The Drums posted a Ronettes cover to their Facebook in honor of the holiday today, though you need to "Like" them to hear it." "Hey it's Jonny. We wanted to buy you something but we made you something instead. It's Valentines Day so don't be shy with your love. See you soon"

And you can see them soon. The Drums play a free, late show at WIP (Work In Progress) in NYC tonight (2/14) along with DJ Miss Guy and others. You need to RSVP.

You can go after you catch their Frenchkiss labelmate Devin at Pianos, also a free show.

today in NYC
* The Drums @ WIP
* Dayna Kurtz @ Barbes
* Slavic Soul Party @ Barbes
* Richard Thompson @ City Winery
* Wyatt Cenac & other comedians @ Union Hall
* Degreaser, Dead Boomers, Modra @ Zebulon
* Williamsburg Salsa Orchestra @ Cameo Gallery
* Gabriel and the Hounds, A>G>E @ Mercury Lounge
* The Sons & Heirs (Smiths tribute) @ The Bell House
* MNDR, Make Out, Psychobuildings @ Pianos
* Devin, St. Lucia, Tiny Victories @ Pianos
* Dave Hill & many others @ Littlefield's Rejection Show
* Lily & The Parlour Tricks, The Squaws @ Bowery Electric
* Dust Angel, Dirty Fences, Youth Quake, Threats @ Cake Shop
* Explosions in the Sky, Grouper, Ducky @ NYU Skirball Center
* Oberhofer, Slowdance, Night Manager, Bear Ceuse, DJ Marty McSorely @ 285 Kent
* "Babes In Toyland, Hole, X, Discount, Spitboy, Mika Miko, Heavens To Betsy, Frumpies" @ Death By Audio

Death By Audio's annual Anti V-Day Riot Grrrl Cover Bands Show is set to channel the likes of X and Hole to show folks exactly what love is good for.

Fiona Apple is playing a church at SXSW.
Thurston Moore played an Austin church over the weekend.

Thanks Heartless Bastards for the site sponsorship today. Grab their new album at iTunes. They play Chicago tonight and will soon bring their tour to Webster Hall in NYC.

Devin opens their Webster Hall show and plays a free show at Pianos tonight!

RIP Chicago jazz artist Jodie Christian.

Aside from rekindling old flames of their own making, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Bixler-Zavala began streaming their slinky new single as The Mars Volta, "The Malkin Jewel," yesterday (2/13). The band's new album, Noctourniquet, will be released on March 27 via Warner Bros. Listen below.

Watch St. Vincent play a Valentine's Day Party on Gossip Girl, below...

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Oberhofer @ 4Knots (more by Amanda Hatfield)

Oberhofer, whose official upcoming tour has him/them headlining Bowery Ballroom in March, has been playing some suprise local show lately. The next, though not exactly a secret, happens tonight (2/14) at 285 Kent and tickets are on sale. Slowdance, Night Manager, and Bear Ceuse are also on the bill.

Alternatively, if you're 21+, you can head to Pianos to see a free show by Devin and others.

Philip Glass @ Tibet House Benefit 2009 (more by Tim Griffin)

today in NYC
* Whiplash @ UCB
* Llama @ Barbes
* DJ Sultan @ Barbes
* Brain Cloud @ Barbes
* Hot Tub @ Littlefield
* Melissa Ferrick @ City Winery
* Doe Paoro, Tezeo, N/A, Wyndham Baird @ Glasslands
* Father Figures, Relatives, Pegasus Warning @ Zebulon
* The Woes, The Dough Rollers, Ghost Pal @ Brooklyn Bowl
* Reverend Vince Anderson & His Love Choir @ Union Pool
* Thieving Irons, Kelli Scarr, First Nature @ The Rock Shop
* Andrea Parkins, Hans Tammen, Didier Petit, Edward Perraud @ Roulette
* McKenzie Eddy, Ski Beatz, Sean O'Connell, DD172, Da$h @ Mercury Lounge
* Bruce Levingston, Lisa Bielawa, Brooklyn Rider (music of Lisa Bielawa, Christopher Tignor, John Corigliano, Augusta Gross, and William Bolcom) @ Le Poisson Rouge
* Tibet House Benefit Concert w/ Philip Glass, James Blake, Dechen Shak-Dagsay, Laurie Anderson, Das Racist, Tim Fain, Lou Reed, Rahzel, Antony Hegarty, Stephin Merritt @ Carnegie Hall
* Tony Scherr Trio with Anton Fier and Rob Jost, Jim Campilongo & special guest @ Living Room

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Philip Glass recently turned 75 and hosts an all-star lineup at Carnegie Hall to benefit the Tibet House tonight.

