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June 29, 2007

SLINT cancels one of two NYC shows

First Morrissey, and now Slint....

Slint will no longer be playing the July 18th Don’t Look Back concert date at Webster Hall. Fear not, all tickets for that show can be swapped out for spots on the 17th, when they will still be performing Spiderland in its entirety.

Poor Slint.

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Morrissey cancels Saturday's NYC show @ MSG

Just a few posts ago I said I hoped Morrissey was able to play his show in NYC this weekend, and now...

Morrissey's concert at Madison Square Garden scheduled for tomorrow night the 30th of June has postponed due to illness.

The singer was taken ill earlier this week 7 songs into his performance in Boston which forced the postponement of that show as well as shows in Northampton, Mass and Philadelphia.

The artist's representatives are currently in the process of working on securing rescheduled dates and hope to make an announcement on Monday July 2nd. In the meantime Morrissey's performance July 6th at PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel NJ is to proceed as planned.

That really sucks.

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I'm bored

Me too. See what's going on this weekend.

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VIDEO: Low - 'Breaker' (animated version)

I missed them when they opened for Wilco the other day....

This is an animated video for the song Breaker off of Low's latest album Drums and Guns. The video was created by Manuel Aragon.

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CYHSY, BLOC PARTY, BLONDE REDHEAD Tickets & Tour Dates

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah's show at Gramercy Theatre sold out quickly. Bloc Party's show at the WaMu is on sale. Blonde Redhead is playing a free show at McCarren Pool this summer, and now tickets are also on sale for a show by them in NJ on September 22nd.

All Blonde Redhead tour dates & stuff, below...

Blonde Redhead speak

Blonde Redhead - 2007 Tour Dates
Jun 29 - Vera Groningen
Jun 30 - Werchter Festival Werchter
Jul 2 - Melkweg Amsterdam
Jul 3 - Modern Museum Istanbul
Jul 5 - Hanger 11 Tel Aviv
Jul 6 - Barbi Club Tel Aviv
Jul 23 - Hi Fi Bar Melbourne
Jul 24 - The Metro Sydney
Jul 27 - Naeba Ski Resort-Red Marquee Stage Niigata
Aug 3 - Grant Park Chicago, Illinois
Aug 4 - House of Blues Cleveland, Ohio
Aug 5 - McCarren Park Pool Brooklyn, New York
Aug 7 - Fillmore @ Theatre of Living Arts Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Aug 8 - Ram's Head Tavern Baltimore, Maryland
Aug 17 - House of Blues San Diego, California
Aug 18 - Sunset Junction Los Angeles, California
Aug 19 - Glasshouse Pomona, California
Sep 7 - Pearl Street Northampton, Massachusetts
Sep 8 - Parc Jean-Drapeau Osheaga Festival Montreal, Quebec
Sep 9 - Toronto Islands Park Toronto, Ontario
Sep 10 - Majestic Theater Detroit, Michigan
Sep 12 - Blue Note Columbia, Missouri
Sep 13 - Bricktown Ballroom Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Sep 21 - The Norva, Norfolk, VA
Sep 22 - Starland Ballroom., Sayreville, NJ
Sep 26 - Roxy, Boston, MA

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"Two stage hands die after Rolling Stones Spain gig"

Sad news

MADRID (Reuters) - Two workers died on Friday after part of the set from a Rolling Stones concert collapsed on top of them as they were dismantling it, emergency services said.

A third man was seriously injured after four people fell from a 10-metre (33 ft) structure that gave way as the team helped take it down after Thursday night's concert in Madrid. [ABC News]

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Has anyone texted for tickets on their iPhone yet?

More on "i-Day: iPhone iNsanity" at Gothamist. More on texting for tickets right HERE.

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What's goin' on?

DOWNLOAD: The Cribs - Men's Needs (CSS remix) (MP3) (NSFW VIDEO)
DOWNLOAD: Rodrigo y Gabriela - Diablo Rojo (live On The Tonight Show) (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Gang Gang Dance - Nomad For Love (cannibal) (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: The Band - Look Out Cleveland (MP3)

Levon Helm @ Summerstage, NYC - June 28, 2007 (by Sandwich!)

Is anyone going to see Bob Dylan at Jones Beach tonight? What about Rush on Monday?

Rodrigo y Gabriela and Vietnam for free in Central Park on Sunday might just qualify as the show of the weekend. JDH and Dave P are DJing too. It's really too bad that it's going up against Man Man, Illinois, Dengue Fever, and What Cheer Brigade at McCarren Pool which is also free. I hope for both of them that this rain lets up by then. Dengue Fever is also doing an in-store at Sound Fix on Sunday. (though is a show there even technically an "in-store" anymore?)

PS1 kicks things off in Long Island City this weekend with DFA.

Seymore Saves the World is the new band of ex-Tapes n Tapes bassist Shawn Neary. Take a look at their tour dates at MySpace and you'll notice they're visiting NYC this weekend.

The Stills and Malajube are playing shows at Maxwell's, and also in the park that Manu Chao just played.

Groove Collective, Ravi Coltrane, Craig Harris help Celebrate Brooklyn this weekend too. Ozomatli, Babylon Circus & DJ Joro Boro are at Summerstage earlier the same day.

Gang Gang Dance headline Bowery Ballroom Saturday night. They're also involved in the 77 drum Boredums thing that's coming up soon.

Morrissey isn't doing so well. Hopefully he makes it to MSG on Saturday.

The Fiery Furnaces tour is about to arrive. They'll be playing some new songs off their new album Widow City - out on Thrill Jockey Records in October. (man, they change labels a lot don't they?)

Although Cake Shop's website lists Saturday night's show as "JASON TRACHTENBURG and pals", I'm being told the show will be a full-on Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players "open rehersal", and "a chance to see something new and be witness to the development of some new concepts that are being developed for the Edinburgh Fringe in Aug. A lengthy Q and A session will also occur."

Langnorne Slim and others are playing a benefit for the Drew Goren memorial fund at Luna Lounge.

The Polyphonic Spree tour gets to Warsaw this weekend. Pharoahe Monch plays a late show at Highline Ballroom. There's comedy going on.

Although they were some of the displaced tenants, Sam Champion is not playing the Pizza Plus benefit at Southpaw on July 13th with Teenage Prayers and The Legendary Captain Greech + the Shrimp Shooters. Wait a minute - who are The Legendar Captain Greech + the Shrimp Shooters???

Sam Champion are for sure playing at South Street Seaport tonight though - with Ra Ra Rabbit........I mean...

Don't forget about Citysol, and Britta Persson too.

WHAT ELSE IS GOING ON? Wanna win a limited edition Black Lips/Yacht split 7-inch? Details below....

That crazy psychedelic picture you see above is the cover to a split 7-inch with The Black Lips' cover of The Tamrons' "Wild Man" and Yacht's "No Favors Policy". The limited edition 7-inch was produced by Fader Magazine and Southern Comfort, and is only available via contests and what not. You can not buy it, and there are only 500 in existence. Do you want to win one? E-mail BVCONTESTS@HOTMAIL.COM (subject: Lips Yacht) and let me know what the last show you went to see was. THREE winners will be picked at random on Tuesday July 3rd @ 5pm EST, and notified for their addresses.

The Black Lips are touring. Yacht is playing McCarren Pool.

Check Oh My Rockness for more upcoming shows. peace.

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Joan Jett rocked the river

Umbrellas were needed again....

Photos of Joan Jett's free NYC concert at Pier 54, on June 28, 2007, by t_a_i_s

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Klaus Kinski's Comedy Canon (06/29/07) [The Ten]

The more I read the reviews and the more I rewatch the trailer, the more I'm beginning to think that former Statesmen David Wain and Ken Marino might have created a classic with their upcoming film THE TEN. The film is basically 10 short films about each of the ten commandments. Many film twats are quick to remark that this concept has been done already in Krzysztof Kieslowski's supreme masterpiece Dekalog, but being that this film is from the geniuses that brought you The State and Wet Hot American Summer, I can assure you that the approach in this film will be much different, and much, much, much, MUCH funnier.

The film will have its nationwide release on August 3rd with some festival dates (including a July 21 Hamptons Film Festival screening), but New Yorkers will have a chance to attend a big "An Evening of Comedy & Music Celebrating the Release of The Ten" in New York on August 2nd at the Blender Theater at Gramercy. The shinding will be hosted by director David Wain, and will feature Michael Ian Black, Michael Showalter, Craig Wedren (a longtime State collaborator), Mr. Blue, Rashida Jones and Peter Salett (who is also playing The Living Room on July 18). Tickets to the event go on sale TODAY AT NOON.

Which reminds me, Michael Showalter's CD-taping shows at Union Hall are already sold out. More comedy shows that hopefully aren't sold out by the time you read this, BELOW....

The Ten Trailer - UNRATED version

6/29/07 8:00pm, UCB THEATER: God's Pottery Saves The World!: As previously mentioned, folk rockers Gideon Lamb and Jeremiah Smallchild take on global issues like adoption, drug addiction, and Africa in an effort to save all mankind. Be there or be spending eternity in hell

6/29/07 8:00pm, Rififi: Greg Johnson Show: Can't make it to God's Pottery? Then head to Rififi for another spectacular Greg Johnson show, featuring Liz Miele, Myq Kaplan, Mike Dobbins, and Reggie Watts!

6/30/07 7:00pm, Mo Pitkins: Flying Carpet Comedy: Nothing's finer than an early Saturday evening comedy show. This one features Reggie Watts, Rob Cantrell, Joe Mande, Brian Koppelman, Dan Soder, Mike O'Rourke, and Matt Ruby

7/6/07 8:00pm, UCB THEATER: God's Pottery Saves The World!: The second of three UCB Theater shows, folk rockers Gideon Lamb and Jeremiah Smallchild take on global issues like adoption, drug addiction, and Africa in an effort to save all mankind. Be there or be spending eternity in hell

Check out the UCB Theater website as well as the Pit website for even more listings of events. Also read my last canon if you haven't already.

SC Johnson: A Family Company w/Meredith Scardino + Dave Hill

Superjail pilot (David Wain as warden)

-Klaus

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BEASTIE BOYS presale today, stream + WIN stuff

First - I'm no longer streaming the new Beastie Boys. To hear 'The Mix Up' now, you'll have to go to AOL (who is also streaming the new Bad Brains).

Second - tickets go on presale today for the Beastie's upcoming instrumental shows.

Third - email BVCONTESTS@HOTMAIL.COM (subject: Beastie) if you want to win a Beastie Boys prize pack. Let me know one non-music website you love. One winner will be picked at random on Monday July 2nd @ 6pm EST, and in turn notified for their address. Contents of the prize pack below....

The winner will receive the following:

1 copy of "The Mix-Up" CD
1 copy of "The In Sound From Way Out!" CD
1 copy of "The Sounds of Science" CD
1 "The Mix-Up" sticker
1 "The Mix-Up" mobile (as in a thing you hang from the ceiling, not a thing you use as a phone)

Previously
* Beastie Boys "Gala Event" shows added

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June 28, 2007

Wes' Weekly Hip Hop News Roundup (June 28, 2007)

DOWNLOAD: Evidence ft Termanology - 'Low IQ' (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: an 18:00 interview w/ Pharoahe Monch (MP3)

Pharoahe Monch is fronting a live band this Friday (June 29 - 11:30pm) at Highline Ballroom in NYC. Black Milk, Polyrhythm Addicts, The Cool Kids, and DJ Ready Cee are opening. It's the official launch party for Pharoahe's new album Desire, which by the way I LOVE. It's a very strong effort with excellent, soulful and cohesive production, diverse and intelligent topic matter, innovative song concepts, and it just has a whole lot of heart --> Highly recommended. Check out another review at About.com, and interviews with Pharoahe HERE and HERE. All tour dates at the end of this post

We have a pair of tickets to give away to the NYC show on Friday. Want to win them? E-mail BVCONTESTS@HOTMAIL.COM (subject: Monch), and let us know who you wish we'd cover more in this weekly post. One winner will be picked Friday at Noon, and notified. If you don't win, tickets are still on sale.

50 Cent is playing the Hard Rock Cafe in NYC on July 18th. Tickets onsale @ 9am (also the presale password = MTV). Eve is playing the 19th. T.I. is playing that night too.

More Hip Hop below.....

NEWS

• Read a great write up of the Brooklyn Hip Hop Fest here, and of course pics here.
• Lauryn Hill is working on a new solo album. Lets all hold hands and pray it will be as good as her first. She plays a free show in Brooklyn on August 6th.
• Gangstarr affiliate Big Shug speaks on Hip Hop music and his place in the spectrum.
• The 6th Annual Hip Hop Congress Conference will be held in Athens, Ohio at Ohio University, July 4th – 8th, and they announched that the headlining artists will be OneBeLo, Blueprint, Tha Jacka and Invincible.
• Legend LL Cool J still hasn't gotten over his fall to irrelevance and seeks to blame as many people as he can. It would've helped if he wouldn't have stopped releasing good music over 10 years ago.
• He's still out there! Read a review of DMX's show in Columbus. He plays BB King's in NYC on July 21st.

MUSIC

• T.I. brings out the best in Jay-Z on Watch What You Say.
• NORE has teamed up with DJ Green Lantern for his Cocaine On Steroids mixtape.
• Big Shug, Talib Kweli and Pharoahe Monch freestyle on DJ Premier's 'Live From HeadQCourterz' Sirius Satellite radio show. Via Spine Magazine
• Stream (sigh) Talib Kweli's 'Hot Thing' (produced by Will.i.am) here.

VIDEO

• Prefix Magazine has a video of DJ Premier, Pete Rock and 9th Wonder being interviewed. Two legends and a rookie (in comparison)!
• Prefix also has a bunch of awesome footage from the Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival, including Ghostface, Capadonna & The Theodore Unit (here), Fat Joe & Consequence (here), Boot Camp Click, Heltah Skeltah, Smif N Wessun and Sean Price (here), and Jeru the Damaja, Skillz & Large Professor (here).
• GorillaVSBear presents us with an opportunity to check out Kanye West's new video for the Daft Punk sampling 'Stronger'
• Roc-a-fella engineer and A&R Young Guru speaks on Jay-Z, Hip Hop in NYC, Kingdom Come, and more
• RealTalk sits down with Pete Rock, who says Hip Hop Radio is trash, not much good music is left, and some other things.

SHOWS
6/29 Pharoahe Monch, Black Milk @ Highline Ballroom, 11.30PM, tix

07/09 MC Hammer, Doug E Fresh, Slick Rick & MC Lyte (Old School Night) @ Wingate Field, Brooklyn, NYC (info)

7/10 Kanye West @ Mohegan Sun Arena (CT), 7pm, tix.

7/14 El-P @ Urban Outfitters (Avenue of the Americas), sponsored by WNHU 88.7 FM & Free Yr Radio, FREE

07/28 & 29 - Rock the Bells w/ Wu Tang and many others @ Randall's Island

07/29 - "Wild Style 25th Anniversary Reunion" Central Park SummerStage ft Busy Bee, Cold Crush Brothers, DJ Grand Wizzard Theodore & Grand Master Caz

07/18 50 Cent @ Hard Rock Cafe, NYC (tix)

07/19 Eve @ Hard Rock Cafe, NYC (tix)

07/19 T.I. @ Hard Rock Cafe, NYC (tix)

07/19 Arrested Development @ Von King Park (Brooklyn)

07/21 DMX @ BB King's tix.

07/25 Kurtis Blow/DJ GrandWizzard Theodore/Ralph McDaniel @ Crotona Park (Bronx)

07/31 Whodini @ Queensbridge Park (Manhattan)

08/03 Lyricist Lounge With KRS-One, Ladybug Mecca, and more @ Prospect Park Bandshell. (info)

08/06 Lauryn Hill @ Wingate Field, Brooklyn, NYC (info)

08/08 Biz Markie/DJ Lovebug starski @ Jackie Robinson Park (Manhattan)

08/09 Slick Rick/DJ Red Alert @ Marcus Garvy Park (Manhattan)

PHAROAHE MONCH - Body Baby

PHAROAHE MONCH - 2007 Tour Dates
6/29 New York, NY - Highline Ballroom
7/17 London, England - Scala
7/18 Montreux, Switzerland - Montreux Jazz Festival
7/19 Dublin, Ireland - Tripod
7/20 Galway, Ireland - GPO
7/26 Mansfield, MA - Tweeter Center (Rock the Bells Tour)
7/28 New York, NY - Randall's Island (Rock the Bells Festival)
7/29 New York, NY - Randall's Island (Rock the Bells Festival)
8/02 Atlanta, GA - HiFi Buys Amphitheatre (Rock the Bells Tour)
8/03 Charlotte, NC - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre (Rock the Bells Tour)
8/04 Miami, FL - Bayfront Park Amphitheatre (Rock the Bells Tour)

PHAROAHE MONCH - Desire tracklist
1 Intro
2 Free
3 Desire [ft. Showtyme]
4 Push [ft. Showtyme, Mela Machinko & Tower of Power]
5 Welcome to the Terrordome
6 What It Is
7 When the Gun Draws [ft. Mr. Porter]
8 Let's Go [ft. Mela Machinko]
9 Body Baby
10 Bar Tap [ft. Mela Machinko]
11 Hold On [ft. Erykah Badu]
12 So Good
13 Trilogy (Act I ft. Mr. Porter, Act II ft. Dwele, Act III ft. Tone)

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VIDEO: Manu Chao - "Rainin' In Paradize"

This is too perfect...

First video from the forthcoming new Manu Chao album "La Radiolina" due out in September 2007. Download the new single "Rainin' In Paradize" at www.manuchao.net

Previously
* the photos of MANU CHAO & the rain in Prospect Park

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the photos of MANU CHAO & the rain in Prospect Park

The crazy thing is they confiscated all umbrellas at the door (almost all of them anyway). I was hoping to take a picture of all the umbrellas they had piled up by the entrance, but I forgot. Why they did that, I don't know.

Ends up there wasn't any rain for almost the entire concert - it felt like a miracle. Then like magic - it was magical I swear - it started coming down in buckets right as the encore kicked in ("King of the Bongo" I think?). Everyone went nuts - in a good way.

What made it even better was that right before the encore that Celebrate Brooklyn guy - the worst possible guy for the job - came out and told that crowd that due to "dangerous" thunderstorms about to come our way (cue: everyone in attendance BOOS at once, and then.... THUNDER...), Manu Chao would be allowed to come out and do one more song for us, but then we needed to all get home safely. He did not wish anyone luck finding their umbrella though.

Bigger pictures - especially of the crowd and rain, @ FLICKR, and one more photo and a bunch of comments HERE.

This show took place in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NYC - a "Celbrate Brooklyn" "benefit" show - on June 27, 2007. It was the second night in a row, and the second year in a row.

Previously
* Manu Chao @ Prospect Park (Celebrate Brooklyn), NYC - pics
* VIDEO: Manu Chao - 'Blood & Fire' + Brooklyn Tomorrow!
* Manu Chao @ Celebrate Brooklyn (Prospect Park Bandshell), NYC | pics (2006)

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VIDEO: Art Brut - 'Direct Hit'

Video of the year?...

Tickets are still on sale for Art Brut's show at Highline Ballroom on July 9th.

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Amanda Palmer & Beth Ditto duet (photos & video) +++++++++ a new GOSSIP song

the new Gossip song on MySpace is whatever, but this is pretty sweet...

Amanda Palmer, Beth Ditto (& Madame), NYC - June 21, 2007 (CRED)

It was one of those nights... that leaves you wondering, "How the hell did I end up here with Amanda Palmer and Beth Ditto and Madame singing Radiohead's 'Creep' complete with ukelele?" It started with the True Colors concert... which was *amazing*... right from the beginning with the Drag Queen Rockettes (of whom I knew 4!). I also particularly enjoyed The Dresden Dolls, The Gossip, Erasure and, of course, Cyndi Lauper. Margaret Cho was a highlight, too. Chris Tuttle had told me about the after party fundraiser for LifeBeat, so, I scooted over there and got to hang with him and Joe and Madame and Trai La Trash for a few hours... good times. :) [...says lisapodak]

Unfortunately I don't have a video nearly as good as the last one I posted of Amanda doing 'Creep' by herself, but at least there's something.....

More pictures from the Radio City after-party (and the source of the last 4 photos) HERE. Beth Ditto sorta nude HERE. Backstage footage HERE.

Gossip - 2007 Tour Dates
Jun 28 - Vega Copenhagen
Jun 29 - Accelerator Stockholm
Jun 30 - Hove Festival Oslo
Jul 2 - Columbia Club Berlin
Jul 3 - Gebäude 9 Cologne
Jul 4 - Übel & Gefährlich Hamburg
Jul 5 - Super Bock Super Rock Festival Lissabon
Jul 7 - Oxegen Dublin
Jul 8 - T in the Park Glasgow
Jul 9 - Carling Academy Liverpool
Jul 11 - Rock City Nottingham
Jul 13 - Summercase Festival Madrid
Jul 14 - Summercase Festival Barcelona
Jul 15 - International Festival Manchester
Aug 24 - festival Reading
Aug 25 - festival Leeds
Aug 26 - Pride Festival Manchester
Aug 27 - Schocken Stuttgart
Aug 28 - Cookys Frankfurt
Aug 30 - Full Hit of Summer @ Arena Vienna
Aug 31 - Atomic Cafe Munich
Sep 1 - Idroscalo Rock Milano
Sep 2 - Abart Zurich
Sep 5 - Nouveau Casino Paris
Sep 7 - Academy Birmingham
Sep 8 - Academy Bristol
Sep 9 - Bestival Isle of Wight
Sep 11 - Corn Exchange Cambridge
Sep 12 - 53 Degrees Preston
Sep 13 - Forum London
Sep 14 - Forum London
Sep 15 - Dome Brighton

Previously
* VIDEOS: behind the scenes on the True Colors Tour
* VIDEO: Amanda Palmer - Radiohead's 'Creep' + DRESDEN DOLLS Tour Dates
* VIDEO: The Dresden Dolls - 'Shores of California'
* more Beth Ditto

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Has anyone texted for tickets yet? + YO MAJESTY

a man ordering tickets in Central Park - date unknown

Since June 5th...

The Knitting Factory’s ticketing-by-text service is powered by the ShopText mobile commerce platform. With just a credit card, a text-enabled mobile phone and an email account, registration is simple. Whenever concertgoers see a Knitting Factory concert listing with a ShopText logo, they can purchase tickets directly from their mobile phone by simply texting the event’s unique show code to the number 467467. After checking out, the concertgoer receives a secret PIN to confirm all future purchases with a text message. Alternatively, a concertgoer can first register and create a secure ShopText account via online at www.shoptext.com. All transactions are completely secure.

So for instance, if you wanted to get tickets to one of the Meat Puppets shows, you would use the code MEAT1 or MEAT2. If you wanted to see Yo Majesty on September 27th, then you would use the code YOMAJ.

Yo Majesty played Brooklyn this past weekend...

a woman ordering tickets (front row) @ Studio B - June 22, 2007 (CRED)

More pics by Surgery below...

Yo Majesty - 2007 Tour Dates
Jul 5 - w/ DJ Funk @ The Club at Firestone Orlando, Florida
Jul 15 - @ Empty Bottle Chicago, Illinois
Aug 8 - Club Nefertiti, Gothenburg Goteborg
Aug 10 - DEBASER Slussen, Stockholms län
Aug 11 - @ Oya Festival Oslo
Sep 27 - Knitting Factory, NYC

Previously
* YO MAJESTY - 2007 Tour Dates & FREE SHOW? (+Beth Ditto)
* Yo Majesty played Brooklyn & SXSW -- get topless (NSFW) + Tour Dates

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SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO - videos & 2007 LIVE Tour Dates

DOWNLOAD: Simian Mobile Disco - I Believe (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: The Go! Team – Ladyflash (Simian Mobile Disco Mix) (MP3)

Tickets are still on sale for Simian Mobile Disco's Philly (7/6) & Brooklyn (7/7) shows. These performances will be the first time Simian Mobile Disco actually plays live in the U.S.- their previous visits (SXSW, Studio B, etc) have only been to DJ. Their newest video, a live video, & tour dates below....

Simian Mobile Disco - I Believe

Simian Mobile Disco - Sleep Deprivation (Live at Brighton)

Simian Mobile Disco - 2007 Tour Dates
Jun 28 - Point Ephemere - LIVE Paris
Jun 29 - Festival les Eurockeenes - LIVE Belfort
Jun 30 - Renaissance @ Knebworth Knebworth House
Jul 06 - Pure Philadelphia PA (Making Time) LIVE
Jul 07 - Studio B Brooklyn NY (Fixed) LIVE
Jul 13 - Dour Festival - LIVE Belgium
Jul 14 - Melt Festival - LIVE Berlin
Jul 15 - Montpellier Montpellier
Jul 19 - Paradiso - LIVE Amsterdam
Jul 20 - Manumission Ibiza
Jul 22 - Benicassim - LIVE Benicassim
Jul 28 - Fuji Rock Festival - LIVE Mt Fuji
Aug 11 - Cream @ Amnesia - LIVE Ibiza
Aug 25 - Creamfields Liverpool
Sep 01 - Electric Picnic Festival - LIVE Stradbally, Laois
Sep 16 - La Sala Rossa Montreal PQ
Sep 17 - The Mod Club Toronto ON
Sep 18 - Empty Bottle Chicago IL
Sep 21 - Mezzanine San Francisco CA w/ Dave P & JDH
Sep 22 - Echoplex Los Angeles CA w/ Boys Noize

Previously
* Simian Mobile Disco - MP3s & 2007 Tour Dates (NYC, SXSW)
* more Simian Mobile Disco stuff

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Joan as Policewoman - 2007 Tour Dates (Bowery!)

Speaking of Joans and people playing Bowery for the first time....

JAPW at the Bowery Ballroom!!!

Hi Everyone. So, Reel Life FINALLY came out in the US! It's crazy how long that took. Anyway, we're all really excited about it and have decided that a celebration is in order. On August 7th Joan As Police Woman will play our first headlining show in NYC in a while, at the Bowery Ballroom, can you come? You can buy tickets here. hope to see you there
xo
[Joan]

All tour dates below...

Joan as Policewoman - 2007 Tour Dates
Jun 28 - Peace And Love Festival Borlange
Jun 29 - Rock Werchter Werchter
Jun 30 - Les Nuits de Fourviere Lyon
Jul 1 - Radar Live (solar beach) Istanbul
Jul 3 - Opera of Rennes - Theatre du Vieux St Etienne Rennes
Jul 5 - Vicar Street Dublin
Jul 6 - Wye Fayre - Ashford UK Ashford
Jul 8 - Vera Groningen Groningen Netherlands
Jul 11 - Live on BBC London 94.9 London, UK
Jul 11 - Shepherds Bush Empire, London, UK + support from LONEY DEAR and ANDREW BIRD ! London, London and South East
Jul 13 - Concorde 2 Brighton
Jul 14 - Latitude Festival - UK ipswich
Jul 15 - Letterkenney - Earagail Arts Centre - Donegal Donegal
Jul 17 - Mercati Generali - Catania catania
Jul 18 - Pico Castle Courtyard - Mirandola Modena
Jul 19 - Nuvolari Festival - Cueno Cueno
Jul 20 - Sesto Fiorentino- Area Osmannoro - SUD Italy Sesto Fiorentino - Area Osmannoro SUD
Jul 31 - Schubas Chicago, Illinois
Aug 7 - Bowery Ballroom New York, NY
Aug 9 - IOTA Club & Cafe Arlington, Virginia
Aug 10 - Tin Angel Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Sep 3 - Northwest Court Stage Seattle, Washington
Sep 4 - Doug Fir Lounge Portland, Oregon
Sep 5 - Sam Bond's Garage Eugene, OR
Sep 6 - Cafe du Nord San Francisco, California
Sep 7 - Spaceland Los Angeles, CA
Sep 8 - Casbah San Diego, California
Sep 15 - End Of The Road Festival - UK Salsbury

Previously
* more Joan as Policewoman

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VIDEO: JOAN JETT - I Love Rock N' Roll (in color) ++++++++ FREE SHOW TONIGHT

Michael J Fox will most likely not be in attendance at the free show tonight....

This was the original video but Joan Jett didn't like it because the red suit did not look good on video. So they decided to change in B/W an the rest is history.

Previously
* more Joan Jett

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Spice Girls reunite!

ha!...

Did they really compare themselves to the Rolling Stones?

