Gories @ Fun Fun Fun Fest 2010 (more by BBG)

today in NYC
* metal shows
* stuff @ Barbes
* DJ Spinna @ Santos
* Doron Sadja @ The Stone
* Daniel Kitson @ St Ann's
* Mario Diaz de Leon @ The Stone
* Bustle In Your Hedgerow @ Brooklyn Bowl
* Muscles of Joy, Remote Burial @ New Museum
* JDH & Dave P (FIXED) @ Le Bain at The Standard
* The Gories, Bloodshot Bill/Boom Chick @ Maxwell's
* Coeur de Pirate, Leif Vollebekk @ Highline Ballroom
* Ancient Sky, Exitmusic, Face Blindness @ Death By Audio
* Blonde Valhalla, Bermuda Bonnie, Crinkles @ Union Pool
* Tristan Perich, Lesley Flanigan, Mariel Roberts @ La Sala
* Slow Country, Guy Harvey, Averkiou, Such Hounds @ Cake Shop
* Violent Bullshit, Steel Phantoms, Total Babes @ 285 Kent Ave
* Grey Area, The Reveling, Luther, Nightmares For A Week @ Saint Vitus
* Ensemble MAE, International Contemporary Ensemble @ Issue Project Room
* Unstoppable Death Machines, Gull, Drew Toews, Jimmy Ohio @ Present Company
* Aimee Mann, John Roderick of The Long Winters @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
* Moon King, Eola, Peter Fonda, Philip Seymour Hoffman @ Big Snow Buffalo Lodge
* Kicking Spit, Nuclear Santaclaust, Artificial Limbs, Ain't Rights @ The Acheron
* Shapes, Devin Therriault, The Static Jacks, Le Rug, Newport Reds @ Shea Stadium
* Bridges and Powerlines, The Aye-Ayes, The Well Informed, Alyson Greenfield @ Pianos
* The Hundred in the Hands, Bikini, My Best Fiend, Bear In Heaven (DJ set) @ Glasslands
* Black Pus (Brian Chippendale), Matter Waves, Weasel Walter Trio @ Secret Project Robot
* Dave Quam, Rizzla, Blk. Adonis, Hollagramz, Lil Internet, Rezzie (DJ set), Mark Brown @ Santos Party House
* Too Short, Greedy Entertainment, Lethal Weapon, Prophet, C* Da Artchitecht, All Business Records, Ant Matos @ Knitting Factory

What else?

by Bill Pearis

DOWNLOAD: Averkiou - Present Tense (MP3)

IIf you read this week's, er, This Week in Indie you saw that Gainsville, Florida's Averkiou will be in town this weekend with fellow Floridians Guy Harvey for two shows: tonight (1/27) at Cake Shop and tomorrow (1/28) at Death by Audio.

Averkiou have a new EP, The New Imperative, coming out February 10 on Sound Study Recordings and we've got the premiere the track "Present Tense," which you can download at the top of this post. (You can also stream it below.) Averkiou wrap their songs in a warm sweater of distorted, tremeloed guitar and vocal harmonies and those who are fond of early '90 Yo La Tengo, and Teenage Fanclub will likely dig this.

Click through for cover art for The New Imperative EP, "Fuzzy Photogragh" stream, and all upcoming Averkiou tour dates.

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photos by Nathanel Turner

Danny Brown @ Echoplex

Danny Brown walked on stage [...] rocking a leather jacket and combat boots, as if ready for war. He'd come to town to please his fans who hadn't caught him at the Roxy last fall, and likely left with many new ones. Kicking off the set with "Radio Song," Brown emoted cool confidence. One thing I immediately noticed was how much his distinct, nasally cadence manages to stand out over the beat. During "Lie4," you could hear every one of his lyrics clearly, something practically unheard of for a hip-hop concert, which often drown the vocals in bass. The crowd showed appreciation by yelling back the chorus: "Got that income tax swag."[LA Weekly]

Danny Brown, Main Attrakionz, Kid Sister, and Party Supplies played a Check Yo Ponytail show at Echoplex in LA this past Tuesday (1/24). ScHoolboy Q was at the show and joined Danny Brown on stage for "Blunt After Blunt." A video of that performance, along with a video collage and more pictures from the show below.

Danny Brown will be in NYC while on tour this March. Tickets for his Santos Party House show are on sale now.

Main Attrakionz will be in NYC for two shows in March when they play Glasslands (3/4) (tickets) and The Studio at Webster Hall (3/5) (tickets).

ScHoolboy Q JUST (minutes before I typed this) released a new video for "Nightmare On Figg St." off his great new mixtape Habits & Condtractions. Watch that video below (and one we previously posted HERE).

More pics and videos below...

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Shabazz Palaces at Treasure Island Music Fest 2011 (more by Autumn Andel)

Shabazz Palaces are beginning to reveal dates for a North American tour they'll head out on this spring. The whole thing hasn't been announced yet but so far there's a Chicago show, a NYC show happening on April 13 at S.O.B.'s and a few others. Tickets for the NYC show go on sale Tuesday (1/31) at noon. All currently known North American dates below.

