where you could “Get Local Real Estate advice” and “Swear at a Local Broker” and outside Bell House was the “Bounce with someone we paid to compliment you in a bouncy castle.” Also: Reggie Watts, John Hodgman, Stephin Merritt of Magnetic Fields, Jessi Klein, Janeane Garofalo, Ira Glass, Jo Firestone, Scott Adsit, Jon Benjamin and many more.

Check out more pictures from the 2015 Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival below…

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What’s going on Sunday? (HEALTH, Thor, Okkervil River, Flamin’ Groovies, H2O, Pill, Frankie Cosmos & more)

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photo: HEALTH at Levitation 2015 (more by PSquared)
Health at Levitation 2015

You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows, but here are some highlights…

HEALTH, Pictureplane, Very Much (DJ Set) @ Le Poisson Rouge
HEALTH tone down the noise a bit (but not completely) on their terrific new album Death Magic, which is the catchiest thing they’ve done yet. They didn’t “go pop” though; it’s still very weird. Pictureplane is a great fit to open the show.

Thor:”I Am Thor” Documentary Screening and Performance @ Saint Vitus
“Jon Mikl Thor was a bodybuilding, steel bending, brick smashing rock star in the 70’s & 80’s whose theatrical band THOR hit the scene alongside Metallica and Kiss, but never achieved the gold record status of its contemporaries.” The new documentary on him screens at Vitus tonight.

Flamin’ Groovies, Nude Beach, Miriam @ Baby’s All Right
Powerpop legends Flamin’ Groovies are back with guitarist Chris Wilson and a barrelful of good time, hook-filled classics. Next year’s their 50th anniversary with a new album on the way. They’re well-matched with Nude Beach.

Okkervil River (performing Black Sheep Boy) @ Bowery Ballroom
Okkervil River’s acclaimed album Black Sheep Boy turns 10 this year and the band are celebrating with a tour where they’re playing it live in full. This is the second of three nights at Bowery Ballroom. Sold out.

Jim Tews “Felines of New York” Book Release @ Littlefield
Jim Tews new photo book Felines of New York exposes the “furry underbelly of New York City’s most glamorous, self-important residents.” This release show will feature cat-related comedy from Todd Hanson (founder of The Onion), Maeve Higgins, Mike Polk, Doogie Horner, Mrs. Smith, Team Submarine, and Dr. Brett Levitzke,

Pill, Courtship Ritual, Winkie, The Naked Heroes, Plaque @ Palisades
Newly signed to Mexican Summer, Brooklyn’s skronky, sax-fueled post punks Pill are always fun live. The headline this dark-tinged bill that also features the slinky Courtship Ritual and the decidedly goth Winkie.

Future Punx, Way Out, Suicide Slide, Jason Bartell (of Fang Island) @ Union Pool
Future Punx released their terrific debut album, This is Post Wave, which is part concept album and part manifesto. All to a danceable, very new wave beat.

This American Life Presents: 12 Days of Christmas The Improv Show @ Bell House
Ira Glass and the TAL folks have put together an impressive lineup of talent for this holiday themed improv show, featuring with Mike Birbiglia, Chris Gethard, Tami Sagher, Aidy Bryant, Scott Adsit, and Sasheer Zamata. Unsurprisingly this is sold out.

H2O, Angel Du$t, Give @ Santos
New York punks H2O celebrated their 20th anniversary this year and released the new album Use Your Voice, which… certainly sounds like H2O. That’s not a bad thing though, they’re good at what they do.

Frankie Cosmos, All Dogs, Eskimeaux, Florist @ Webster Hall – Marlin Room
Frankie Cosmos’ twee-ish sound gets a bit more danceable on her new EP, which she celebrates tonight. Good openers too: scrappy pop punks All Dogs and Epoch bands Eskimeaux and Florist.

Johanna Warren, Two Inch Astronaut, Jonah Furman, Thelma @ Palisades
This is a cool bill, with the folky Johanna Warren, post-hardcore band Two Inch Astronaut, former Krill singer Jonah Furman, and Thelma.

Tribute to Nina Simone feat. Nick Hakim, Xenia Rubinos, Deva Mahal, Jaime Woods, Amy Leon, J. Hoard, Paris Monster @ Manhattan Inn
One of the first shows booked since The Hum’s Rachael Pazdan began booking Manhattan Inn is this tribute to the legendary Nina Simone, with a pretty great lineup of musicians.

