After The Jump Presents: New Year’s Eve at Knitting Factory

Buy Knitting Factory NYE VIP Tickets Now!

As you may or may not know, The Knitting Factory on Leonard Street in Manhattan will sadly be closing their doors forever later on this winter. On NYE, the club will be celebrating the legendary space in a three floor event curated by the Akron Family with friends Deerhoof, Dirty Projectors, Deer Tick, Megafaun and more. Over this past year, The Knitting Factory has become like a second home to After the Jump and I, housing some of our greatest triumphs, most heartbreaking midnight moments and hours and hours of love and laughter with the wonderful family that is The Knitting Factory.

After the Jump is honored to even have a very wee part in this amazing night and we invite you all to come out on December 31st to be a part of it as well. Tickets are on sale now, including a limited number of tickets for the best deal in all of New York City- VIP access, open bar and three floors of incredible bands all for $100.

Also, Fender is giving away a 50th Anniversary Jazzmaster Guitar, a guitar that was made solely for the company’s anniversary party at the Knitting Factory in September. You can still enter to win one here!

The Knitting Factory opened it’s doors in 1987 and has since become a staple in the New York music scene as a legendary space, housing such bands as Sonic Youth, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Yo La Tengo, Levon Helm, Joan Jett, Busta Rhymes, PJ Harvey and Debbie Harry- just to name a few. Since it’s beginnings, the Knitting Factory has specialized in bringing cutting edge music and arts to it’s stages and on New Year’s Eve, it’s Tribeca doors will close forever with one massive, once in a lifetime party…

And we want you to be there.

Acts to be announced soon.

After the Jump and the Knitting Factory are now taking sponsorship offers. Please contact JKellas@afterthejumpfest.com for more details.

The After The Jump show originally scheduled to happen today (Oct 25) at The Yard, then moved to Market Hotel has been cancelled. Sorry for all the confusion, but it was out of our control.

The only place you want to be tonight…

After The Jump Fest Official CMJ Showcase at Knitting Factory

The Knitting Factory
Wednesday, October 22
7PM Doors

Old Office - $8 /or CMJ Badge
The Beets
The Lisps
Motel Motel
Alina Simone
The Muggabears

Tap Bar - $10 /or CMJ Badge
Best Friends Forever
The Depreciation Guild
My Teenage Stride
A Sunny Day In Glasgow
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Ringo Deathstarr

Main Space - $12 /or CMJ Badge
Starfucker
Unicycle Loves You
Bad Veins
Crystal Antlers
Heloise and The Savoir Faire
Juvelen

After the Jump is proud to announce a partnership with a great company named TOMS. TOMS gives a pair of shoes to a child in need for every pair of shoes sold. This year, they plan on giving over 200,000 pairs of shoes to children in need all over the world. How amazing is that?

TOMS is giving After the Jump patrons $5 off every pair sold with promo code ATJ, so get over to www.tomsshoes.com and start ordering! How perfect would it be to buy a pair of shoes for Christmas knowing a kid is getting a pair in return?

After the Jump is not just presenting one official showcase for CMJ, but THREE all under one roof in one great big party at the legendary Knitting Factory.  To say we are pumped is an understatement. Each show is amazing and unique and we hope you come to check out them all!

Old Office:
8 PM the Beets
8 45 the Lisps
9:30 Inlets
10:30 Motel Motel
11:15 Alina Simone
12:00 the Muggabears

Tap:
8 PM Best Friends Forever
8 45 PM the Depreciation Guild
9 30 PM My Teenage Stride
10:30 A Sunny Day in Glasgow
11:15 the Pains of Being Pure at Heart
12:00 Ringo Deathstarr

Main
8 PM Starfucker
8 45 PM Unicycle Loves You
9 30 PM Bad Veins
10:30 Crystal Antlers
11:30 Heloise and the Savoir Faire
12:30 Juvelen