John Cage would be 100 this year.

Early Bird Orion Music Fest tickets are still on sale.

Ali Lawn left Ra Ra Riot.

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Madonna Yankee Stadium tickets on sale at 10am.

Adele won 6 Grammys and was the subject of a Target commercial that features a girl from PS22 in Staten Island. Watch Adele's Grammy performance, her first since throat surgery, below...

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today in NYC
* ASSSSCAT 3000 @ UCB
* Omar Lords @ Zebulon
* Laura Veirs @ Joe's Pub
* Ed Vallance @ The Ace Hotel
* Fred Armisen, Azita @ Union Pool
* Bjork @ New York Hall of Science
* Cherish The Ladies @ City Winery
* Pretty Good Friends @ Union Hall
* Theologian, Alberich @ The STone
* School of Rock @ Highline Ballroom
* Screaming Females @ Generation Records
* Williamsburg Salsa Orchestra @ Brooklyn Bowl
* Il Abanico, Dear Lions, The Split @ Spike Hill
* Guns N' Roses, The Chelsea Smiles @ Terminal 5
* The Queens of FELA on Broadway celebrate the Grammy's @ Knitting Factory
* Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys @ B.B. King Blues Club and Grill
* Soft Spot, Parmaga, Buffalo Stance @ Death By Audio
* Beast Make Bomb, Shake the Baron, Sea Monsters, Flagland @ Glasslands
* James Blake (DJ set), The Chain, Airhead @ Le Poisson Rouge
* English Dogs, The Casualties, Toxic Holocaust, Havok @ Europa
* Psychobuildings, Amil Byleckie Band, Trip Dicks @ Big Snow Buffalo Lodge
* Daniel Neumann, Maria Chavez, Alfredo Marin, Zeljko McMullen, Doron Sadja, Tristan Shepherd, Mario Diaz de Leon, Ben Vida, Sabisha Friedberg @ Roulette
* Communion featuring David Wax Museum, Aoife O'Donovan, Jones Street Station, Julia Easterlin @ Public Assembly

Check out some photos from Arcade Fire's 2004 show at Mercury Lounge on the BrooklynVegan Facebook.

Hopefully Bjork is feeling better.

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In case you were wondering, no Slash (pictured above) is not in the current lineup of Guns N Roses that plays Terminal 5 tonight.

The Grammys, now overshadowed/advertised by the tragedy that is Whitney Houston's death, air tonight on CBS at 8 p.m. EST. A last minute Whitney tribute was put together for the TV show and will include Jennifer Hudson and Chaka Khan.

In related and also sad (no disrespect to Whitney!) news, Foster the People and Maroon 5/Adam Levine are performing with the reunited Beach Boys at the Grammys. Adele will also be peforming on the show, but Justin Vernon will not be (because he refused to agree to whatever horrible collaboration they wanted him to do).

As previously mentioned...

Bon Iver was nominated for four high profile Grammys (though not "Album of the Year" which is what Arcade Fire won). Adele & Katy Perry nominated for a zillion, and other nominees include The Black Keys, Foster the Peepee, Cee Lo, Duck Sauce, Robyn, Cut Copy, Skrillex, Deadmau5, Coldplay, Radiohead, Mumford & Son, Mastodon, Wilco, Death Cab For Cutie, My Morning Jacket, Jay-Z, Kanye West, The Civil Wars, Emmylou Harris, Levon Helm, Fleet Foxes, Gillian Welch, Steve Earle, Patton Oswalt, Louis CK, Weird Al, Danger Mouse, Memory Tapes, TV On the Radio, and A Tribe Called Quest.

The Kills played a 10th Anniversary show at Terminal 5 last night. More about that later, but you can check out the video from their performance on Letterman two nights earlier, below...