Hans Chew, Rhyton @ Mercury Lounge
This is a good double bill of experimental music, with Hans Chew (of D. Charles Speer & the Helix and other projects) and trippy rock band Rhyton.

For all of tonight’s shows, and tomorrow’s, check out our NYC concert calendar.

For laughs, check out the NYC Comedy calendar too.

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David Byrne’s ‘Contemporary Color’ film coming to theaters in 2017 (watch the trailer)

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Last summer, David Byrne staged “Contemporary Color” in Toronto and Brooklyn, a musical celebration of color guard troups, featuring synchronized dance routines involving flags, rifles, and sabers, with help from St. Vincent, Nelly Furtado, Devonté Hynes, Zola Jesus, Ad-Rock, tUnE-yArDs, and Ira Glass. The Brooklyn performances at Barclays Center were filmed and the resulting Contemporary Color performance documentary (which features all the performers listed above) premiered at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival. The film has just been picked up by Oscilloscope Labratories (the distributor founded by the late Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys) who will release it theatrically in 2017:

About the acquisition, filmmakers Bill Ross and Turner Ross said, “We’re excitedly ready to ramble with the O-Scope crew once again. CONTEMPORARY COLOR is a wild one and requires the kind of distinctive approach that they bring.”

O-Scope’s Dan Berger said, “CONTEMPORARY COLOR is an otherworldly blend of athleticism, grace, spirit, and art captured in an unbelievably electric and creative way. Watching CC isn’t just watching a film, it is experiencing a once-in-a-lifetime performance that is so much more than the sum of its set list.”

David Byrne said, “The teams and the musicians created this glorious, inspiring thing that runs counter to much of what is happening in the world right now – and the Ross brothers were the ones to feel that and capture it. We need an antidote, and here it is. The world is better than we think it is.”

While we wait for next year, check out photos from one of the Barclays shows here, and check out the film’s trailer below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9Ru2vNAwgc

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Pop-Up Magazine doing “live magazine” tour, coming to NYC soon

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Pop-Up Magazine is a “live magazine” concept that recently debuted in LA. Promising “a night of true stories, films, photography, and radio” from a lineup of writers, radio people, photographers and filmmakers, the show features a lot of interesting personalities and should be a unique kind of live experience. The tour comes to NYC for a show at Kings Theatre on November 17, and tickets are on sale now.

The lineup changes from city to city, and the NYC lineup is pretty cool. It features This American Life host Ira Glass, MTV News editor and The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic author Jessica Hopper, documentary filmmaker Jamie Meltzer, writers Mychal Denzel Smith and Joshua Bearman, and music from Magik Magik Orchestra, among others.

You can check out the full lineup for the NYC show, all tour dates, and a video of Pop-Up Magazine’s creators discussing the project back when it was created, plus a “sneak peek” video of this tour, below.

Pop-Up Magazine tour sneak peek from Pop-Up Magazine on Vimeo.

Pop Up Magazine from Southern Exposure on Vimeo.

Pop-Up Magazine — 2016 Tour Dates
11/9 BAY AREA NOURSE THEATER
11/10 BAY AREA PARAMOUNT THEATRE
11/12 CHICAGO HARRIS THEATER
11/15 BOSTON WILBUR THEATRE
11/17 BROOKLYN KINGS THEATRE

Pop-Up Magazine — Kings Theatre 2016 Lineup
JOSHUAH BEARMAN, Writer (Rolling Stone, Harper’s, the Wired story that became Argo) and co-founder of Epic Magazine

LAM THUY VO, Visual journalist, coder and fellow at BuzzFeed’s Open Lab

IRA GLASS, Host, This American Life

JESSICA HOPPER, Editorial Director for Music, MTV

JORDAN KISNER, Writer for the Guardian, N+1, New York Magazine; 2016 Pushcart Prize and 2016 Best American Essays

TINA ANTOLINI, Peabody and Edward R. Murrow award-winning radio producer and host of Gravy

JAMIE MELTZER, Documentary filmmaker (Informant)

MYCHAL DENZEL SMITH, New York Times bestselling author and Knobler Fellow, The Nation Institute

STEPHANIE FOO, Producer, This American Life

EVGENIA ARBUGAEVA, ICP Infinity award-winning photographer, with work in National Geographic, Le Monde, The New Yorker, and more

and new original music from MAGIK*MAGIK ORCHESTRA

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David Byrne’s ‘Contemporary Color’ film is out in March (watch the trailer)

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The documentary about Contemporary Color — David Byrne’s color guard showcase/concert that featured performances by St. Vincent, Blood OrangeNelly Furtado, Zola Jesus, Ad-Rock, tUnE-yArDs, and Ira Glass — will be out theatrically in March via Oscilloscope. It opens in NYC at IFC Center on March 1 and the opening night screening will feature Byrne himself in person. Tickets for opening night and other screenings go on sale February 27 at 6 PM. You can watch the Contemporary Color trailer below.

