Dr. Craig Spencer recently returned from Guinea where he was treating patients with Ebola.

Dr. Craig Spencer recently returned from Guinea where he was treating patients with Ebola.

 

A 33-year-old Doctors Without Borders physician who recently treated Ebola patients in Guinea was rushed in an ambulance with police escorts from his Harlem home to Bellevue Hospital on Thursday, sources said.

Craig Spencer, who was was suffering from Ebola-like symptoms — a 103-degree fever and nausea — spent Wednesday night bowling in Williamsburg, the sources said. He used Uber taxis to get there and back.

He landed at JFK airport on Oct. 17 on a connecting flight from Brussels, a source said. Spencer’s temperature was 98.7 degrees upon arrival, the source added.

Clad in hazmat suits, FDNY hazardous materials specialists sealed off his fifth-floor apartment around noon. Cops blocked off West 147th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam after he was taken to the hospital, witness Oscar Nunez said.

Another witness saw a person wrapped in blankets “like a mummy” being lifted from a wheelchair to a stretcher that was placed inside an ambulance.

“EMS HAZ TAC Units transferred to Bellevue Hospital a patient who presented a fever and gastrointestinal symptoms,” the Health Department wrote in a statement.

Spencer had been working with Doctors Without Borders in Africa, treating Ebola patients in Guinea, sources said.

He’s undergoing testing at Bellevue to see if he has the deadly virus.

“After consulting with the hospital and the CDC, DOHMH has decided to conduct a test for the Ebola virus because of this patient’s recent travel history, pattern of symptoms, and past work,” the Health Department said.

Test results should be available in the next 12 hours, they added.

As health officials wait for the results to come in, the case is being treated as if it were already confirmed, according to council member Mark Levine, who represents Spencer’s neighborhood.

“I want to assure everyone in Northern Manhattan that City, State and Federal public health authorities are responding with the highest possible level of urgency and marshaling every resource at their disposal to respond to this possible case,” he said in a statement.

Kasabian Crush New York: Behind the U.K. Band’s Terminal 5 Invasion

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Backstage and onstage at an explosive show supporting their most recent U.K. Number One, ’48:13′

Kasabian released 48:13, their fourth consecutive U.K. Number One album, and played a headlining set in a pyramid stage at the country’s Glastonbury Festival in June. Three months later, they returned to the U.S., bringing the North American leg of their tour to New York’s Terminal 5 on September 27th. Rolling Stone caught up with the group in Manhattan, documenting their busy day in the Big Apple from the pool hall to the front row of their sold-out show.

BeforeKasabian’ssoundcheck, the band went to the Green Door in Hell’s Kitchen, a cozy bar where guitarist Sergio “Serge”Pizzorno (left) and singer TomMeighan (right) could shoot pool.

Having finished the game – solids appears to have won – Meighan and Pizzorno sit at the bar.

Soundcheck begins, and the band faces an empty Terminal 5.

The lights turn pink and (from left to right) bassist Chris Edwards, Pizzorno and guitarist Tim Carter discuss the set list.

The agreed-upon set list.

Drummer Ian Matthews warms up on the ledge that overlooks the Terminal 5 stage.

A crew member bringsPizzorno’s guitars to the stage.

Meighan mugs for the camera. The band’s pre-show playlist includes, at this moment, theBeastie Boys’ “Intergalactic” and up next, the Beatles.

About to go on.

Meighan onstage. The band would open with one of their new tracks, “Bumblebee,” before turning toward “Shoot the Runner” (from 2006) and “Underdog” (2009).

Meighan addresses the sold-out crowd. A set highlight came when the band turned the intro from “The Doberman” into 2009 track “Take Aim” midway through the show.

Pizzorno and Meighan work it.

A rock star’s rock star,Pizzorno knocks out a big riff in front of the drum riser.

The band laughs about the first portion of the show while catching their breath before the encore.

Pizzorno leaps during an encore performance of “Vlad the Impaler.” They would follow the song with a cover of Fatboy Slim‘s “Praise You.”

The view from the front of stage asKasabian took their final bow after closing with 2004’s breakout single, “L.S.F. (Lost Souls Forever).”

