The Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, more commonly known as Nassau Coliseum, or The Coliseum, and branded as NYCB Live: Home of the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum for naming rights reasons, is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Uniondale, New York, east of New York City. The Coliseum is approximately 7 miles (11 km) east of the eastern limits of the Borough of Queens of New York City, and is located next to the Meadowbrook Parkway.
Barclays Center is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The arena is part of a $4.9 billion future business and residential complex now known as Pacific Park. The site is at Atlantic Avenue, next to the renamed Atlantic Avenue–Barclays Center subway station on the 2, 3, 4, 5, B, D, N, Q, R and W routes, as well as directly above the LIRR's Atlantic Terminal.
The Knitting Factory is a nightclub that was opened in New York City and that featured eclectic music and entertainment. After opening in 1987, various other locations were opened in the United States.
Irving Plaza is a ballroom-style music venue located within the Union Square neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.
Webster Hall is a nightclub and concert venue located at 125 East 11th Street, between Third and Fourth Avenues, near Astor Place, in the East Village of Manhattan, New York City. Built in 1886, its current incarnation was opened by the Ballinger brothers in 1992. It serves as a nightclub, concert venue, corporate events space, and recording studio, has a capacity of 2,500 people – including the club; 1,500 for the Grand Ballroom, 600 for the Marlin Room at Webster Hall and 400 for the Studio at Webster Hall. It has been recognized as the first modern nightclub.
Lillias White is an American singer and actress of stage, television, and film who is particularly admired for her performances in Broadway musicals. In 1989 she won an Obie Award for her performance in the Off-Broadway musical Romance in Hard Times. In 1997 she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical and Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical for portraying Sonja in Cy Coleman's The Life. She was nominated for a Tony Award again in 2010 for her work as Funmilayo in Fela Kuti's Fela!.
Dirty Projectors is an American indie rock band from Brooklyn, New York, formed in 2002. The band currently consists of primary recording artist and core member David Longstreth, alongside longtime bass guitarist Nat Baldwin, Mike Daniel Johnson (drums), Maia Friedman, Felicia Douglass and Kristin Slipp.
East River State Park is an 11-acre (4.5 ha) state park located in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. The park stretches along the East River near North 7th, 8th, and 9th Streets, and offers unobstructed views of the Williamsburg Bridge and Midtown Manhattan.
Ben Sisario is an American academic, author, and journalist.
Bill Flanagan is an American author, television executive and radio host. He was born in Rhode Island in 1955 and graduated from Brown University in 1977. His books include Written in My Soul (1986), Last of the Moe Haircuts (1986), U2 at the End of the World (1995), and the novels A&R (2000), New Bedlam (2007) and Evening's Empire (2010).
SpinMedia was an American digital publisher which owned a number of pop culture websites, including Spin, Stereogum, Vibe and The Frisky.
The ISSUE Project Room is a music venue in Brooklyn, New York, founded in 2003 by Suzanne Fiol. Located in 110 Livingston Street in Downtown Brooklyn, the venue supports a wide variety of contemporary performance, specializing in presenting experimental and avant-garde music. ISSUE Project Room is an art and performance center, presenting projects by more than 200 emerging and established artists each year.
Music Hall of Williamsburg is a New York City venue located at 66 North 6th Street in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn. The venue is operated by The Bowery Presents, a group stemming from Bowery Ballroom. It has a capacity of 650 people and has shows on most nights of the week.
The Bowery Presents is a concert promotion and venue management organization that runs multiple venues in New York City, Boston, Philadelphia, Atlanta, and Maine. Venue capacities range from 250 people to 20,000 people. The organization started with only a small club on Manhattan's Lower East Side in 1993 and gradually developed a new market for indie rock concerts for new middle-class populations in Manhattan and Williamsburg, Brooklyn, during the 1990s and 2000s, and in the 2010s increasingly also tourists and a wider area of New Jersey and Brooklyn.
Peter Shapiro is an American club owner, concert promoter, filmmaker, magazine publisher and entrepreneur from New York City. He is widely known as the promoter for Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years of the Grateful Dead, the Grateful Dead's 50th anniversary "final shows". Shapiro first gained renown through two films that screened at the Sundance Film Festival: Tie-Died: Rock ‘n Roll’s Most Deadicated Fans (1995) and American Road (1997). He has gone on to produce numerous other projects including U2 3D (2007) and All Access: Front Row. Backstage. Live! (2001). The Producers Guild of America identified him as one of “The Digital 25: Visionaries, Innovators and Producers of 2009.” On June 8, 2016, Shapiro was honored at the annual gala of the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival.
LiveStyle is a Los Angeles-based live events conglomerate founded by media entrepreneur Robert F. X. Sillerman. The company was formed in June 2012 as SFX Entertainment—the new incarnation of Sillerman's previous company of the same name, which was sold to Clear Channel Communications and later spun-off in 2005 as Live Nation.
Brooklyn Bowl is a music venue, bowling alley and restaurant in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. It is known for its high-tech green construction and variety of musical acts. In 2013 Rolling Stone named Brooklyn Bowl the 20th best music club in America.
Roulette Intermedium is a performing arts and new music venue located in Brooklyn. Founded in 1978, it has been located in Tribeca, Soho, and now resides in a renovated theater in downtown Brooklyn. Roulette is a nonprofit organization focusing on fostering experimental dance, new music, and performance.
The Anthem is a music venue and auditorium in the Southwest Waterfront neighborhood of Washington, D.C.. The venue opened on October 12, 2017, with a performance by the Foo Fighters. The Anthem is part of District Wharf, a comprehensive redevelopment of the Southwest Waterfront area.
Pool Parties was a summer series of free outdoor concerts that took place in an abandoned olympic-size swimming pool in McCarren Park in Greenpoint, Brooklyn from 2006-2008 and at the East River State Park in Williamsburg, Brooklyn from 2009-2010.