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The Kills @ Stubb's in Austin in January (more by Tim Griffin)

today in NYC
* Decimus @ The Stone
* Chicha Libre @ Barbes
* Die Antwoord @ Irving Plaza
* Stephen Brodsky @ The Stone
* Chico Mann @ Brooklyn Bowl
* Beach Fossils @ Tribeca Grand
* Zombie Fight @ Otto's Shrunken Head
* SAADI, New Beings, Street Kitsch @ Zebulon
* Iron Tides, Heliotropes, Soon @ The Acheron
* Citay, Brazos, Calle Companion @ Union Pool
* Avan Lava, Tony Castles, Bluejay @ Glasslands
* Tea Leaf Green, Ha Ha Tonka @ Brooklyn Bowl
* Clicks & Whistles, RX, Lamin Fofana @ Glasslands
* Expensive Looks, Phonetag, TEEN @ Cameo Gallery
* Justin Carter, Eamon Harkin, Four Tet @ 12-Turn-13
* Fixed, Aeroplane, JDH & Dave P @ Le Poisson Rouge
* The Kills, JEFF The Brotherhood, Hunters @ Terminal 5
* Dum Dum Girls, Widowspeak, Punks on Mars @ Maxwell's
* Phantom Family Halo, The Loom, Old Baby @ Saint Vitus
* The Identifiers, Lunic, Moon Furies, Vandana Jain @ Pianos
* George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic @ Starland Ballroom
* This Will Destroy You, Wires, Under Tension @ 285 KentAvenue
* The Queers, The Ataris, Far From Finished @ Santos Party House
* Jonas Reinhardt, The Present, Driphouse @ Big Snow
* Adversarial, Horde Of Worms, Sathanas, Vrolok, Mortum @ Cake Shop
* Bleached, The Black Belles, Bleeding Rainbow, Habibi @ Knitting Factory
* Laura Benanti (American Songbook series) @ Lincoln Center's Allen Room
* Ida, Babe The Blue Ox, The Mommyheads, Beekeeper, Sportsman's Paradise @ Littlefield
* Black Taxi, Black Wing Halo, That Handsome Devil, Your 33 Black Angels @ Mercury Lounge
* ZEBU!, Happy Jawbone Family Band, Insert Massacre Here, The Sanctuaries @ Death By Audio
* Screaming Females, Laura Stevenson & The Cans, For Science, Shellshag, Black Wine @ Music Hall of Williamsburg

This Will Destroy You's Hoboken show is cancelled. They only play 285 Kent in Brooklyn tonight.

Maps & Atlases have announced a new LP.

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BrooklynVegan is taking over Hotel Vegas in Austin for four days in March. Follow @bvSXSW for updates.

Read about some of the films playing at SXSW this year.

Metallica tickets went on sale today.

Screaming Females play their first of 2 NYC shows this weekend, tonight at MHOW.

Julia Holter, who has a NYC show coming up, has a THREE YEAR OLD video for a song that will appear on her next release (Ekstasis is out March 8). Watch and listen below...

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Beach Fossils @ Mercury Lounge in 2011 (more by Diana Wong)

Widowspeak, in case you missed the post we updated, have a show coming up at Glasslands with Mac DeMarco (who opens for Beach Fossils at Music Hall of Williamsburg), but first you can catch them with Dum Dum Girls at Maxwell's tonight (2/11).

And it turns out Music Hall of Williamsburg and SXSW (with Widowspeak) aren't Beach Fossils' only upcoming shows. Check out the flyer for tonight's free Fashon Week shindig at Tribeca Grand, below.

Continue reading "Beach Fossils play Tribeca Grand today; Widowspeak are in NJ"