The film will then make it’s way around the the country. All announced screening dates and cities are listed below.

Related: St Vincent’s horror film is out this month.

CONTEMPORARY COLOR 2017 SCREENINGS
3/1/2017New York, NY IFC Center
3/17/2017Pheonix , AZ FilmBar
3/30/2017Seattle, WA Northwest Film Forum
3/31/2017San Diego, CA Media Arts Center

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SXSW announces 1st round of 2018 artists ++ more speakers

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Cut Worms at Rough Trade (moreo by Amanda Hatfield)

The 2018 SXSW Music Festival, which runs March 12 – 18 in Austin, TX, has announced the first round of showcasing artists, which includes The Wedding Present (who played a BV SXSW party in 2012), Indonesian rapper Rich Chigga (who plays NYC in November), Cut Worms (one of BV’s favorite newish indie rock bands of 2016), Shamir (who has a new LP on the way), Snail Mail, Austalia’s Totally Mild (who’ll have a new LP in 2018), Surfbort, Night Beats, Sun Seeker, Ed Schrader’s Music Beat, Lucy Rose (who just toured with Paul Weller), Lee Bains III + The Glory Fires, Alice Bag, Buddy, Nnamdi Ogbonnaya, Ratboys, Sun Seeker (who just released an EP on Third Man), Swedish band Hater, East London rapper Stefon Don, and tons more. Check out the full list of just-announced acts below.

In other SXSW news, Darren Aronofsky, who made the much-talked about new film Mother!, has been added to the list of 2018 Keynote Speakers. The festival has also added a bunch of Featured Speakers, including Keith Urban, Luvvie Ajayi, W. Kamau Bell, Ira Glass, Steve Ballmer, Yiying Lu, Stefan Blom, and more. A full list of speaker additions are below as well.

