Georgia band Dead Confederate will take on Neil Young's "Tonight's The Night"... tonight (9/22) at Brooklyn Bowl. FREE before 7pm, though note there are two opening bands and the whole show starts at 8pm. If you want to win a free pair of tickets, email your first and last name to BVCONTESTS@HOTMAIL.COM with the subject "I want free Dead Confederate tickets". You'll be notified if you win. Dead Confederate play Poppped! Fest in Philly tomorrow.

The B Street Band celebrates Bruce Springsteen's birthday on a Rocks Off boat at BB KIng's tonight.

Tragedy: A Heavy Metal Tribute to the Bee Gees, who have played Brooklyn Bowl many times, and who have a member who runs Rocks Off, will play Bowery Ballroom on 11/12. Tickets are on AmEx presale now and go on general sale Friday.

Start Making Sense: Talking Heads Tribute play Mercury Lounge on 11/18. Tickets are on sale now.

As previously mentioned, tickets are on sale now for two Replacements tribute shows at Bowery Electric.

Tickets are also still on sale for the two Petty Fest shows (Bowery & MHOW).

DOWNLOAD: The Felice Brothers - "Patty" (MP3)

Felice Brothers at Newport Folk Fest 2011 (more by Jim Brueckner)

The Felice Brothers have been revealing one track off their Poughkeepsie Princess EP each Wednesday. The first four are available for the price of an email address at their website and we've got a premiere of the fifth and final track, "Patty," which you can download at the top of this post. To quote the band, "make sure to get it quick as we'll be taking the EP down off the internet on Sunday. Collectors item." The artwork for the new track is below.

The Felice Brothers are currently on a tour that will bring them to NYC's Webster Hall on September 29 with Nicole Atkins & The Black Sea. Tickets for this show are still on sale and we're also giving away a pair. Details on how to enter are below.

All dates, a new video that premiered at Rolling Stone yetserday, artwork, and contest details below...

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photos by Tim Griffin

DOWNLOAD: Japandroids - "Younger Us" (MP3)

Japandroids @ the Mohawk

The Japandroids/Bass Drum of Death tour (which didn't list BDoD on the NYC show when the tour was first announced) hits Mercury Lounge in NYC tonight (9/14). It's sold out, but we have a pair of tickets you can win today. Details on how to do that, with all tour dates, and more pictures from the sold out show that happened inside at Mohawk in Austin on 9/8, below...

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photos by Tim Griffin

The DoYas @ Antone's in Austin

The Dodos and The Luyas are out on a tour that reaches Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn tonight (9/12). Tickets are still on sale and we have a pair you can win. Details below.

If you're like me and you've seen the Dodos and Luyas a few times each and don't quite have the motivation to see them again right now, consider that the two bands are collaborating on stage. As Tim learned at the 9/2 show at Antone's in Austin, the Dodos come out and play with the Luyas and vice versa. Jessie Stein of the Luyas kept calling the combination of bands: 'The DoYas'. I like it. Check out more pictures of The DoYas, a couple of videos of the bands playing together, and the contest details below...

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Toro y Moi at Pitchfork Fest (more by Dominick Mastrangelo)

Toro y Moi is releasing the Freaking Out EP on Tuesday (9/13) via Carpark. The EP is the followup to his full length, Underneath the Pine, which came out earlier this year on the same label. You can grab two tracks, "All Alone" and "Saturday Love" (an Alexander O'Neal & Cherelle cover), in exchange for your email address below. Though both will remind you of the disco-y pop of Underneath the Pine, the introductory synth frills on "All Alone" tell you right away that Freaking Out isn't an EP of leftover album tracks.

Toro y Moi's previously announced tour begins this week and hits Webster Hall on September 14 with Unknown Mortal Orchestra and Ava Luna. Tickets are still available. All dates are listed below.

We're also giving away a signed vinyl copy of Underneath the Pine and a pair of tickets to the Webster Hall show. Details on how to win, along with MP3 widgets, album art, tracklist and updated tour dates below...