Spice Girls tour dates:
Los Angeles – December 7
Las Vegas – December 8
New York – December 11
London – December 15
Koln – December 20
Madrid – December 23
Beijing – January 10
Hong Kong – January 12
Sydney – January 17
Cape Town – January 20
Buenos Aires – January 24

Previously
* the latest David Lee Roth Spice Girls reunion rumors

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VIDEO: David Byrne nervous on Letterman in 1983

He has since gotten better with words...

less nervous during the song....

Previously
* more David Byrne

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VIDEO: Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - 'Two' on Letterman

I think this is going to be delightful...

June 27, 2007
Ryan Adams and The Cardinals on The Late Show with David Letterman

Previously
* WILCO played Warsaw & RYAN ADAMS played Hiro Ballroom

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Manu Chao @ Prospect Park (Celebrate Brooklyn), NYC - pics

For the second year in a row, and the second night in a row, Manu Chao performed to a sold-out crowd in Brooklyn's Prospect Park (June 27, 2007). The rest of the photos are HERE.

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June 27, 2007

Meat Puppets - 2007 Tour Dates (2 NYC shows)

First SXSW, and now Chris & Kurt Kirkwood are touring together again as The Meat Puppets - for the first time in eleven years. Tickets are on sale for two NYC shows at Knitting Factory in August - the 29th & 30th. All tour dates below...

Meat Puppets - 2007 Tour Dates
Sat Jul 21 - Isle Of Palms, SC The Windjammer
Fri Aug 24 - Denton, TX Rubber Gloves
Sat Aug 25 - Oklahoma City, OK Bricktown Ballroom
Sun Aug 26 - Kansas City, MO The Record Bar Hearers
Mon Aug 27 - Louisville, KY Headliners Music Hall
Tue Aug 28 - Millvale, PA Mr. Small's Theater
Wed Aug 29 - New York, NY Knitting Factory
Thu Aug 30 - New York, NY Knitting Factory
Sat Sep 1 - Turin, NY Snow Ridge Ski Area
Sat Sep 1 - Turin, NY Snow Ridge Ski Area
Sun Sep 2 - South Burlington, VT Higher Ground Showcase
Wed Sep 5 - Northampton, MA Pearl Street: downstairs
Thu Sep 6 - Cambridge, MA Middle East Club Downstairs
Fri Sep 7 - Philadelphia, PA World Cafe Live Downstairs
Sun Sep 9 - Washington, DC Black Cat
Mon Sep 10 - Carrboro, NC Cat's Cradle
Wed Sep 12 - Atlanta, GA The Earl
Thu Sep 13 - Asheville, NC The Orange Peel
Fri Sep 14 - Birmingham, AL Zydeco
Sat Sep 15 - New Orleans, LA One Eyed Jacks

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JOHN VANDERSLICE & CLOUD CULT finally playing Bowery! +++++++++ 2007 Tour Dates

...but not together...

It's always a big deal for a band to play the Bowery Ballroom in NYC - either because it means they're starting to "get big", or because they're already big and they want to make some noise. It's also a great place to play - good sound, good sight lines, big enough to be comfortable in, but small enough to still feel like a small-venue-show.

Then there are the bands who seem "big", but never seem to break out of the smaller Mercury Lounge-Maxwell's-Southpaw-Knitting Factory thing. The only time they ever play somewhere as big at Bowery is when they're opening. Take touring-machine John Vanderslice for instance. He opened for Spoon at Bowery in 2002, and then again for Beulah in 2003. Tour after tour John comes back to NYC - always with someone good, but when headlining, it's always at the smaller venues - never at Bowery.

John's most recent touring partner St. Vincent already announced a headlining show at Bowery, and I think it goes without saying that his 2004 opener Sufjan Stevens went on to play a few bigger shows.

Well, FINALLY it's John's turn - Tickets go on sale Friday for John Vanderslice @ Bowery Ballroom on September 26th. And finally it's also Cloud Cult's turn - same phenomena, and now the same venue in the same month - tickets also go on sale Friday for Cloud Cult's show on September 8th.

All John Vanderslice and Cloud Cult tour dates below....

John Vanderslice - 2007 Tour Dates *
9/6 Los Angeles CA @ Troubadour
9/7 San Diego CA @ The Casbah
9/8 Phoenix AZ @ Modified
9/9 Tucson AZ @ Plush
9/11 Austin TX @ The Parish
9/12 Norman OK @ The Opolis
9/14 Dallas TX @ The Loft
9/15 Baton Rouge LA @ Spanish Moon
9/17 Orlando FL @ The Social
9/18 St. Augustine FL @ Café Eleven
9/19 Tallahassee FL @ Club Downunder
9/20 Atlanta GA @ The Earl
9/21 Chapel Hill NC @ Duke Coffeehouse
9/24 Philadelphia PA @ Johnny Brenda's
9/26 New York NY @ Bowery Ballroom
9/27 Cambridge MA @ The Middle East
9/28 Cambridge MA @ The Middle East
10/1 Toronto ON @ Horseshoe Tavern
10/2 Ann Arbor MI @ The Blind Pig
10/3 Cleveland OH @ The Grog Shop
10/4 Athens OH @ Ohio University, Baker Theatre
10/5 Bloomington IN @ The John Waldron Art's Center
10/6 Chicago IL @ The Empty Bottle
10/9 Omaha NE @ The Waiting Room
10/12 Provo UT @ Velour
10/11 Denver CO @ The Hi-Dive
10/13 Salt Lake City UT @ Kilby Court
10/15 Vancouver BC @ The Red Room
10/18 Portland OR @ The Doug Fir
10/20 San Francisco CA @ The Independent

* feat. David Douglas, Ian Bjornstad, Daniel Hart, and Dave Willingham

John is also playing the Capitol Hill Block Party in Seattle on July 28th.

Cloud Cult

Cloud Cult - 2007 Tour Dates
06/27/07 Chicago, IL Empty Bottle (TIX)
06/28/07 Manitowoc, WI University Of Wisconsin
06/29/07 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue (TIX)
08/17/07 Portland, OR Doug Fir Lounge
08/18/07 Seattle, WA KEXP Benefit
09/08/07 New York, NY Bowery Ballroom
09/15/07 Morrison, CO Red Rocks Amphitheatre Monolith Festival
11/20/07 Brookings, SD South Dakota State University

Previously
* more Cloud Cult
* more Vanderslice

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H.R. performing solo @ Highline Ballroom in NYC...

...w/ Eek-A-Mouse & Dub Agents on July 22, 2007. I wouldn't expect much, but tickets are on sale if you are so inclined. Pictures of Bad Brains' recent boat show HERE.

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MUM - updated 2007 Tour Dates + ICELAND AIRWAVES

As previously mentioned in an Iceland post and a "Tickets on sale" post, Mum are playing some shows. Mum are also playing the 2007 Iceland Airwaves Festival (October 17 - 21, 2007).

Since the first show held in 1999 (in an airplane hangar), Iceland Airwaves has become one of the premier showcases for new music – Icelandic and otherwise – in the world. It's been called "the most innovative music festival since CMJ" and "as responsible for all of Reykjavík's recent positive press as Björk herself".

Best Fwends, !!!, Annuals, Bloc Party, Bonde Do Role, Chromeo, Of Montreal, Ra Ra Riot, and others are also playing. Reyka Vodka is offering the chance to win a trip over there. The latest set of MUM tour dates below....

Mum - 2007 Tour Dates
Jul 17 - a Mar De Músicas Festival Cartagena, Murcia
Jul 24 - Synch Festival Athens
Jul 28 - Afisha Festival Moscow
Oct 23 - Belly up Tavern Solana Beach, California
Oct 24 - Orpheum theater Los Angeles, California
Oct 25 - The Grand San Fransisco, California
Oct 26 - Crystal Ballroom Portland, Oregon
Oct 27 - Nuemo's Crystall Ball Reading Room Seattle, Washington
Oct 30 - Gothic Theater Englewood, Colorado
Oct 31 - Granada Theater Lawrence, Kansas
Nov 1 - Logan Square Auditorium Chicago, Illinois
Nov 2 - Opera House Toronto
Nov 3 - Théâtre National Montreal
Nov 4 - Somerville Theater Somerville, Massachusetts
Nov 6 - Roxy Theater Atlanta, Georgia
Nov 7 - Sixth & I Synagogue DC, Washington DC
Nov 8 - Theater of the Living Arts Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Nov 9 - The Wordless Music Series at St. Paul the Apostle NYC, New York
Nov 10 - The Wordless Music Series at New York Society for Ethical Culture NYC, New York

Previously
* What is up with Iceland?

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Klaus Kinski's Comedy Canon (06/27/07) [God's Pottery]

God's Pottery

The big news around town (or, in my brain at least) is the fact that Christian folk duo God's Pottery is ready to unleash a new 1-hour show onto us Godless, sinful New Yorkers before heading off to Canada and Scotland to spread fellowship. You see, last summer they put on several benefit shows known as The Concert For LaVert. The success of those shows made them realize they were doing mankind a huge disservice by helping only one soul at a time. To remedy this, they bring us God's Pottery Saves The World. In this new show, the boys take on more global issues like adoption, drug addiction, and Africa in an effort to save all mankind through the power of song, true belief, and a PowerPoint™ presentation.

New York is entitled to three performances only before they take on the world. They're at the UCB Theatre, and you better make reservations now, or else be damned to swelter in anquish in the stand-by line

IN OTHER NEWS........

Children of the Unicorn rocking the Merc, NYC - June 22, 2007 (CRED)

For you LA readers, Tim and Eric are hosting AWESOMECON on July 28, 2007. The event promises to be a spectacle to behold. Highlights include

• Spend the afternoon with T and E
• Bologna sandwiches
• DJ Douggpound spinning party beats
• Get your TGTTM DVD signed.
• Buy a Beaver Boy hat
• Get a photo of Eric picking you up!
• Surprise guests
• AWESOMECON picnic points contest
• Egg toss
• Trivia Contest

Oh, whoever wins the most points from the AWESOMECON picnic events as well as the trivia contest gets to go on a free wave runner ride with Tim and Eric! (Dressing up like Casey and his Brother wins you many bonus points.). More details HERE

These have been making to rounds on the internet lately, but in case you missed it, Aziz Ansari decided to get down with VBS and Dos & Don'ts Friends on VBS and laugh at some people with them. Watch em:

Aziz Dos and Don'ts
#1: He attracts douchebags
#2: Aziz on the downside of lace cock socks
#3: He has a highly tuned gaydar

Just a reminder: Brooklyn's Southpaw will play host to a South Towards Home comedy benefit on 7/12/07. Guests include David Cross, Todd Barry, and Jon Benjamin. Tickets are $25.00. That line-up is worth the ticket price alone.

Patton Oswalt had a short essay in Vice recently. He'll be at Sound Fix the same night as the above Katrina event.

You have GOT to check out the stuff Bob Odenkirk is doing for Superdeluxe. Sheer genius.

SOME INTERVIEWS

• Sarah Silverman Interviewed by Sarah Silverman Fansite
• Leo Allen Interviewed by Our Pal The Apiary
• Flight of the Conchords Salon Interview


• Tom Kenny (Mr. Show, Spongebob) Interviewed by the Onion AV Club
• Aziz Ansari Interviewed by Pal The Bastion
• Zach Galifianakis Harp Interview

-Klaus

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Todd ERMP, S-S-S-Spectres & Vampire Weekend

DOWNLOAD: S-S-S-Spectres - Witches vs. Wolves (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: S-S-S-Spectres - You Faux Pas (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: S-S-S-Spectres - Ghost Family (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: TheDeathSet - Intermission (Bad Art Remix) (MP3)

S-S-S-Spectres @ ERMP, NYC - June 23, 2007 (CRED)

* Sound Bites sees The Deathset, The Trucks, MM/DD/YYYY
* Impose Mag sees Parts & Labor, Matt & Kim, DeathSet
* Dan Deacon playing Death by Audio (and again in September)
* The Deathset don't like water balloons
* Idolator posts about S-S-S-Spectres
* Gimme Tinnitus posts about S-S-S-Spectres
* East River Music Project - Summer 2007 schedule
* Stereogum Band to Watch Vampire Weekend
* L Magazine says to hear Vampire Weekend
* The NY Times likes Vampire Weekend
* Stylus does Vampire Weekend too
* Union Hall expresses love for Vampire Weekend
* Ear Farm likes Vampire Weekend
* John Darnielle likes Vampire Weekend
* Vampire Weekend played Todd P's BBQ

Vampire Weekend are playing a free East River Music Project show on August 11th - the same day they open for Tokyo Police Club at Maxwell's. All VW tour dates below....

VW @ Glasslands (via NY TImes)

Vampire WEekend - 2007 Tour Dates
Jul 6 - The Red and The Black Washington, Washington DC
Jul 8 - Bella Festa Wilmington, North Carolina
Jul 9 - The Earl Atlanta, Georgia
Jul 10 - Jack Rabbits Jacksonville, Florida
Jul 12 - Emo's Lounge Austin, Texas
Jul 14 - Solar Culture Tucson, Arizona
Jul 15 - Modified Phoenix, Arizona
Jul 16 - Troubadour Los Angeles, California
Jul 17 - Silverlake Lounge Los Angeles, California
Jul 18 - Rickshaw Stop w/ SHOUT OUT LOUDS San Francisco, California
Jul 20 - Indigo District Eugene, Oregon
Jul 21 - Holocene Portland, Oregon
Jul 22 - Neumos Seattle
Jul 23 - The Badlander Missoula, Montana
Jul 25 - Hi-Dive Denver, Colorado
Jul 26 - The Slowdown Omaha, Nebraska
Jul 27 - Empty Bottle Chicago, Illinois
Jul 28 - Memorial Union - Terrace Madison, Wisconsin
Aug 9 - Johnny Brenda's w/ Tokyo Police Club & Ra Ra Riot Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Aug 11 - East River Music Project New York, New York
Aug 11 - Maxwell's w/ Tokyo Police Club & Ra Ra Riot Hoboken, New Jersey
Aug 12 - Middle East w/ Tokyo Police Club & Ra Ra Riot Boston, Massachusetts

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MODEST MOUSE moving to McCarren Pool + WIN tix to MUSE

Dad, what the hell?

Kid 4077 - otherwise known as Nile Marr, the 15-year-old son of Smiths legend Johnny Marr - took to the stage at Bar Amp in Sale for his first live solo performance. Meanwhile his dad's latest band Modest Mouse - who performed at Manchester's Ritz earlier this week - were performing in Barcelona.

Modest teenager Nile has said he is influenced more by Modest Mouse than by The Smiths because they were before his time. [Manchester Evening News - June 2, 2007]

I have bad news for those hoping to see Modest Mouse & Clipse on August 8th. Better yet - I have bad news for those who didn't get tickets to see Beastie Boys at Summerstage because they thought they were seeing Modest Mouse with Band of Horses in Keyspan Park. The August 8th show has been postponed exactly one month, and moved: Modest Mouse is now playing McCarren Pool on September 8th. Love as Laughter are still opening, but Band of Horses and Clipse are up in the air.

Now Band of Horses' only upcoming NYC date is the Hiro Ballroom thing (where Ryan Adams played last night).

Muse is still playing MSG on August 6th. Want to win a pair of tickets? E-mail BVCONTESTS@HOTMAIL.COM (subject: MUSE), and tell me if I should finish posting Andrew's Bonnaroo coverage now that Bonnaroo was so long ago. One winner will be picked at ramdom, and contacted, on Monday July 2nd, 2007. Your email will not be shared with anyone.

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Okkervil River & Shearwater - 2007 Tour Dates, MP3s

DOWNLOAD: Okkervil River - Our Life is Not a Movie or Maybe (MP3) (NEW!)
DOWNLOAD: Shearwater - White Waves (MP3)

Tickets are on sale for Okkervil River's show with Damien Jurado at Webster Hall in NYC on September 28th.

Also don't forget that Shearwater are playing a free show at Castle Clinton on July 5th (Hard tickets will be distributed two per person, outside Castle Clinton on a first-come, first-served basis starting at 5:00pm on the day of the show) - that's one day after New Pornographers and Midlake (who are also playing Webster Hall), and one day before Britta Persson.

All tour dates below...

Shearwater - 2007 Tour Dates
June 28 Salt Lake City UT Kilby Court
June 30 Denver CO Larimer Lounge
July 01 Oklahoma City OK Conservatory
July 05 New York NY Castle Clinton National Monument

Okkervil River - 2007 Tour Dates
07/14 - Concord, NH - Capitol Center for the Arts w/ Lando + Ron Noyes Band
07/15 - Providence, RI - Jake's Bar and Grille
09/03 - San Diego, CA - Casbah
09/04 - Los Angeles, CA - Troubadour
09/05 - San Francisco, CA - Independent
09/08 - Portland, OR - Berbati's Pan (MusicFest NW)
09/09 - Vancouver, British Columbia - Richard's on Richards
09/10 - Seattle, WA - Neumos
09/13 - Denver, CO - Marquis Theatre
09/14 - Omaha, NE - Waiting Room
09/15 - Iowa City, IA - Picador
09/18 - Chicago, IL - Logan Square Auditorium
09/19 - Urbana, IL - The Canopy Club (Pygmalion Festival)
09/21 - Toronto, Ontario - Lee's Palace
09/22 - Hamilton, Ontario - Pepper Jack's Cafe
09/23 - Montreal, Quebec - La Sala Rossa
09/24 - Burlington, VT - Higher Ground
09/25 - Boston, MA - Middle East
09/26 - Northampton, MA - Iron Horse
09/28 - New York, NY - Webster Hall
09/29 - Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's
09/30 - Washington, DC - Rock and Roll Hotel
10/02 - Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle
10/03 - Athens, GA - 40 Watt
10/06 - Houston, TX - Walter's on Washington

Okkervil River's "The Stage Names" will be available 08/07/07.

Previously
* more Okkervil River stuff
* more Shearwater stuff

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Qui (Jesus Lizard) - 2007 Tour Dates

In late 2006, Qui was joined by vocalist David Yow of The Jesus Lizard/Scratch Acid fame. Shortly thereafter, the trio released the single, "Today, Gestation" b/w "Freeze" on the Los Angeles-based Infrasonic Sound Recordings label. After a brief spring tour and two acclaimed performances at the South By Southwest music conference in Austin, TX, Qui partnered up with Mike Patton and Greg Werckman's Ipecac Recordings for their forthcoming full-length entitled Love's Miracle, scheduled for release on September 11, 2007. A full U.S. and European tour will immediately follow....[Ipecac]

Tickets go on sale today for Qui at Mercury Lounge on October 9th. All tour dates below...

Qui - 2007 Tour Dates
Jul. 14 - Birmingham, UK Supersonic Festival
Jul. 15 - London, UK Barfly
Jul. 22 - Los Angeles, CA Safari Sam's
Sep. 11 - Los Angeles, CA The Echo
Sep. 12 - San Francisco, CA Café Du Nord
Sep. 14 - Portland, OR Doug Fir Lounge
Sep. 15 - Seattle, WA The Crocodile
Sep. 16 - Vancouver, BC Plaza Club
Sep. 19 - Boise, ID Neurolux
Sep. 20 - Salt Lake City, UT Urban Lounge
Sep. 21 - Denver, CO Larimer Lounge
Sep. 22 - Kansas City, MO Record Bar
Sep. 23 - Omaha, NE The Waiting Room
Sep. 25 - Minneapolis, MN 7th St. Entry
Sep. 26 - Madison, WI High Noon Saloon
Sep. 27 - Milwaukee, WI Mad Planet
Sep. 30 - Detroit, MI Magic Stick
Oct. 2 - Cleveland, OH Grog Shop
Oct. 3 - Buffalo, NY Mohawk Place
Oct. 4 - Toronto, ON Lee's Place
Oct. 6 - Boston, MA Middle East Upstairs
Oct. 9 - New York, NY Mercury Lounge
Oct. 11 - Baltimore, MD Sonar
Oct. 14 - Chapel Hill, NC Local 506
Oct. 16 - Athens, GA 40 Watt Club
Oct. 17 - Atlanta, GA The Earl
Oct. 20 - Austin, TX Emo's JR
Oct. 21 - Denton, TX Hailey's
Oct. 25 - Tucson, AZ Club Congress
Oct. 26 - San Diego, CA Casbah

Listen at MySpace.

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WILCO played Warsaw & RYAN ADAMS played Hiro Ballroom

DOWNLOAD: Wilco - Cars Can't Escape (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Ryan Adams - Games (MP3)

I went to Wilco last night. It was a 2 hour and 20 minute set (the only show on the tour without a curfew said Jeff) by by one of the most talented bands I've had the pleasure of watching so up-close in a while (I mean Bad Brains was great, but Earl Hudson is no Glenn Kotche). If only our government could learn to operate a little bit more like Wilco. I say Jeff Tweedy for president.

Jeff Tweedy & Pat Sansone having guitar sex @ Warsaw - June 26, 2007 (CRED)

And Miss Modern Age saw Ryan Adams.....

Holy crap! Ryan Adams is on TOP of his game! Tonight’s show at Hiro Ballroom was nothing short of stellar. [says Miss Modern Age]

Ryan's new video for "Halloweenhead" is at Yahoo.

Wilco's set list & tour dates below....

WARSAW SET LIST
Sunken Treasure
You Are My Face
IATTBYH
Handshake Drugs
Pot Kettle Black
Side With The Seeds
A Shot in the Arm>
Wishful Thinking
Impossible Germany
Sky Blue Sky
Why Would You Wanna Live
War on War
Jesus, etc.
Theologians
*happy birthday to Matrix (the guitar tech)*
Walken
I'm The Man Who Loves You
Hummingbird
On and On and On
-----------------------------
Either Way
Ashes of American Flags
Reservations>
Spiders (Kidsmoke)
-----------------------------
Hate It Here
The Late Greats
Hoodoo Voodoo
Outta Mind (Outtasite)

Wilco - 2007 Tour Dates
JUN-28 BOSTON, MA BANK OF AMERICA PAVILION *
JUN-29 SHELBURNE, VT THE GREEN AT SHELBURNE MUSEUM *
JUN-30 TORONTO, ONT MASSEY HALL *
JUL-07 KONGSBERG, NORWAY KONGSBERG JAZZ FESTIVAL
JUL-08 COPENHAGEN, DENMARK ROSKILDE FESTIVAL
JUL-11 MONTREUX, SWITZERLAND MONTREUX JAZZ FESTIVAL- STRAVINSKI HALL
JUL-13 SUFFOLK, ENGLAND LATITUDE FESTIVAL
JUL-14 GLASGOW, SCOTLAND INDIAN SUMMER FESTIVAL
JUL-15 DOUR, BELGIUM DOUR FESTIVAL
JUL-17 TORINO, ITALY SPAZIO211 FESTIVAL
JUL-20 BENICASSIM, SPAIN FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE BENICASSIM
AUG-14 DULUTH, MN BAYFRONT FESTIVAL PARK +
AUG-15 WINNIPEG, MAN BURTON CUMMINGS THEATRE +
AUG-17 CALGARY, ALB JUBILEE AUDITORIUM +
AUG-18 EDMONTON, ALB JUBILEE AUDITORIUM +
AUG-20 VANCOUVER, BC MALKIN BOWL JUN-27 +
AUG-21 SEATTLE, WA MARYMOOR PARK +
AUG-22 TROUTDALE, OR EDGEFIELD +
AUG-24 BERKELEY, CA GREEK THEATRE +
AUG-26 SANTA BARBARA, CA COUNTY BOWL +
AUG-27 SAN DIEGO, CA SDSU OPEN AIR THEATER +
AUG-29 LOS ANGELES, CA GREEK THEATRE +
SEP-01 DENVER, CO FILLMORE AUDITORIUM
SEP-02 DENVER, CO FILLMORE AUDITROIUM
SEP-16 AUSTIN, TX AUSTIN CITY LIMITS FESTIVAL
OCT-26 - 28 NEW ORLEANS, LA VOODOO MUSIC FEST

* w/ Low
RICHARD SWIFT Supports on August Dates.

(Happy Birthday Matrix and Happy Release Day Nels Cline)

Previously
* Wilco played Hammerstein Ballroom
* WILCO - Brooklyn sale is over
* stream the new WILCO -- Brooklyn presale sold out
* Ryan Adams NYC show tix were sold this weekend
* Ryan Adams new CD is out
* Ryan Adams - more 2007 Tour Dates (Hiro Ballroom)

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The Cure -- presale

Tickets go on presale for Cure shows today. (password = BABIGSHOW)

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waiting for Paul (McCartney outside Amoeba)

DOWNLOAD: The Swayback - I'm Waiting for the Man (VU cover) (MP3)

According to the first two people in line, this is the second wave of fans looking to score a wristband to get into the Paul McCartney in-store. Amoeba staff already sent a group away after giving out the allotted number of wristbands. This photo was taken around 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. Wristbands for the in-store, which is set for 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, were supposed to be handed out starting at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday. The people here are either waiting for another batch of wristbands or plan to sleep on the ground just in case Amoeba decides to let more people inside for the performance. [unsure shot]

In related news...
* Stereogum interviews Paul McCartney
* Pitchfork interviews Paul McCartney
* PopMatters interviews Paul McCartney
* Weird Al interviews Paul McCartney
* Idolator says Paul will talk to anyone
* Actually.....It's true!

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VIDEO: an interview with Busy P (Pedro Winter)

zee vhat happens vith zee Daft Punk money ....

This is from swedish television "SVT" a show called musikbyrån

Previously
* Busy P says NYC doesn't dance

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VIDEO: The Go! Team - 'Grip Like A Vice'

Hey Ladies?...

First single from the new Go! Team album. Album released in September.

So that's where the Beastie Boys words went. (ba dum dum!...)

Previously
* Beastie Boys "Gala Event" shows added
* more Go Team

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VIDEO: Transformers trailer + new Smashing Pumpkins

new song, same old Strokes t-shirt...

Watch the movie trailer to the Transformers movie with the new song from the Smashing Pumpkins - "Doomsday Clock"

...or watch it with the sound off - your choice.

Previously
* Smashing Pumpkins kicked things off in Asheville
* VIDEO: Transformers live-action movie trailer
* new Smashing Pumpkins revealed -- 2007 Pinkpop Festival

Posted in music | video at 3:22 AM | Comments (3)

June 26, 2007

Bad Brains on a Rocks Off concert cruise, NYC - pics

I ended up on the boat twice in a few days - Friday was The Weakerthans, and then last night (Monday June 25, 2007) was Bad Brains...

Their Beastie Boys-produced new album is out today (the same day as the Beastie Boys own album). You can stream it at their MySpace or at AOL. More below....

(Crazy?) H.R. tried preaching peace and love (and no moshing) to the crowd. At one point he said "the boxing ring is over there", which he them followed with the less clear "the black hole is over there" and "the bottomless pit is over there". It didn't matter. The boat was going nuts.....

With some fast action and team work, the falling ceiling ended up being no big deal...

Darryl Jenifer forgot to specify ceiling height in his rider...

Dr. Know

H.R. also pulled a few flaky moves like not singing during a couple of songs, but all in all it was a tight set mixing most of their classic hardcore and reggae tracks with some new stuff - I don't think anyone had any complaints. It was much better than that first night at CBGB for sure.

The day before they played the School of Rock Festival in NJ. A bunch of people on the boat said they were tight at that as well.

John Joseph and Mackie from Cro Mags, Carl Porcaro from Killing Time/Raw Deal, and Brendan from SFA and CBGB fame were spotted in the crowd.

Previously
* BAD BRAINS - album stream, MP3 & free boat tix to WIN
* more Bad Brains stuff

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real quick

* WOXY Goes Silent Again
* Notes on Today's Webcasters Blackout
* The Verve reunite, playing shows in UK
* The baby on Nirvana's Nevermind album is 17 (Pic) (via)
* Lily Allen flees UK to New York City
* Pela get in scuffle at Sweet Jane's in Hartford
* heartonastick's Mermaid Parade Pictures
* The 25 Most Ridiculous Band Names in Rock History (via)
* Weezer Comes Back To Life With New Album
* The Rentals touring, etc

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VIDEO: Amy Winehouse - 'Tears Dry on Their Own' (David LaChapelle)

I didn't even realize Amy Winehouse was working with David LaChapelle....

David LaChapelle, Heaven to Hell, 2006

on the set of Amy Winehouse's video

Asian transgender models found....

Amy Winehouse's newest Music Video: "Tears Dry on Their Own" Directed by David LaChapelle shot 5-22-07 on Hollywood Blvd.

If this means I won't have to hear 'Rehab' any more, I'm very happy...

more photos from the video shoot here.