SXSW 2018 SHOWCASING ARTISTS (FIRST ROUIND)
Ace Tee (Hamburg GERMANY)
Aero Flynn (Minneapolis MN)
Altre di B (Bologna ITALY)
Antytila (Kyiv UKRAINE)
Aries (Bilbao SPAIN)
Automelodi (Montreal CANADA)
Avatar Darko (Seattle WA)
Bad Moves (Washington DC)
Bad Pony (Sydney AUSTRALIA)
Alice Bag (Los Angeles CA)
Lee Bains III + The Glory Fires (Birmingham AL)
Bajaga and Instruktori (Belgrade SERBIA)
Baywaves (Madrid SPAIN)
Benin City (London UK-ENGLAND)
Dan Bettridge (Bridgend UK-WALES)
The Bishops (Austin TX)
Blackberries (Solingen GERMANY)
Blood Wine or Honey (Hong Kong CHINA)
Boogat (Montreal CANADA)
Moses Boyd Solo Exodus (London UK-ENGLAND)
Brightness (Newcastle AUSTRALIA)
The Britanys (New York NY)
Abraham Brody (Vilnius LITHUANIA)
Marla Brown (London UK-ENGLAND)
Buddy (Compton CA)
C-Kan (Guadalajara MEXICO)
Dylan Cameron (Austin TX)
Fabrizio Cammarata (Palermo ITALY)
Cape Francis (Brooklyn NY)
Castlecomer (Sydney AUSTRALIA)
ChihiroYamazaki+ROUTE14band (Tokyo JAPAN)
CIFIKA (Seoul SOUTH KOREA)
Cilantro Boombox (Austin TX)
Cirkus Funk (Cali COLOMBIA)
C.Macleod (Stornoway UK-SCOTLAND)
Kelvyn Colt (Bingen GERMANY)
Coma Pony (Chihuahua MEXICO)
Crumb (Brooklyn NY)
Cursed Earth (Perth AUSTRALIA)
Curved Light (Austin TX)
Cut Worms (Brooklyn NY)
Mikaela Davis (Rochester NY)
Jarv Dee (Seattle WA)
Helena Deland (Montreal CANADA)
Deluxe (Aix-En-Provence FRANCE)
Dirgahayu (Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA)
Stella Donnelly (Fremantle AUSTRALIA)
Keelan Donovan (Portland ME)
Joey Dosik (Los Angeles CA)
Draper (London UK-ENGLAND)
DYGL (Tokyo JAPAN)
El Otro Borges (Buenos Aires ARGENTINA)
El Otro Grupo (Santa Marta COLOMBIA)
Farina (Medellin COLOMBIA)
Fatai (Melbourne AUSTRALIA)
FAVX (Madrid SPAIN)
Charlie Faye & The Fayettes (Austin TX)
Ruby Fields (Cronulla AUSTRALIA)
Fis and Rob Thorne (Palmerston North NEW ZEALAND)
The Fish Police (London UK-ENGLAND)
Flyte (London UK-ENGLAND)
The Foreign Resort (Copenhagen DENMARK)
Forever (Montreal CANADA)
FOXTRAX (New York NY)
Francobollo (London UK-ENGLAND)
Freedom Hawk (Virginia Beach VA)
Fuglar (Santiago CHILE)
GANGES (Madrid SPAIN)
Gang of Youths (Sydney AUSTRALIA)
Nubya Garcia (London UK-ENGLAND)
Samantha Glass (Madison WI)
William Harries Graham (Austin TX)
Grand Analog (Toronto CANADA)
Grandchildren (Philadelphia PA)
Greenbeard (Austin TX)
Grim Streaker (Brooklyn NY)
Grupo Rebolu (Colombia NY)
Gulfer (Montreal CANADA)
Gurr (Berlin GERMANY)
Sinead Harnett (London UK-ENGLAND)
Hatchie (Brisbane AUSTRALIA)
Hater (Malmo SWEDEN)
Ashley Henry Trio (London UK-ENGLAND)
Higher Brothers (Chengdu CHINA)
The Homesick (Dokkum NETHERLANDS)
Honduras (Brooklyn NY)
Warren Hood (Austin TX)
Husky Loops (London UK-ENGLAND)
HUXLEE (Los Angeles CA)
IAMDDB (Manchester UK-ENGLAND)
Izzy True (Trumansburg NY)
Jade Imagine (Melbourne AUSTRALIA)
Joji (Tokyo JAPAN)
JP The Wavy (Tokyo JAPAN)
Keith Ape (Seoul SOUTH KOREA)
Sarah Klang (Gothenburg SWEDEN)
La Banda Morisca (Andalucía SPAIN)
Manu Lanvin (Lyon FRANCE)
Leather Girls (Austin TX)
Luna Lee (Seoul SOUTH KOREA)
Lethal Bizzle (London UK-ENGLAND)
