What's going on Friday?
Grace Potter @ the 2009 Clearwater Festival (more by Chris La Putt)
Kaki King @ Stuytown Oval in July (more by Tim Griffin)
Casiokids @ the Cameo in 2008 (more by Ryan Muir)
tonight in NYC
* DANCE
* The Drums @ Don Hill’s
* Awesome New Republic @ Pianos
* Antifolk Festival @ Sidewalk Cafe
* Kaki King presents The Exhibition @ Littlefield
* Joe Pernice, The Walsh Brothers @ Bowery Ballroom
* The Sundelles, Darlings, Knight School @ Glasslands
* Asphalt Orchestra @ Lincoln Center’s Josie Robertson Plaza
* Casiokids, The Wave Pictures, Slow Club @ South Street Seaport
* Child Abuse, Harry Merry, Ga’an, Eats Tapes, MNDR @ Silent Barn
* Jana Hunter, Inoculist, Virgin Forest, Julia Weldon @ Bruar Falls
* Buke & Gass, Adventure, Why I Must Be Careful, Von Haze @ Market Hotel
* Pterodactyl, Paper Mice, That Ghost, The Fucking Ocean @ Death By Audio
* Free Energy, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, The xx @ Mercury Lounge
* Jessica 6, Light Asylum, Shannon Funchess, Something in Spanish @ Coco 66
* Grace Potter & the Nocturnals, Deer Tick, Jones Street Station @ Prospect Park
* Lincoln Center’s Out of Doors Fest w/ Raul Midon, Meshell Ndegeocello @ Damrosch Park
Free outdoor music tonight includes a Celebrate Brooklyn show with Grace Potter & the Nocturnals, Deer Tick (who have many more shows coming up) and Jones Street Station at the Prospect Park Bandshell, Lincoln Center’s Out of Doors Fest presenting Raul Midon and Meshell Ndegeocello (subbing for Rokia Traore ) at Damrosch Park, the Asphalt Orchestra at Lincoln Center’s Josie Robertson Plaza, and Casiokids, The Wave Pictures and Slow Club (all on Moshi Moshi’s 10th anniversary tour) at South Street Seaport.
The Grace Potter afterparty is at Brooklyn Bowl.
Next week’s final Seaport Music of the season will feature School of Seven Bells and an opening set from The xx. The latter band kicks off its week of NYC gigs with a show at the Mercury Lounge tonight. Also on the bill are Free Energy, Sean Bones and Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros. The xx’s video for “Basic Space” is below.
Recent ticket on-sales HERE and HERE.
Author and Pernice brother Joe visits the Bowery Ballroom with another set of Brothers, The Walsh Brothers.
Antifolk Festival at the Sidewalk Cafe kicks off tonight with sets from BJ Snowden, The Young Dads, The Venn Diagrams and more. It runs through August 16th.
Kaki King, who recently played the Stuy Town Oval, presents an exhbition of guitar art at Littlefield.
Set times for Saturday’s Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival HERE. Boys Noize plays a free show at Central Park Summerstage on Saturday too.
Lollapalooza is happening in Chicago.
Arctic Monkeys‘ official video for “Crying Lightning”, below…
What else?
Arctic Monkeys
The xx