Exhausted, Pizzorno walks offstage. Kasabian’s 48:13 tour would continue the next night with a show in Washington, D.C.

alt-J : This is All Yours [new album]

This Is All Yours

 

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Mercury-winning troupe alt-J lose a member and venture further out there.

Alt-J Will Debut New Album Live In New York

They’re simply my favorite band of the decade, so I’m thrilled that alt-J premiered a good chunk of its new album live for you to see and hear on September 2. That album, This Is All Yours, is another eclectic mix of English folk and art rock, with disturbing and intoxicating lyrics, rhythms and melodies that shift, fall apart and explode. It’s been looping endlessly in my head since I first heard it.

This second set of songs from the Leeds, England group (now a trio) is every bit as quirky and mysterious the one we heard on its 2012 debut, An Awesome Wave, which was my favorite album of 2012. This Is All Yours will be out Sept. 22, but three weeks before the release the band will play these songs at (Le) Poisson Rouge in New York City.  Audio and video of the entire show will be broadcast live on at NPR Music, beginning at 9 p.m. ET on Sept. 2 (and on WFUV as well).

Alt-J Full Performance at Le Poisson Rouge 9.2.2014 [Official NPR YouTube Video]

September 02, 2014 • Nothing was ordinary about this alt-J show — not that anything is ever ordinary from the artful British band.

But on at (Le) Poisson Rouge in New York City, alt-J  played its first concert in eight months: its first without departed friend and bassist/guitarist Gwil Sainsbury, its first with touring member Cameron Knight, and its first playing songs from the upcoming album This Is All Yours.

The new songs have all the power of the old ones, flush with textured sounds from Gus Unger-Hamilton’s electronic horns, steel drums, voices, and dense washes of grit. Lyrically, the new songs are equal parts creepy, lovely, puzzling, and expressive. In that expression is precision; you can see it in drummer Thom Green (watch his left hand) and you can hear it in the guitar dynamics and vocal phrasing of Joe Newman. This isn’t a band of pyrotechnic wizards, but alt-J’s technical prowess helped make this performance a deep pleasure on an extraordinary evening.

Briefly rocked by the departure of reluctant tour guitarist Gwil Sainsbury, the now three-piece alt-J show no signs of suffering creative jitters on this assured and strange second album. Leading on from the odd, compelling barber-shop trip-hop of 2012’s An Awesome Wave, the trio stretch their idiosyncratic range to include spooked neo-R&B (the Miley Cyrus-sampling Hunger Of The Pine), head-nodding Odelay-era Beck sonic collages (Left Hand Free) and, most effective of all, spectral balladry in Choice Kingdom and Pusher. There’s lyrical playfulness throughout – not least singer Joe Newman’s desire in the lightly lascivious Every Other Freckle to “turn you inside out and lick you like a crisp packet”. It’s one of many indications here that you can never quite predict what’s around the turn with this highly intriguing and inventive outfit.

 

Watch the video for “lightly lascivious” Every Other Freckle:

alt-J – Every Other Freckle (Official Video – Girl) From the forthcoming album ‘This Is All Yours’

 

 

Alt-J – Hunger of The Pine Official Video

 

Set List for premiere of the album in NYC

Set List

• “Hunger Of The Pine”
• “Fitzpleasure”
• “Something Good”
• “Left Hand Free”
• “Dissolve Me”
• “Matilda”
• “Bloodflood Pt. 2”
• “Tessellate”
• “Every Other Freckle”
• “Taro”
• “Warm Foothills”
• “The Gospel Of John Hurt”
• “Nara/Leaving Nara”
• “Breezeblocks”

Producers: Mito Habe-Evans, Otis Hart; Event Producer: Saidah Blount; Hosts: Bob Boilen, Russ Borris; Videographers: Mito Habe-Evans, Colin Marshall, Maia Stern, A.J. Wilhelm; Audio Engineer: Kevin Wait; Additional Editing: Colin Marshall; Special Thanks: (Le) Poisson Rouge; Executive Producer: Anya Grundmann