Amy is going on tour.

David's muse Amanda Lepore marching HERE.

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M.I.A. & CSS playing Studio B + Tour Dates

M.I.A. is headlining Studio B in Brooklyn on July 25th - four days after her show at Siren. CSS are playing Studio B with Shout Out Out Out Out and Dirty on Purpose on August 3rd. One day before CSS plays Lollapalooza (with M.I.A.) No tickets for either yet. All tour dates below...

MIA - 2007 Tour DAtes
Jul 21 - Siren Festival Brooklyn, New York
Jul 25 - Studio B Brooklyn, New York
Jul 28 - Rickshaw Stop San Francisco, California
Aug 3 - Lollapalooza at Grant Park Chicago, Illinois
Aug 5 - V Festival Baltimore, Maryland
Aug 16 - Pukkelpop Festival Hasselt, Belgium
Aug 17 - Gloria Theater Cologne, Germany
Aug 18 - Lowlands Festival Biddinghuizen, Netherlands
Aug 21 - Nimes Arena w/Bjork Nimes, France
Aug 23 - Nimes Arena w/Bjork Nimes, France
Aug 24 - Rock En Seine Paris, France
Aug 26 - Get Loaded Festival London, England
Sep 1 - Electric Picnic Dublin, Ireland
Sep 2 - Connect Loch, Scotland
Sep 8 - V Festival Toronto, ONT, Ontario
Sep 9 - Oshega Festival Montreal, QC, Quebec
Sep 14 - Austin City Limits Festival Austin, Texas
Sep 15 - Treasure Island Music Festival San Francisco, California

CSS - 2007 Tour Dates
Jun 26 - The Hove Festival Arendal Hove
Jun 29 - Accelerator Festival Stockholm
Jun 30 - St Gallen Festival St. Gallen
Jul 1 - Radar Live Instanbul
Jul 6 - Roskilde Festival Roskilde
Jul 7 - Oxygen a
Jul 8 - T In The Park a
Jul 12 - Roxy Jam Festival a
Jul 14 - Latitude Festival Southwold
Jul 18 - Spaziale Festival Turin
Jul 19 - Italia Wave Florence
Jul 20 - Pohoda Festival Trencin
Jul 21 - Benicassin Castelon
Aug 3 - Studio B, Brooklyn, NY
Aug 4 - Lollapalooza Chicago, Illinois
Aug 11 - Summersonic Festival Ozaka
Aug 12 - Summersonic Tokyo
Aug 15 - Paredes de Coura Festival a
Aug 16 - La Route Du Rock Rennes
Aug 17 - Pukklepop Hasselt
Aug 18 - Lowlands a
Aug 19 - Pantiero Festival a
Aug 24 - Carling Weekend Leeds
Aug 25 - Rock En Seine St Cloud
Aug 26 - Carling Weekend Reading
Aug 31 - Connect a
Sep 9 - Spektrum Oslo
Sep 10 - Color Line Arena Hamburg
Sep 12 - Olympiahalle Munich
Sep 14 - Velodrom Berlin
Sep 15 - Cologne Arena Cologne
Sep 15 - Cologne Arena Cologne
Sep 17 - Bercy Paris
Sep 18 - Ahoy Rotterdam
Sep 20 - SECC Glasgow
Sep 22 - MEN Arena Manchester
Sep 23 - TELEWEST ARENA Newcastle
Sep 25 - NIA Birmingham
Sep 26 - International Arena Cardiff, Wales
Sep 28 - Wembley Arena London
Sep 29 - Wembley Arena London
Oct 1 - Odyssey Arena Belfast
Oct 2 - RDS Simmonscourt Dublin
Oct 4 - Sportpaleis Antwerp
Oct 6 - Hallenstadion Zurich
Oct 7 - Luxembourg City Rockhal Luxembourg
Oct 10 - The Globe Stockholm
Oct 12 - Hartwall Arena Helsinki
Oct 14 - Forum Copenhagen
Oct 16 - Datch Forum Milan
Oct 17 - Stadhalle Vienna
Oct 19 - Sportarena Budapest
Oct 20 - Saska Arena Prague

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Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - 2007 Tour Dates & presale

Alec Ounsworth, the Cold War Kids, and Elvis Perkins jammed for the press at Bonnaroo....

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah just announced a whole bunch of tour dates and a presale for them. That includes September 11th @ the Gramercy Theatre in NYC. Regular on-sale Friday. All tour dates below....

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - 2007 Tour Dates
07.04.07: Lisbon, Portugal // Superbock Super Rock
07.06.07: Paris, France // Nokia Trends Lab, Carrousel du Louvre
07.07.07: Evereux, France // Festival L Rock Dan Tous Ses Etats
07.08.07: Zurich, Switzerland // Rote Fabrik
07.10.07: Dusselldorf, Germany // Zakk
07.11.07: Denmark // Copenhagen Jazz Festival
07.13.07: Belgium // Dour Festival
07.14.07: England // Latitude Festival
07.15.07: Scotland // Indian Summer Festival
07.17.07: Munich, Germany // Muffahalle
07.18.07: Florence, Italy // Italia Wave Love Festival
07.20.07: France // Carhaix Festival Les Vieilles Charrues
07.21.07: France // Angouleme Festival Garden Nef Party
07.22.07: Spain // Benicassim Festival
07.25.07: Switzerland // Paleo Festival
07.29.07: Mt Fuji, Japan // Fuji Rock Festival
We're also playing here:
08.04.07: Chicago, IL // Lollapalooza
09.02.07: Ireland // Electric Picnic
09.11.07: New York, NY // Blender Theater at Gramercy
09.14.07: Monolith Festival // Red Rocks Amphitheatre
09.15.07: Austin, TX // Austin City Limits
09.16.07: San Francisco, CA // Treasure Island Music Festival
09.18.07: Los Angeles, CA // Troubador
09.19.07: Los Angeles, CA // Troubador
09.20.07: Los Angeles, CA // Troubador
09.23.07: San Diego, CA // Street Scene
09.25.07: ???, ?? // TBA
09.26.07: ???, ?? // TBA
09.28.07: Portland, OR // Roseland
09.29.07: Seattle, WA // Neumos
09.30.07: Seattle, WA // Neumos
10.04.07: Minneapolis, MN // Fine Line
10.05.07: Minneapolis, MN // 400 Bar
10.06.07: Madison, WI // The Annex

Previously
* more Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

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The Bees - 2 NYC shows (1 FREE w/ Thile & Wainwright)

Tonight's free "Living Room" concert at the World Financial Center in NYC is full of familiar names...

Martha Wainwright, Chris Thile (from Nickel Creek), Jim Campilongo, Ari Hest and The Bees come together for this unique concert of alums from The Living Room’s venerable stage. As one of NYC’s musical landmarks, the club has become a venue for the best and brightest singer/songwriters.

You've got a Wainwright, a member of Nickel Creek, a popular guitarist who is in the band The Little Willies with Norah Jones, that Ari Hest guy, and.....The Bees. The Bees (from Nashville. - not the U.K.) are pretty new to me - "pretty" new because actually one of my friends has been urging me to go see them with him for the past few weeks - if not tonight (June 26) at the free "Living Room show", then at the actual Living Room tomorrow (their only two tour dates).

Don't confuse them with the UK band with the same name who played Glastonbury this weekend, or with the actual insects, or with one of the many other bands with "bee" in their name. Their latest album "High Society" is like a soft rock (in a good way) record out of the 70's that is so pleasant, it's kind of impossible not to like. They've been compared to James Taylor, Jackson Browne, The Eagles, The Beach Boys, and Van Morrison. One of the highlights on "the album is the song "Imaginary Girl" - Music For Robots agrees. Listen at MySpace.

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Zach Galifianakis doing NYMAG event w/ BAND OF HORSES + 2007 Tour Dates

Band of Horses @ Primavera 2007 (CRED)

A whole month before Band of Horses play with Modest Mouse at Keyspan Park, they'll be doing a show at Hiro Ballroom that is also a "Bad Art Auction" with comedian Zach Galifianakis for NY Magazine's next hip event...

Buy art for a good cause. Zach Galifianakis helps us to curate a lineup of artwork that will make you wince, writhe, and wonder why its not already in your living room. Zach will take us through an evening of art that he's created, bought, found, stolen and maybe even inspired. He'll be joined by Band of Horses, at HIRO ballroom. All proceeds of the auction will go to New York Cares.

$30-includes-NY-Magazine-subscription tickets are on sale. Band of Horses tour dates below...

Band of Horses - 2007 Tour Dates
Jun 30 - Sugars Nightclub Victoria, BC
Jul 1 - Richards on Richards Vancouver
Jul 2 - The Showbox Seattle, Washington
Jul 3 - Crystal Ballroom Portland, Oregon
Jul 5 - Great American Music Hall San Francisco, California
Jul 6 - Canes San Diego, California
Jul 7 - Hollywood Bowl (opening for Decemberists) Los Angeles, California
Jul 10 - Hiro Ballroom, NY, NY (ny mag thing)
Aug 1 - Red Rocks Amphitheater (w/ Modest Mouse) Morrison, Colorado
Aug 3 - City Market (with Modest Mouse) Kansas City, Missouri
Aug 5 - Diesel Club Lounge Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Aug 8 - Keyspan Park (w/ Modest Mouse, Clipse, Love As Laughter) Coney Island, New York
Aug 10 - La Sala Rosa Montreal, QC
Aug 11 - Lees Palace Toronto, ON
Aug 13 - Magic Stick Detroit, Michigan
Aug 15 - LC Amphitheatre (w/ Modest Mouse) Columbus, Ohio
Aug 16 - Time Warner Amphitheatre (w/ Modest Mouse) Cleveland, Ohio
Aug 17 - Pines Amphitheater (w/ Modest Mouse) Northhampton, Massachusetts
Aug 18 - Tweeter Center for Performing Arts (w/ Modest Mouse) Mansfield, Massachusetts
Aug 19 - Festival Pier (w/ Modest Mouse) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Aug 21 - Louisville Gardens (w/ Modest Mouse) Louisville, Kentucky
Aug 22 - Ryman Auditorium (w/ Modest Mouse) Nashville, Tennessee
Sep 2 - Alpine Music Theater East Troy, Wisconsin

Previously
* Daniel Johnston's private show & the Man Man vegan dinner
* vegan MAN MAN tonight (tix) -- Bad Art Auction in June
* MAN MAN vegan dinner w/ ISA CHANDRA & NY Magazine
* Of Montreal karaoke

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VIDEO: Interpol - 'The Heinrich Maneuver'

Song is kind of catchy, video is kind of weird...

Interpol - "The Heinrich Maneuver"
Album: Our Love to Admire
Label: Capitol Records
Director: E. Elias Merhige

If you can't see anything above, you can watch it at MTV's site.

Previously
* more Interpol stuff

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The Weakerthans on a Rocks Off concert cruise, NYC - pics

DOWNLOAD: The Weakerthans - Psalm for The Elks Lodge Last Call (MP3)

"Reunion Tour is the title of the fourth studio album by The Weakerthans, scheduled for release on September 25th, 2007 in the USA and a day earlier in Canada." [Wikipedia]

As I started to say the other day, the view from the Rocks Off boat cruises is great - you're really sailing on a boat around Manhattan. The Temptress - the larger of the two concert boats - sails from 41 St and West Side, and goes down all the way to the Statue of Liberty. The cruises are about 3-hours long. The band usually plays for about half that time. The rest of the time (or the whole time if you want to) you can be outside or looking out a window, or drinking (expensive drinks), or whatever.

As a big fan of the Weakerthans, I thought the Weakerthans show was super-duper. The set list was full of all the old hits and a bunch of new stuff off the new album (see above). I have a terrible memory when it comes to song names, set lists - even album titles...so I would love to list out all the songs, and especially name the one that I love and everyone sang along to at the end of the three-turned-four-song encore, but I'm too dumb, so.... More pics below....

This show was Friday, June 22, 2007.

Previously
* Weakerthans, Clutch, Lee Perry & Lucero playing boats
* Weakerthans was great, Bad Brains playing too

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Paul McCartney playing Amoeba Music in LA

Jack did it in NY. Jack did it in LA. Paul did it in NY. Now Paul's doing it in LA. Is Jack better than Paul, or is Paul better than Jack? Do you prefer your caffeine from Starbucks or Coke? Just kidding. (thx tm).

Posted in music | tour dates at 11:27 AM | Comments (1)

Wilco played Hammerstein Ballroom

Wilco played their first of two NYC shows last night.

Wilco @ Hammerstein Ballroom, NYC - June 25, 2007 (CRED)

Great show at the Hammerstein Ballroom last night from the best live band in the world, even with a Molly Ringwald wannabe wedging her way in front of me and then making out with her boyfriend (who tragically was neither Blaine McDonnagh nor Jake Ryan) for the duration show. [Fidgeting Wildly]

What did you think of the show? (farfegnugen?) If you're into FLAC, nyctaper has the show for download already. How were Low? Tonight the show is at Warsaw.

The Beastie Boys are playing Hammerstein Ballroom too.

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Beastie Boys "Gala Event" shows added

Beastie Boys playing a 'Gala Event' in Cologne - June 23, 2007 (CRED)

'The Mix Up' is out today. In other news, I assume that the Beastie Boys show I originally thought was going to be "early July" is actually in "early August". It's also not that small....

A limited number of Gala Event shows will be going on sale this week with more to be announced very soon.

August 10th - New York, NY - Hammerstein Ballroom
Beastie Boys - A Gala Event - Exclusive Instrumental Show
Exclusive Presale Starts Friday, June 29th at 10am (local time) here:
www.ticketmaster.com/artist/702455
Password: MIXUP
Tickets go on sale to the public Saturday, June 30th at 10am (local time) here:
www.ticketmaster.com/artist/702455

August 17th - Denver, CO - Fillmore
Beastie Boys - A Gala Event - Exclusive Instrumental Show
Exclusive Presale Starts Friday, June 29th at 10am (local time) here:
www.ticketmaster.com/artist/702455
Password: MIXUP
Tickets go on sale to the public Saturday, June 30th at 10am (local time) here:
www.ticketmaster.com/artist/702455

August 20th - Los Angeles, CA - Greek Theater
Exclusive Presale Starts Thursday, June 28th at 10am (local time) here:
www.ticketmaster.com/artist/702455
Password: MIXUP
Tickets go on sale to the public Saturday, June 30th at 10am (local time) here:
www.ticketmaster.com/artist/702455

August 24th - San Francisco, CA - The Warfield
Beastie Boys - A Gala Event - Exclusive Instrumental Show
Exclusive Presale Starts Friday, June 29th at 10am (local time) here:
www.ticketmaster.com/event/1C003ED2B386AF46
Password: MIXUP
Tickets go on sale to the public Sunday, July 1st at 10am (local time) here:
www.ticketmaster.com/event/1C003ED2B386AF46

As described before these will be in smaller spots, more exclusive, more intimate. this will be more like quality time, our time, just you and the band sitting by a fire on a tropical beach late at night being serenaded with love songs. these shows are for people that are into our weird stuff. Some songs will have vocals, others will be instrumental. Already here in Europe, people have called us liars for playing songs with vocals during our so called "instrumental" shows, so be it. We lie and are proud of it. Anyways, if you'd like to come to one of these shows, then dress to impress, wear a suit, a tie, a dress, your granma's broach or whatever you feel good in... BUT PLEASE leave your cargo shorts, birkenstocks and t-shirts at home, this is not that kind of party.

ALSO:

US Preferred Seating Code - Order "The Mix-Up" From iTunes on Tuesday!
Purchase the new album from iTunes and gain access to preferred seating for their soon to be sold out summer US tour!

The Summer US Tour is not to be missed. Most cities will host multiple night stands that include the classic Beastie Boys set that fans have reveled in for years, as well as "Gala Events," exclusive instrumental shows that feature the full band performing songs from "The Mix-Up" as well as reworked versions of catalog favorites.

Purchase The Mix-Up from iTunes, and receive a code that gives you access to preferred seating for the upcoming tour dates, INCLUDING THE SHOWS THAT HAVE ALREADY SOLD OUT!!! Special blocks of tickets have been set aside specifically for this promotion.

You must act quickly in order to qualify for this promotion. Offer expires July 3rd.

Please note: Tickets for this promotion are limited. Purchasing the album through iTunes does not guarantee tickets.

Previously
* STREAM: (the new) BEASTIE BOYS (album) - 'The Mix Up'
* BEASTIE BOYS - 2007 Tour Dates (McCarren & Summerstage)

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pictures of the 2007 Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival

Ghostface Killah

"The 3rd Annual Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival was this past Saturday (June 23, 2007), they had all day performances in effect and was free to the public for all hip-hop fans alike to enjoy. Wu-Tang’s own legendary MC Ghostface closed out the last day of the event along with artists like Cappadonna, Skillz, Consequence, Tanya Morgan, Emily King, Dres, Heltah Skeltah, Sean Price and more." [Clips and Kisses]

DJ Double-O of Kidz in the Hall

Knowledge of Kidz in the Hall

Pumpkinhead

Jeru

All photos by FlySi. More pictures HERE.

Previously
* Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival this weekend

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VIDEOS: behind the scenes on the True Colors Tour

Dresden Dolls, The Gossip, Cyndi Lauper, Erasure, Deborah Harry...

Previously
* True Colors Tour dates & stuff

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a few things

Apostle of Hustle play Canada Day @ Summerstage, NYC - June 24, 2007 (CRED)

* Paris Hilton Released From L.A. Jail
* Led Zeppelin rumored to reunite again
* Morrissey mulling Warner Brothers Deal
* LES SAVY FAV to headline FREE Citysol show
* (BrooklynVegan presents) BRITTA PERSSON in NYC - 2 shows
* Smashing Pumpkins played their first show in Asheville
* Pitchfork interviewed the White Stripes
* Smashing Pumpkins, RATM & Wilco playing Voodoo
* San Diego Street Scene initial lineup announced
* Modest Mouse, Built to Spill Set for New SF Festival

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June 25, 2007

VIDEO: Manu Chao - 'Blood & Fire' + Brooklyn Tomorrow!

Manu Chao @ Bonnaroo 2007

Manu Chao is back in Brooklyn Tuesday & Wednesday...

Cantiga Blood & Fire do cantante galaico-eusko-franco Manu Chao.

Previously
* more Manu Chao

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Ryan Adams NYC show tix were sold this weekend

I meant to say something about this earlier today, and you know if already if you've been following the comments -- some tickets were released to the public via Ticketweb this weekend for Ryan Adams' CD release show at Hiro Ballroom tomorrow.

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Editors - 2007 Tour Dates & presale

Editors (now with hair) @ Glastonbury 2007 (CRED)

EDITORS ' new album 'An End Has A Start' is out today in the UK on Kitchenware/Sony BMG, and comes out in the US on July 17th on Epic/FADER Label/Kitchenware. This past weekend the band played Glastonbury, and in September they'll tour the U.S. again.

Tickets go on presale this Tuesday @ 10am. The show in NYC is at Webster Hall on September 7th. All tour dates below....

Editors - 2007 Tour Dates
9/4 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
9/6 - Boston, MA - Paradise Rock Club
9/7 - NY, NY - Webster Hall
9/8 - Montreal, QC - Osheaga Festival
9/9 - Toronto, ON - Virgin Festival
9/11 - Chicago, IL - Park West
9/12 - Minneapolis, MN - Fine Line Music Cafe
9/14 - Denver, CO - Monolith Festival
9/15 - Salt Lake City, UT - Club Sound
9/17 - Vancouver, BC - Richard's On Richards
9/18 - Seattle, WA - Chop Suey
9/19 - Portland, OR - Berbati's Pan
9/20 - San Francisco, CA - Fillmore
9/23 - San Diego, CA - Streetscene
9/24 - Los Angeles, CA - The Wiltern

"EDITORS will also be doing a special outdoor performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Thursday, July 26th, which will air on ABC that evening at 12:00am (11:00pm central)."

"On Tuesday, June 26th, EDITORS are releasing 'Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors' as the first US single, with B-sides 'An Eye For An Eye' and 'The Picture'. Also available on Tuesday on iTunes, EDITORS"

Previously
* more Editors posts

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more photos from Glastonbury 2007

I missed a lot of the regulars the first time around, so here's a few more....

The Hold Steady

The New Pornographrers

Rufus Wainwright

Amy Winehouse

Arcade Fire

The Maccabbees

Arctic Monkeys

Patrick Wolf

Bjork

GLASTONBURY (Reuters) - Rivers of mud and driving rain frustrated fans trying to leave Glastonbury on Monday after three days of music, dance and poetry at the world's biggest greenfield music and arts festival.

Thousands of festival-goers, who frolicked in mud over three days and braved torrential rain to see rock godfathers The Who close out Glastonbury on Sunday, struggled to take down tents, pack up sodden clothes and trudge to the exits.

Student Nicky Salmon, who said she had grooved at Glastonbury's Dance Village no matter what the weather, was now grimly determined to face the epic journey home.

"I am not worried about leaving because of the organization behind the event, but the mud will make it a very long process," she said.

Even Welsh diva Shirley Bassey found that, although Glastonbury's weather was not a showstopper, it could snarl your plans to get home smoothly.

The bad weather forced Bassey's helicopter to land in a school field late on Sunday as she was flying home after electrifying the crowd of almost 180,000 attending the festival in southwest England, the BBC reported.

Bassey, known for her powerful voice and James Bond theme songs, and dressed in a sequined pink dress, belted out a set that included Bond theme "Goldfinger," "Big Spender" and "The Lady is a Tramp" to riotous applause.

Collingwood College principal Jerry Oddie said on Monday that bad weather made the school field the best landing site.

Caretakers let Bassey out of the locked grounds in the early evening and she popped into the home of a resident in the town for a cup of tea and a chance to freshen up.

"The weather here was terrible last night and I suppose the pilot took one look at our school field, which is very big, and decided to put down there," Oddie said.

CHURNED MUD

The green meadows of Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis's farm have been turned into a sea of churned mud on which an army of revelers frantically wrestled with tent pegs and poles while brightly colored tents flapped in the rain.

Many are expected to abandon their camping gear after a call from festival organizers and charity Global Hand, who plan to clean up any abandoned gear and donate it to those in need across the world as part of their Give Me Shelter campaign.

Tractors came out in force to tug some of the 40,000 cars that sank into the mud while their owners partied to the sounds of such bands as the Manic Street Preachers, Kaiser Chiefs, American indie rock kings The Killers, Iggy Pop and many more over three days.

revelers in snarled traffic around the festival will still have Glastonbury's last night ringing in their ears after a storming performance by The Who in heavy rain.

Original Who members Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey, accompanied by drummer Zak Starkey and bassist Pino Palladino, ran through hits from "My Generation" and "Pinball Wizard" to Townshend's anthem of political disillusion "Won't Get Fooled Again."

As they sang songs spanning their 40-year career, a screen at the back of the stage showed images from the 1960s and 1970s

"It may be muddy, it may be wet but you were fantastic!" Daltrey shouted at the end as he embraced Townshend.

Earlier, the Manic Street Preachers were joined during their set by singer Nina Persson from Sweden's The Cardigans for their hit song "You're Love Alone Is not Enough."

As the sun set on the mud-covered but ecstatic crowd, the Kaiser Chiefs confirmed their reputation as one of Britain's most popular performing bands, earning a frenzied response with hits such as "I Predict a Riot" and "Ruby."

Tractors spread straw and woodchips as paths became harder to negotiate, but most festival-goers in brightly colored ponchos and rubber Wellington boots danced undaunted.

"It's gone very well in spite of the rain, in spite of the mud," festival founder Michael Eavis said on Sunday.

"The show compensates for the weather ... the sun's not everything."

More than 1,200 people had been injured by Sunday, mostly with sprains and bruises from slipping in the mud at the farm which first held a small, hippy music festival in 1970.

organizers said the flooding would have been much worse without the new 100,000 pound ($199,000) drainage system and other precautions installed by 71-year-old Eavis. [Reuters]

All pictures courtesy of the BBC.

Previously
* Tokyo Police Club add 2nd NYC show + played Glasto
* Bloc party add NYC show - playing Glastonbury
* pictures from Glastonbury 2007 - it was wet & muddy

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more details on the Boredoms 77 Drum ('Boadrum')

More details on the Boredoms 77 Drummer thing happening in Brooklyn Bridge Park on 7/7/7 have emerged. According to The Daily Swarm,

The gates will open at 4:00 PM, and the show features performances by First Nation and Soft Circle and DJ sets from Gang Gang Dance before the 77-minute 77BOADRUM performance takes place just before sunset. Admission is free, but an RSVP is required. Full details, directions, and RSVP information will be available at www.viceland.com/77boadrum soon.

The performance’s 77 full 5-piece, 3 cymbal drum kits will be arranged in a circular pattern, spiraling out from the center like a coiled snake, where the Boredoms’ own drum kits and Eye’s electronic instruments will sit atop a raised platform. Joining the Boredoms will be 74 additional drummers, 10 of whom will serve as drum leaders and cue the rest.

The volunteer army of drummers represent many of the best players in New York City’s avant/experimental underground and were selected by the event’s music director Hisham Bharoocha. They come from a diverse group of bands and musicians who have drawn influence and inspiration from the Boredoms throughout the group’s 20-year career, including Hugo Burnham of Gang of Four, Tim Dewit and Lizzi Bougatsos of Gang Gang Dance, Andrew W.K., David Grubbs, Hart Mingus of Negative Approach, Matthias Schulz of Holy Fuck, and members of Aa, Crash Worship, God Is My Co-Pilot, Sunburned Hand of the Man, Oneida, Excepter, Antietam, Dymaxion, Panthers, and many others. The full line-up of drummers will be finalized this week.

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Tokyo Police Club add 2nd NYC show + played Glasto

Tokyo Police Club @ Glastonbury 2007 (CRED)

Fresh off an appearance at the 2007 Glastonbury Festival, Tokyo Police Club have added a 2nd show at Bowery Ballroom in August.

some of TPC's 2007 Tour Dates
8/10 - Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY (SOLD OUT)
8/11 - Maxwell's, Hoboken, NJ (SOLD OUT)
8/12 - Middle East Downstairs Cambridge, MA
8/13 - Bowery Ballroom New York, NY (NEW)

Tickets will probably go on sale Wednesday? More tour dates & a new TPC video HERE. An interview with TPC HERE, and even more TPC HERE. Bloc Party @ Glastonbury HERE, and more pics from Glastobury HERE.

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Superchunk & slipNslide @ McCarren Pool, Brooklyn, NY - pics

DOWNLOAD: Superchunk - Kicked In (acoustic) (MP3)

These photos are of Superchunk, Slip-N-Slide, Dodgeball, Frisbee, Football, and other various activities going on at McCarren Park Pool in Brooklyn, NY on Sunday June 24, 2007 - the first free JellyNYC "pool party" of Summer 2007.

This was happening at the same time as the Pride Parade across the river in Manhattan.

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Largehearted Boy's Interesting CD Releases This Week

DOWNLOAD: The Sharp Things - An Ocean Part Deux (MP3)

Ryan Adams releases his ninth album, Easy Tiger, this week. Other discs I can strongly recommend include Swervedriver frontman Adam Franklin's solo album Bolts of Melody, Frank Black's solo greatest hits collection Best of Frank Black '93-'03, Hem's Home Again, Home Again, Metric's Grow Up and Blow Away, the Sharp Things' A Moveable Feast, and Slaraffenland's Private Cinema. Pearl Jam releases a box set of live recordings tomorrow, Live at the Gorge 05/06.

Other interesting releases this week include Roxy Music frontman Bryan Ferry's Dylanesque (a collection of Dylan covers), and two new installments in the Rockabye Baby Lullaby series: Rockabye Baby! Lullaby Renditions of The Pixies and Rockabye Baby! Lullaby Renditions of the Rolling Stones.

Have I left anything noteworthy off the list? What new music releases can you recommend this week?

