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June 24, 2009

The Wooden Birds

tonight in NYC
* DANCE
* Bilal @ Blue Note
* Old 97’s @ Maxwell’s
* Tony Sher @ The Stone
* Ian Hunter @ Rockefeller Park
* Alex Cuba @ Madison Square Park
* Iggy Pop & Ben Ratliff @ Times Center
* Easy Star All-Stars @ Music on the Oval
* Fatboy Slim, Shinichi Osawa @ Terminal 5
* Camera Obscura, Anni Rossi @ Webster Hall
* Christina Courtin, Josh Mease @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
* Asa Ransom, Spanish Prisoners, Bonnie Baxter @ Southpaw
* Hank III & Assjack, Lucky Tubb @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
* Pepi Ginsberg, Emilie Simon, Glass Ghost @ Public Assembly
* The Wooden Birds, Other Lives, Bird of Youth @ The Bell House
* The Drums, Jeffrey John, The Johns, MCQ, Soft City @ The Annex
* Patterson Hood & The Screwtopians, Will Johnson @ Bowery Ballroom
* The Legends, Eagle & Talon, Blacklist, We Are Country Mice @ Santos
* Zs, Nine 11 Thesaurus, Effi Briest, Grade 13, Earthborne @ Secret Project Robot
* Elizabeth & the Catapult, Miracles of Modern Science @ Housing Works Used Book Cafe

Free outdoor music tonight inclues Alex Cuba at Madison Square Park, Ian Hunter at Rockefeller Park, and Easy Star All-Stars at the Stuy Town Oval

The Old 97’s play their last of four shows at Maxwell’s tonight. Patterson Hood & The Screwtopians perform in NYC for a second night, this time at the Bowery Ballroom.

Tonight Zs host a release party at Secret Project Robot for their new 12″ record. That disc, titled Music of the Modern White, is out now on Social Registry.

The Legends and The Drums played together at the Bell House last night. Tonight The Legends are at Santos tonight, one of several upcoming East Coast shows for the band. The Drums continue their residency at The Annex.

Anni Rossi, who played last night at Pianos and opens tonight for Camera Obscura, performed her song “Wheelpusher” on laundromatinee.com. Video below.

St. Vincent is on Letterman tonight and plays the Bell House tomorrow.

Iggy Pop played with Fatboy Slim/Brighton Port Authority at their June 22nd Letterman appearance . Last night, they did the same song on Jimmy Fallon. Check it out below. Fatboy Slim plays Terminal 5 tonight. Iggy will speak with Times scribe Ben Ratliff at the Times Center (a short cab ride away).

“A golem is created, once again, to rescue Jews in times of need, this time in present-day Brooklyn.” Video below….

MSTRKRFT played with John Legend on Letterman last night. Check it out… below…

What else?

Iggy Pop w/ Brighton Port Authority – “He’s Frank” on Fallon 6/23