This Weekend: First Friday, Mad Juana and the Arizona Lowrider Super Show By Jonathan McNamara September has reared its slightly cooler (we hope) head and bestowed upon us a great deal of new things to see and do. Here's what we'll be hitting up this weekend. Friday, September 5: First Friday in Downtown Phoenix You know the drill: a bunch of kats and kittens chilling on the streets of Phoenix with music blaring to the wee hours of the morning. Jump on in, Phoenix. Planning on hitting Perihelion Arts this First Friday? They've moved. Find out who's playing.Gogol Bordello.

Roseland Theater Hosts Stellar Fall Lineup As usual, the Portland venue you love to hate has a great lineup this fall; yeah you may have.o go through metal detectors and a pat-down to get to your seat (rows of seats in a live music venue?WHAT?) but the names they book at the Roseland Theater makes it worth it. Here is just a sampling of their upcoming performances; check the rest of their fall lineup out here. September 12: Bad Religion proves that truth is stranger than fiction. September 13: Michael Franti and Spearhead straight. Tickets.

Podcast: Mad Juana By Yvonne Zusel Eastern European-gypsy-punk band Gogol Bordello might think they have the market cornered on the gypsy-punk genre. But mustachioed frontman Eugene Hutz .&.Co. had better think again. New York-based Mad Juana have taken Bordello's formula and put their own twist on it, led by sultry blues-voiced lead singer Karmen Guy and her husband, ex-Hanoi Rock.s and current New York Dolls bassist Sami Yaffa. The band draws on jazz and flamenco influences to create their unique sound, which. Cleveland.

Win Tix to Balkan Beat Box! Look! They can fly too! Founded by ex-Gogol Bordello member Ori Kaplan and Tamir Muskat of Firewater, Balkan Beat Box is one of those irresistible can?t-stop-dancing bands that brings together disparate types of music from across the globe to create a polyglot sound that activates every dormant aural-receptor in your brain. Plus they bring hot bellydancing chicks to their shows! Woo! They play with Deleon at the El Rey on the 9th. And we've got tix! Just tell me your favorite ?world? or ?fusi. Ticket.

Win Tix to Balkan Beat Box! Gogol Bordello at Cleveland, Look! They can fly too! Founded by ex-Gogol Bordello member Ori Kaplan and Tamir Muskat of Firewater, Balkan Beat Box is one of those irresistible can?t-stop-dancing bands that brings together disparate types of music from across the globe to create a polyglot sound that activates every dormant aural-receptor in your brain. Plus they bring hot bellydancing chicks to their shows! Woo! They play with Deleon at the El Rey on the 9th. And we've got tix! Just tell me your favorite ?world? or ?fusi.

Interview with Ori Kaplan of Balkan Beat Box In preparation for the band's forthcoming show at the Cedar Cultural Center Culture Bully's Jon Behm reviewed a number of topics with Balkan Beat Box's Ori Kaplan. The former Gogol Bordello member discussed the band's heritage, global politics and world music; be sure to stop by the West bank and see check out the band on September 14. Jon Behm: I have read that Balkan Beat Box's musical goal is to take traditional Jewish music and bring it into the 21st century, so to speak, by fusing. Gogol Bordello tickets.

AFI L.A. Film Festival announces lineup Cleveland ticket broker, Danny Ledonne's documentary ?Playing Columbine? is one of 15 films screening at this year's AFI Los Angeles Film Festival, according to Variety.Columbine? chronicles the history of the game ?Super Columbine Massacre RPG! through the 2006 shooting at Dawson College, in which it was mentioned as a major influence on the shooter. Also premiering at the festival are Fernando Eimbcke's ?Lake Tahoe? Margarita Jimeno's ?Gogol Bordello Non-Stop? and Rodrigo Pla's ?The Desert Within. Here.

Stifle the Silence ticket brokers, Photo Credit I've realiz.ed I go through weekly stages when it comes to music. Sometimes, I want nothing else than energetic, heart pumping music (Girl Talk, Gogol Bordello) and sometimes the energy and passion drives me bonkers and I just want to be quiet for a minute. Except absolute silence drives me equally bonkers and I have to fill it with music that can seep into the empty quietness and not make me feel so alone. Can you blame me? I've grown up in this generation where we are saturated.

Bumbershoot 2008 works hard on Labor Day weekend If you're not familiar with Bumbershoot, let me refresh your memory. Founded originally in 1971, as the city-funded ?Mayor?s Arts Festival? the Seattle, Washington based music and arts festival has since evolved into one of the bigger events in the music world, now hosting 100,000+ attendees each and every labor day weekend. Of all places, the festival erupts under the iconic Space Needle at the Seattle Center. It's currently a three day festival, but each year the idea expands on itself.tickets.

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