Benji Lewis (Melbourne AUSTRALIA)
Dean Lewis (Sydney AUSTRALIA)
LNG/SHT (Cancun MEXICO)
Los Wilds (Madrid SPAIN)
Lolo Lovina (Sydney AUSTRALIA)
Luneta Mágica (Manaus BRAZIL)
The Magnettes (Pajala SWEDEN)
Manatee Commune (Seattle WA)
Mannequin Pussy (Philadelphia PA)
Maréh (Cali COLOMBIA)
MARLENE (Stockholm SWEDEN)
Anna McClellan (Brooklyn NY)
MC Lars (Berkeley CA)
Melo Makes Music (Chicago IL)
Milk & Bone (Montreal CANADA)
Miqui Brightside (DJset) (Madrid SPAIN)
Mogli (Hamburg GERMANY)
Mothership (Dallas TX)
Museless (Barcelona SPAIN)
My Life as Ali Thomas (Bangkok THAILAND)
Hans Nayna (Mahebourg MAURITIUS)
Night Beats (Austin TX)
Not3s (Hackney UK-ENGLAND)
No Vacation (San Francisco CA)
October (Auckland NEW ZEALAND)
Nnamdi Ogbonnaya (Chicago IL)
Okey Dokey (Nashville TN)
ONR (Glasgow UK-SCOTLAND)
The Orielles (Halifax UK-ENGLAND)
Our Girl (London UK-ENGLAND)
The Outer Vibe (Nashville TN)
The Outfit, TX (Dallas TX)
Jay Park (Seoul SOUTH KOREA)
Partner (Windsor CANADA)
Peach Pit (Vancouver CANADA)
Sloan Peterson (Sydney AUSTRALIA)
pH-1 (Seoul SOUTH KOREA)
Phe Reds (Seattle WA)
Sara Pi (Barcelona SPAIN)
Plastic Picnic (Brooklyn NY)
pronoun (Brooklyn NY)
Punjabtronix (Bristol UK-ENGLAND)
Oliver Rajamani (Austin TX)
David Ramirez (Austin TX)
Rancho Aparte (Quibdó COLOMBIA)
Ratboys (Chicago IL)
Gemma Ray (Berlin GERMANY)
Lou Rebecca (Paris FRANCE)
*repeat repeat (Nashville TN)
Jess Ribeiro (Melbourne AUSTRALIA)
Rich Chigga (Jakarta INDONESIA)
R.LUM.R. (Nashville TN)
Lucy Rose (London UK-ENGLAND)
Rude Kid (London UK-ENGLAND)
RVG (Melbourne AUSTRALIA)
Salem’s Bend (Los Angeles CA)
Sammus (Ithaca NY)
sarasara (Lille FRANCE)
Sassy 009 (Oslo NORWAY)
Say Sue Me (Busan SOUTH KOREA)
Ed Schrader’s Music Beat (Baltimore MD)
Shamir (Las Vegas NV)
Shopping (London UK-ENGLAND)
Sik-k (Seoul SOUTH KOREA)
Silibrina (São Paulo BRAZIL)
Raz Simone (Seattle WA)
Smut (Cincinnati OH)
Snail Mail (Baltimore MD)
Sonars (Bergamo ITALY)
SPORTS (Philadelphia PA)
SsingSsing (Seoul SOUTH KOREA)
Steak (London UK-ENGLAND)
Stefflon Don (London UK-ENGLAND)
Stonefield (Macedon Ranges AUSTRALIA)
Sturle Dagsland (Stavanger NORWAY)
Sun Seeker (Nashville TN)
Surfbort (Brooklyn NY)
Surma (Leiria PORTUGAL)
Talisco (Paris FRANCE)
Tennis System (Los Angeles CA)
Terry vs. Tori (Seville SPAIN)
Theodore (Athens GREECE)
TiKA (Toronto CANADA)
Adam Torres (Austin TX)
Totally Mild (Melbourne AUSTRALIA)
Touts (Derry UK-N. IRELAND)
Uni (New York NY)
Us and Us Only (Baltimore MD)
Dhruv Visvanath (New Delhi INDIA)
VOWWS (Los Angeles CA)
Voyager (Perth AUSTRALIA)
VVV (Austin TX)
Warbly Jets (Los Angeles CA)
The Watchers (San Francisco CA)
The Weather Station (Toronto CANADA)
The Wedding Present (Leeds UK-ENGLAND)
Jerry Williams (Portsmouth UK-ENGLAND)
Marlon Williams (Christchurch NEW ZEALAND)
Wo Fat (Dallas TX)
Woodie GoChild (Seoul SOUTH KOREA)
“World Music Unleashed” by SIPM (Austin TX)
Yemen Blues (Tel Aviv ISRAEL)
Yultron (Los Angeles CA)
Yungen (London UK-ENGLAND)
The Zephyr Bones (Barcelona SPAIN)
Violetta Zironi (Reggio Emilia ITALY)