In related news, Shabazz Palaces collaborators and Sub Pop labelmates THEESatisfaction are releasing their debut LP, awE naturalE, on the label on March 27. They recently released a song, "Do You Have Time," which won't be on the album, but you can grab it via a widget below. Their only scheduled dates at the moment are hometown shows in Seattle and SXSW.

In other Sub Pop-signed-rapper news, Spoek Mathambo will release his sophomore LP, Father Creeper, on the label on March 13. Grab the album's lead track, "Let Them Talk," via a widget below. According to his website, SXSW, CMW & NYC dates coming soon.

All dates and widgets below...

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Didn't get a ticket to An Evening With The Cast and Crew of "The Adventures Of Pete and Pete"? All is not lost! A second show, happening earlier the same night, has been added and goes on sale Monday at noon.

by BBG

Hellooo busy spring! Romanian black metal crew Negura Bunget will play a string of European dates with Primordial in early March, but shortly after will embark on a US tour the surrounding their appearance at Maryland Death Fest. Joining them on the trek will be Eclipse Eternal, Wolven Ancestry and The Way of Purity, and their set of dates kick off with an April 20th apeparance at Cameo. Tickets are on sale.

Negura Bunget released their last LP, Focul Viu, in 2011 and Vîrstele Pamîntului in the year prior. The band's breakout OM LP was released in 2006 via the now-defunct Enucleation Records. All tour dates, some video and the tour flyer is below.

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photos by Amanda Hatfield

In a word, the band sounded "essential" (and like Sunny Day Real Estate), as if [Cloud Nothings] had to prove themselves all over again with every song. They were raw, intense, physical, aggressive, and it showed even in the name of the songs they played in their tight 50-minute set: the already-anthemic "No Future/No Past," skuzzy show opener "Stay Useless," bursting "Cut You," and the Nirvana-like "No Sentiment." When a scratchy-voiced Baldi furiously proclaimed, "No nostalgia, no sentiment/We're over it now and we were over it then," he meant it. [The L]

Band of the moment (thanks to a killer new album that you can stream on Spotify) Cloud Nothings played a sold out show at The Studio at Webster Hall last night (1/26). Here are some pictures

If you missed them, you'll have TWO chances to catch the band in NYC while they're out with A Classic Education in the coming months; March 27 at Mercury Lounge (tickets on AMEX presale on 2/1, regular on 2/3) and March 28 at Glasslands (tickets on sale).

More pictures from The Studio at Webster Hall (we missed openers Bleeding Rainbow and Jump Into The Gospel) are below....

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Surprised we are not, but we are excited to exclusively announce that Refused have added ANOTHER NYC show at Terminal 5 after the immediate sellout of the previously announced show on 4/23. The newly added date is 4/22 at Terminal 5. Tickets (which will be on Ticketmaster) go on sale Wednesday at noon (don't sleep).

All tour dates and a couple of videos below.

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Pat Kiernan

Demtetri Martin has added a third show at NYU which is on sale now. It doesn't appear to also be a taping (just a rehearsal), and happens towards the end of his tour and three days before his other two NYC shows which are tapings.

That same week, astrophysicist Neil de Grasse Tyson returns to the Bell House along with Eugene Mirman for another edition of Star Talk Live! Tickets just went on sale.

NY1's Pat Kiernan hosts trivia at the Bell House on February 27 (which is one day before Stephen Tobolowsky appears at the venue).

Meanwhile, you have ONLY THREE MORE CHANCES to see Daniel Kitson at St. Ann's.

Watch "Shit Pat Kiernan says" below...

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photos by Dominick Mastrangelo

DOWNLOAD: Sharon Van Etten @ The Greene Space (MP3)

Sharon Van Etten @ the Greene Space

As you know, Sharon Van Etten played a show at WNYC's Greene Space in Tribeca back on 1/17 (with Audra McDonald & Norm Lewis), one day before she played her entire new album in full at Mercury Lounge. Not only do we have some pictures of that show, you can listen to and download the whole thing too. MP3 above. More pictures and the embedded audio player below.

We recently posted a reminder that the 2012 Ecstatic Music Festival is beginning in NYC on 2/4, but what we didn't mention was that a festival preview event was going down at the Greene Space on 2/1:

Hosted by WQXR's Terrance McKnight, Q2 Music's preview concert features music and conversation with Ecstatic Music Festival composer-performers Jason Treuting, Angélica Negrón, and Jherek Bischoff as well as a conversation with composer and festival founder and curator, Judd Greenstein.

If you'd like to experience that show live (as opposed to watching/listening to it online), tickets are on sale now. We also have a pair to give away. Details on how you can win are below.

Jherek Bischoff's actual Ecstatic Fest show happens on 2/4 with the Wordless Music Orchestra and special guests David Byrne, Craig Wedren, Greg Saunier, Mirah, Zac Pennington, Carla Bozulich, Charlie Looker & Sam Mickens.

WQXR has also announced that they'll be streaming and archiving select Ecstatic shows as part of their Q2 Music series.

Greene Space pics & audio and contest details below...

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