June 2011
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WatchFull Bleed did a collage in room 1022 at Ace Hotel New York right in time for Go Skateboarding Day — and right around the same time Shut Skateboards (one of NYC’s purveyors of Full Bleed and an all around rad skate shop) screened Deathbowl to Downtown, shot on Super 8 and narrated by Chloë Sevigny, for our free Sunday night movie series, Liberty Hall Screenings. For posterity, the...
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WatchKathleen Hanna greets you from her lakehouse with Sini Anderson — she’ll be at tonight’s free screening of Who Took the Bomp: Le Tigre on Tour to answer questions when the lights go up — Liberty Hall at Ace Hotel New York, doors at 7 and reels spin at 7:30. Stay posted for our interview with Kathleen next week, and more info about Sini’s film, The Punk Singer.
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INTERVIEW : MELISSA OSBORNE, DIRECTOR OF CHANGE
We’re excited to announce the kick-off of AfterFest at Ace Palm Springs — we’re hosting DJs, late night screenings and really, really late night dining at King’s Highway all throughout the Palm Springs International ShortFest. We’ll also feature interviews with some of the festival’s directors over the next week or so. First up: Melissa Osborne, director of...
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WatchBed-In Series No. 3: Jenny O in room 200 at Ace Hotel Portland singing her heart out and making her fingers bleed. That’s our kind of lady. Stay tuned next week for a session with Barcelona.
Jenny’s been on tour with Holcombe Waller, and Holcombe plays this evening in Portland at the Aladdin Theater with Laura Gibson. We’ll see you there.
Shot and directed by Alicia Rose
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WatchBed-In Series No. 2: Laura Gibson blesses us with her boot prints and a swelling tide of novice harmonies in room 200 at Ace Hotel Portland. Laura plays a live set Friday in Portland with Holcombe Waller — win a pair of tickets to the show by tagging us @theacehotel and hashtagging #gibsonwaller. We’ll announce a winner on Thursday.
Stay tuned here Friday for a session with Jenny...
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OTHER MUSIC'S NEWEST COLLECTION AT ACE HOTEL NEW...
Other Music curates selections of vinyl and CDs for Ace Hotel New York, and this is their latest collection. You can come check it out for yourself — everything’s for sale on the wall just to the right of the taxidermy birds. If you want something good to play in your room and take home with you, just call the front desk and they’ll send some things up.
THE RETURN OF SOUND SYSTEM SCRATCH —...
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WatchOur friends John Heart Jackie from Portland are dropping down the I-5 tonight to play a live set in the Amigo Room at Ace Hotel Palm Springs with Joel Preston West. Succor for moody spring swings — come and get it.
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MoMAPS1 Warm Up x Ace Hotel New York
Our friends at MoMA PS1 just announced their summer lineup for the annual Warm Up music series out in Long Island City, taking place every Saturday between July 4 and Labor Day. We’re lending a hand by acting as a homebase to some of their visiting performers from far-flung corners of the earth, and we’ll be giving away a handful of tickets to Warm Up events each week to blog readers...
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WatchLost in the Trees, shot by Sandymontana on site at Ace Hotel Portland in The Cleaners. Stay tuned for more shows with good bands this summer.
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INTERVIEW : CHRIS ISRAEL, GRÜNER
Chris Israel is an old friend and enterprising culinary freestylist recently nominated for a James Beard award. His newest venture, Grüner, explores the Alps, the Black Forest and all manner of obscure root vegetables and hard-wrought, herby, nearly-medicinal liqueurs and apertifs. On any given afternoon, you can watch Chris’ team in the midst of hours of preparation for that...
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