SXSW 2018 KEYNOTE/FEATURED SPEAKER ADDITIONS

Keynotes

Darren Aronofsky (Film Keynote) – Brooklyn born and raised, Academy Award®-nominated director Darren Aronofsky is the founder of Protozoa Pictures. He is the writer and director of mother!. Last year, Aronofsky produced Jackie. He directed, co-wrote, and produced Noah (2014). Before that he directed the indie box office phenomenon, Black Swan (2010). It starred Natalie Portman who won an Academy Award® for her performance. Aronofsky directed and produced The Wrestler (2008). His earlier credits include directing and writing the acclaimed films: The Fountain (2006); Requiem for a Dream (2000); and Pi (1998).

Featured Speakers

Luvvie Ajayi (Social Impact) – Luvvie Ajayi is a New York Times best-selling author, speaker and digital strategist who thrives at the intersection of comedy, technology and activism. A fourteen-year blogging veteran, she is the voice behind Awesomely Luvvie, a widely-respected humor blog that covers everything pop culture – from TV, movies and technology to travel, race and life’s random adventures.

Steve Ballmer (Startup & Tech Sectors) – Steve Ballmer is co-founder of Ballmer Group and owner of the Los Angeles Clippers. Ballmer retired as Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft in 2014 after leading the company for nearly 14 years. He remains a significant investor. Through philanthropy and civic activism, Ballmer Group strengthens promising and proven approaches that increase economic mobility for children and families in the United States. Ballmer also leads USAFacts, a project seeking to improve transparency in government.

W. Kamau Bell (Social Impact) – W. Kamau Bell is a sociopolitical comedian based in The People’s Republic of Berkeley, Calif. Bell is the host of the Emmy Award-winning CNN Original Series United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell. The series also received an Emmy and a Television Critics Association Award nomination in its first season. The third season will premiere in 2018 on CNN.

Stefan Blom with Josh Constine (Sync, Stream & License) – Stefan Blom is Chief Content Officer at Spotify. In his role as CCO he has responsibility for the company’s content and distribution operations, including all licensing, programming, studios & original content, industry & creators relationships and products globally. Prior to his role at Spotify, Mr. Blom held senior positions at EMI Music, most recently as CEO and Chairman of the group’s Nordic operations, and prior to that as EVP Commercial Development in a global capacity. Josh Constine is the Editor-At-Large for TechCrunch where he specializes in deep analysis of social products.

Sandy Carter (Startup & Tech Sectors) – Sandy Carter is an AWS VP focused on Enterprise Workloads and helping companies with innovation. A leading pioneer in the digital business revolution, Sandy was a driving force of Innovation at IBM for the last decade. She is an extreme innovator and bestselling author with her 5th book Extreme Innovation, built on her research with Carnegie Mellon.

Ana Marie Cox, and Bree Newsome (Social Impact) – Ana Marie Cox is a political columnist and culture critic. She conducts the “Talk” interviews featured in The New York Times Magazine. She also hosts With Friends Like These, a podcast from Crooked Media. Bree Newsome is a community organizer and activist who removed the Confederate battle flag from the South Carolina State House. Newsome rallies the spirit with her impassioned message about racial equality and illustrates how, with courage, zeal and the support of others, ordinary people can make an extraordinary difference.

Ira Glass (News & Journalism) – Ira Glass is the host and creator of the radio program and podcast This American Life. The show is heard each week by over 2.2 million listeners on more than 500 public radio stations in the United States, Australia and Canada, with another 2.5 million listening to the podcast. Under Glass’s editorial direction, This American Life has won the highest honors for broadcasting and journalistic excellence, including five Peabody awards.

Tristan Harris (Design) – Tristan Harris was previously a Design Ethicist at Google and left to lead Time Well Spent, a non-profit movement to align technology with our humanity. Time Well Spent aims to transform the race for attention by revealing how technology steers two billion people’s thoughts and choices, and by demonstrating how new incentives and design practices can transform our technology environment to align with our best interests. Harris has spent a decade researching what influences our minds, drawing on insights from sleight.

Hugh Herr, Aimee Mullins, and Professor Hans Georg Näder (Intelligent Future) – Time Magazine coined Dr. Hugh Herr the “Leader of the Bionic Age” because of his revolutionary work in the emerging field of Biomechatronics – technology that marries human physiology with electromechanics. Athlete and model Aimee Mullins became the first amputee in history to compete in the NCAA and was the first person ever to be outfitted with woven carbon fiber sprinting prostheses. Hans-Georg Naeder heads one of Germany’s largest orthopedic device makers, Otto Bock Group. The family business has worked with the Paralympics since 1988, producing hockey sledges and custom prosthetics for skiers, snowboarders and sprinters.

Yiying Lu (Design) – Yiying Lu was born in Shanghai China, Educated in Sydney Australia & London UK, now based in San Francisco Silicon Valley as a Creative Director. She is an award-winning artist and designer with more than 10 years of experience in the creative realm. Lu was named a “Top 10 Emerging Leader in Innovation” in the Microsoft Next 100 series.

David Marcus (Intelligent Future) – David Marcus is the Vice President of Messaging Products at Facebook responsible for Messenger, which is used by hundreds of millions of people around the world daily. David joined Facebook in 2014 from PayPal where he spent the previous two years as the company’s President and previously as Vice President of Mobile, leading its mobile products and business.