This week's interesting CD releases:

Adam Franklin: Bolts of Melody [cd]
Automatic Automatic: Not Accepted Anywhere [cd]
Bad Brains: Build A Nation [cd]
Beastie Boys: The Mix-Up [cd]
Blondie: Eat to the Beat (remastered with bonus dvd) [cd]
Bryan Ferry: Dylanesque [cd]
Chemical Brothers: Do It Again (single) [cd]
Click Five: Modern Minds and Pastimes [cd]
Conformists: Three Hundred [cd]
Deleted Waveform Gatherings: Complicated View [cd]
Editors: Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors (single) [cd]
Eliza Gilkyson: Live from Austin, TX [cd]
Flower Kings: Road Back Home [cd]
Frank Black: Best of Frank Black '93-'03 [cd]
Gore Gore Girls: Get the Gore [cd]
Grateful Dead: Three from the Vault [cd]
Hem: Home Again, Home Again [cd]
Juliana Hatfield: The White Broken Line: Live Recordings [cd]
Kelly Clarkson: My December [cd]
King Wilkie: Low Country Suite [cd]
Lee Hazlewood: The Very Special World of Lee Hazlewood (reissue) [cd]
Link Wray: King of the Wild Guitar [cd]
Marc Almond: Stardom Road [cd]
Marc Broussard: S.O.S.: Save Our Soul [cd]
Metric: Grow Up and Blow Away [cd]
Nels Cline Singers: Draw Breath [cd]
Nick Lowe: At My Age [cd]
Patti Smith: Peace and Noise (reissue) [cd]
Paul Simon: The Essential Paul Simon (with bonus dvd) [cd]
Pearl Jam: Live at the Gorge 05/06 (box set) [cd]
Rasputina: Oh Perilous World [cd]
Robert Earl Keen Jr.: Greatest Hits [cd]
Rush: Snakes & Arrows [cd]
Ryan Adams: Easy Tiger [cd]
The Sharp Things: A Moveable Feast [cd]
Sinead O'Connor: Theology [cd]
Slaraffenland: Private Cinema [cd]
Steve Forbert: Strange Names and New Sensations [cd]
Various Artists: Rockabye Baby! Lullaby Renditions of The Pixies [cd]
Various Artists: Rockabye Baby! Lullaby Renditions of the Rolling Stones [cd]

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Bloc Party playing Theater @ MSG - Fall Tour after ACL?

DOWNLOAD: Smoosh - This Modern Love (Bloc Party cover) (MP3) (VIA)

Bloc Party @ Glastonbury 2007 (CRED)

Bloc Party frontman Kele Okereke has a secret confession to his army of supporters - he doesn't like music festivals because they remind him of when he was at school. The British rocker's band performed at the Glastonbury festival yesterday, and will be headlining a number of shows around Europe and America over the summer.

But he doesn't find the experience being backstage at festivals very enjoyable.

He says: "It's like being at a school reunion with people you know the faces of but don't really know at all." [Starpulse]

Bloc Party had to cancel last time they were supposed to play the Theater at Madison Square Garden in NYC. They try it again on October 3rd - not long after they play Austin City Limits & a show in Toronto. A fan club presale starts Tuesday. More dates surely TBA soon. All known dates below....

Bloc Party - 2007 Tour Dates
Fri 06/29 - Werchter, BEL Rock Werchter Festival
Sat 06/30 - Saint Gallen, SWI Open Air St. Gallen
Sun 07/01 - Gdynia, POL Heineken Open'er Festival
Tue 07/03 - Lisbon, POR Parque Tejo "Super Bock Super Rock Festival"
Fri 07/06 - Kinross, UK Balado T in the Park
Sat 07/07 - London, UK Wembley Stadium Live Earth
Sun 07/08 - Naas, IRE Punchestown Race Course Oxegen Festival
Fri 08/03 - Melbourne, AUS Festival Hall
Sat 08/04 - Moore Park, AUS Hordern Pavilion
Wed 08/08 - Auckland, NZ St. James Theatre
Sat 08/11 - Osaka, JPN Maeshima Summer Sonic
Sun 08/12 - Tokyo, JPN Chiba Marine Stadium
Sat 08/25 - Reading, UK Richfield Avenue Reading Festival
Sun 08/26 - Leeds, UK Bramham Park Leeds Festival
Sun 09/16 - Austin, TX Zilker Park Austin City Limits
Fri 09/28 - Toronto, ONT - Ricoh Coliseum
Wed 10/03 - New York, NY - WaMu Theater at Madison Square Garden
Wed 12/12 - Glasgow, UK S.E.C.C.
Thu 12/13 - Manchester, UK Manchester Central
Fri 12/14 - London, UK Alexandra Palace
Sat 12/15 - London, UK Alexandra Palace

(thx Blog Party)

In other news

Major artists' songs may soon be free to download, after a deal was struck between record label V2 and website we7.com.

Bands such as Bloc Party, The Rakes, Stereophonics and Cold War Kids will have their tracks available for free, thanks to advertising on the beginning of the songs.

The advertising attached to each track will ensure that the bands will receive royalties. After a period of time, users will be given the option of removing the advertisements from their downloaded tracks. [Clickmusic]

Previously
* more Bloc Party

Posted in music | tour dates at 10:43 AM | Comments (12)

pictures from Glastonbury 2007 - it was wet & muddy

Pete Doherty

Kate Moss

"This weekend saw the Glastonbury Festival taking place but it also saw one of the wettest weekends that we’ve seen recently - it was p*ssing down quite a lot of the time. The result was that the Glastonbury site at Pilton, Somerset once again turned into a bit of a quagmire with ankle deep mud in many places. That however didn’t stop about 170,000 people enjoying all the music and other events on offer on the various stages throughout the site and there was something for everyone from all the latest hot bands to long-established acts like The Who – headliners on Sunday night." [Sonic State]

Iggy Pop

Bruce Willis?

Paul Weller

Former Jam and Style Council founder Paul Weller played a career-spanning set on Glastonbury's main Pyramid stage last night (June 23).

Playing for over an hour, Weller kicked off the back catalogue guitar fest with 'Peacock Suit' from his '97 album 'Heavy Soul' and 'Into Tomorrow' from his debut solo album.

Highlight of the set was an amazing 'Wild Wood' for which the sun briefly shone over the Pyramid audience who were standing knee deep in a muddy quagmire.

The Modfather also treated fans to three classic Jam songs, 'Thick As Thieves', 'Running On The Spot,' and the set closer of 'Town Called Malice.' [Uncut]

Lily Allen

The Who

Pete Doherty (another day)

Carl Barat

"A 26-year-old man has died in Yeovil District Hospital after a suspected drugs overdose at the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm in Somerset. The man, believed to be from the West Midlands, was found unconscious by festival staff in the Park Farm area of the site early on Saturday." [BBC]

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Jana Hunter & Castanets gear stolen in AZ

The Castanets wrote:

Here's a message from Jana regarding yesterdays JH/Nets gear theft with some info on a Paypal account she's set up to hopefully replace some gear in the near or far future. Said information can be found at the end of the message that many of you have already read. Thanks to everyone who has sent along a kind word in the last 24 hours. It's awesome to know you all are around. Good times and living to you.

Continued below...

"This message was mailed and posted a couple days ago in various places, and i've added something at the end for those inclined to help out.

So, the story is, last night (Friday June 22) we played in tucson at solar culture.
afterward, we loaded our stuff up, went downtown, had a drink, and
went to a house to crash on the floor. en route, we damaged a door,
making it such that the door won't close and such that eventually,
before we return the vehicle to the rental company, we'll have to pay
on the order of 2 grand to replace the door.

seeing as how we had an unsecured vehicle, ray (castanets) slept in
the van. sometime during the night, some brave fuck(s) very quietly
opened the back door and took what they could carry. we assume their
were more than one of them given all the shit they managed to walk
away with. we're gathering what serial numbers we can, but in the
meantime, here's a rudimentary list:

JH gear-
fender classical guitar (ser.#9505151116)
new boss 20xl loopstation
boss reverb/delay pedal
original digitech whammy pedal
original b k butler tubedriver overdrive pedal
peavey 6 mixer (ser.#k0344300)
shure beta 98/s
custom flashlight circuit-bended thing

Castanets gear-
late 60's blue fender music master guitar
line 6 delay pedal
boss tremolo
mutron volume/wah pedal
boss tuner pedal
digitech metal master
ebow
slides/cables

all this after we had to fly our friend/drummer to the airport
yesterday morning so he could go to the hospital. pretty big bummer
all around.

since that message was sent out, a lot of kind folks have written to
ray and i asking with very kind words of sympathy and offers of help.
given that we don't expect to see our gear return to us and therefore
really could use the help, we've decided to set up a paypal account
and ask that whomoever is so inclined make a small donation to help
alleviate the costs of replacing our equipment. in order to accept
these donations, we have with the email address
mutualincarnation@gmail.com. if these folks are feeling especially
generous, we'd also ask that they donate from their bank accounts or
paypal accounts so that we can avoid paying fees on the donations.

we're in the process of assessing how much we'll need to replace our
equipment, but in the event that we receive more than we need, we
plan to pass on whatever is left over to a charity or charities.

thanks for reading,
jh"

Jana Hunter - 2007 Tour Dates
Jun 25 - Good Records In-store Dallas, Texas
Jun 25 - Rubber Gloves Denton, Texas
Jun 26 - Mohawk Place w/Pink Nasty, Macon Terry Austin, Texas
Jun 29 - The Orange Show (full band) w/Pink Nasty, Macon Terry Houston, Texas
Jul 7 - Magic Stick w/Rasputina Detroit, Michigan
Jul 8 - Abbey Pub w/Rasputina Chicago, Illinois
Jul 10 - Varsity Theater w/Rasputina Minneapolis, Minnesota
Jul 11 - Record Bar w/Rasputina Kansas City, Missouri
Jul 12 - Bluebird Theater w/Rasputina Denver, Colorado
Jul 14 - Suede w/Rasputina Park City, Utah
Jul 16 - Hawthorne Theater w/Rasputina Portland, Oregon
Jul 17 - Neumo's w/Rasputina Seattle, Washington
Jul 20 - DiverseWorks w/Kable, Hearts of Animals HTX

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June 24, 2007

the 2007 Mermaid & Gay Pride parades

2007 Mermaid Parade, NYC - June 23, 2007 (CRED)

2007 Pride Parade, NYC - June 24, 2007 (CRED)

I missed two of my favorite parades this weekend. Saturday I had to take care of something that ended up taking all day, and Sunday I just stuck with McCarren Pool. Good thing there's Flickr. More Mermaid Parade pics HERE. More Pride Parade pics HERE.

Posted in NYC | music at 11:44 PM | Comments (29)

VIDEO: Dirty Projectors - from Washington Square Park...

DOWNLOAD: Dirty Projectors - No More (MP3)

...to Vegetarian's Paradise....

Take Way Show no55, filmed in NYC with the band Dirty Projectors.

Dirty Projectors - 2007 Tour Dates
Jun 24 - Mode Biennale Arnhem
Jun 26 - Koko London, London and South East
Jun 27 - The Hope Brighton
Jun 28 - Whelans Dublin
Jun 29 - Adelphi Club Kingston Upon Hull
Jun 30 - King Tut's Glasgow, Scotland
Jul 2 - Gramaphone London, London and South East
Jul 3 - Trabendo Paris
Jul 4 - Belluard Bollwerk International Fribourg
Jul 5 - Postbahnhof Berlin
Jul 6 - Fleche D'Or Paris
Jul 7 - Charivarue Festival Cherbourg
Jul 8 - Fleche D'Or Paris
Jul 20 - Whitney Museum of American Art New York, New York
Jul 21 - Whartscape Baltimore, Maryland

Posted in MP3 | music | tour dates | video at 11:41 PM | Comments (4)

VIDEO: You Say Party! We Say Die! - 'Monster'

I like the monster...

You Say Party! We Say Die! and their first video from their new album Lose All Time. The single is 'Monster' and it was shot in Prague, Czech Republic. The video was directed by Sean Wainsteim (also responsible for the 'Cheer it On' video by Tokyo Police Club).

Previously
* more You Say Party! We Say Die!

Posted in music | video at 11:20 PM | Comments (0)

BAD BRAINS - album stream, MP3 & free boat tix to WIN

DOWNLOAD: Bad Brains - Give Thanks and Praises (MP3)

The above MP3 is off the brand new Bad Brains album "Build a Nation" out June 26, 2007 on Megaforce, and produced by Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys ("It also represents the first studio album, outside Beastie Boys albums, to be recorded at the Beastie Boys’ Oscilloscope Laboratories and Studio compound in New York City.") You can listen to the whole new Bad Brains album at MySpace. You can listen to the whole new Beastie Boys album on BrooklynVegan.

Bad Brains are playing The School of Rock Festival in Asbury Park, NJ today (June 24). Tomorrow is their sold out NYC concert cruise aboard The Temptress. I rode the Temptress just this past Friday for the also-sold-out Weakerthans show which also the first show of the Rocks Off season. Not only were the Weakerthans great - so was the weather and the view. Here are two pictures I took off the side of the boat:

More, and larger, photos @ my Flickr.

Do you want to see Bad Brains on the boat on Monday (June 25), but don't have tickets? Now you have one more chance. I have one pair of tickets to give away, and I'm going to split that pair in half - so instead of one prize, I now have two. To win one of these two tickets Email BVCONTESTS@HOTMAIL.COM (subject: Bad Brains), and let me know your favorite album of 2007 so far. Include your first and last name for guestlist. Two winners will be picked at random, and contacted. Contest ends Monday at noon - seven hours before the voyage starts boarding.

BB tour dates & stuff below....

Bad Brains - 2007 Tour Dates
6/24 -- NY School Of Rock Festival, Asbury Park NJ
6-25 -- NY Boat Ride, New York NY
7/29 -- The Rogers Picnic, Toronto CANADA
8/05 -- Virgin Festival, Baltimore MD

Build a Nation tracklist
1. Give Thanks And Praises
2. Jah People Make The World Go Round
3. Pure Love
4. Natty Dreadlocks 'Pon The Mountain Top
5. Build A Nation
6. Expand Your Soul
7. Jah Love
8. Let There Be Angels (Just Like You)
9. Universal Peace
10. Roll On
11. Until Kingdom Comes
12. In The Beginning
13. Send You No More Flowers
14. Peace Be Unto Thee

Previously
* Bad Brains @ Sasquatch 2007 (photo & review)
* more Bad Brains

Posted in Contests | MP3 | music | pictures | streams | tour dates at 11:54 AM | Comments (9)

June 22, 2007

Wes' Weekly Hip Hop News Roundup (June 22, 2007)

The Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival is this weekend - with Ghostface and others.

Pharoahe did a special performance at the Apple Store in SoHo, NYC this past Sunday. Performing songs from his upcoming album Desire (in stores June 26), Pharoahe kept the 2nd floor of the store packed and nodding their heads to the new material. [the label]

NEWS

• The Roots announced a new album, their 10th (!!), Rising Down. ?uestlove divulges more details in this interview.
• Read the entertaining and informative Oh Word Mid Year Report.
• So much good news for Saigon! First he finally gets that sample cleared that was holding up his album, then he signs on with Violator.
• RealTalkNY interviews Talib Kweli on new album Ear Drum.
• StreetCensus lists their top 10 Diss Songs of the 2000s so far.
• One of the original Hip Hop bloggers switches to vlogging.
• Pharoahe Monch discusses his first new album in eight years. It's called Desire and it's awesome.
• Amie St just announced a new deal with Black Wall St and made available a set of exclusive tracks by The Game, Nu Jersey Devil, and others. Read about it here.
• KRS-One has a problem with Jeff Chang's seminal Hip Hop book Can't Stop, Won't Stop. Read about it here, including Chang's reply.

MORE BELOW......

MUSIC

• Elkay posted a bunch of songs by Jadakiss, Saigon, Talib Kweli, Chamillionaire, Young Jeezy, Lil' Wayne, WC and Uncle Murda
• Download T.I.'s 'Help Is Coming' here. Production by Just Blaze.
• Just Blaze also was kind enough to share a 20 minute MP3 from his DJ set from the "Authentic Sh*t" party at Table 50 in Manhattan. Q-tip and Large Professor got on the mic.
• Spine Magazine posted 'Hip Hop Police' by Chamillionaire ft Slick Rick and 'Smile' Trae The Truth featuring Jadakiss and Styles P.

VIDEO

• When DJ Premier speaks, I think we should listen. Watch this video interview.
• Timbaland did yet another video, this one for The Way I Are ft DOE & Kerri Hilson.
• The Weekly Hip Hop video blog has bits on Stack Bundles, Timbaland, 50 Cent, Fabolous, The Game and many more.
• Common does an actual freestyle on Rap City unlike most rappers.
• Lupe Fiasco did a simple but effective video for 'She Say, He Say'.
• Boo Goo Doo Doom has two new Sean Price videos to watch.

SHOWS
6/23 3rd Annual Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival ft Ghostface, Consequence, Skillz and more. (info).

6/23 The Official Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival (W)Rap Party @ Southpaw, $5 w/Festival Stub; $8 without.

6/29 Pharoahe Monch, Black Milk @ Highline Ballroom, 11.30PM, tix

7/7/ Juelz Santana @ Washington Avenue Armory, 5.30pm, tix.

7/10 Kanye West @ Mohegan Sun Arena (CT), 7pm, tix.

7/14 El-P @ Urban Outfitters (Avenue of the Americas), sponsored by WNHU 88.7 FM & Free Yr Radio, FREE

7/16 Arrested Development @ B.B. King's Blues Club & Grill, 8pm, tix

07/28 & 29 - Rock the Bells w/ Wu Tang and many others @ Randall's Island

07/29 - "Wild Style 25th Anniversary Reunion" Central Park SummerStage ft Busy Bee, Cold Crush Brothers, DJ Grand Wizzard Theodore & Grand Master Caz

07/19 Arrested Development @ Von King Park (Brooklyn)

07/25 Kurtis Blow/DJ GrandWizzard Theodore/Ralph McDaniel @ Crotona Park (Bronx)

07/31 Whodini @ Queensbridge Park (Manhattan)

08/03 Lyricist Lounge With KRS-One, Ladybug Mecca, and more @ Prospect Park Bandshell. (info)

08/08 Biz Markie/DJ Lovebug starski @ Jackie Robinson Park (Manhattan)

08/09 Slick Rick/DJ Red Alert @ Marcus Garvy Park (Manhattan)

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this post brought to you by Undisputed Wes

Posted in hiphop | music at 4:36 PM | Comments (20)

Happy Happy Pride Pride

The 5th person to e-mail BVCONTESTS@HOTMAIL.COM (subject: march) right now wins tix to see one of the EAMB shows at Knitting Factory this weekend.

Team Dresch @ The Rotunda in Philly - June 21, 2007 (CRED)

* March in the NYC Gay Pride Parade this Sunday
* Shepard Fairey is exhbiting art
* Team Dresch is playing two shows this weekend
* The Violent Femmes pass through town
* Yo Majesty is at Studio B late night (tix)
* The Mermaid Parade is this weekend
* Panda Bear returns to Bowery Ballroom
* Glenn Mercer plays his Maxwell's date
* There's Canadians like Sloan @ Summerstage
* There's comedy @ Central Park Summerstage too
* There's comedy happening everywhere even
* The East River Music Project kicks things off
* McCarren Park hosts Superchunk and friends
* Extra Action Marching Band is @ Knitting Factory Friday & Saturday

Listen to more Extra Action Marching Band @ MySpace

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F*cked Up & Pissed Jeans - 2007 Tour Dates (tonight)

DOWNLOAD: Pissed Jeans - I've Still Got You (Ice Cream) (MP3)

Even though they're fun to look at, I've posted enough pictures of Fu*ked Up on this website - so even though they're the ones with the show at Europa in Brooklyn tonight (June 22, 2007), here's one instead of Pissed Jeans who have a new record out on Sub Pop - it's been a while.....

If you miss FU tonight, don't worry - they'll be back to play two shows in July - the 20th @ Knitting Factory, and then the 21st @ Southpaw with Pissed Jeans. All tour dates below...

Pissed Jeans - 2007 Tour Dates
July 13th, 2007 @ The Bank in Baltimore, MD w/ Vincent Blackshadow, Leprechaun Catering, Beastmaster
July 21st, 2007 @ Southpaw in Brooklyn, NY w/ Fucked Up, Tyvek, Ludlow
August 25th, 2007 @ 1515 S. Vermont in Los Angeles, CA w/ Plastic Little, Best Fwends
August 26th, 2007 @ The Echo in Los Angeles, CA

F'd Up - 2007 Tour Dates
Fri June 22 Brooklyn New York @ Europa with Career Suicide / Dustheads / Even Keel
Sat June 23 Richmond (fest after party)
Sun June 24 Nashville Tennesee @ The Muse
Mon June 25 New Orleans Louisiana @ McWilliams Hall in Tulane
Tue June 26 Austin Texas @ Emos
Wed June 27 Las Cruces New Mexico @ The Farm 500 Belen
Thu June 28 Phoenix Arizona @ The Phix 1113 NW Grand Ave. 85007 w/ THINK FAST
Fri June 29 Los Angeles California @ 1269 E 6th
Sat June 30 Berkely California @ 924 Gilman
Sun July 1 Long Beach tba
Mon July 2 Tijuana @ Salon Fiesta
Tue July 3 LA Area
Wed July 4 San Fransisco tba
Thu July 5 Portland
Fri July 6 Olympia Washington @ Manium 421 4th Ave
Sat July 7 Vancouver BC @The Ukranian Cultural Center 805 Pender Vancouver
Sun July 8 Edmonton Alberta @ Teddy's 11361 Jasper Ave
Mon July 9 Regina Saskatchewan @ The Exchange 2431 8th Ave
Tue July 10 Winnepeg Manitoba @ The Collective Caberet 108 Osborne St
Wed July 11 Minneapolis Minnesota @ The Triple Rock
Thursday July 12 Chicago Illinois @ The Beat Kitchen
Fri July 13 Cedar Falls Iowa @ The Boathouse Corner of 1st and Center 50613 w/ MODERN LIFE IS WAR
Sat July 14 Lawrence Kansas @ The Jackpot Saloon 943 Massachusetts St
Sun July 15 St Louis Missouri @ TBA
Mon July 16 Chamblee Georgia @ The Shop 3875 Green Industrial Way
Tue July 17 Virginia Beach
Wed July 18 Washington DC @ 1017 7th St NW DC w/ GOVERNMENT WARNING
Thurs July 19 Philadelphia @ TBA w/ BATTLES
Fri July 20 NYC @ The Knitting Factory w/ LIMP WRIST (ex members of LOS CRUDOS)
Sat July 21 Brooklyn New York @ Southpaw w/ PISSED JEANS

Previously
* more F'd UP
* more Pissed Jeans

Posted in music at 1:38 PM | Comments (5)

THEDEATHSET - 2007 Tour Dates, MP3's, video & the water balloon incident (+tonight w/ Matt & Kim & Parts & Labor)

DOWNLOAD: TheDeathSet - Intermission (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: TheDeathSet - Paranoia (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: TheDeathSet - Negative Thinking (James Stovall Remix)

TheDeathSet in Baltimore (CRED)

Now that I finally got the Best Fwends post out there, it's finally time for the one about one of their friends - another Todd-P-Baltimore-Wham-City-Dan Deacon-Spank-Rock-Punk band that I've been getting pretty excited about lately - THE DEATH SET.

TheDeathSet @ Glasslands Gallery, Brooklyn, NY - May 25, 2007 (CRED)

This is also my chance to finally bring up the water balloon incident...

Last Friday was a show at Glasslands put on by Bikes In The Kitchen. It was a pretty great line-up, with Pterodactyl, Team Robespierre, Best Fwends, and theDeathset. The show was a sweaty good time (very sweaty, perspiration was condensing on the metal roof and occasionally dripping down on the crowd), until a random tragedy hit right at the start of Deathset's set. Some girls thought it would be funny to throw water balloons down on the crowd from the balcony. And it was funny. Until one of them, for whatever possible reason, decided to start throwing them past the band at the back of the stage where all of the amps/speakers/cables/sound equipment was.....[Suckapants on May 28, 2007]

..........

....Meanwhile "Fuck you you fucking fuck" girl decides instead of simply giving me her details it would be a better idea to call the police after first trying to fight me all the time me thinking how ridiculous it actually is that my first fight will be with a girl. Luckily peoples pull her off. So in summary, this girl is not only an imbecile and an idiot, she is also a narc, causing the party to end. The police come and side with me after they hear the story and I tell them I don't want her to be arrested and they advise me to get an attorney which I don't have the first clue about and obviously being in a touring band can not afford. [TheDeathSet - June 4, 2007]

The Death Set have a new (twelve song) EP out this week. It features remixes by Dan Deacon and Bonde Do Role. Tonight (June 22, 2007) and tomorrow they play shows in NYC followed by a whole bunch more shows all over the place. Tonight is going to be especially nuts because they're on a bill with Matt and Kim and Parts and Labor - Above the Auto Parts Store....

Lightning Bolt - Above the Auto Parts Store, Brooklyn, NY - May 27, 2007 (CRED)

Tomorrow night TheDeathSet play in Brooklyn again - @ Don Pedro's w/ SSS-spectres, The Trucks, DD/MM/YYYY, and Team Robespierre. All tour dates below....

TheDeathSet - 2007 Tour Dates
Jun 22 - ABOVE THE AUTO PARTS STORE Parts and Labour CD release w/ Matt and Kim,Golden Error Brooklyn, New York
Jun 23 - NY CD Release @ Don Pedros w/ SSS-spectres,The Trucks,DD/MM/YYYY, Team Robespierre Brooklyn, New York
Jun 24 - RoBurrito garage York, Pennsylvania
Jun 25 - Spazzatorium Galleria Greenville, North Carolina
Jun 26 - Nightlight Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Jun 27 - The Cool Kid Compound w/ Cars Can Be Blue, Titans of Filth Athens, Georgia
Jun 28 - Drunken Unicorn Atlanta, Georgia
Jun 29 - Sluggos Pensacola, Florida
Jun 30 - Boondocks Houston, Texas
Jul 1 - Beauty Bar Austin, Texas
Jul 2 - Haileys Club Denton
Jul 3 - High Mayhem Santa Fe, New Mexico
Jul 4 - HELP NEEDED! Flagstaff, Arizona
Jul 5 - HELP NEEDED! San Diego, California
Jul 6 - The Smell ** Los Angeles, California
Jul 7 - 21 Grand ** Oakland, California
Jul 9 - Towne Lounge ** Portland, Oregon
Jul 10 - The Voyeur ** Oylmpia, Washington
Jul 11 - Neurolux ** Boise, Idaho
Jul 12 - HELP NEEDED! ** Salt Lake City, Utah
Jul 13 - Rhinoceropolis ** Denver
Jul 14 - Lawrence City Zoo, ** Lawrence, Missouri
Jul 15 - Peoples Projects ** Chicago, Illinois
Jul 16 2007 3:00P
Rocket Star Café ** Kalamazoo, Michigan
Jul 16 - Scrummage University ** Detroit, Michigan
Jul 17 - Garfield Artworks ** Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Jul 18 - Clap it Off House ** Philly, Pennsylvania
Jul 21 - Whartscape w/ Spankrock, XBXRX, BARR, Dirty Projectors and a million other super rad bands Baltimore
Aug 16 - Best Friends Day at The Roller Skating Rink Richmond, Virginia
Aug 17 - The Parlor house w/ Double Dagger New Brunswick, New Jersey
Aug 18 - Lolita Party @ Glasslands w/ Double Dagger Brooklyn, New York
Aug 19 - Are We Not Men w/ Mika Miko, Double Dagger Baltimore, New York

** w/ Ponytail

PArts & Labor - 2007 Tour Dates
Jun 22 - Above The Auto Parts Store with Matt & Kim, Deathset, and Golden Error Brooklyn (Bushwick), New York
Jun 23 - The Vacuum Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Jun 27 - Zoo Bizarre Montreal, Quebec
Jun 28 - Zaphod Beeblebrox Ottawa, Ontario
Jun 29 - Sneaky Dees Toronto, Ontario
Jun 30 - Beachland Cleveland, Ohio
Jul 2 - Hospital Bloomington, Indiana
Jul 3 - Empty Bottle Chicago, Illinois
Jul 5 - The Picador Iowa City, Iowa
Jul 6 - Lemp Arts Center St Louis, Missouri
Jul 7 - Dusty Bookshelf Manhattan, Kansas
Jul 8 - Conservatory Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Jul 9 - Pastime Tavern Dallas, Texas
Jul 10 - Emo's Austin, Texas
Jul 11 - Proletariat Houston, Texas
Jul 12 - TBA Shreveport, Louisiana
Jul 13 - Bottle Tree Birmingham, Alabama
Jul 14 - Village Tavern Mount Pleasant, South Carolina
Jul 15 - Local 506 Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Matt & Kim - 2007 Tour Dates
Jun 22 - ABOVE THE AUTO PARTS STORE Brooklyn, New York
Jul 19 - middle east (upstairs) Cambridge, Massachusetts
Jul 21 - Siren Fest Brooklyn, New York
Jul 27 - Capitol Hill Block Party seattle, Washington
Aug 5 - Madison Theater covington, Kentucky
Aug 8 - oya festival oslo
Aug 17 - pukklepop festival kiewit, hasselt
Sep 15 - Monolith Festival Morrison, Colorado

Previously
* Best Fwends - pics, mp3s, tour dates
* Dan Deacon playing shows, touring w/ Girl Talk
* Spank Rock signs to Downtown Records
* Matt & Kim @ Studio B, Brooklyn, NY | pics

Posted in MP3 | music | tour dates at 12:24 PM | Comments (21)

(BrooklynVegan presents) BRITTA PERSSON in NYC - 2 shows

DOWNLOAD: Logh - Into the Night (w/ Britta Persson) (MP3) (INFO)

Britta Persson somewhere in 2005 (CRED)

It was back in November that I first fell in love with Swedish singer-songwriter Britta Persson. I emailed her shortly thereafter to see if she had any plans to play NYC. Then she recently asked for my help in making it happen while she's in town helping us celebrate our independence from Great Britain, and so....