today in NYC
* Tom Shillue @ UCB West
* BLOWOFF @ Highline Ballroom
* Wale, Miguel @ Irving Plaza
* Lucy Kaplansky @ City Winery
* Roswell Rudd Quartet @ Roulette
* Guns N' Roses @ Roseland Ballroom
* Cate Le Bon, Pidgeons @ Maxwell's
* MAKU Soundsystem, I Jah Bones @ Southpaw
* Vivian Girls @ Kate Spade Pop-up Shop
* Palomar, Drgn King, Springs @ Cake Shop
* Snowden, Warm Ghost, Visuals @ Glasslands
* Black Onassis, Edelweiss @ Mercury Lounge
* Elaine Paige @ Lincoln Center's Allen Room
* Brian Sullivan, Ames Sanglantes @ The Stone
* Tea Leaf Green, Ha Ha Tonka @ Bowery Ballroom
* SHAPES, The Gradients, The Micks, Big Ups @ XPO 929
* Turkuaz, Deathrow Tull @ The Studio at Webster Hall
* Pretty Good Friends w/ Todd Barry & more @ Maxwell's
* Victor Villarreal, Meryll, Matt LeMay @ The Rock Shop
* Wild Yaks, Osekre & The Lucky Bastards, Modiri @ Big Snow
* The Debutante Hour, Tatters & Rags, The WoWz @ Union Hall
* Tragedy: All Metal Tribute to the Bee Gees @ Brooklyn Bowl
* Moonmen On The Moon, Man, Twitchers, Megalife @ The Gutter
* Zambri, Sunglasses, Bermuda Bonnie, Rewards @ Cameo Gallery
* Mother Feather, Kendra Morris, Julia Haltigan @ Mercury Lounge
* Oceanographer, Slow Country, Autumn Bells, Colin Healy @ Pianos
* Yellow Dogs, Jangula, Jump Into The Gospel, Papertwin @ Union Pool
* 12th Planet, Flinch, Kastle, Kill The Noise (DJ Set) @ Webster Hall
* Vernous, Gumskirt, Glowworms, Grey Matter @ Brooklyn Fire Proof East
* Caged Animals, Night Manager, Island Twin, Weird Rivers @ Shea Stadium
* Mon Khmer, French Horn Rebellion (DJ set), Internet Xplorer, Getawolfpup @ Glasslands
* Don Giovanni Showcase w/ Mikey Erg, House Boat, Nuclear Santa Claust, Secret Police @ Death By Audio
* Blues Control, Soft Circle, Psychobuildings, Highlife, Brian DeGraw (Gang Gang Dance DJ set) @ 285 Kent Ave
* No Redeeming Social Value, Two Man Advantage, Sped, Suspect Device, High Teen Boogie, Boogie Brains @ Trash Bar

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It's still Fashion Week, and that's also why Guns N' Roses begin their small venue tour tonight.

Jay-Z and Kanye West premiered a video for 2011's favorite party jam (that's not* "Midnight City") "Niggas in Paris." Cobbled together "Watch the Throne" tour footage, the video keeps all the frenetic stage lighting in tact, warranting a pre-roll epileptic warning. Check the video out below.

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by Andrew Sacher

Screaming Females in studio (more by Kristie Shanley)

Screaming Females will release their new album, Ugly, on April 3 via Don Giovanni. They recorded it with Steve Albini, whose been having a great year so far with this album and the new Cloud Nothings album. Even moreso than on that album, Albini gives Ugly the same kind of treatment he gave Surfer Rosa, Rid of Me, and In Utero, with huge snares and spacious noisy guitars. As good of an album that SF's 2010 LP Castle Talk was, Ugly is the first time the power of their live shows is effectively captured on record. You can check out a taste of the album with the first single, "It All Means Nothing," which premiered on Rolling Stone today. That single is streaming below along with a video of the band performing a stripped down version of it for an NPR Tiny Desk Concert.

As mentioned, Screaming Females play a Don Giovanni showcase at MHOW on Saturday (2/11) with Laura Stevenson and the Cans, For Science, Shellshag, and Black Wine. Tickets are still on sale and we're also giving away a pair. Details on how to enter the contest are below.

That show is one day before Screaming Females kick off a record store tour which includes a show at Manhattan's Generation Records on Sunday (2/12). The "It All Means Nothing" 7" will be available at the MHOW show and at their record store shows.

In related news, and as previously mentioned, a different Don Giovanni showcase is going down TONIGHT (2/9) at Death by Audio with Mikey Erg (of The Ergs!), House Boat, Nuclear Santa Clause, Secret Police< and Plastic Cross (mems. of The Measure). The flier for this show is below.

In other related news, Marissa Paternoster's other project Noun will release a S/T 7" on February 14 via Don Giovanni, and the label will press her debut album, Holy Hell, on vinyl the same day. Both of those releases will be available at the showcase at MHOW.

Video, song stream, flier, and contest details below...

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The Babies @ Cake Shop - 2/6/2012 (more by Jessica Amaya)

285 Kent, the most difficult venue to keep track of in terms of who is playing, is hosting a show TONIGHT (Thursday, 2/9):

===| THURSDAY 2/9 @ 285 KENT AVE |====
:: Alex Bleeker and the Freaks
:::: the Babies
:::::: Darlings
:::::::: Life Size Maps --- ep release
:::::::::: Heaven's Gate
285 Kent Ave @ South 1st | Williamsburg, Brooklyn
L-Bedford, G-Metropolitan, JM-Marcy | 8pm | $7-$10 sliding scale donation | all ages

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