Tickets are not available online at this time, but you can visit the Hammerstein Ballroom at 311 West 34th Street until 10:00pm today to purchase. Thank you and enjoy the show!"
New York is celebrating 40 groundbreaking years with an event for our closest friends. We've enlisted The National and Grizzly Bear to perform and the night will be hosted by the comedy group Stella, a.k.a. Michael Ian Black, David Wain, and Michael Showalter. It's a party that comes around only once every forty years, so don't miss it.
Setting up their tunes on a creative territory amid American electric rock and indie rock's mellowest tunes, the National's influences include country-rock and British pop/rock. Migrating from Ohio, the band eventually formed in New York in the late '90s, with a five-piece lineup, embodied by brothers Scott (guitar) and Bryan Devendorf (drums), Aaron (bass) and Bryce Dessner (guitar), and by vocalist Matt Berninger. The National, their self-titled debut album, hit the record stores in 2001. In 2003 the group released Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers, followed by the EP Cherry Tree in 2004. The following year the band signed with Beggars Banquet and released Alligator. The National returned in 2007 with Boxer, an ambitious effort that featured orchestration by the Clogs' Padma Newsome and Sufjan Stevens on piano.
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Grizzly Bear began as a home recording project for Boston-bred experimentalist Edward Droste, who laid the groundwork for the band's otherworldly debut album on a small hand-held tape recorder. His homespun D.I.Y. effort took on new life with the help of multi-instrumentalist and Chicago native Christopher Bear.
The resulting album, Horn of Plenty earned comparisons to alt-rock heavy-hitters such as Sigur Rós, Sufjan Stevens, and Animal Collective. With Chris Taylor and Daniel Rossen joining the band, the album was reissued in 2005 as a two-CD set featuring remixes by Dntel (of the Postal Service), Final Fantasy, Solex, and the Soft Pink Truth (aka Drew Daniel of Matmos). In 2006 the band finished up recording Yellow House, their second proper full-length album. A year later, the Friend EP, which featured cameos from Beirut, CSS, and Band of Horses arrived.
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STELLA is a unique three-man comedy group. Michael Ian Black, Michael Showalter, and David Wain have been writing, producing, and performing comedy together and apart for sixteen years. They met in 1988 and created the sketch comedy troupe THE STATE which went on to a successful television run on MTV, as well as a prime-time special on CBS, a book, State by State with the State, several tours, and a comedy albums.
After The State, Michael Black co-created the Comedy Central series Viva Variety and was a regular on the NBC series Ed. He (and Showalter & Wain) were also seen on VH1's I Love the 80's and I Love the 70's.
Michael Showalter and David Wain co-wrote and co-produced (and Wain directed) the feature film Wet Hot American Summer, a comedy about the last day of summer camp in 1981, starring Janeane Garofalo, David Hyde Pierce, Molly Shannon, Paul Rudd, Amy Poehler, Bradley Cooper, Michael Black.
The Black/Showalter/Wain co-venture STELLA began in 1997 as a weekly nightclub comedy show that quickly became New York's premier showcase for alternative and mainstream comedy. The trio hosted such regular guests as Janeane Garofalo, Ben Stiller, David Cross and the Upright Citizens Brigade.
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