Britta Persson takes NYC
July 3, 7pm @ Rockwood Music Hall
July 6, 11pm @ The Living Room (unofficial Fujiya & Miyagi Seaport afterparty)

Both shows are free, but please show your support while you're there by throwing some cash in the tip bucket. Videos below....

Britta Persson - Winter Tour

Britta Persson - Winter Tour live, Acoustic

Posted in MP3 | music | tour dates | video at 11:24 AM | Comments (7)

VIDEO: Rufus Wainwright - 'Rules and Regulations'

I was waiting for them to pick him up....

Political piano man Rufus Wainwright teamed up with director Petro Papahadjopoulos for the new video 'Rules and Regulations.' The video features Rufus in a London mansion rockin' Droog-ish long johns with a fleet of men, all doing synchronized dance moves. [Spinner]

Like this...

Posted in music | video at 10:47 AM | Comments (2)

The Cure - 2007 Tour Dates (MSG)

The Cure are touring this Fall. They hit Madison Square Garden in NYC on September 23rd. All tour dates below...

The Cure - 2007 Tour Dates
Jul 27 - FUJI FESTIVAL JAPAN
Jul 30 - ASIA WORLD ARENA HONG KONG
Aug 1 - SINGAPORE INDOOR STADIUM SINGAPORE
Aug 4 - CHALLENGE STADIUM PERTH
Aug 6 - ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE ADELAIDE
Aug 8 - ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE BRISBANE
Aug 10 - ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE SYDNEY
Aug 12 - ROD LAVER ARENA MELBOURNE

Thu-Sep-13 Tampa - St Pete Times Forum
Sat-Sep-15 Atlanta - Gwinnett Center
Mon-Sep-17 Charlotte - Charlotte Bobcats Arena
Wed-Sep-19 Washington DC - Patriot Center
Fri-Sep-21 Philadelphia - Wachovia Spectrum
Sun-Sep-23 New York City - Madison Square Garden
Tue-Sep-25 Boston - Agganis Arena
Wed-Sep-26 Montreal - Bell Centre
Thu-Sep-27 Toronto - Air Canada Centre
Sat-Sep-29 Chicago - Allstate Arena
Tue-Oct-02 Denver - Red Rocks Amphitheatre
Thu-Oct-04 Salt Lake City - E Center
Sat-Oct-06 San Francisco - Shoreline Amphitheatre - Download Festival
Mon-Oct-08 Seattle - Key Arena
Tue-Oct-09 Vancouver - General Motors Place
Thu-Oct-11 Santa Barbara - Santa Barbara Bowl
Sat-Oct-13 San Diego - Cox Arena
Sun-Oct-14 Los Angeles - Hollywood Bowl
Tue-Oct-16 Houston - Toyota Center
Wed-Oct-17 Dallas - American Airlines Center

65 Days of Static will open every show.

(thx Darren!)

Previously
* more The Cure

Posted in music | tour dates at 10:25 AM | Comments (54)

UNION HALL's anniversary, MICHAEL SHOWALTER JDub CD recording, TIM FITE Tour Dates, etc

DOWNLOAD: The Mugs - Frank (MP3)

Dave Hill & John Hodgman @ UCB, NYC - June 21, 2007 (CRED)

It was almost a year ago that I said "Union Hall | a new Brooklyn music venue in Park Slope", and so it's time to celebrate:

"Union Hall presents our 1st anniversary week!"
July 09: MATTHEW CAWS (of Nada Surf) + THE RAVEN MAYHEM + guest MC Sara Schaefer
July 10: JONATHAN COULTON + special guests + MC Dave Hill
July 11: SECRET SCIENCE CLUB with Nobel prize winning neuroscientist ERIC KANDEL
July 12: TIM FITE + THE MUGS + guest MC Reggie Watts
July 14: 8pm: ENON + special guests

Tickets for these shows will go on sale on Ticketweb 6/25 at noon.

Nada Surf @ Brooklyn Ale House - June 3, 2007 (CRED) (post-Domino)

Related facts

• Matthew Caws was recently spotted at the White Stripes show, and was last seen at Union Hall on stage with John Vanderslice.
• MC Sara Schaefer hosts a (weekly?) game of "Name that Tune" at Union Hall - the next one is June 24th.
• Jonathan Coulton and Dave Hill were last seen on stage together LAST NIGHT! Dave Hill will be on stage again with his band Children of the Unicorn at Mercury Lounge tonight!
• Dave Hill once MC'd a show that The Mugs played at.
• Reggie Watts is hosting ROFL at Joe's Pub TONIGHT
• Gabby Glaser of Luscious Jackson is playing Union Hall on June 28th.
• Gruff Rhys of Super Furry Animals is playing Union Hall on September 22nd.

AND...

Michael Showalter @ Sasquatch - May 29, 2007 (CRED) (Develop Don't Destroy!)

Michael Showalter, co-host of the weekly "Tearing the Veil of Maya" comedy show at Union Hall, star of the State, Stella and other stuff - is recording a CD - to be released on JDub records. He'll do it @ Union Hall Thursday July 26th at 7:30pm and 9:30pm. Tickets go on sale today at noon.

Tim Fite is going on tour. Dates below...

Tim Fite on air w/ Rio en Medio & David Garland (CRED) (LISTEN)

Tim Fite - 2007 Tour Dates
Jul 12 - Union Hall Brooklyn, New York
Jul 30 - Southpaw Brooklyn, New York
Aug 7 - Variety Playhouse Atlanta, Georgia
Aug 8 - The Social Orlando, Florida
Aug 9 - Jack Rabbit's Jacksonville, Florida
Aug 10 - Crowbar Ybor City, Florida
Aug 11 - Culture Room Ft Lauderdale, Florida
Aug 13 - Work Play Theatre Birmingham, Alabama
Aug 15 - House of Blues New Orleans, Louisiana
Aug 17 - Walter's on Washington Houston, Texas
Aug 18 - Hailey's Denton, Texas
Aug 20 - Bricktown Ballroom OK City, Oklahoma
Aug 21 - Cain's Ballroom Tulsa, Oklahoma
Aug 22 - Juanita's Little Rock, Arkansas
Aug 23 - Newby's Memphis, Tennessee
Aug 24 - Exit/In Nashville, Tennessee
Aug 25 - The Grey Eagle Asheville, North Carolina
Aug 26 - Starr Hill Music Hall Charlottesville, Virginia

The Mugs - 2007 Tour Dates
Jul 12 - Union Hall w/Tim Fite Brooklyn, New York
Jul 21 - Rockwood Music Hall New York, New York

Previously
* Tim Fite @ the Brooklyn Vegan show @ Sin-e, NYC - pics

Posted in comedy | music | radio | tour dates | venues at 9:23 AM | Comments (18)

June 21, 2007

M WARD playing 'World Trade Center' + 2007 Tour Dates

First there was M & Bright Eyes. Then there was Bright Eyes & Norah. (then there was even Amy & Mick). And now the circle is complete...

Norah & M - June 18, 2007 (CRED)

Remember last year Cat Power, Jeff Tweedy, Ryan Adams and some other folks played some free shows in NYC? Well, it looks like this year they're doing it again - so far with M. Ward, Victoria Williams, and McCarthy Trenching on September 18th.

In other M. Ward news, he had to postpone his his Boston Pops gig which was supposed to happen in just a few days, he's reissuing his first record Duet For Guitars #2 on Merge (out July 10), and he's still on tour with Norah Jones....

M Ward - 2007 Tour Dates
Fri 06.22 - Santa Barbara, CA Santa Barbara Bowl *
Sat 06.23 - Berkeley, CA Greek Theatre *
Mon 06.25 - Saratoga, CA Mountain Winery *
Thu 06.28 - Vancouver, BC Orpheum - Vancouver Int Jazz Fest
Fri 06.29 - Seattle, WA McCaw Hall *
Sat 06.30 - Portland, OR Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall *

Jul 9 - Olympia Paris
Jul 10 - Olympia Paris
Jul 14 - Lucca Plaza Lucca
Jul 16 - Olympiahalle Munich
Jul 17 - Montreux Jazz Festival Montreaux
Jul 18 - Jazz A Juan Antibes
Jul 20 - Palau de la Musica Barcelona
Jul 21 - Vitoria Jazz Festival Vitoria
Jul 22 - Jazz Festival Lisbon
Aug 3 - Sentrum Scene Oslo
Aug 4 - Cirkus Stockholm
Aug 5 - Falkoner Theater Copenhagen
Aug 23 - The Point Dublin
Aug 24 - Clyde Glasgow
Aug 25 - Manchester Apollo Manchester
Aug 27 - Hammersmith Apollo London
Sep 16 - Treasure Island Festival San Francisco, California
Sep 18 - New York, NY World Trade Center - Music Downtown Series w/ Victoria Williams, McCarthy Trenching

* w/ Norah Jones

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Grand National (good??) - 2007 Tour Dates

Does anyone actually like Grand National?

They're from the UK, and their upcoming tour dates (including 2 NYC shows today) are at the Apple store, sponsored by NME and KCRW, at the Living Room, at the SOHO House, and at Joe's Pub - so I thought I'd ask at least.

Grand National - 2007 Tour Dates
Jun 21 - The Apple Store- acoustic New York City SOHO
Jun 21 - The Annex - Club NME New Yor City New York City
Jun 22 - Beatrice Inn - Dj set ! New York City, New York
Jun 24 - Rose Live Music - acoustic - presented by KCRW Williamsburg
Jun 25 - The Living Room- acoustic - presented by KCRW New York City
Jun 26 - Soho House ( Members only) acoustic NYC
Jun 26 - Joes Pub - acoustic - Presented by KCRW New York City
Jun 29 - Live on Radio Nova /Les Nuits Zébrées - PARIS Paris

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Ryan Adams - more 2007 Tour Dates (Hiro Ballroom)

So, It looks like Ryan Adams is playing Hiro Ballroom in NYC on June 26th - that's five days from now. No word on tickets yet, but keep your eyes on his pre-sale page.

All tour dates below...

Ryan Adams - 2007 Tour Dates
June 22 - Enwave Theater Toronto, ONT
June 24 - Higher Ground Burlington, VT
June 26 - Hiro Ballroom, NYC
June 28 - The Fillmore at the TLA Philadelphia, PA
June 29 - Somerville Theater Boston, MA
July 10 - Paramount Theater Charlottesville, VA
July 11 - Brown Theater Louisville, KY
July 12 - Germantown Performing Arts Center Germantown, TN
July 14 - Paramount Theatre Austin, TX
July 19 - Wilshire Ebell Los Angeles, CA
July 21 - Catalyst Santa Cruz, CA
July 26 - Aladdin Theater Portland, OR
July 27 - Moore Theater Seattle, WA
July 28 - Orpheum Theater Vancouver, BC
July 30 - Big Easy Concert House, Boise, ID
July 31 - Red Butte Garden Salt Lake City, UT
Aug. 3 - Red Rocks Amphitheatre Morrison, CO
Sept. 1 - moe.down Turin, NY

Previously
* injured RYAN ADAMS - Tour Dates, album, live MP3s & MOE.DOWN

Posted in music | tour dates at 4:35 PM | Comments (94)

Joanna Newsom likes RA RA RABBIT - not to be confused with Ra Ra Riot

Joanna Newsom says Ra Ra Rabbit are her favorite new band - not Ra Ra Riot who are playing their first show post-tragedy at South Street Seaport on June 29th with Sam Champion.

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buy (BEIRUT) Wordless Music Series TICKETS

Tickets are on sale for the September 24th Beirut show, a Do Make Say Think show, and the Mum shows. (note: Zach will be singing at the "wordless" show)

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BEIRUT - new album & 2007 Tour Dates

Did anyone notice a member of Beirut playing a horn with The Citizens Band when they opened for the White Stripes at Irving the other night? I could be wrong.

Zach @ Primavera sound 2007, 9:00 am soundcheck (more about that)

Back in May it kind of leaked out that Grizzly Bear-fan Zach Condon and his band Beirut would be playing three NYC shows in September, but the tour dates I just received only list two September dates - so either plans changed, or they'll announce the third one after the first two sell out. All dates, and new album info, below....

As you somewhat already know...

The new record (yet to be titled) will be released on October 9th on Ba Da Bing!, and features a notable shift in sound from Gulag. With song titles like "Nantes" and "Cherbourg," the record is more a love letter to French culture. Featuring thirteen tracks in all, this new album continues on the trajectory that began with the Lon Gisland EP, where the entire eight-member band plays along on the recordings. Besides the eight-member orkestar and guests, Owen Pallett of Final Fantasy adds lush string arrangements to the songs, as well as guest vocals on a track entitled "Cliquot."

The album was recorded in two separate sessions - at the A Hawk and a Hacksaw practice space, and at Arcade Fire's ornate studios outside of Montreal. To date, Gulag Orkestar has sold over 100,000 copies worldwide.

Beirut will be playing a limited number of North American shows this Fall in theatrical venues. Colleen, whose new album Les Ondes Silencieuse is out this month on The Leaf Label, will open.

Beirut - 2007 Tour Dates
Jun 22 - Tripod dublin
Jun 24 - glastonbury festival Glastonbury
Jun 26 - Koko London
Jun 28 - malta festival poznan
Jun 30 - Radar Istanbul
Jul 3 - Trabendo Paris
Jul 5 - Postbahnhof Berlin
Jul 8 - Roskilde Festival Roskilde
Jul 10 - Gagarin Open air Festival Athens
September 23rd - Princeton, NJ - Terrace F Club
September 24th - New York, NY - Worldess Music Series @ Society for Ethical Culture
September 25th in NYC????
September 26th - New York, NY - Delacorte Theater
September 30th - Montreal, QU - La Salla Rosa
October 2nd - Toronto, ONT - Danforth Music Hall
October 4th - Chicago, IL Portage Theater
October 8th - San Francisco, CA - Herbst Theater
October 9th - San Francisco, CA - Herbst Theater
October 10th - Los Angeles, CA - Avalon

new album tracklist
0. A Call To Arms
1. Nantes
2. A Sunday Smile
3. Guyamas Sonora
4. La Banlieu
5. Cliquot
6. The Penalty
7. Forks and Knives(La Fête)
8. In The Mausoleum
9. Un Dernier Verre (Pour la Route)
10. Cherbourg
11. St. Apollonia
12. The Flying Club Cup

Previously
* Beirut, Arcade Fire & Final Fantasy @ Bowery Ballroom, NYC - pics
* VIDEO: Arcade Fire, Beirut + Final Fantasy on stage
* Colleen @ Joe's Pub, NYC | Pics
* A Hawk and a Hacksaw @ Joe's Pub, NYC | Pics
* A Hawk and a Hacksaw and Colleen | Tour Dates

Posted in music | tour dates at 2:28 PM | Comments (31)

Van She remixes Feist who just played Bonnaroo

DOWNLOAD: Feist - 1234 (Van She remix) (MP3)

Feist @ Bonnaroo 2007 (CRED)

I’ve also toured with Feist, but now that I’ve established my journalistic integrity we can dispense with formality. She’s a first-rate guitarist and musician who is inspiring some cult-like devotion from her fans.

I didn’t hear cheering anywhere else like the cheering for Leslie Feist — she’d arch her eyebrow and the place would blow up — which always makes me wonder what the heck is going on. Her songs are minimalist and inventive, and she has a good voice and a good ear, like a PJ Harvey who’s not so mad at boys, but the rabid fandom is usually about something else. She must be code for something that I haven’t figured out. [John Roderick]

Tickets are at Ticketmaster for Feist's August 29th show at McCarren Park with Kevin Drew who has an MP3 to download too. More JR & Bonnaroo HERE.

Posted in bonnaroo | dance | music at 2:06 PM | Comments (6)

They Shoot Horses Don't They Slim Moon

DOWNLOAD They Kill Horses Don't They - A Place Called LA (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: The Mary Timony Band - Sharpshooter (MP3)

Was it indie karma that got Kurt Cobain of Nirvana's friend, the rock star of indie-labels, Slim Moon killed like a horse about to become glue - shot down from his A&R position at Nonesuch last week by those sharp shooters at the Warner Music Group where he was working for less than a year after leaving Kill Rock Stars - the label he created - the label that houses bands like They Kill Horses Don't They and The Mary Timony Band - both who recently came out with new albums? Probably not, because Billboard is now reporting that Slim just moved over to Rykodisk, also owned by WMG.

Mary Timony just made a video for the song you can download above. You can stream They Shoot Horses Don't They's new album Pick Up Sticks. They're also playing Cake Shop and Silent Barn in August, and touring all over the place.....

They Shoot Horses Don't They - 2007 Tour Dates
07/04 Kelowna, BC, Canada The Whitehouse Gallery
07/05 Calgary, AB, Canada Quincey's
07/06 Lethbridge, AB, Canada Hard Candy Records
07/07 Edmonton, AB, Canada Argyll Hall
07/08 Saskatoon, SK, Canada Amigo's Cantina
07/09 Regina, SK, Canada O'Hanlon's
07/10 Brandon, MB, Canada TBA
07/11 Winnipeg, MB, Canada Collective Cabaret
07/12 Fargo, ND Aquarium
07/13 Minneapolis, MN Nomad World Pub
07/14 Champaign, IL Cowboy Monkey
07/15 Madison, WI Cafe Montmarte
07/16 Milwaukee, WI Stonefly Brewery
07/17 Chicago, IL Empty Bottle
07/18 Detroit, MI Majestic
07/19 Windsor, ON, Canada Phog Lounge
07/20 Brantford, ON, Canada Ford Plant
07/21 Toronto, ON, Canada Sneaky Dee's
07/22 London, ON, Canada Call the Office
07/23 Hamilton, ON, Canada The Casbah
07/24 Guelph, ON, Canada E-Bar
07/25 Kitchner, ON, Canada Starlight Social Club
07/26 Ottawa, ON, Canada Zaphod's
07/27 Kingston, ON, Canada Modern Fuel
07/28 Montreal, QC, Canada Main Hall
07/29 Sherbrooke, QC, Canada Telephone Rouge
07/30 Quebec City, QC, Canada TBA
07/31 Moncton, NB, Canada The Paramount
08/01 Sydney, NS, Canada Upstairs Club
08/02 Halifax, NS, Canada Gus' Pub
08/03 Sackville, NB, Canada Struts Gallery - Sappy Fest
08/04 Bar Harbor, ME Carmen Verandah
08/05 Portland, ME The Soundpost
08/06 Boston, MA Middle East
08/07 North Adams, MA Robot Mansion
08/08 Providence, RI AS220
08/10 New York, NY Cake Shop
08/11 Brooklyn, NY, Silent Barn

Previously
* Slim Moon leaves Kill Rock Stars for Nonesuch
* They Shoot Horses Don't They | Tour Dates & Fluxblog's SXSW recap
* more Mary Timony stuff

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STREAM: (the new) BEASTIE BOYS (album) - 'The Mix Up'

And on the cool check in
Center stage on the mic
And we're puttin' it on wax....

It's a BrooklynVegan world premiere of (the first legal way to listen to) "The Mix-Up"....

...the new instrumental album by the Beastie Boys is in stores on June 26, 2007.

August 2007 tour dates HERE.

Previously
* more Beastie Boys

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Oxford Collapse, Cheeseburger & BEST FWENDS - the best free show today? (+ pics from SXSW) & TOUR DATES

Much like looking at the schedule of free stuff going on today for "Make Music New York", I totally procrastinated posting these pictures of Best Fwends playing my show at the Red Scoot Inn during SXSW (March 15, 2007)....

I can't say exactly why, but I loved them. They hit play on an iPod or something, and then jump around like maniacs singing to the songs they wrote. They look and act nuts, and they're really a lot of fun unless you don't think they're fun like my own best fwend who was standing next to me at the show and thought they were like Beavis & Butthead (in a bad way), and was pretty much embarrassed for herself to even be standing there in front of them at all. I wished they kept playing after they stopped.

VICE also had some not-nice stuff to say about them, but Gorilla Vs. Bear has been known to say nice things on their behalf.

So, maybe you'll love them, or maybe you'll hate them, but either way you can find out for free if you happen to be in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn today (June 21, 2007) when they play an incredible free show w/ the incredible Oxford Collapse (also BV show veterans), and Cheeseburger - who I'll even admit to liking sometimes.

More pics & info & tour dates & videos below...

Best Fwends - 2007 Tour Dates
Jun 21 - Make Music NY Festival w/ OXFORD COLLAPSE + CHEESEBURGER NYC, New York
Aug 11 - Emo's w/ THE SHOW IS THE RAINBOW + WHEN DINOS RULED THE EARTH Austin, Texas
Aug 16 - BEST FRIENDS DAY w/ I OBJECT, IRON LUNG, THE DEATH SET RICHMOND, Virginia
Aug 24 - PRE FUCK YEAH FEST SHOW LA, California
Aug 25 - Fuck Yeah Fest Afterparty w/ PLASTIC LITTLE + PISSED JEANS LA, California
Aug 26 - FUCK YEAH FEST/ECHO PARK LA, California

Oxford Collapse - 2007 Tour Dates
Jun 21 - Bedford Ave. Brooklyn, New York
Jul 8 - Power Chord Academy Queens, New York
Jul 14 - Pitchfork Music Festival Chicago, Illinois

And oh yeah - Best Fwends are like totally in Downtown Records recording artist Spank Rock's Top 8 (I mean 24).

You will find some MPfwees HERE.

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'Make Music NY' is TODAY - lots of free shows

On Thursday, June 21, New York joins 340 other cities around the world to host a day of free, outdoor music-making. From Metropolitan Opera singers to high school rock bands, church choirs to underground MCs, Tuvan throat singers to Salsa bands, punk rockers to string quartets, there's something for everyone. [MAKEMUSICNY]

Post good shows in the comments: The listings are HERE. And send in your pictures if you go to anything. I'll try to make an interesting post afterwards. (my email is on the top right of this site)

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DAN DEACON adds 2nd Brooklyn show + 2007 Tour Dates w/ GIRL TALK (webster hall)

DOWNLOAD: Dan Deacon - The Crystal Cat (MP3)

Further confirmation that Summer has started - the first free show at McCarren Pool in Williamsburg happens this Sunday (June 24) with Superchunk, Oakley Hall and +/-. Then just two weeks after that comes the one with The Octopus Project, Erase Errata, and Dan Deacon. That same night Dan is then playing a 2nd show in Brooklyn - @ Death By Audio - a venue located on 49 South 2nd - with OCDJ who is also DJing at McCarren Pool that day AND who is playing Citysol after Les Savy Fav.

Then Dan is coming back to NYC again in September - that time with Girl Talk, and that time at Webster Hall, and that time on a super-power-hip-tag-team tour, that, like Pitchfork said, is crazy-something like the pairing of Arcade Fire & LCD Soundsystem (except really Arcade Fire & LCD Soundsystem is kind of a little bit better because they don't just hit buttons and jump around - NOT THAT THERE'S ANYTHING WRONG WITH THAT - not to mention they'll be doing all that button pushing at Webster Hall - WHICH COULD BE OK - I mean both tours will be good in their own way I think...).

All tour dates below....

Dan Deacon & Girl Talk - 2007 Tour Dates
07-14 Chicago, IL - Union Park (Pitchfork Music Festival) *
08-04 Baltimore, MD - Pimlico Race Course (Virgin Festival)
09-12 Toronto, Ontario - Phoenix
09-15 New York, NY Webster Hall
09-17 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church
09-20 Charlottesville, VA - Satellite Ballroom
09-21 Asheville, NC - Orange Peel
09-22 Atlanta, GA - MJQ Concourse
09-27 San Diego, CA - Epicentre
09-28 Los Angeles, CA - Echoplex
09-29 San Francisco, CA - The Fillmore Auditorium

* with Yoko Ono, Cat Power and Dirty Delta Blues, Clipse, Mastodon, Iron and Wine, Grizzly Bear, Voxtrot, Battles, Califone, the Twilight Sad, Fujiya & Miyagi, Oxford Collapse, Beach House, William Parker Quartet, Professor Murder, Ken Vandermark's Powerhouse Sound

Girl Talk - 2007 Tour DAtes
06-28 Winnipeg, Manitoba - Pyramid Cabaret (2007 Cool Jazz Winnipeg Festival)
06-29 Ottawa, Ontario - Babylon (Capital Idea! Festival) !
06-30 Montreal, Quebec - Club Soda #
07-04 Morrison, CO - Red Rocks ?
07-18 Boston, MA - Bank of America Pavilion +
07-27 Seattle, WA - Capitol Hill Block Party
07-28 Louisville, KY - Forecastle Festival
08-09 Indianapolis, IN - Talbott Street
08-10 Baton Rouge, LA - Spanish Moon
08-11 New Orleans, LA - One Eyed Jacks
08-24 Tulsa, OK - Cain's Ballroom
09-08 Portland, OR - Roseland Theater $
10-04 Lawrence, KS - Granada Theatre
10-05 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue
10-06 Iowa City, IA - The Picador
10-11 Calgary, Alberta - The Warehouse
10-12 Edmonton, Alberta - The Starlite Room
11-01 Houston, TX - Engine Room
11-02 Dallas, TX - Palladium Loft
12-08 Rennes, France - Festival Transmusicales

! with Crystal Castles, Jokers of the Scene
# with Ghislain Poirier
? with Violent Femmes, Blues Traveler
$ with Clipse
+ with Widespread Panic

Dan Deacon - 2007 Tour DAtes
06-20 Oakland, CA - 21 Grand ^
06-21 Sacramento, CA - Fools Foundation #
06-22 Portland, OR - Holocene #
06-23 Seattle, WA - Wildrose Beer Garden
06-23 Seattle, WA - Healthy Times (late show)
06-24 Missoula, MT - Higgins Hall #
06-25 Whitefish, MT - Grouse Mountain Lodge #
06-26 Boise, ID - Neurolux #
06-27 Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge #
06-28 Denver, CO - Hi-Dive #
06-29 Lawrence, KS - The Jackpot Saloon #
06-30 Omaha, NE - Waiting Room #
07-02 Minneapolis, MN - Triple Rock Social Club #$
07-03 Milwaukee, WI - Cactus Club #
07-05 Dekalb, IL - The House Cafe #
07-06 Kalamazoo, MI - Diamond Star House #
07-07 Detroit, MI - Scrummage University #%
07-08 Brooklyn, NY - McCarren Pool ~
07-08 Brooklyn, NY - Death by Audio
07-09 Toronto, Ontario - Whippersnapper Space #
07-10 Ottawa, Ontario - Zaphod Beeblebrox #
07-11 Montreal, Quebec - La Sala Rossa #
07-12 Cambridge, MA - Middle East Upstairs #&
07-21 Baltimore, MD - Whartscape Festival

^ with Jana Hunter, Michael Leviton
# with Video Hippos
$ with Nomo
% with Benny Stoofy
~ with the Octopus Project, Erase Errata
& with Big Digits

Previously
* more Dan Deacon posts
* more Girl Talk posts

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Midlake - 2007 Tour Dates & presale

Didn't get a free ticket to see Midlake & The New Pornographers on July 4th? Well, you can probably still get in if you try, or you can wait for their next NYC show which will be September 8th At Webster Hall. It's part of a month-long tour that starts on September 4th in Atlanta, hits Austin City Limits on September 16th, and ends October 3rd in the town William Burroughs lived in from 1983 until his death in 1997.

There's a PRESALE Friday, and all tour dates below....

