Happy Birthday Alex!

Glassnote knows how to celebrate birthdays!

Happy birthday to Alex Dunne, our head of publicity!

Here's a picture of our celebrations:


Also, happy birthday shout out to the staff birthdays that just passed in May: YiPei Chen-Josephson and Chris Scully!

Gino’s – A Glassnote Restaurant Fave

If you haven’t been to Gino’s Italian Restaurant at 780 Lexington Avenue in NYC, you better change that quick! This old-time classic restaurant is sadly coming to a close this Saturday. I finally got to sample their tasty meals yesterday at a family-style lunch with the Glassnote team. It was a nice chance to spend some quality out of office time at this classic restaurant. Gino’s was opened 65 years ago, in April of 1945, and has been filling customer’s bellies since then.

The scrumptious meal we all ordered: a pasta dish called Paglia fiegno secreto, preceded by the chopped Gino’s salad and Stretchatella soup. I’d have to rank it as #1 among the lunches I’ve had since working here. The meal was so filling I didn’t even need dinner… and I don’t get full easily!

Here are some pictures of the Glassnote Staff at Gino's:











Daniel Glass with the owner and a waiter at Gino's

Less Tourist History and more Tourists, Presently

Two Door Cinema Club have just about wrapped up their six week North American tour and the boys took a little bit of well deserved time off in Boston this week to check out the sights and have a little bit of ice cream, naturally.


Here is the band posing in front of the statue of some guy named John Harvard.



The band joined by Nick, our esteemed Head of Radio, and a fan.



What flavor is that Sam, Butter Pecan?

Two Door Cinema Club Rocks Bardot

Take a look at these sweet photos from Two Door Cinema Club's show at Bardot in Los Angeles!

Justin Nozuka - April, 2010

Hello!

Intern Katie Stein here again to tell you about the wonderful Glasssnote week I’ve had. This week Justin Nozuka was in town promoting his new album, You I Wind Land and Sea, that was released on April 13th. I’ve been jamming out to this album for the last few months so I was certainly psyched to hear him perform live! He first got in on Tuesday, which is the day he got to perform on The Late Show with David Letterman. I watched the awesome performance on tv Tuesday night and couldn’t wait for the next day when I got to see him perform a full concert at Hiro Ballroom here in New York.

After our usual meeting on Wednesday the other interns and I got the chance to see Justin perform a few songs at a special performance. He along with his guitarist Mark Pelizzer played Heartless, My Heart is Yours, and After Tonight and it definitely whet my appetite for the full set later in the evening. Besides being a great performer, he was also a great guy to work for due to his pleasant and kind demeanor. Although he’s got lots of fans and girls swooning for him, he stays humble and down to Earth.



When his set started at 9:30 at the Hiro Ballroom (appropriate venue since his very proud father’s name is Hiro), the crowd was buzzing with excitement. The set lasted approximately an hour and fifteen minutes and Justin and his band kept it exciting for the entire time. He is a rare talent that blends many different genres into his music and, after seeing how hard he and the team that supports him work, I truly believe that he deserves all the success in the world!

Be sure to catch him tomorrow on the CBS Early Show from 7AM to 9AM. I know I will!

VA Writing Trip

The Snow Doesn’t Stop The Music!

This past weekend, Ryan Downing (from Jonas Sees In Color) & I trekked over to Washington DC/Northern Virginia for some writing sessions. By some miracle, we both got there with relatively no fuss, despite a huge blizzard brewing in NYC at the time! We don’t let Mother Nature stop us!

As always with these writing trips, it was work work work, nose to the grindstone. BUT that doesn’t mean that we didn’t have fun. Ryan’s co-writer & his manager were super hospitable, welcoming us both into their home studios for these sessions. And their families were at once amazed and curious as to what we were up to. HITS, that’s what!

I can’t play the songs for you just yet, but here’s a sneak lyrical peak at one of the HOTT TRAX that they came up with this weekend:

“She gets why boy bands are always hated
But she swears the Backstreet Boys are underrated
And they are, they so are, I’ll say they are
If that gets me her love”

Curious to hear more? Good! Come back here soon to hear the tracks.

Without wax,

Maureen

Compost Cookies

COOKIES NOM NOM NOM.

I know the Cookie Monster has decided that cookies are a sometime snack. But I would definitely be okay with them being an all the time snack, especially if they are compost cookies from Momofuku Milk Bar (13th St & 2nd Ave).

I know compost + cookie = delicious is not an equation that sounds right, but trust me it is. This cookie could quite possible be the best cookie I have ever had. It has pretzels, potato chips, coffee, oats, butterscotch, chocolate chips (though I couldn’t taste the coffee).

Milk Bar also serves up some soft serve genius, cereal milk soft serve. I was too intrigued not try some, and I am happy I did.

I love Milk Bar, Anderson Cooper loves Milk Bar, so what are you waiting for?

Anderson Cooper on Milk Bar (Starts around 3:50 mark)