Music Report

Orchestral indie singer, songwriter and performer Sufjan Stevens is presenting BQE as part of the Next Wave Music Festival November 1st, 2nd and 3rd at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. BQE is a symphonic and cinematic exploration of one of New York's least celebrated monuments: the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway including 38 musicians and one 16mm film.
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2007/06/sufjan_stevens_28.html

In event-related news, Bleecker Street area mainstay the Lion’s Den will be hosting Queen tribute band Almost Queen and unfortunately named Beastie Boys cover group Posse N’ Effect this Friday Night October 26th. Tickets for the 9am Almost Queen show allow attendees free entry to the 11:30pm Posse N’ Effect performance.
http://www.almostqueen.com/

Visiting the wonderful Bowery Ballroom from the San Francisco Bay Area next Friday, November 2nd, is Lyrics Born. Born Tom Shimura, he is a half-Japanese-American, half-Italian American MC with a large vocabulary, deployed via regular use of complex rhyming technique, such as phonemes and internal rhyme. His song "Callin' Out" was featured in a 2004 Diet Coke commercial featuring Adrien Brody, a Motorola commercial, and in the video game MLB 2006. The song was also #1 on San Francisco's LIVE105 local radio station for 5 weeks.
http://www.lyricsborn.com

As a sidenote, opening for Lyrics Born is French singer Rue Melo, who I could definitely see Gregg Wasiak making a backstage pass at.
http://www.ruemusic.com/

Since it ‘tis the season, here’s a link to a set of Halloween “mashups” called Mashing Pumpkins.
http://cheekyboy.net/halloween.htm