Midlake - 2007 Tour Dates
Jul 4 - BATTERY PARK New York, New York
Jul 7 - ROCK DANS TOUS SES ETATS Evreux
Jul 8 - CORNBURY FESTIVAL CHARLBURY
Jul 9 - SAGE GATESHEAD
Jul 10 - IRISH CENTER LEEDS
Jul 11 - ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL LONDON
Jul 13 - LATITUDE FESTIVAL SOUTHWOLD
Jul 14 - INDIAN SUMMER FESTIVAL GLASGOW
Jul 15 - DOUR FESTIVAL DOUR
Jul 16 - OPEN AIR FESTIVAL OLDENBURG
Jul 18 - LITTLE VEGA COPENHAGEN
Jul 20 - BUKTA FESTIVAL TROMSO
Jul 24 - E-WERK ERLANGEN
Jul 25 - PALEO FESTIVAL NYON
Jul 26 - CLUB MANCUSO TUBINGEN
Jul 27 - BERLIN FESTIVAL BERLIN
Jul 28 - STORAASFESTIVALEN STORASS
Sep 4 - THE EARL ATLANTA, Georgia
Sep 5 - CAT'S CRADLE CARRBORO, North Carolina
Sep 6 - BLACK CAT WASHINGTON, Washington DC
Sep 7 - THEATRE OF LIVING ARTS PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania
Sep 8 - WEBSTER HALL NEW YORK, New York
Sep 9 - PARADISE ROCK CLUB BOSTON, Massachusetts
Sep 11 - GROG SHOP CLEVELAND, Ohio
Sep 12 - METRO CHICAGO, Illinois
Sep 16 - AUSTIN CITY LIMITS Austin, Texas
Sep 20 - NUMBERS HOUSTON, Texas
Sep 24 - RHYTHM ROOM PHEONIX, Arizona
Sep 25 - HENRY FONDA THEATRE LOS ANGELES, California
Sep 26 - BELLY UP TAVERN SOLANA BEACH, California
Sep 27 - GREAT AMERICAN MUSIC HALL SAN FRANCISCO, California
Sep 29 - DOUG FIR PORTLAND, Oregon
Sep 30 - CROCODILE CAFE SEATTLE, Washington
Oct 2 - BLUE BIRD THEATRE DENVER, Colorado
Oct 3 - JACKPOT LAWRENCE, Kansas

Previously
* more Midlake posts

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Bonnaroo 2007 - day 1 (Thursday June 14)

Like I said, Andrew Fischler made the trip to Bonnaroo...

I should probably preface this by saying I'm a multi-year vet of Bonnaroo. Since 2003 I've been making a trip to Manchester, TN a part of my summer. That includes the 17-hour, 900-mile trip from my Weehawken, NJ home. I'm part of that sick breed of people who like road trips, driving, and find camping a joy. The life of the festival outside the stages is just as much a part of the experience as what you'll find inside the gates.

Now while the drive down was nothing of major consequence (unless you're a big fan of trees, hills, mountains, cows and 18-wheelers - then, oh boy was it a big thing!), this was actually the first time in years that I actually hit any semblance of traffic getting in. Maybe it was because this was the first year the festival was officially 4-days long (though they've been having Thursday night acts for years), or maybe it speaks to the sold-out attendance of 80,000 which made this the 6th largest city in Tennessee for the duration (with the highest unemployment rate in the state, I might add ^_^).

The National

The National @ That Tent: First band on the to-see list was one I had never heard until the trip down when my friend started playing them through his iPod. What sounded so sullen and morose on my car stereo had so much more pop to it live - not as lively as their fans though. Hell, I almost lost my hearing on the first night, and not from any amp, but from some guy flipping out and screaming his head off when they played "Secret Meeting". Unfortunately, consideration for the proximity of someone's ear is usually the last thing on a festival-goer's mind.

Clutch

Clutch @ This Tent: To say the crowd was amped for this show would be a mild understatement. So eager was everyone that the sound tech testing the mics had no problem getting the crowd to respond in sing-song fashion to everything he said. This was also the first time I can ever remember seeing mass crowd surfing at Bonnaroo -- a first time for everything I guess. The band has grown since the last time I saw them - that includes the number of members (organist Mick Schauer joining the core of Neil Fallon, Tim Sult, Dan Maines and Jean-Paul Gaster), and the size of their catalog (with their new release "From Beale Street To Oblivion").

The highlights of their set were the classics like "Big News" and "Pure Rock Fury", but the new stuff - especially "Electric Worry - not only held up, it was as strong as the old stuff. "Beale Street" could be one of the best, yet most underrated, albums of '07.

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CLUTCH tour dates HERE. Andrew took the Clutch picture. His pictures of the Decemberists are HERE. Woxy took the National picture, and someone else took the pic at top. Even more Bonnaroo pics HERE and HERE. Stay tuned for day two.

Posted in bonnaroo | music at 4:40 AM | Comments (7)

CLUTCH - 2007 Tour Dates, presale & VIDEO

As previously reported in post & comments, Clutch are playing a Rocks Off Cruise and Bowery Ballroom in August, AND there's a presale. Their latest video and tour dates below....

Music video for Clutch's new single "Electric Worry"
Pick up the new record "From Beale Street To Oblivion"

Clutch - 2007 Tour Dates
Jun 06 - Marquee Theatre Tempe, AZ
Jun 08 - White Rabbit San Antonio, TX
Jun 09 - Diamond Ballroom Oklahaoma City, OK
Jun 11 - Grant Street Dance Hall Lafyette, LA
Jun 12 - Soul Kitchen Mobile, AL
Jun 13 - New Daisy Theatre Memphis, TN
Jun 14 - Bonnaroo Manchester, TN
Jun 15 - Headliner's Louisville, KY
Jun 16 - Stella Blue Asheville, NC
Jun 17 - Hooligan's Jacksonville, NC
Jul 27 - Bogarts w/ TBA Cincinnati, Ohio
Jul 28 - The LC Pavilion - Outdoors w/ Slyderfest Columbus, Ohio
Jul 29 - Chameleon Club - w/ TBA Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Jul 30 - Mr. Small's Theatre - w/ TBA Millvale, Pennsylvania
Jul 31 - Huntington Music Hall - w/ TBA Huntington, West Virginia
Aug 1 - Piere's - w/ TBA Ft. Wayne, Indiana
Aug 3 - Nutty's North - Outdoors - w/ TBA Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Aug 4 - Full Throttle Saloon - Sturgis Biker Festival Sturgis, South Dakota
Aug 6 - House of Rock @ Playmakers Fargo, North Dakota
Aug 7 - Garrick Centre - w/ TBA Winnipeg, Manitoba
Aug 9 - The Distrikt - w/ TBA Regina, Saskatchewan
Aug 10 - Starlite Room - w/ TBA Edmonton, Alberta
Aug 11 - Ryly's Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Aug 12 - The Warehouse - w/ TBA Calgary, Alberta
Aug 14 - Commodore Ballroom - w/ TBA Vancouver, British Columbia
Aug 15 - El Corazon - w/ TBA Seattle, Washington
Aug 16 - Outlaws - w/ TBA Portland, Oregon
Aug 17 - Big Easy - w/ TBA Spokane, Washington
Aug 18 - Sandy Downs - w/ BFE 2007 Idaho Falls, Idaho
Aug 20 - Boulder Theater - w/ TBA Boulder, Colorado
Aug 22 - Blue Note - w/ TBA Columbia, Missouri
Aug 23 - The Eagles Club - w/ TBA Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Aug 24 - Headliners - w/ TBA Toledo, Ohio
Aug 25 - Towb Ballroom, Buffalo, NY
Aug 26 - The Crazy Donkey - w/ TBA Farmingdale, New York
Aug 27 - Rocks off Concert Cruise, NYC
Aug 29 - Higher Ground, Burlington, VT
Aug 30 - The Station- w/ TBA Portland, Maine
Aug 31 - Bowery Ballroom, NYC

Previously
* more Clutch

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June 20, 2007

Ted Nugent sucks so bad....

.....they can't even give the tickets away (to his June 24th Nokia Theatre show -- password=catscratch) (thx Ondal)

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The Mountain Goats @ Farm Sanctuary, Watkins Glen, NY

A review by Robert Palazzo

On Sunday (June 17, 2007) I was one of the 200 lucky enough to attend The Mountain Goats benefit concert for Farm Sanctuary entitled Zoop!. Farm Sanctuary is an amazing non-profit organization that has been rescuing farm animals since 1986. For more information about this amazing organization you can visit their website.

Zoop! was a benefit show that John Darnielle planned a few months ago, and after a lot of hard work the pay off was huge. People from as far as Illinois to Ireland made the trip to Watkins Glen, NY. The festivities began Saturday night as Perry Wright from The Prayers and Tears of Arthur Digby Sellers and Peter Hughes of The Mountain Goats kicked things off. This was followed by a solo set from John Darnielle.

On Sunday night, John Darnielle played an all request set that was organized via The Mountain Goats message board. The 22 song set consisted of mostly B-sides and rarities, but somehow everyone in the crowd still seemed to know the words. For a couple of the songs John had to use lyrics sheets as a reference along with a little help from the crowd. The regular set ended with John's crowd pleasing sing-along of Ace of Bass' song "The Sign" (probably for the last time ever due to John's hatred of playing the cover), "If You See Light" from Get Lonely, and finally the "Cobscook Bay". He then came out for two encores because the crowd would just not let down, and finally the set ended.

The real beauty of the whole event was that everyone was so respectful to the farm, and the entire farm staff was so welcoming. I was lucky enough to conduct an interview with John about the event for my college radio station 88.9 FM WNYO. The full text from the interview will be up soon on the station website within the next few days. In the interview he talks about how he became involved with Farm Sanctuary, the typical Mountain Goats fan, and shares some information about the upcoming album.

Below are set lists from both shows courtesy of The Mountain Goats message board:

Saturday- June 16, 2007
One Fine Day
Old College Try
Hot Garden Stomp
Baboon
No Children
Going To Georgia
Shadow Song
Get Lonely
Keeping House
Big Yellow Coat
You Or Your Memory
Love Cuts The Strings
Alpha Gelida
Song For An Old Friend
The Mess Inside
Houseguest
Terror Song
Pigs That Ran Straightaway Into The Water, Triumph Of

Sunday - June 17, 2007
Jenny
Alpha Rats Nest
Insurance Fraud #2
Alibi
Attention All Pickpockets
Standard Bitter Love Song #1
Weekend In Western Illinois
Minnesota
Store
Cao Dai Blowout
Chanson du Bon Chose
Going To Scotland
Leaving Home
Distant Stations
The Alphonse Mambo
The Monkey Song
The Sign
If You See Light
Cobscook Bay
Solomon Revisited
Red River Valley
California Song

Previously
* John Darnielle playing Farm Sanctuary and stuff
* more Mountain Goats
* more Farm Sanctuary

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Mercury Rev or sideproject are playing the Annex tonight?

"Catch a rare performance by Harmony Rockets at The Annex on Wednesday June 20. Tickets are available at the venue, or just click here. Doors open at 8pm, the running order is as follows:" [says Mercury Rev]

8:30pm John Devries (Agitpop)
9:30pm Harmony Rockets
10:15pm Silent League
11:15pm Hopewell

According to one helpful source:

It’s all the full-time, core members of Mercury Rev -- Jonathan Donahue (singer), Grasshopper (guitarist), and Jeff Mercel (drums/keys). I honestly don’t know anything more then that. I think they put out some songs under the name Harmony Rockets years ago and maybe it’s a side project.

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the Mermaid Parade, Luscious Jackson, Aa, Roosevelt Island

This past Sunday (June 17, 2007) was Todd P's Springtime Unamplified Acoustic BBQ on Roosevelt Island in NYC. Sandwich! was there and took pics - like this one of Aa...

Aa is playing again this weekend at The 2007 Mermaid Parade Ball which is the official after-party of the 25th annual Mermaid Parade in Coney Island, Brooklyn, NYC, USA. Also playing the ball: Jill Cunniff of Luscious Jackson, The Shapes, Mighty Fine, The Atomic Grind Show, DJ Jess, DJ Xerox and a whole bunch of burlesque dancers. It's at the Childs Building (June 23).

Speaking of Luscious Jackson, Gabby Glasser is also pursuing her solo career. She has a new album ('Gimmes Splash') out next week, and is playing Union Hall in Brooklyn on June 28th. She's also offering the chance to hang out with her if that's your thing.

More Jill Cunniff tour dates & mermaid stuff below...

Jill Cunniff - 2007 Tour Dates
Jun 23 - Mermaid Parade Ball in Coney island New York, New York
Jun 24 - The Annex New York, New York
Sep 7 - BAM Cafe (Brooklyn Academy of Music)

Tickets to the Mermaid Parade Ball HERE. The actual parade begins at 2PM on Saturday.

The 2006 Mermaid Parade (CRED)

More stuff to do in Coney Island HERE.

More Mermaid coverage HERE.

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VIDEO: The Mary Timony Band - 'Sharpshooter'

groovy....

this is the first video from the mary timony band's album "the shapes we make"

Mary Timony @ Mercury Lounge, NYC - June 14, 2007 (CRED)

" also saw that big long-haired guy at Lavender Diamond the other night. Mercury Lounge NYC: June 14, 2007." [Arambulo]

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Junior Senior - new album & 2007 Tour Dates ++++++++++++ MEN (Le Tigre)

JD from Le Tigre & Junior Senior @ SXSW 2007 (CRED)

Almost two years after they finished mixing their sophomore album in Los Angeles, Denmark's delectable superpop duo Junior Senior are finally giving the record a stateside release. Ryko will release 'Hey Hey My My Yo Yo' -- the follow up to 'D-D-Don't Don't Stop the Beat' -- on August 14. [Spinner]

Tickets are on sale for an August 13th show at Highline Ballroom in NYC (which by the way is where Peaches is playing tonight - June 20th - WITH JD & Johanna from Le Tigre's other project MEN). All tour dates below...

Junior Senior - 2007 Tour Dates
Jun 29 - Les EUROCKEENNES de BELFORT 2007 Belfort
Aug 11 - The Middle East Boston, Massachusetts
Aug 13 - Highline Ballroom New York, New York
Aug 15 - The Roxy Theatre Los Angeles, California
Aug 16 - Popscene San Francisco, California

Jr. Senior (starring Le Tigre) - Can I Get Get Get

Previously
* Junior Senior playing SXSW
* more Junior Senior

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Spank Rock signs to Downtown Records

Spank Rock @ Highline Ballroom, NYC - May 15, 2007 (CRED)

Spank Rock, the hip-hop/funk/electro group originally from Baltimore that was the subject of an intense, year-long, behind-the-scenes industry battle, recently completed a four album deal with Downtown Records, the independent label responsible for launching Gnarls Barkley’s platinum-selling debut St. Elsewhere. Formed less than two years ago by former major label talent scout Josh Deutsch, Downtown beat out heavy-hitting contenders like Domino and Atlantic to sign the much-loved underground sensation known for its crafty beats, raunchy lyrics, and raucous live shows. [The Daily Swarm]

I believe all that except the part about Downtown (also the home of Art Brut and Cold War Kids) being independent. In fact, I guess that sort of means Atlantic was fighting itself sort of maybe? Here's more Spank Rock.

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VIDEO: Ferraby Lionheart - 'A Crack In Time'

The latest update from grandmasinpartyhats.com...

'A Crack in Time' by Ferraby Lionheart. Keep an eye and ear out for Ferraby's new album "Catch the Brass Ring" set to be released September 4th.

Previously
* more Ferraby Lionheart

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Long Winters vs the Hold Steady & Decemberists @ Bonnaroo

DOWNLOAD: The Long Winters - Ultimatum (MP3)

The Long Winters' John Roderick blogged Bonnaroo this year.

In all fairness, I should probably recuse myself from reviewing the Decembrists. They are a band I know, we’ve toured together and I’ve appeared in one of their music videos. Also, Decembrist Chris Funk guested on the Long Winters’ most recent album. I can’t possibly review their show impartially, because I like them too much.

On the other hand, I’ve been in a “fake feud” with them for several years, involving some “smack talking” and pranking, which despite my best efforts has failed to catch fire mostly because they reciprocate too passively. (I think they’re holding out for a fake feud with Sufjan Stevens or something). So I can’t really be trusted not to call them a bunch of fruity, Vaudeville, pirate-song-singing sissies just to burn their britches a little.

But in this instance I’m acting as a professional journalist and I must honor my caste by reporting the news without adornment. They played their epic song, "The Tain," which was a bold choice, and their kitchy theatricality played exceptionally well with the big crowd.

At one point Colin led the audience in bidding the sun to set, and the effect was like a pagan ceremony — 15,000 people all motioning in unison toward the sun. In the end Mavis Staples joined them for a song, which was a little like... Like... Well, there is no better analogy for an unfathomable incongruity than: Like Mavis Staples jamming with the Decembrists. [John Roderick]

John was not as nice about the Hold Steady....

These fellows have a rabid popularity that leaves me deeply conflicted. Although their live show is undeniably full of energy, full of engagement, and full of whimsy, their music is full of s--t.

...which I guess serves the Hold Steady right for recently talking s--t about Jim Morrisson and The Doors.

More Decemberists photos (by BV Bonnarooo correspodent Andrew Fischler) below....

Previously
* More photos and what not from Bonnaroo 2007
* some pictures from Bonnaroo 2007
* lots of Decemberists stuff
* a bunch of Long Winters stuff
* some Hold Steady stuff

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Klaus Kinski's Comedy Canon (06/20/07)

What's the best comedy show you saw recently?

The next few days offer no shortage of comedy in NYC. Highlights of the week include:

Live at Joe's Pub 6/22/07, ROFL! hosted by Slovin & Allen and Reggie Watts, presented by The Onion and Paper Thin Walls. What is ROFL?

• ROFL is the very best of the internet, lovingly hand-picked by eight of America’s most-respected blogger types for maximum freshness and optimum awesomeness.
• ROFL is high art, low humor, YouTube video, Myspace weirdness, flash animation, web memes, conceptual puzzles, original film and non-sequiturs galore.
• ROFL is a gong show for the new millennium.
• ROFL is twelve bucks to get out of the house and meet people who are even more web-obsessed than you are!

The list of participants is magnificent and features Josh Fruhlinger of Comics Curmudgeon and Wonkette, Cintra Wilson of Salon and Dregublog, Michelle Collins of You Can't Make It Up and VH1's Best Week Ever, Andrew Baron, co-creator and producer of Rocketboom, Tony Carnevale of Channel 102, Marisa Olson, artist / editor / curator of Rhizome.org and, Nasty Nets, Stu VanAirsdale of The Reeler, Charles Broskoski of Supercentral. For more information and ticketing, GO HERE NOW

More below....

June Broin' Out w/ Hosts: Leo Allen, Tony Camin
Bartender: Jawnee Conroy
Guests: Seth Meyers, Nick Kroll (as "Fabrice Fabrice"), Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett (Found Footage Festival), and Children of the Unicorn [MOOOOOOORE]

The upcoming days also afford you the ability to catch hip hop icons Cracked Out (Brett Gelman and Jon Daly) at least three times. On 6/20 they're at Europa in Greenpoint with Reggie Watts and MC Chris. On 6/22 they have TWO SHOWS. Catch the first at Greg Johnson's comedy showcase at Rififi at 8pm. They'll then be at UCB Theater at midnight. While your figuring how many times you want to see this unbelievable act, why not download the entire Fleetwood Crack EP for free

TONS MORE SHOWS!

• 6/20/07 8:00pm, Eurpoa: Cracked Out!: Featuring Reggie Watts and MC Chris. This is the only thing happening in the 5 burroughs on 6/20 worth seeing. These dickweeds can JAM!
• 6/20/07 8:00pm, Rififi: Invite Them Up: Well, if you can't make it to Europa, then Invite Them Up will easily suffice. Mirman is out of town, but Bobby Tisdale is still there to host a cavalcade of comedians including Andres du Bouchet, Tony Camin, Seth Herzog, Max Silvestri, Gabe and Jenny, and, yes, MORE.
• 6/21/07 8:00pm, Rififi: Get Psyched!: Another Rififi comedy showcase staple. This week includes the one and only Tom Shillue (one of the best there is), Todd Levin and more!
• 6/21/07 9:30pm, UCB Theater: The Dave Hill Explosion: Not sure I'll ever see anything as phenominal as the Dick Cavett / Rufus Wainwright Explosion, but this one should be a whopper. Guests include John Hodgeman and music from Jonathan Coulton
• 6/22/07 8:00pm, Rififi: Greg Johnson: Greg Johnson puts on a great weekly show at Rififi. This week features Cracked Out, my idol Andy Blitz, and more.


• 6/22/07 Midnight, UCB Theater: Cracked Out: See above. Some of the greatest stuff you'll ever see.
• 6/22/07 11pm, Mercury Lounge: a rock show by Dave Hill's band Children of the Unicorn!
• 6/23/07 Midnight, UCB Theater: Very Fresh w/ Olde English: Olde English invite a parade of special guests to perform brand-new never-before-seen material at this new variety extravaganza. Featuring Craig Baldo, Chelsea Peretti, Frenzy, and a Special Surprise Guest!
• 6/24/07 7:30pm, Union Hall: Tearing the Veil of Maya: Eugene Mirman's out of town dominating the 100 Club in London, but that's no reason to miss this installment of Tearing the Veil of Maya. This week features host Michael Showalter with Jon Benjamin, and Hannibal Buress.
• 6/25/07 11:00pm, UCB Theater: Crash Test: Don't know who the guests are, but Crash Test has NEVER let anyone down.
• 6/25/07 8:00pm, The Pit: MICHAEL IAN BLACK: I Am A Wonderful Man: YES! Michael Ian Black is doing stand-up! Join Michael Ian Black as he prepares to record his first-ever comedy album, "I am a Wonderful Man." This is a rare appearance.
• 6/26/07 7:00pm, UCB Theater: MICHAEL IAN BLACK: I Am A Wonderful Man: MORE Michael Ian Black stand-up! Join Michael Ian Black as he continues to prepare for his first-ever comedy album, "I am a Wonderful Man." This is a rare appearance, it's sold out, but it might be worth hanging in the stand-by line.


• 6/29/07 8:00pm, The Bowery Poetry Club: Brainyaxe!: An awesome new recurring NYC comedy showcase. Featuring Christian Finnegan, Leo Allen, Margot Leitman, and scads more. Highly recommended dude!

Now read the Canon from yesterday!

Aziz Ansari interviews Fabrice Fabrice @ Bonnaroo 2007 (CRED)

-Klaus

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Hippiefest, the B-52's, Tour Dates & more free concerts in Coney Island

Experience Hippiefest, the musical flashback celebrating the bands that defined music's most influential decade: the '60s. The second annual Hippiefest marks the fortieth anniversary of the Summer of Love – an era of liberation, experimentation, long hair and flower power – with impresarios The Turtles, Felix Cavaliere's Rascals, The Zombies, Mountain, Mitch Ryder, Badfinger, Country Joe McDonald, Iron Butterfly, Denny Laine and Melanie.

Tour creator Toby Ludwig explains, "This festival is for people who weren't around in the '60s and '70s or were and just can't seem to remember. Bring your parents, your grandparents and your kids. Come be a Hippie for a day!"

Hippiefest is a tour that hits the free "Seaside Summer Concert Series" in Coney Island on July 26th.

@ Asser Levy/Seaside Park, Brooklyn, NYC in 2007 - FREE
July 12 - Tommy James & The Shondells, Jay Black, Johnny Maestro
July 19 - Billy Ocean & Air Supply
July 26 - Hippiefest
Aug 02 - mystery night
Aug 09 - The B-52's w/ Patty Smyth (an annual tradition?)
Aug 16 - mystery night
Aug 23 - Salsa by the Sea w/ TBA

So will it be Daft Punk, Beastie Boys, The Hold Steady, The Black Crowes OR THE B-52's? Actually, it should be noted that the B-52's and Daft Punk are both in Coney Island. The other free concert in Coney Island is on July 21. And then there's the Rockabilly Festival in August.

Martin Luther King Jr concert series dates HERE. All Hippiefest & B-52's tour dates below....

Hippiefest - 2007 Tour Dates
Wed 07/25 - Toronto, ON The Molson Amphitheatre
Thu 07/26 - Brooklyn, NY Seaside Park
Fri 07/27 - Wallingford, CT Chevrolet Theatre
Sat 07/28 - Vernon, NY Vernon Downs
Sun 07/29 - Farmingville, NY Brookhaven Amphitheatre
Mon 07/30 - Vienna, VA Filene Center At Wolf Trap
Thu 08/02 - Hollywood, FL Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Fri 08/03 - Atlanta, GA Chastain Park Amphitheatre
Sat 08/04 - Wichita, KS Cessadium Stadium
Sun 08/05 - Grand Prairie, TX Nokia Theatre At Grand Prairie
Tue 08/07 - Hyannis, MA Cape Cod Melody Tent
Wed 08/08 - Cohasset, MA South Shore Music Circus
Thu 08/09 - Philadelphia, PA Mann Center
Fri 08/10 - Seven Springs, PA Seven Springs Resort
Sat 08/11 - Bethel, NY Bethel Woods Center For The Arts
Sun 08/12 - Gilford, NH Meadowbrook Musical Arts Center
Thu 08/16 - Temecula, CA Pechanga Resort & Casino
Fri 08/17 - Lemoore, CA Tachi Palace Indian Gaming Center
Sat 08/18 - Phoenix, AZ Dodge Theatre
Mon 08/20 - Saratoga, CA The Mountain Winery
Tue 08/21 - San Diego, CA Humphrey's Concerts By The Bay

B-52's - 2007 Tour Dates
6/22/07 Alpine, CA Concerts in the Park
6/23/07 Valley Center, CA Harrah's
6/25/07 Albuquerque, NM Sandia Casino
6/27/07 Dallas, TX House of Blues
7/14/07 Mashantucket, CT Foxwoods Resort Casino tba
7/17/07 Athens, Greece Lycabettus Theater on sale May
7/19/07 Geneva, Switz. Montreux Jazz Fest.
7/21/07 Valencia, ES Benicassim Festival info
7/22/07 London, UK Lovebox Festival info
7/29/07 Charlottesville, VA Charlottesville Pavilion on sale 6/1/07
8/1/07 Atlanta, GA Chastain Park Amphit. on sale 5/25/07
8/3/07 Mrytle Beach, SC House of Blues
8/4/07 Asheville, NC Biltmore Estate on sale 5/23/07
8/8/07 Vienna, VA Wolf Trap
8/10/07 Brooklyn, NY Asser Levy Park Free show
8/11/07 Hyannis, MA Cape Cod Melody Tent
8/12/07 Cohassett, MA South Shore Music Circus
8/18/07 Atlantic City, NJ Atlantic City Hilton
11/17/07 Salt Lake City, UT The Depot on sale 5/25/07

Previously
* 2006 free Coney Island Concert Series schedule

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Lauryn Hill, Boyz II Men & MC HAMMER playing free Brooklyn Concerts @ Wingate Field

MC Hammer has a blog?

@ Wingate Field, Brooklyn, NYC in 2007 - FREE
July 9 - MC Hammer, Doug E Fresh, Slick Rick & MC Lyte (Old School Night)
July 16 - Fred Hammond (Gospel Night)
July 23 - Boyz II Men & Ruben Studdard (an evening of Smooth Grooves)
July 30 - The Mighty Sparrow (Carribbean Night)
Aug 06 - Lauryn Hill
Aug 13 - mystery night
Aug 20 - The O'Jays & The Spinners (Classic Soul Night)

THIS IS the 2007 season of the Martin Luther King Jr. free concert series.

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more New Pornographers 4th of July tix

Get em NOW. (like last time)

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Arcade Fire & LCD Soundsystem touring together

Wow. As reported by everyone, LCD Soundsystem will be touring this fall with Arcade Fire. There's a presale right now for just one date in Colarado. They're also both playing September 20th at the Hollywood Bowl (One of the largest natural amphitheaters in the world, with a current seating capacity of just under 18,000), and at Austin City Limits. Where will they play in NYC? MSG? More TBA soon.

All known tour dates for both bands below....