Bruce Mau (Design) – Bruce Mau is a brilliantly creative optimist whose love of thorny problems led him to create a methodology for whole system transformation. Twenty-five years in the business of design gave Bruce the practical, holistic insights for going into the design of business with his Massive Change Network five years ago. In doing so he laid the foundation for the new discipline of enterprise design, successfully applying his design thinking methodology to economic, cultural, governmental, environmental and social change.

Daniel H. Pink (Workplace) – Daniel H. Pink is the author of several books about management, work and behavioral science, including The New York Times bestsellers Drive, To Sell is Human, and A Whole New Mind. His books have won multiple awards and have been translated into 35 languages.

Brian Solis (Brands & Marketing) – Brian Solis is Principal Analyst and Futurist at Altimeter, the digital analyst group at Prophet and has been called one of the greatest digital analysts of our time by CMOs and CEOs of top brands. Additionally, Solis is an award-winning author of seven best-selling books including X: The Experience When Business Meets Design, What’s the Future of Business (WTF), and The End of Business as Usual.

Roy Spence (Workplace) – Roy Spence is the chairman and co-founder of the advertising agency GSD&M and author of the books The Amazing Faith of Texas and It’s Not What You Sell, It’s What You Stand For: Why Every Extraordinary Business Is Driven By Purpose. Spence is also Co-Founder and CEO of The Purpose Institute which helps organizations and leaders discover and fulfill their purpose.

Keith Urban (Music Culture & Stories) – Keith Urban is a premier songwriter, vocalist, musician and virtuoso guitarist. Over the course of his career, Urban has earned four Grammy Awards, ten Country Music Association Awards, eleven Academy of Country Music Awards, a People’s Choice and an American Music Award. His eighth studio album, RIPCORD, produced four #1 songs, bringing Urban’s total of #1s to twenty-two. Having achieved platinum status in 2016, one of only two country artists to hit that mark, Urban extends his historic streak of nine platinum or multi-platinum albums.

Lawrence Wright (Government) – Lawrence Wright is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of nine previous books of nonfiction, including In the New World, Remembering Satan, The Looming Tower, Going Clear, Thirteen Days in September, and The Terror Years, and one novel, God’s Favorite. His books have received many prizes and honors, including a Pulitzer Prize for The Looming Tower. His latest book, God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State, will be released in Spring 2018.

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What’s going on Wednesday?

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You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows, but here are some highlights…

Be Forest, Monograms, Activity @ Elsewhere Zone One
Italian trio Be Forest make a moody brand of shoegaze, part Slouvaki-era Slowdive and part gothy 4AD, and create a lot of sound with just three people. This is the last show of their tour and it’s worth getting there to see Activity, the new band from Travis and Steve of Grooms.

Candy, Abuse of Power, Ekulu, Regional Justice Center, Rule Them All, Muscle Before Paradise @ Gold Sounds
Gold Sounds hosts a ridiculously stacked hardcore bill tonight, headlined by Candy who are fresh off playing shows with Nothing, Gorilla Biscuits, and others.

Remember Sports, Joey Nebulous, youbet @ Brooklyn Bazaar
Since releasing their 2018 album Slow Buzz, Ohio indine-punks Remember Sports have gone on a few big tours (one with The Get Up Kids, one with Jeff Rosenstock and Joyce Manor), and now they’re back in NYC for a headlining show.

Open Mike Eagle, Sammus, Video Dave @ Rough Trade
Indie-rapper Open Mike Eagle’s What Happens When I Try To Relax EP was one of our favorite rap releases of 2018, and like his recorded music, his live shows are off-kilter but strangely addictive. Sammus makes for well-matched support.

Modeselektor, Shy Eyez Elsewhere Hall
German dance music duo and frequent Apparat and Thom Yorke collaborators Modeselektor just released new album Who Else?

Jenny Slate @ Gramercy Theatre (2 shows)
You may know her from SNL, Big Mouth or her much-missed weekly Brooklyn variety show Big Terrific. Here she is playing two big headline shows in her old stomping grounds.

Terry Riley, Gyan Riley @ Le Poisson Rouge
Composer, minimalism pioneer and living legend Terry Riley helped reimagine classical music in the ’60s. Tonight he presents this evening of music with his son, Terry.

The Sadies, Girls on Grass @ Union Pool
Twangy Canadian rock greats The Sadies had to cancel dates last year after drummer Mike Belitsky broke his shoulder, but he’s recovered and, having just wrapped up a tour with Kurt Vile, hit Union Pool for a makeup three-show run.

