No, don’t worry, we are not ending, but we are happy to announce that we have partnered with writer/culture-provocateur Amanda Stern and her Happy Ending Music and Reading Series to present a night of…well, what else…music and reading. On April 2nd at 9:30PM Asthmatic Kitty’s Michael Kaufmann and Amanda Stern will be hosting this event at Joe’s Pub in New York City. The music will be presented by My Brightest Diamond, accompanied by strings. Also presenting will be three very fine writers: Alec Bemis, Daphne Carr and Rob Sheffield.
We are very thankful to BOMB Magazine for their sponsorship and Joe’s Pub for staging the event. Click here to visit Joe’s Pub website to purchase tickets. And you can read more about the series and writers by following the more link below.
Alec Hanley Bemis lives in Brooklyn, NY and spends a lot of time in California. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, LA Weekly, The New Yorker, and our own website and many other fine publications. Among his many music-related activities, he founded the Brassland label with The National and Clogs in 2001, and currently acts as general manager at Bang on a Can’s Cantaloupe Music label.
Daphne Carr is a music journalist, critic, and ethnomusicologist living in New York City. She is the Series Editor of Best Music Writing (Da Capo 2007, 2008), author of Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine (Continuum 2007), contributor to the books Marooned: The Next Generation of Desert Island Discs (Da Capo 2007) and Listen Again (Duke University Press 2007).
Rob Sheffield is author of Love Is A Mix Tape (Crown, 2007). He is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, where he writes the “Pop Life” column. He’s written about music and pop culture for the Village Voice, Spin, Details, Mojo, Radio On and other publications. He frequently discusses the Bananarama legacy on MTV and VH1. His karaoke jam is the Commodores’ “Easy.”
The Happy Ending Music and Reading Series, chosen by New York Magazine and NY Press as the best reading series in NYC, and singled out by the New York Times Magazine for helping to "Keep downtown alive," features the most interesting storytellers, writers, musicians, raconteurs and personalities, and requires the readers to take one public risk, while the musicians, who perform two short sets with their original, lyric-driven music, are required to play one cover song and try to get the audience to sing along.