Arcade Fire - 2007 Tour Dates
Fri 06/22/07 Pilton, UK Worthy Farm Glastonbury
Sat 06/23/07 Scheessel, GER Hurricane Festival
Sun 06/24/07 Neuhasen, GER Southside Festival
Wed 06/27/07 Arendal, NOR Hovefestival
Sat 06/30/07 Saint Gallen, SWI Open Air St. Gallen
Sun 07/01/07 Belfort, FRA "Les Eurockeennes de Belfort"
Tue 07/03/07 Lisbon, POR Parque Tejo Super Bock Super Rock Festival
Thu 07/05/07 Roskilde, DEN Festival Grounds
Sat 07/07/07 Kinross, UK Balado T in the Park
Sun 07/08/07 Naas, IRE Punchestown Race Course Oxegen Festival
Wed 07/11/07 Ferrara, ITA Piazza Castello
Fri 07/13/07 Barcelona, SPA Summercase Festival
Sat 07/14/07 Madrid, SPA Summercase Festival
Sun 07/15/07 Suffolk, UK Henham Park Latitude Festival
Wed 07/18/07 Lyon, FRA Les Nuits de Fouviere
Fri 07/20/07 Carhaix Plouguer, FRA Festival Des Vieilles Charres
Sun 07/22/07 Nimes, FRA Festival Of Nimes
Wed 07/25/07 Nyon, SWI Paleo Festival
Fri 08/17/07 Hasselt, BEL Pukkelpop Festival
Sun 08/19/07 Dronten, NET Lowlands Festival
Fri 08/24/07 Paris, FRA Rock En Seine Festival
Sat 08/25/07 Reading, UK Richfield Avenue Reading Festival
Sun 08/26/07 Leeds, UK Bramham Park Leeds Festival
Sat 09/15/07 Austin, TX Zilker Park Austin City Limits *
Mon 09/17/07 Morrison, CO Red Rocks Amphitheatre *
Thu 09/20/07 Los Angeles, CA Hollywood Bowl *
Fri 10/26/07 Glasgow, UK S.E.C.C.
Sat 10/27/07 Manchester, UK Manchester Evening News Arena
Mon 10/29/07 Newcastle, UK Metro Radio Arena
Tue 10/30/07 Cardiff, UK Cardiff International Arena
Wed 10/31/07 Nottingham, UK Nottingham Arena
Sat 11/17/07 London, UK Alexandra Palace

* w/. LCD Soundsystem

LCD Soundsystem - 2007 Tour Dates
Fri 06/29/07 Saint Gallen, SWI Open Air St. Gallen
Sat 06/30/07 Werchter, BEL Rock Werchter Festival
Sun 07/01/07 Gdynia, POL Heineken Open'er Festival
Wed 07/04/07 Lisbon, POR Parque Tejo Super Bock Super Rock Festival
Fri 07/06/07 Mannheim, GER Feuerwache
Fri 07/20/07 Carhaix Plouguer, FRA Festival Des Vieilles Charres
Sat 08/04/07 Baltimore, MD Pimlico Race Track Virgin Festival
Fri 08/24/07 Leeds, UK Bramham Park Leeds Festival
Sat 08/25/07 Halton, UK Daresbury Estate Creamfields
Sun 08/26/07 Reading, UK Richfield Avenue Reading Festival
Sun 09/02/07 Inveraray, UK Inveraray Castle Connect Music Festival
Fri 09/14/07 Austin, TX Zilker Park Austin City Limits *
Mon 09/17/07 Morrison, CO Red Rocks Amphitheatre *
Thu 09/20/07 Los Angeles, CA Hollywood Bowl *

* W/ the Arcade Fire

Previously
* more LCD Soundystem
* more Arcade Fire

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the White Stripes @ the Fillmore @ Irving Plaza, NYC

The White Stripes @ Irving Plaza, NYC - June 19, 2007(CRED)

I have to go to bed now. Consider this a placeholder.

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June 19, 2007

VIDEO: Menomena - 'Rotten Hell' (+free show reminder)

There are kids starving in Africa you know....

For another kind of fight, check out the new Against Me! video. And check out Menomena for free at South Street Seaport in NYC on July 13th. The Seaport show is part of Citysol - a festival that includes a free show the next day by Les Savy Fav, Land of Talk, O'Death, The Besnard Lakes and others.

more Menomena videos...

Menomena - Muscle'n Flo in Juan's Basement

and

Menomena - Wet And Rusting

Menomena - 2007 Tour Dates
Jun 20 - Walter's on Washington Houston, Texas
Jun 21 - Granada Dallas, Texas
Jun 22 - The Bottleneck Lawrence, Kansas
Jun 23 - Waiting Room Omaha, Nebraska
Jun 27 - Barfly London, London and South East
Jun 29 - Accelerator Festival Stockholm
Jul 1 - Zuiderpark Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland
Jul 2 - FZW Dortmund
Jul 4 - Festsaal Kreuzberg Berlin
Jul 6 - La Fleche D'Or Paris
Jul 7 - Le Rock Dans Tous Ses Etats Festival Evreux
Jul 13 - Seaport Festival NYC, New York
Jul 15 - Pitchfork Music Festival Chicago, Illinois
Jul 22 - Edgefield Amphitheater Portland, Oregon

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Karen Elson married Jack White & is in the CITIZENS BAND

...in case anyone was wondering what their connection to the White Stripes was because they're opening for them tonight at Irving Plaza (June 19). Here's some shots of the Citizens Band at Highline Ballroom in NYC on June 12th....

Gothamist has an interview with the band from the same day. Other band members include Craig Wedren and Angela McCluskey.

Speaking of Angela who sometimes sings with Telepopmusik...

...Christophe Hetier (aka Antipop), 1/3 of the musical masterminds known as French electronic group Telepopmusik, is spinning a secret, free and one-time-only set at the Hotel Rivington lobby this Thursday, June 21st from 10pm throughout the night.

Craig just played a show at Pianos on June 14th. Did anyone go?

P.S. Icky Thump Records will be streaming on June 20th.

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Patti Smith opening Music Hall of Williamsburg (Sep 4)

One minute she's closing a venue, and the next...

The Bowery Presents, an independent New York concert-promotion company, today announced the Music Hall of Williamsburg will open on September 4th with Patti Smith and Her Band. The Music Hall of Williamsburg will occupy the former space of Northsix, on 66 North 6th Street, and will provide a first-rate, mid-size venue for bands to play in Brooklyn.

Jose Gonzalez and the Black Lips are already scheduled to play there too. This new venue is about the same size as Bowery Ballroom in Manhattan, and the competing new Luna Lounge in the same Brooklyn neighborhood. More below...

From the press release:

Patti Smith is widely regarded as one of the most influential artists in rock history and was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in March. Well-loved by her New York fans, Smith, for the eighth consecutive year, sold out her annual New Year’s Eve/Birthday run at The Bowery Ballroom as well as an April record release show at Hiro Ballroom in support of her latest album, Twelve.

“To have Patti and her band, who have become so much a part of our lives, open the Music Hall, for me, is the perfect beginning to our life in Brooklyn,” said Michael Swier, a partner in The Bowery Presents. “We’ve been fortunate to have a lot of support for the Bowery Ballroom and the Mercury Lounge over the years, and we hope that with our continued dedication to the music and the fans, the Music Hall will become a well-loved neighborhood music destination.”

The 550-capacity Music Hall of Williamsburg will be the first Brooklyn music venue to be managed and operated by The Bowery Presents, which has promoted shows in Brooklyn since 2006 and will promote a line-up of shows at McCarren Park Pool and Keyspan Park at Coney Island this summer. Inspired by the look and feel of the Bowery Ballroom, and committed to providing the best experience possible for bands and fans, the Music Hall of Williamsburg will have a focus on acoustics, sightlines and space.

The re-designed layout of the Music Hall of Williamsburg will be three levels, including a lower level lounge, where guests can congregate around the U-shaped bar, one of three bars in the facility. The ground floor lobby leads into the Music Hall performance space, which will feature 28’ ceilings, side balconies and a back mezzanine. The venue will feature state-of-the-art sound, lighting, broadcasting and recording systems, which will also have the capability to be used for Internet, TV and radio broadcasts.

Josh Moore, who previously worked at AEG Live's Nokia Theatre Times Square and is a founding partner of Jam Cruise, was brought on board in March to book the Music Hall of Williamsburg.

"The Bowery Presents has a vision of developing and working with quality artists from the ground up, and the Music Hall provides an amazing new place for artists to play Brooklyn," said Moore. "I couldn't be more excited to be booking this venue."

Tickets for the opening night Patti Smith show will go on sale Saturday, June 23 at Noon, for $35 each. Additional shows will be announced on July 10. Please visit www.musichallofwilliamsburg.com for schedule updates.

Previously
* Music venue article in the NY Times

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Albert Hammond Jr. played Webster Hall

Beana Bern took some pictures at the show last night....

It is unknown whether or not Albert was inside the limo seen leaving the venue after the show. Were you there, or did you see Panda Bear instead?

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Panda Bear played Bowery Ballroom

Sandwich! took some pictures at the show last night...

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Kevin Drew (BSS) 'Spirit If" MP3 & Tracklist

DOWNLOAD: Kevin Drew - Tbtf (MP3)

"Fans can now goto arts-crafts.ca/kevindrew where you can download for free the song, "Tbtf". This is one of fourteen songs that comprise Kevin Drew's September 18th Arts&Crafts released album, 'Spirit If...'"

And the show is still being billed as "Broken Social Scene will join Feist to perform Kevin Drew's 'Spirit If...'"

How was Apostle of Hustle at Mercury Lounge last night?

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Austin City Limits & Lollapalooza schedules

Arctic Monkeys are playing the same time as Muse. Same with My Morning Jacket & Wilco, and Arcade Fire & The White Stripes. Do they do that on purpose for crowd control? I'm almost definitely going down to Austin this year (September 14-16), and those are biggest conflicts I noticed right off the bat. Who else should I make sure to see?

The 2007 Lollapalooza (August 3-5) schedule is up too. Who's going to Chicago?

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a recent MORRISSEY setlist + 50% off tix for students

Live Nation is offering 50% off "select tickets with student ID" for Morrissey's upcoming shows at MSG (June 30) & PNC Bank Arts Center (July 6) - box office only. The setlist from his recent Hollywood Bowl show below...

Morrissey @ Murat Center, Indianapolis, IN (May 20, 2007) (CRED)

setlist - June 8, 2007 - Hollywood Bowl
"The Queen Is Dead"
"Last Of The Famous International Playboys"
"Ganglord"
"National Front Disco"
"Disappointed"
"Girlfriend In A Coma"
"Let Me Kiss You"
"The Boy With A Thorn In His Side"
"Every Day Is Like Sunday"
"Irish Blood, English Heart"
"All You Need Is Me"
"First Of The Gang To Die"
"I Just Want to See the Boy Happy"
"I Will See You In Far Off Places"
"That's How People Grow Up"
"Life is a Pigsty"
"How Soon Is Now"
"Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want"
"You're Gonna Need Someone On Your Side"
"There Is A Light That Never Goes Out"

Photo via here.

Previously
* Morrissey - final 2007 Tour Dates, pre-sale & on-sale
* more Morrissey

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VIDEOS: Franz Ferdinand (before, during, outside & in) @ Bowery Ballroom (& The Rakes)

A homemade documentary on the Bowery show.....

Previously
* Franz Ferdinand VS Television ++
* Franz Ferdinand @ Bowery Ballroom, NYC - pics

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(Mick Jagger's friend) AMY WINEHOUSE & Paolo Nutini - 2007 Tour Dates (Summerstage)

Amy performed the Temptations ''Ain't Too Proud To Beg' with some band The Rolling Stones on the final day of the Isle of Wight Festival in Newport on June 10, 2007 on the Isle of Wight, England......

Tickets are on sale Friday for a September 12th Central Park Summerstage show starring the one and only Amy Winehouse with special guest (blah) Paolo Nutini. It's the first date of a short tour they're going on here in the United States. Can anyone recommend some good Chinese in the area?

Amy plays some festivals in Canada a few days earlier. All tour dates, and more pictures & video of Amy & The Rolling Stones, below....

Amy Winehouse & Paolo Nutini - 2007 Tour Dates
Sep 12 - Central Park Summerstage -New York, New York
Sep 13 - Tower Theatre -Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Sep 18 - The Wiltern LG -Los Angeles, California
Sep 19 - The Wiltern LG -Los Angeles, California
Sep 21 - Warfield Theatre -San Francisco, California
Sep 22 - Warfield Theatre -San Francisco, California
Sep 24 - Orpheum Theatre -Vancouver, British Columbia
Sep 25 - Paramount Theatre -Seattle, Washington
Sep 28 - State Theater -Minneapolis, Minnesota
Sep 29 - Aragon Ballroom -Chicago, Illinois

Amy Winehouse - other 2007 Tour Dates
Jun 22 - Glastonbury - Main Stage and World Jazz Stage Glastonbury
Jun 26 - Hove Festival
Jun 29 - Les Eurockennes
Jun 30 - Werchter
Jul 4 - Summer Pops Liverpool
Jul 7 - T in the Park Kinross
Jul 8 - Oxegen Dublin
Jul 13 - Nuke
Jul 17 - Eden Project Cornwall
Jul 20 - Somerset House London
Jul 22 - Benicassim
Aug 8 - Oya
Aug 18 - V Festival Chelmsford
Aug 19 - V Festival Staffs
Aug 25 - Rock En Seine
Sep 8 - Virgin Festival, Toronto Island Park Toronto, Ontario
Sep 8 - Osheaga Montreal

Well, I didn't mention it right away because I wish it wasn't true, but actually Paolo performed with the Stones too - 'Love in Vain' - at the same show....

Paolo Nutini - other 2007 Tour Dates
Jun 23 - Glastonbury Festival Pilton - Glastonbury, Somerset
Jul 6 - SOLIDAYS Festival Paris, France
Jul 7 - Live Earth UK - Wembley Stadium London
Jul 8 - {{SOLD OUT}} T In The Park 2007 Kinross, Scotland
Jul 19 - Miles Davis Hall - Montreux Jazz Festival Montreux
Jul 22 - Festival de la Cite Carcassonne, France
Aug 11 - Rip Curl Boardmasters "Unleashed" Music Festival Nr Newquay, Cornwall
Aug 12 - Glastonbury Abbey Extravaganza 2007 Glastonbury, Somerset
Aug 18 - {{SOLD OUT}} V Festival Chelmsford, United Kingdom
Aug 19 - {{SOLD OUT}} V Festival Staffordshire, United Kingdom

Can anyone think of any good Keith Richards / Amy Winehouse jokes?

Yeah, that last one is actually Paolo Nutini doing it. Maybe he'll do it with her on (summer)stage.

Rolling Stones set list
Start Me Up
You Got Me Rocking
Rough Justice
Love In Vain (with Paolo Nutini)
Can't You Hear Me Knocking
Ain't Too Proud To Beg (with Amy Winehouse)
Tumbling Dice
Wanna Hold You
Slipping Away
Miss You
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
Honky Tonk Women
Sympathy For The Devil
Brown Sugar
Jumping Jack Flash

(thx Ondal for the ticket link)

Previously
* MOS DEF @ Highline Ballroom & w/ AMY WINEHOUSE on MTV
* Beth Ditto, Joy Division, Amy Winehouse toilets, etc.
* Amy Winehouse played Highline Ballroom & other stuff
* more Amy Winehouse

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Klaus Kinski's Comedy Canon (06/19/07)

DOWNLOAD: Patton Oswalt - Dukes of Hazard (MP3) (info)

Tickets are on sale for The Dave Hill Explosion w/ John Hodgman & Jonathan Coulton @ UCB, Crash Test with Aziz Ansari @ UCB, and a special Tinkle show at Southpaw with David Cross, Todd Barry, and Jon Benjamin. Slovin and Allen and Reggie Watts are hosting ROFL at Joe's Pub. Patton Oswalt is playing a free show at Sound Fix.

Jon Benjamin paid a guy to serenade Eug and Bobby for the Invite Them Up anniversary. Oliver and Schaal look on from the back room. (April 25, 2007)

More recently, Demetri Martin, Aziz, David Cross & Nick Kroll were at Bonnaroo, and Flight of the Conchords played Gramercy Theatre.

I am also beyond giddy to report that HBO Video will be releasing Louis CK's live 1 hour special Shameless on June 26th, 2007. That's a Tuesday people. Shameless is CK's third HBO special, and further reinforces my opinion that he is easily one of the best comedians out there. He takes nauseatingly banal topics such as family life, childhood, and sex and riffs about them in such an unexpectedly blunt and graphic manner that you can't help but be drawn in. To celebrate this release, we are giving away TWO copies of Shameless to two lucky winners. Send an e-mail to BVCONTESTS@HOTMAIL.COM and tell us what comedian you think should really release a DVD ASAP. Two winners will be picked at random and notified.

More comedy (including a Louis CK DVD clip) belooooooow....

Fabrice Fabrice gives Aziz Aziz a little help hosting Crash Test. (May 21, 2007)

In other awesome comedy release news, AST Records has just released Paul F. Tompkins’ debut album, "Impersonal.” Recorded at the UCB Theater in LA, this album contains 45-minutes of Paul's best material harvested from a career spanning almost two decades. You can buy it directly from AST Records or get it at one of his zillion upcoming live apperances.

Speaking of Paul F. Tompkins, did anyone catch his apperance on The Best Show on WFMU with Tom Scharpling on June 12, 2007?

A heavily tattooed David Cross has been making the rounds in NYC recently (possibly boning up for his upcoming 100 Club shows in England). I missed his 6/10/07 show at The Green Room. I missed his appearance at Union Hall this past Sunday. However, I DID manage to check out the YouTube Show & Tell Show with Julie and Jackie at Mo Pitkins on June 11th. The show featured Amelie Gillette, Leo Allen, Jon Benjamin, David Cross, and your hostesses Julie and Jackie. The basic idea of the show is that the guests would show up with their favorite YouTube clips and essentially riff about them. For the most part, the clips were laughable and the commentary was funny. But David, though funny, didn't appear to dig the premise of the show; he had a more serious vibe to his bit. His main concern was that, more than just host silly clips of people wiping out and being dumb, YouTube (and the blogosphere itself) has become a place where people who really have nothing profound to say, can vaildate themselves by brodacasting their banal rants and accumulating 'subscribers'. While the other participants showed laugh out loud "look how stupid that person is!" type of stuff, David showed clips which reinforced his theory. A funny, yet heart-smart, evening.

Entertainer extraordinaire Reggie Watts recently started a weekly residency at Rififi. Full of Reggie's remarkable songs and stories, the Rififi website bills it as supertalented performer, faster than a speeding punchline, more powerful than a steaming latte, able to leap tall non-sequiturs in a single bound... reggie watts will shock and amaze you with his virtuoso performances and superhuman ability with a sampler!! I missed the first one, because I'm a douche, but Alive From New York was there.

Lots of State-related news here:

• THE TEN (written by Ken Marino and David Wain, directed by Wain) opens in a few weeks, August 3rd! See the unrated trailer and more HERE


• WEDDING DAZE (written & directed by Michael Ian Black) opens August 17!
• See MIchael Ian Black at the UCB Theater! The Apiary saw him at the Pit! He is recording his first-ever comedy album! Watch him prepare at the Pit on Monday, June 25 @ 8:00 PM
• BALLS OF FURY (written by Thomas Lennon and Ben Garant, directed by Garant) opens August 31!

Louis CK - Shameless

-Klaus

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Catching up with Radiohead

* Radiohead leaks new album sound bites
* Radiohead "nearly there" with new album
* OK Computer turns 10
* Radiohead Provides Score for Stephen Petronio's New Ballet
* Elderly chorus sings Radiohead
* Radiohead Tattoos

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June 18, 2007

"Promoters finding ways to sidestep Ticketmaster"

Bonnaroo concertgoers watching the White Stripes (CRED)

The big news for frustrated consumers is that a major change could be in the works: The concert industry has been buzzing for months that Live Nation may begin selling tickets for all of its concerts itself. It is currently Ticketmaster's single largest client, but that contract expires next year, and Live Nation owns a stake in two major independent companies, Next Ticketing and MusicToday.com, which both rival Ticketmaster's capabilities for selling tickets online.

If Live Nation cuts Ticketmaster out of the transaction and sells tickets direct to concertgoers, industry experts say that it will be able to keep more of the ticketing revenue for itself -- and hopefully reduce service fees for concertgoers.

"We're in the midst of talking through next steps with Ticketmaster," Vlautin said, "so it wouldn't be appropriate for me to comment on that." [Chicago Sun Times]

More Bonnaroo pictures HERE and HERE

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VIDEO: Blonde Redhead - 'My Impure Hair'

Just in time for pride week....

Mike Mills directed video inspired by Blonde Redhead's track 'My Impure Hair' from their new album '23'.

This is the third video from this album. Here are the other two.

Previously
* Blonde Redhead stuff

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uncensored (NSFW) CRIBS video & 2007 Tour Dates

Remember that Cribs video that has the girl walking around naked, but parts of her are blacked out. Or maybe you saw the other version where she is just wearing a body suit? Well, now you can watch the one where she really is wearing nothing. The Cribs are playing Bowery Ballroom on August 9th. All tour dates below....

Cribs - 2007 Tour Dates
July
23 San Diego, CA @ The Casbah *
24 Los Angeles, CA @ Troubadour *
25 San Francisco, CA @ Slim's *
27 Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge *
28 Seattle, WA @ Capitol Hill Block Party *
29 Vancouver, BC @ Richards On Richard *

August
01 Minneapolis, MN @ 7th Street Entry **
02 Milwaukee, WI @ Pabst Theatre **
04 Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle **
05 Chicago, IL @ Lollapalooza
06 Detroit, MI @ Magic Stick **
07 Toronto, ONT @ Lee's Palace **
09 New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom **
10 Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brendas **
11 Washington, DC @ The Black Cat **

* w/ Sean Na Na
** w/ White Rabbits

Previously
* more Cribs posts

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Flight of the Conchords @ Gramercy Theatre, NYC

Flight of the Conchords @ Gramercy Theatre, NYC - June 13, 2007 (CRED)

by Klaus Kinski

It has been a very very very long time since I last saw Flight of the Conchords perform live. I actually even sort of forgot about them for a while. But all of a sudden they've exploded back onto the scene with a vengeance and now seem to be everywhere. Of their two "sold out" * shows at Blender Theater at Gramercy I was able to catch second show on 6/14. I had high hopes because my pal Matt went the first night (6/13), and told me this:

The show was great. Really hilarious. Eugene Mirman came out around 8:40 and did a solid 45 minutes (or so), then instead of an intermission, he brought the Conchords right out and they performed till around 10:45. They did all the big songs (Business Time, Think about It, Jenny), and encored with ‘Bowie’s in Space’, which is probably the most brilliant Bowie homage ever.

The opener was their HBO series co-star Rhys Darby whose forté, really, is making funny sound effects a la Michael Winslow. I saw him a while back at the final Hot Tub Variety Show at Comix and found him a bit corny. However, this time around he was extremely funny and balanced his sound effects with actual stand up much better than before. He was phenominal and I got the sense the crowd was digging his schtick.

Then came the Conchords. First, I have to give props to the crowd. It seemed to me that each and every person in the room was a devoted Conchords fan. I never once got the impression that some of the people who were there were there because it was a 'hot show' or a 'scene'; an impression I get at a lot of shows in NYC, comedy or otherwise. It was one of those things where once the Conchords would strike the very first note of a song, 85% of the people there knew exactly what song it was and would go bonkers. It was fantastic.

The Conchords themselves were spectacular. Their songs are musically well constructed and are extremely funny without resorting to the use of any vulgarity or excessive lewdness. All the songs they played were so good, but the highlight for me was the song Bowie's in Space (if you want go here and scroll down to read the lyrics). Bret and Jemaine sing the tune using every vocal style David Bowie ever used. It is the perfect imitation, the perfect homage.

Because the Conchords are a comedic duo who play acoustic guitars and have their own show on HBO, some people are quick to refer to them as 'New Zealand's Tenacious D'. On paper they might appear similar, but last night's show proved that the Conchords are much gentler, sweeter, funnier, less anthemic, and way more sincere than the D.

Look for a Flight of the Conchords EP on Sub Pop Records in August 2007.

* "sold out" in quotes because, from where I was standing, I counted around 10 empty seats

Previously
* more Flight of the Conchords

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"Sound Fix Records Opens Its New Show Venue"

I almost missed this press release about Sound Fix:

After nearly five long months of renovation, the Williamsburg indie record shop Sound Fix has officially reopened its beloved lounge and music space, the site of many memorable shows over the years, including Beirut, Will Oldham, the Hold Steady, The National, the Mountain Goats, Jens Lekman, Art Brut and many other great bands and artists. In June alone, such stellar musical guests as the Sea and Cake, the Ladybug Transistor, the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, Oneida, Ida and A Sunny Day in Glasgow are scheduled for live appearances; the list grows rapidly every day. Monday night parties featuring midnight sales on Tuesday's big new releases will become a unique and regular affair, and a music trivia night will be a weekly happening, with prizes like gift certificates to the record store and exclusive music giveaways.

Located in the Northside of Williamsburg at 110 Bedford Ave (corner of N. 11th St.), the Sound Fix Lounge has been given a complete makeover, top to bottom, with a new fully stocked bar, elevated stage, high-quality sound system, ambiance lighting, polished furniture and lavish decor. Plans for this improved space include not only live music events but also readings, theater, film screenings, game nights, comedy, private parties and more.

For years, the Sound Fix record shop has worked in collaboration with the neighboring Fix Café. Earlier this year, Sound Fix bought out the café and has been working on uniting the two spaces like never before. Now it is truly one venue, a record store attached to a comfortable, spacious lounge that serves coffee and waffles (our specialty) during the day and offers a full bar at night, offering $2 PBRs around the clock and competitive prices on well and top-shelf liquor.

The Sound Fix Lounge is now open to receiving submissions for prospective shows, parties and unique happenings, and will film and record many of the events for web and media interaction (podcasting, public access, etc.)

Upcoming shows:

Mon Jun 18 - 10pm White Stripes Party (win tix to Irving Plaza)
Tue Jun 19 - 8pm Music Trivia Tuesday!
Fri Jun 22 - 7pm Geoff Farina (of Karate) 8pm Ida
Sun Jun 24 - 2pm The Bridesmaids
Tue Jun 26 - 8pm Music Trivia Tuesday!
Tue Jul 3 - 8pm Music Trivia Tuesday!
Thu Jul 5 - La Otracina
Tue Jul 10 - 8pm Music Trivia Tuesday!
Thu Jul 12 - The Places 8pm Comedian Patton Oswalt!
Sat Jul 14 - Balun
Sun Jul 15 - Land Of Talk
Tue Jul 17 - 8pm Music Trivia Tuesday!

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Weakerthans, Clutch, Lee Perry & Lucero playing boats

Back when the Rocks Off "School of Rock" festival in NJ was announced, I definitely wondered if, and hoped that, the Weakerthans would play their own NYC show as well. The Bad Brains are doing it - also for Rocks Off - on a boat (now sold out). Ends up - so are the Weakerthans, and it's this Friday June 22nd (NOT SOLD OUT).

Lee "Scratch" Perry (tix), Lucero (tix), Clutch (tix) RJD2 (tix), and many others are playing concert cruises too.

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VIDEO: Against Me! - 'White People For Peace'

Though this video by Against Me! aims at stopping the violence, if you don't like violence, then you'll probably be actually be better off watching the video of Beirut covering Grizzly Bear instead....

Against Me! has posted the first video from their upcoming Sire debut. The record is titled New Wave and is due out July 10, 2007.

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Battles VS The Strokes ++ Franz Ferdinand VS Television ++ Scritti Politti VS Arcade Fire AND SO ON

Ian Williams of up and coming NYC band Battles (tour dates) had this to say....

The Strokes were just rich kids from uptown New York; the children of the heads of supermodel agencies who formed a rock band and thought they deserved respect because of that. Suddenly the downtown, older form of punk rock got co-opted by the system. If ever there was a point where Gucci and rebellion were married together, it was right there. The Strokes have, basically, been responsible for five or six years of a new form of hair metal, in the guise of something more tasteful. Their music is post-9/11 party music because it came out that week and everybody wanted to dance. They're seen as the rebirth of rock in the UK - but it's a very conservative, old-fashioned idea of rock for the 21st century. As for their punk credentials, I'm not going to say anyone's more authentic than anyone else ... But the Strokes are the new Duran Duran; the new decadence for the new millennium. [The Guardian]

Oh man, I hope they don't run into each other into the subway because if they do, there's most certainly going to be a BATTLE! (Ba-dum-bum!) Oh wait, The Strokes probably don't use the subway because they're SO RICH! (Ba-dum-bum?......)

.....speaking of Duran Duran, they played that fan club show in NYC last night (June 17). Congrats to the winners of the contest.