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photos by Tim Griffin

Active Child @ Emo's Inside

"With immaculate vocals that are almost as enchanting as a Gregorian chant, ex-choir boy Pat Grossi, better known as Active Child, has put together an album that is enthralled in a romantic mystery of love. Active Child was once part of the Philadelphia Boys Choir as a youngster and is also fluent in playing the harp. Even though he is being compared to artists like James Blake and Bon Iver his musical background has given him the space to create music that is just as intriguing to the ear." [Karmaloop]

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TVOTR at Pitchfork Fest (more by Dominick Mastrangelo)

Members of TV on the Radio are presenting the film version of their recently released album Nine Types of Light on September 7 at Nitehawk Cinema in Brooklyn. According to Nitehawk Cinema's website:

Nine Types Of Light is as much an film as it is a album by TV On The Radio. The movie is meant to be a visual re-imagining of the record, and includes a music video for every song on the album. The band personally asked their friends and the filmmakers they admired to help direct the music videos. Tunde Adebimpe, the director for the full Nine Types Of Light movie, storybooked the music videos together with interviews from local New Yorkers on various topics, including dreams, love, fame and the future.

The screening is the day before TV on the Radio play Williamsburg Waterfront with Broken Social Scene (9/8). Tickets for that show are still on sale.

All dates, video, and contest details below...

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Prince Rama @ Glasslands in 2010 (more by Erez Avissar)

As mentioned, Panda Bear is playing a few shows this fall including one on October 1 at Webster Hall and another on October 2 at Brooklyn Masonic Temple. Tickets for the Webster show and the Masonic Temple show go on sale today (8/26) at noon.

Meanwhile, Prince Rama of Paw Tracks plays Music Hall of Williamsburg TONIGHT (8/26) with Sun Araw, Juliana Barwick, Pterodactyl, and Teengirl Fantasy (DJ). The show also serves as the NYC debut performance of Prince Rama and Sun Araw's joint project Prince Sunarawma. Tickets for tonight's show are still on sale and we're also giving away a pair. Details on how to win are below.

Contest details below...

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DOWNLOAD: Caitlin Rose - "Own Side" (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Caitlin Rose - "Shanghai Cigarettes" (MP3)

Caitlin Rose, the newest signee to ATO Records is on a tour that hits Mercury Lounge on Saturday (8/20) with Luke Rathborne. Tickets are still available and we're also giving away a pair of tickets to the show. Details on how to win are below.

She'll return to NYC on November 4 at Music Hall of Williamsburg to open for Hayes Carll. Tickets for that show are still available too. All dates are listed below.

Caitlin's most recent album, Own Side Now, was released earlier this year. You can watch videos of "Own Side" and "Shanghai Cigarettes" below and download MP3s of the tracks above.

All dates, videos and contest details below...

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Joker

HARD Haunted Mansion returns to the Shrine Expo Hall in LA October 28-29 with Fatboy Slim, Skream & Benga, SBTRKT, Kingdom and others. Tickets for the LA festival are on sale now. A flier for the fest is below.

If you can't make it out to LA for the festival, HARD Haunted Mansion will be putting on a smaller but similar show on October 22 at Terminal 5 billed as 'HARD Haunted Mansion NYC.' The show will be headlined by Skream & Benga and includes support from Joker, Dillon Francis, Destructo, and more TBA. Tickets go on sale Friday (8/26) at noon.

Joker is set to release his first official full length album, The Vision on November 8 via 4AD. We've already heard his single of the same name with Jessie Ware on lead vocals (who also sang on the SBTRKT album). He's since revealed the single "Here Come the Lights" (ft. SIlas of Turboweekend) which comes out as a 12" on September 27 in the US b/w "Trance Girl." Check out a radio rip of the new track from BBC Radio 1 Zane Lowe's Hottest Record of the World show below.

In related news, HARD Summer Tour is underway with Digitalism (live), Switch, Designer Drugs, and of course HARD founder and DJ Destructo. Caspa, was originally scheduled to be on the tour, but recently cancelled. As mentioned, the tour ends on Saturday (8/20) at Terminal 5. Tickets for the show are still on sale and we're also giving away a pair. Details on how to win below.

Song stream, LA flier and contest details below...

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