The Talent Show: Second Coming @ Littlefield
Elna Baker and Kevin Townley’s variety show has a lot of big name talent this week: Ira Glass, John Hodgman, Chris Gethard, Michelle Buteau and more TBA.

For all of tonight’s shows, and tomorrow’s, check out our NYC concert calendar.

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What’s going on Tuesday?

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Deerhoof at Elsewhere, 2018 (more by Amanda Hatfield)

You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows, but here are some highlights…

Deerhoof, Sloppy Jane, Gold Dime @ Elsewhere
The ever weird and wonderful Deerhoof have been together for 25 years and are still a supercharged live band that are always worth seeing.

Bang On A Can All-Stars @ Kaufman Center (Ecstatic Music Festival)
The Ecstatic Music Festival is now a year-round series but here is the one constant, the annual Bang on a Can People’s Commissioning Fund Concert.

Blackalicious, Dudley Music @ Brooklyn Bowl
Alternative hip hop vets Blackalicious (aka Gift of Gab and Chief Xcel) made a comeback back in 2015 with the release of their first album in a decade, Imani Vol. 1. They’re keeping the momentum going and they’re hitting Brooklyn tonight.

Pinocchio, Twisted Thing, Headsplitters @ Union Pool
Pinocchio is the new band featuring members of Vexx, Crazy Spirit, Dawn of Humans, and Anasazi, and you may have seen them opening for Bikini Kill last year. Tonight, they play a free Union Pool show.

The Talent Show @ Littlefield
The January edition of Elna Baker and Kevin Townley’s monthly variety show is packed with big names: Loudon Wainwright III, Suzzy Roche, and Lucy Wainwright-Roche, plus Ira Glass, Ben Sinclair (High Maintenence), Kyle Dunnigan, Jo Firestone, and more

William Gibson @ Murmrr Theatre
Cyberpunk pioneer and sci-fi icon William Gibson talks about his new novel, Agency, and this Q&A book event.

Sessa, Stefa @ The Sultan Room
Brazilian singer-songwriter Sessa released Grandeza last summer, mixing folk, psych, and tropicalia. Tonight’s the kickoff for his North American tour.

Julian Lynch, Ezra Feinberg, Cimiotti @ Trans-Pecos
While he spends a lot of his time these days as a member of Real Estate (who will be busy with their new record this year), Julian Lynch has been releasing albums of his own for the better part of a decade. Catch him solo tonight.

Machinegum @ Fig 19 Gallery
Strokes drummer Fabio Moretti officially celebrates the release of his solo project Machinegum’s debut album with this high-concept gallery installation show that will have the band playing, silent-disco style, into bluetooth headphones. To attend this show you had to find an invitation in one of the Machinegum bubblegum machines around the city.

You can also find quality entertainment on almost any night of the week at: Barbès bar and performance space in Park Slope, LunÀtico in Bed Stuy, Nublu in the East Village, Blue Note jazz club in the West Village, The Stone in multiple locations, Comedy Cellar in the West Village, and Q.E.D. comedy club in Astoria.

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New Yorker Fest goes virtual for 2020 w/ Fiona Apple, Steve Martin, Jerry Seinfeld & more

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The New Yorker Festival is going virtual for its 2020 edition which will take place October 5-11. It’s also a smaller lineup than usual while still featuring the festival’s signature mix of the arts, politics, and culture.

The lineup includes: Fiona Apple, who will talk with Emily Nussbaum and perform on 10/10; Steve Martin & Jerry Seinfeld, who will talk with Susan Morrison on 10/7; Dr Anthony Fauci, who will talk with Michael Specter about pandemic things on 10/5; Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Elizabeth Warren ,who will talk with Andrew Marantz on 10/5; and Chris Rock, who will talk about the new season of Fargo with series creator Noah Hawley on 10/6.

There’s also Margaret Atwood, Maya Rudolph & Natasha Lyonne, Ira Glass & Malcolm Gladwell, and more.

The New Yorker Festival will also host a drive-in screening of One Night in Miami, which is Regina King‘s directorial debut, at the Queens Drive-in on October 11. After the screening there will be a virtual Q&A with King, screenwriter Kemp Powers, and David Remnick.

Those are all ticketed events, but there are a couple free ones too, including “A Global Reckoning” on 10/10 where writers Jonathan Franzen, Elizabeth Kolbert, and Bill McKibben will discuss the climate crisis.

Check out the full 2020 New Yorker Festival lineup here.

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