.....and speaking of the Strokes, Albert Hammond Jr. is playing Webster Hall tonight (June 18).

A bunch of big shows happened in NYC recently. One of them was Franz Ferdinand playing a small show at Bowery Ballroom. Another was Television playing a big show at Central Park Summerstage. These two bands meet up in our second conflict. Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand had this to say....

People expect us to love Television the way they think we love Gang of Four and were influenced by them - but we don't and we weren't! Marquee Moon is one of those records that I thought I loved, but it was only after a few years I realised I didn't love the album, just the first 10 bars of the title track, which are pretty astonishing..... [Guardian]

First Franz vs Paul, and now this.

The Guardian article goes on to pit Scritti Politti against the Arcade Fire ("the rhythms are pedestrian"), The Flaming Lips against Nirvana, Art Brut against The Stone Roses, and The Hold Steady against The Doors. (thx RS)

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More photos and what not from Bonnaroo 2007

Demetri Martin & Pete Yorn (CRED)

Crowd Surfer?(CRED)

More photos and sad Ornette Coleman news below....

Ornette Coleman (CRED)

Jazz legend Ornette Coleman collapsed from heat stroke during his performance Sunday at the Bonnaroo festival in Manchester, Tenn. Sunday night he remained in a local hospital under doctor's supervision.

After collapsing on stage, the 77-year-old saxophonist was rushed to a nearby medical tent and given intravenous fluids, according to a Bonnaroo spokesperson. Coleman was said to be lucid and insistent that he had no symptoms before the incident.

Late Sunday, the artist was resting at the local Coffey County Hospital.

His next scheduled concert is July 6 in Kongsberg, Norway. [Reuters]

Tortoise (CRED)

David Cross, Aziz Ansari & Nick Kroll (CRED)

The Decemberists (CRED)

The Hold Steady (CRED)

Flaming Lips (CRED)

Body Paint (CRED)

Girl Talk (CRED)

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More photos HERE.

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Earl Greyhound @ Bowery Ballroom, NYC - pics (by Jefferson)

DOWNLOAD: Earl Greyhound - SOS (MP3)

Earl Greyhound rocked Bowery Ballroom Thursday night....

photos taken on June 14, 2007 by Jefferson.

You can read reviews of the show @ Extrawack & Fresh Bread.

Previously
* Earl Greyhound - 2007 Tour Dates (Bowery) & live MP3
* Earl Greyhound & the mayor of Austin
* more Earl Greyhound

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A guide to Panda Bear's openers

by Deepak Mantena

DOWNLOAD: Panda Bear - Bro's (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Rusty Santos - Moving Time (MP3)

Panda Bear @ 93 Feet East, London - Mar 8th, 2007 (CRED)

Panda Bear is playing some shows this week - two at NYC's Bowery Ballroom, and one in Baltimore, and one in Philly. Along with him at each of the shows will be a circus of friends of the band. Whether you scored a ticket to one of the sold out shows or not, here is a handy guide to the Panda Bear openers...

Rusty Santos (CRED)

Rusty Santos (June 18 @ Bowery) is a New York singer-songwriter whose most notable Animal Collective connection is helping them record their 2004 album Sung Tongs for Fat Cat Records. As well, he helped with production on several Panda Bear records, including the acclaimed Person Pitch.

Kria Brekken (CRED)

Kria Brekken (Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir - formerly of Múm) (June 18 @ Bowery) and Avey Tare of Animal Collective released this year's Pullhair Rubeye. She is also married to Avey. The duo previously played many live shows together.

continued below....

Eric Copeland (CRED)

Eric Copeland (June 23 @ Bowery) is 1/3rd of the Brooklyn band Black Dice (video of them playing Brighton Festival). They have toured with Animal Collective and as well worked on 2004's Wastered with them. Eric Copeland and Avey Tare worked together on several records under the name Terrestrial Tones.

Scott Mou (CRED)

Scott Mou (Philly, Baltimore & June 23 @ Bowery) and Panda Bear worked on three albums together under the name Jane. The two also worked together at Other Music in NYC. Queens is Scott's solo project.

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Animal Collective is also on tour. Tickets are on sale for two shows in NYC and elsewhere.

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Largehearted Boy's Interesting CD Releases This Week

DOWNLOAD: Jennifer Gentile - Electric Princess (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Minus Story - Stitch Me Up (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Rocky Votolato - Postcard From Kentucky (MP3)

This week features one of the most anticipated albums of the year - Icky Thump by the White Stripes, and with an eagerly awaited album by the Polyphonic Spree - The Fragile Army.

Other new albums I can strongly recommend includeArt Brut's It's a Bit Complicated, Jennifer Gentle's Midnight Room, the Minus Story's My Ion Truss, and Rocky Votolato's The Brag & Cuss.

A couple of truly interesting albums are released this week too. Von Südenfed's Tromatic Reflexxions features Mouse on Mars backing the Fall's Mark E Smith, and Silver Monk Time is a tribute album to the Monks featuring the Gossip, the Fall, Jason Forrest, and others.

This week's interesting CD releases:

Acid Mothers Temple: Nam Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo [cd]
The Aliens: Astronomy For Dogs [cd]
Amiina: Kurr [cd]
Art Brut: It's A Bit Complicated [cd]
Artanker Convoy: Cozy Endings [cd]
Arthur & Yu: In Camera [cd]
Bumps: Bumps [cd]
Burning Brides: Hang Love [cd]
Chromeo: Fancy Footwork [cd]
David Vandervelde: Nothin' No (single) [cd]
Digitalism: Idealism [cd]
Fridge: The Sun [cd]
Ghost Is Dancing: The Darkest Spark [cd]
Hackensaw Boys: Look Out [cd]
The Hentchmen: Hentch-Forth Five [cd]
Jaylib: Champion Sound [cd]
Jennifer Gentle: Midnight Room [cd]
The Junior Varsity: Cinematographic [cd]
Lightning Dust: Lightning Dust [cd]
Lovetones: Axiom [cd]
Mandy Moore: Wild Hope [cd]
Maps: We Can Create [cd]
Maserati: Inventions for the New Season [cd]
matt pond PA: If You Want Blood EP [cd]
Memphis: A Little Place In The Wilderness [cd]
Micah P. Hinson: Presents a Dream of Her EP [cd]
Minus Story: My Ion Truss [cd]
Misha: Teardrop Sweetheart [cd]
The Mooney Suzuki: Have Mercy [cd]
The Polyphonic Spree: The Fragile Army (with bonus DVD) [cd]
Queers: Pleasant Screams (with bonus tracks) [cd]
Robert Forster & Grant McLennan: Intermission: The Best of the Solo Recordings 1990-1997 [cd]
Rocky Votolato: The Brag & Cuss [cd]
Savath & Savalas: Golden Pollen [cd]
Sir Richard Bishop: While My Guitar Violently Bleeds [cd]
Tied + Tickled Trio: Aelita [cd]
Tomahawk: Anonymous [cd]
Two Gallants: The Scenery of Farewell EP [cd]
Various Artists: Chrome Children 2 [cd]
Various Artists: Nouvelle Vague Presents New Wave [cd]
Various Artists: Silver Monk Time: A Tribute to the Monks [cd]
Various Artists: Summer Of Love: Hits Of 1967 [cd]
Von Südenfed: Tromatic Reflexxions [cd]
Wascals: Greatest Hits [cd]
White Stripes: Icky Thump [cd]
Xavier Rudd: White Moth [cd]

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VIDEO: 'Zach' Beirut sings Grizzly Bear's 'Knife' ++ MORE

In today's installment of 'Indie Rock Orgy'....

It was the end of a nice drunken evening in Paris with Zach Condon. We sang and played guitar and toy piano. And when we went home, we made this present to Ed Droste and Grizzly Bear. ***This is not a Take Away Show. The real Beirut Take Away Show will be later***

Also from that drunken evening...

A small guitar, Sidi Ali form France, Zach condon from the US, some beers and Hallelujah...

'The Knife' has also been sung by a choir, covered by some kids, mixed with the other Knife, covered by CSS?, covered by Born Ruffians, and mashed up with Clipse.

Sometimes Final Fantasy Owen is playing with Ed. Sometimes he's playing with Zach.

And since I already posted the picture of Zach and Ed that would have gone better in this post, here's one of Ed and Feist instead - taken backstage at Bonnraoo this weekend:

Feist and Grizzly Bear just toured together, and played Town Hall in NYC. Feist is playing McCarren Pool. Grizzly Bear is playing Summerstage. Beirut has three shows coming up in September.

La Blogoteque has also filmed Grizzly Bear.

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VOXTROT played Webster Hall, playing SIREN FESTIVAL

Last week we found out that Cursive, White Rabbits, and M.I.A. were added to the Village Voice Siren Festival (July 21) lineup that already included New York Dolls, We Are Scientists, Matt And Kim, The Black Lips, Dr. Dog, Lavender Diamond, The Detroit Cobras, Elvis Perkins, The Twilight Sad, and The Noisettes.

Today I can tell you that the final unannounced band is in fact: VOXTROT! Friday night I went to see them play (obviously) at their biggest headlining show to date here in NYC....

Voxtrot/Au Revior Simone dance party @ Webster Hall - June 15, 2007 (CRED)

Au Revior Simone opened, and, like the time they opened for Peter Bjorn and John at the same venue, came back to join the headliner on stage...twice - once to sing backup, and another for an all-out on-stage dance party. Unlike past Voxtrot shows (and I've seen a lot of them), this one was further enhanced by the presence of the Tosca String Quartet. Overall, great show - I missed Au Revoir Simone and Favourite Sons though.

More Voxtrot tour dates HERE.

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June 17, 2007

some pictures from Bonnaroo 2007

Lily Allen & Jagermeister

David Cross & ?uestlove

Wolfmother shirtless

Wolfmother with makeup

Flaming Lips

Gogol Bordello

Gogol Bordello are touring.

Spoon

Spoon's new album is streaming online.

Regina Spektor

Franz Ferdinand

Franz Ferdinand recently played a small show in NYC.

The Police (Sting)

Alexa Ray Joel

Manu Chao

Manu Chao is touring, and playing Brooklyn again.

Sam Champion

Lily Allen also played Warsaw in Brooklyn Sunday night.

Previously
* stream BONNAROO this weekend ++ win stuff

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Richard Lloyd did not play with TELEVISION @ Central Park Summerstage, NYC - pics

DOWNLOAD: Tom Verlaine - From Her Fingers (MP3)

Sadly, Tom Verlaine announced that guitarist Richard Lloyd was (still) in the hospital. Jimmy Ripp filled in for him. (june 16, 2007)

I personally missed Dragons of Zynth, Apples in Stereo, and the rain. Read all about the show in the comments.

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people got their White Stripes tickets

and they look a little something like this*....

* the person who sent this to me got a little creative to protect their own identity

Were you on line? Here are a few quotes from the comments:

"I GOT TWO TICKETS. THANK YOU!!!!
Got there @ 2AM for the fun :)" [Oliver Klein]

"Got two tickets - got there at around 6:00 am, was 141st in line." [Marlow]

"got there 8:30 and got shut out with at least 100 people in front of me." [Anonymous]

Tickets are still available for their much larger MSG show. Some pics of the Irving Plaza line below....

DOWNLOAD: White Stripes - Hotel Yorba (MP3)

More testimonials in the comments.

Previously
* you can buy tickets for the White Stripes show
* WILCO - Brooklyn sale is over
* White Stripes playing 'Icky Thump Records' in LA
* The White Stripes are playing the Fillmore (Irving Plaza)? ++ updated 2007 tour dates

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June 15, 2007

DEVENDRA BANHART - 2007 Tour Dates ++ new album

Devendra Banhart stole my basketball (CRED)

Devendra Banhart's new album Vasu Deva Kutumbam is out later this year - probably some time around September 1st because that's when he kicks of a 1.5 month North American tour in Vancouver. He hits the Grand Ballroom @ Manhattan Center in Manhattan, NYC on on September 27th. The venue holds about as many as Webster, and is connected to Hammerstein Ballroom, but isn't actually Hammerstein Ballroom - it's where Polyphonic Spree recently was. There may be general admission seating. Matteah Baim and Death's Groove are opening for him (at the NYC show at least), and $35 tickets are now on sale.

All tour dates, and the now infamous message he recently posted on his MySpace, below...

Dear Freinds! its a beautiful day in California , we began Mixing the record today, lets see....... its about 16 songs, some very unexpected guests , the main band is Me, Noah, Luckey, Pete, Greg, and Andy, Rodrigo will be playin some shows here and there with us until duty with Los Hermanos beckons and/or the Saudade kicks in.

no titles yet , but tentative who knows Maybes are:
Milk the wind
Shes a hot dog
Mountaneous Confunktion
Greatest Hits
Hubba Hubba Planet
Electric Pizza Cops
Foreskin Sword (what it is & how to use it)
Mama, mujhe mall se jeans lenee hai
Porkin' the broken Knee (Electroxtensial chop!)
Who is Kadamon?
The Burnt Frizbee
Abhor the coagulator (1964 version)
Koala Mans Return to Pineapple temple
ihop ihop
Bacchanalian Beat Box
Thrice the phat Magus
Gaga blood & the balls of .......
Rich Gals Shampoo n' Conditioner Blues
Talkin Weleda Haushka Bronners Blues
Military Massengill
Cyber Christ and the Gnostic Titi-Slap part deux
you who are familiar with grandmas Hyacinth
......... ................ ............. ......... ............ ........ ..........
thats about it right now ! we are just starting to mix today , we will keep ya posted as new ones arise!
on and Onward and Love Above All!
oh , i almost forgot, we still dont have a band name, at least not one thats made it past a couple shows, if anyone has a suggestion , we would LOVE to try it out!

******Lookout (hoo hoo!) takes good sweet care of this Sight and we send em pictures and stories and names as they come, as they are received, as they are revealed. we are so happy to be a part of this!******

Devendra Banhart - 2007 Tour Dates
Sat Sept 1 Vancouver, BC at Commodore Ballroom
Sun Sept 2 Seattle, WA at KEXP Stage- Bumbershoot Festival
Tue Sept 4, Portland, OR at Crystal Ballroom
Thu Sept 6 Santa Cruz at Rio Theater
Fri Sept 7, Berkeley Campus at Zellerbach Hall
Mon Sept 10, Denver at Ogden Theater (Native American benefit)
Wed Sept 12 Omaha at Sokol Auditorium
Thu Sept 13, Lawrence at Liberty Hall Theater
Sat Sept 15 Minneapolis at First Avenue
Sun Sept 16 Milwaukee at Pabst Theater
Tue Sept 18 Chicago at Portage Theater
Wed Sept 19 Detroit at Majestic Theater
Fri Sept 21 Toronto at Danforth Music Hall
Sat Sept 22 Montreal Theatre National
Sun Sept 23 Burlington, VT at U of VT Davis Center Grand Ballroom
Tue Sept 25, Boston at Roxy Ballroom
Thu Sept 27 New York City at Grand Ballroom
Sat Sept 29 Philadelphia at Theater of living arts
Mon Oct 1, Washington DC at Sixth and I Historic Synagogue
Thu Oct 4 Nashville TN at City Hall
Sat Oct 6, Dallas at Granada Theater
Sun Oct 7 Austin at La Zona Rosa
Tue Oct 9, Albuquerque at Sunshine Theater (Native American benefit)
Wed Oct 10, Tucson at Rialto Theater
Fri Oct 12 Phoenix at Marquee Theater
Sat Oct 13 Los Angeles at Orpheum

Previously
* more Devendra Banhart

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BLACK LIPS - Live in Tijuana video + 2007 Tour Dates

DOWNLOAD: Black Lips - Not a Problem (MP3)

Maxwell's, Silent Barn, Siren, Bowery Ballroom, and like Jose, the Music Hall of Williamsburg....

Black Lips - 2007 Tour Dates
7/12, San Francisco, CA @ Popscene
7/13, San Francisco, CA @ Amoeba Instore - 6pm
7/16, Los Angeles, CA @ Amoeba Instore - 6pm
7/19, Hoboken, NJ @ Maxwells (tix)
7/20, Silent Barn, Brooklyn, NY
7/21, Coney Island, Brooklyn, NY @ Siren Festival
9/12, Athens, GA @ 40 Watt Club
9/14, Baltimore, MD @ Sonar
9/15, Washington, DC @ Black Cat
9/16, Philadelphia, PA @ The Fillmore at TLA
9/18, New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
9/19, Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
9/20, Worcester, MA @ The Grind/Clark University
9/21, Cambridge, MA @ Middle East
9/22, Montreal, QE @ La Sala Rossa
9/23, Toronto, ON @ The Legendary Horseshoe Tavern
9/25, Detroit, MI @ Magic Stick
9/26, Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Ballroom
9/28, Chicago, IL @ Logan Square Auditorium
9/29, Milwaukee, WI @ Mad Planet
9/30, Minneapolis, MN @ Triple Rock
10/2, Omaha, NE @ The Waiting Room
10/3, Kansas City, MO @ Grand Emporium
10/4, Dallas, TX @ The Loft
10/5, Austin, TX @ Emo's
10/6, Houston, TX @ The Engine Room
10/7, New Orleans, LA @ One Eyed Jacks

Previously
* more Black Lipsssss

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VIDEO: Loney, Dear - Saturday Waits

Yes it does...

Loney, Dear's second video from their Sub Pop debut Loney, Noir is for the song "Saturday Waits" and again is directed by Andrew Nilson, swedish sweet lord of video rulery.

Previously
* David Cross, the Silent League & Loney, Dear @ Union Hall

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A few more for the weekend....

DOWNLOAD: Liars - It Fit When I Was A Kid (Crystal Castles Remix) (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Shout Out Louds - Tonight I have to Leave It (MP3)

Apostle of Hustle @ Mercury Lounge, NYC - June 11, 2007 (CRED)

* Battering Room hosts Peel's first NYC show, Wrens singer plays too
* Voxtrot are playing Webster Hall
* Voxtrot's afterparty is @ Beauty Bar
* The Jam w/ Passions @ Home Sweet Home Friday night
* Rollerskating @ Studio B
* Great Northern is in town & touring
* The Eames Era is in town & touring
* Great Northern & The Eames Era are both playing Union Hall
* Only a few more shows before Issue Project Room closes
* O'Death record-release show at Luna Lounge
* Free Oneida shows at Highline & Soundfix
* Broken Social Scene & Stars represent @ Southpaw
* Blowfly!! is playing Clup Europa
* Celebrate Brooklyn & visit Central Park
* Line up to get White Stripes tickets
* Did I mention Les Savy Fav was playing a free show

Les Savy Fav - 'The Sweat Descends' @ McCarren Pool 2006

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RICHARD LLOYD - recently sick, but supposedly playing with TELEVISION (for the last time?)

Richard Lloyd @ Knitting Factory, NYC - May 19, 2007 (CRED)

If you've been reading the comments in today's Television post, you probably heard something like this sad news posted on Richard's website:

Message from the webmaster, 1st June 2007:
I am sorry to report that Richard is currently unwell. He has been in hospital Intensive Care for 8 days with pneumonia as a primary medical problem. This has responded to treatment and he has shown some improvement and is now free of the breathing apparatus.

That news was posted just 13 days after he played Knitting Factory (see above), and just 15 days before his scheduled show with Television this Saturday in Central Park. Now people are wondering if he'll be well enough to play. According to a Summerstage spokesman, Richard will be playing with Television "as far as we know". That's all I've got.

It's also worth pointing out (as it was also already in the comments), that this may be Richard's last Television show ever (well, it's about time! just kidding)...

Also from Richard's site:

After the possible Summer stage show in New York City on June 16, which is to be announced by the city of New York on May 15, Richard Lloyd will, after 34 years, be amicably severing all ties with the band Television, in order that he may concentrate his magnetic force and supernatural energies upon his own career in support of his forthcoming record, due out in the fall. This new record directly competes with Marquee Moon, Axis: Bold as Love, The Doors, Patti Smith's Horses, Bob Marley's Natty Dread, Neil Young's Harvest, or any other record you can name, as one of the greatest records ever made in the history of rock 'n roll. That being so, Richard needs to concentrate all of his energies to support it and its subsidiary philosophies.

To the fans of Television, from the very first show at the townhouse Theatre on March 4, 1974 till the hopeful last show here in New York at the Summer stage -- which by the way, is a free show, thank you for your support over these many years. I hope to see you follow both my own and the other members of the band in their own solo efforts for many more years to come.

Thank you,
Sincerely yours,
Richard Lloyd

Richard, feel better, and I hope to see you up there on stage this Saturday.

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Wes' sorta-Weekly Hip Hop News Roundup (June 15, 2007)

DOWNLOAD Phat Kat (Production J Dilla) - 'Nasty Ain't It?' (MP3)
DOWNLOAD Copperpot ft KRS One - Come Back Home (MP3)

Quirky producer Copperpot will release his new WYLA? album on August 7th. Check out the first single above, and stream Common - "The People" (prod. by Kanye West). Not sure about the cover he picked for the new album though.

Common @ Central Park Summerstage, NYC - June 8, 2007 (CRED)

NEWS

• 50 Cent's album is delayed and may never come out.
• Speaking of delayed albums, Saigon speaks his mind on Atlantic Records, album delays and his mentor Just Blaze.
• Speaking of mentors, Lupe Fiasco’s mentor and business partner was sentenced to 44 years in jail for some drug offenses.
• Speaking of drug offenses, read this unearthed and hilarious NORE interview.
• Speaking of interviews go read this one with Zilla Rocca of Clean Guns
• Check out AC's review of the EL-P Filmore show.
• Check out the tracklist for T.I.'s upcoming album.
• Hip Hop pioneer Marley Marl suffered a heart attack June 5, but is ok.
• A review of the June 5th Method Man & Gza show at Webster Hall HERE.

MP3s, tour dates, and all that.......

MUSIC

• Speaking of Saigon, go here to download his new Scram Jones mixtape.
• Download the new Dujeous mixtape, Game 7 featuring John Legend, Lily Allen, Immortal Technique, Joe Holiday, The Game, Ice T, Grandmaster Caz & Mark Ronson.
• Kanye West ft. John Mayer - Bittersweet, Mayer infiltrates Hip Hop again. Ok results this time.
• CLASSIC Bizmarkie/Redman Freestyle (circa 1990) for download.
• The UK's Dizzee Rascal get Houston's UGK to feature on 'Where's Da G's'.
• Sean Price & Buckshot keep it rough on 'Frankenstein".
• Big Shug & DJ Premier team up to bring us 'Play It'.

VIDEO

• Chuck D speaks and gives us quite a few quotables.
• Blue Scholars released a new video for 'Back Home' off their new album Bayani.
• From Jazzmatazz Volume 4, Guru ft. Common - State of Clarity comes in the form of an animated video.
• UGK & Outkast star in the re-upped 'International Player’s Anthem' video

SHOWS

6/15 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Tribute To Grandmaster Flash & Furious Five ft Fat Joe, Doug E. Fresh, Slick Rick @ Paradise Theater, 8pm, tix

6/15 DMX @ B.B. King's Blues Club & Grill, 11.30pm, tix

06/15 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Tribute To Grandmaster Flash & Furious Five @ Paradise Theater, Bronx (tix)

6/17 Pharoah Monche @ Apple Store (Soho)

6/23 3rd Annual Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival ft Ghostface, Consequence, Skillz and more. (info).

6/29 Pharoahe Monch, Black Milk @ Highline Ballroom, 11.30PM, tix

7/10 Kanye West @ Mohegan Sun Arena (CT), 7pm, tix.

07/28 & 29 - Rock the Bells w/ Wu Tang and many others @ Randall's Island

07/29 - "Wild Style 25th Anniversary Reunion" Central Park SummerStage ft Busy Bee, Cold Crush Brothers, DJ Grand Wizzard Theodore & Grand Master Caz

07/19 Arrested Development @ Von King Park (Brooklyn)

07/25 Kurtis Blow/DJ GrandWizzard Theodore/Ralph McDaniel @ Crotona Park (Bronx)

07/31 Whodini @ Queensbridge Park (Manhattan)

08/03 Lyricist Lounge With KRS-One, Ladybug Mecca, and more @ Prospect Park Bandshell. (info)

08/08 Biz Markie/DJ Lovebug starski @ Jackie Robinson Park (Manhattan)

08/09 Slick Rick/DJ Red Alert @ Marcus Garvy Park (Manhattan)

Paid Dues Festival - 2007 Tour Dates*
07-25 - Chicago, IL - Congress Theater
07-27 - Baltimore, MD - Pier 6 Pavillion
07-28 - New York, NY - Randall‘s Island
07-29 - New York, NY - Randall‘s Island
07-31 - Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue (2 shows)
08-01 - Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue (2 shows)
08-04 - Eugene, OR - Secret Vineyard
08-05 - San Francisco, CA - Bill Graham Civic Center
08-07 - Denver, CO - Red Rocks Pavillion
08-10 - Mesa, AZ - Mesa Ampitheater
08-11 - San Bernadino, CA - NOS Events Center
* Feat. Felt, Living Legends, Sage Francis, Cage, Brother Ali, Blueprint, Hangar 18, Mr. Lif and more.

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VIDEO: Keren Ann - 'Lay Your Head Down'

I was wondering if she any videos for her new album. Just found this...

directed by camille vivier

I've been listening to the new record, and I love Keren, but I don't think she's put out a truly great whole album yet. That said, most of what she does is, it at the least, perfectly listenable. Unfortunately the above video is probably the song on the new album that rubbed me the wrong way the most - still listenable, but it sounds like she's trying a little too hard to be (I'm bad at 'name that tune', so bear with me...) Mazzy Star or Jesus & Mary Chain or Velvet Underground or ?? -- hand claps, harmonica & choir included. Maybe they forced her to write this track to have something even remotely radio-friendly?

Keren is on tour.

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'Celebrate Brooklyn' is underway - free concerts in BK

The Neville Brothers in Prospect Park - June 14, 2007 (CRED)

The 'Celebrate Brooklyn' series of mostly-free concerts in Prospect Park (Brooklyn, NY) kicked off last night with a free show by the Neville Brothers. Tomorrow (June 16) is Joan Osborne & The Jazz Passengers (FREE!).

Also upcoming
June 26 & June 27 - MANU CHAO (tix)
June 30 - The Stills, Malajube & Sam Roberts Band (FREE)
July 21 - Lou Reed and many others (FREE)
Aug 03 - KRS-ONE (FREE)
Aug 09 - The Hold Steady, The Big Sleep & Teenage Prayers (FREE)
Aug 11 - African Festival (FREE)

Full schedule HERE. Summerstage is also starting up.

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Todd P's Springtime acoustic BBQ on Father's Day

Ditch your dad and head to Roosevelt Island this Sunday....

Todd P says....

Sunday, June 17th - EARLY! - noon @ SOUTHERN TIP OF ROOSEVELT ISLAND

:: SPRINGTIME UNAMPLIFIED ACOUSTIC BBQ
:: an afternoon of folks playing songs lackadaisical-like

:: NOTE: the folks will -not- perform in this order:

:: Necking
:: Katie Eastburn ----> from YOUNG PEOPLE
:: the Goddamn Rattlesnake
:: Golden Ghost
:: Meneguar
:: the Woods
:: High Places
:: TK Webb
:: Skeletons & the Kings of All Cities
:: Aa aka BIG A little a
:: The Fugue
:: Vampire Weekend
:: Shellshag
:: Po Boy Johnson
:: Christy & Emily
:: The Ballet
:: Dirty Beauty Shoppe
:: Shooting Spires

[ SOUTHERN TIP OF ROOSEVELT ISLAND ]
enter at corner of Main St & Road 3 | Roosevelt Island, NY
F to Roosevelt Island | 12pm-sundown | ALL AGES | FREE | bring bbq stuff
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-- LOOK --> http://www.toddpnyc.com/images/roosevelt_island.mp4.file
-- LOOK--> http://toddpnyc.com/images/mattandkim.mp4.file
-- LOOK--> http://toddpnyc.com/images/dirtyprojectors.mp4.file

The park is right in the middle of the East River, the city and the river swirl serenely around you - you could throw rocks at the Midtown Skyline. And there's this ruined castle-like 1850's city smallpox hospital [ http://rihs.us/landmarks/renwick-1.jpg ] down there too (legendarily haunted). Take the F train all the way there (there's a "Roosevelt Island" stop), and bring your guitars & blankets & folding chairs & your beverages & your hibachis & charcoal & stuff to grill & whatnot.

Who do you recommend at this show, and wil