Hey, Pop Montreal is going on as we speak. The lineup is tremendous this year and there is great online show calendar over here. Oh, and don’t forget After The Jump and The Musebox are putting on a show at Pop Montreal on October 4 at Petit Campus with a kick ass lineup that looks like this:

After The Jump @ Pop Montreal Presents:
02:00 Invasions
01:00 The Disraelis
00:00 Dr. Dog
23:00 Mother Mother
22:00 Black Diamond Bay
21:00 The Mark Inside
20:00 Delta Spirit

October 4, 2008
Petit Campus
57 Prince Arthur e.
Montreal, QC

Hi all! After the Jump is so excited about this one…

On Friday August 15th, we will presenting a free show by Longwave with a special guest at one of our favorite music venues, The Music Hall of Williamsburg. The show is the official after party for the Albert Hammond, Jr. and Regina Spektor concert at McCarren Park Pool. Come out and party with us!

Longwave are set to release their fourth full-length album, Secrets Are Sinister, November 11, 2008 on Original Signal Recordings.

The follow-up to 2005’s There’s A Fire (RCA), the new album was recorded predominantly by the band in their Brooklyn studio and with the help of producer Peter Katis (The National, Tokyo Police Club, Interpol) at his Connecticut studio. Secrets Are Sinister expands on the band’s trademark sound: atmospheric, arena-sized guitars still build to an epic swell while the band’s penchant for dreamy landscapes now gives way to an equally dynamic but louder, noisier, and more driving sensibility. Hailed in the past by magazines ranging from Rolling Stone to Nylon to Alternative Press, Longwave returns with their most varied and accomplished work to date, from the shimmering “Sirens In The Deep Sea” to the thundering, Dave Fridmann (The Flaming Lips, MGMT, Sleater-Kinney)-produced “Life Is Wrong” to the hopeful title track.

After the Jump received these lovely notes from the teachers whom received funding via Donor’s Choose from the funds generated from this year’s After the Jump Fest. Thank you to all those who participated and made this possible! And thank you to all the NYC teachers for making music an important part of their children’s education.

  Dear After The Jump Bloggers,Teachers and students are currently enjoying the summer holidays, so the grant proposals you funded will become a reality as soon as students return to school in September. In the meantime, the teachers wrote you these notes: 

Dear After The Jump Bloggers, Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your generous donation. My students are the most important thing to me besides my family. Teaching my students is a blessing that I am thankful for everyday. Thanks to you, my students can have the opportunity to express themselves in ways that go beyond the conventional way we learn. We will spend many happy hours enjoying our musical instruments and Cd’s. Words cannot express my hear felt gratitude. Thank you once again for making my students wishes come true.Fondly. Ms Thompson  

Dear After The Jump Bloggers, Thank you so much for your generosity in funding this proposal! I’ve been a kindergarten teacher for the past two years, and not having engaging dramatic play materials for my students to use has often weighed heavy on my heart. My fondest memories of my first years in school were of playing, pretending, and imagining all sorts of scenarios with my friends. Now I will be able to make sure that my future students are guaranteed learning experiences that require the use of their imagination! I can’t express my immense gratitude for your help in making this a reality. A HUGE heartfelt thank you, Caroline Hanley

Dear After The Jump Bloggers,Dear Donors, Thank you so much for funding our classroom listening center. I am very excited about beginning another school year with your generous gift. I am sure that my incoming kindergartners will be delighted to use our new listening center. You have given inner city kids the gift of listening to stories in a way that is fun and exciting to them. Once again thank you and expect to hear from us soon as the little ones will be able to thank you themselves. Greatly appreciative, Mrs. Ramona Brito

Hey all- Just a quick note that After the Jump now has t-shirts for sale. They are only $15 including shipping and proceeds go to benefiting ATJ activities. They are also super cute and were created just for ATJ bands and staff by New York designer Snoozer Loser! So go grab one quick while they last.