The Darkness at Irving Plaza, NYC (more by Chris La Putt)

Last night (2/6), Irving Plaza was witness to call-and-response sing-a-longs with the audience, epic guitar solos played while riding a roadie through the crowd, and a trust fall into the congregation. And that was just one song. It could only be The Darkness.

This was the second of two nights at Irving, their first NYC shows in five years or so. (We have pictures from Saturday too.) It was also after that Superbowl ad thrust the band back into public conscious, but it didn't seem like anyone there had forgotten about them. This crowd -- which included Dee Snider -- was primed to rawk and frontman Justin Hawkins had them eating out of the palm of his hand. When he yelled "I wanna see some thumbs!" we instantly obliged. [BV]

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Feist @ Stubb's on 4/26

Feist, complete with the Mountain Man girls on backing vocals, brought her tour with Timber Timbre to Austin last night, 4/26, for a sold out show at Stubb's. Here are some pictures. More below...

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Snoop Dogg @ Coachella 2012 (more by David Andrako)

Have you checked out all our Coachella pictures yet? (week 1 and week 2)

Did you score a ticket to the Bon Iver ACL Live taping tonight (4/25)?

Or will you be in Marfa for Feist instead?

Or maybe at the Black Keys?

You can always just see Feist & Timber Timbre at Stubb's Thursday (if you have a ticket).

Stick around after for Dana Falconberry.

You can also see Timber Timbre tonight at Lambert's (even if you don't have a ticket yet).

Maybe you're saving your money to catch Gillian Welch at Stubb's.

...or Snoop Dogg. The great, Coachella-headlining, hologram-Tupac playing-with, weed-smoking, Willie-Nelson-collaborating, west coast rapper will hit Stubb's on June 7th. Tickets on sale to the general public on April 27 at 10am.

P.S. do you follow @BVAustin on Twitter?

did you enter our contest to win Sage Francis tickets yet?

Watch Snoop perform with hologram Tupac at Coachella, below...

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Dana Falconberry, who played a "secret show" last night (4/24), opened for Field Report and Megafaun back on 4/10 at the Mohawk, the same venue she will play with Father John Misty & Har Mar Superstar in May. Meanwhile catch her play a free show inside Stubb's after Timber Timbre and Feist this Thursday (4/26). Check her site for even more tour dates.

Here are some pictures from her 4/10 Mohawk set. More of them and a video (that will allow you to hear her sweet voice), below...

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Gillian Welch @ Newport Folk Fest (more by Jim Brueckner)

Great singer-songwriter Gillian Welch will have a short two-week tour beginning at the end of May. She'll stop in Texas for four shows with David Rawlings, including Stubbs on Friday, June 8. Tickets for the Austin show are on sale now (and not "soon" like it says at the link). Check out all Gillian Welch tour dates below...

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UME @ Stubb's on 3/10

Way back during SXSW Interactive, Ume, The Ton Tons and others played a show at Stubb's and Tim stopped by to take some pictures. More below....

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photos by Ryan Muir

G-Side @ Stubb's

Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire didn't show up, but SPIN's 2-stage Stubb's lineup at SXSW this year included plenty of other great musical options. Here are some pictures. More below...

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Action Bronson said in an interview that he would be playing Rachael Ray's SXSW party at Stubb's this year. That lineup is now out, and Action isn't on it, which is probably a better look for him anyway considering who is (Spank Rock doesn't seem to mind though, and I guess Jimmy Cliff is also on the billl...). I wonder how much Billy Gibbons is getting to play with her husband's band The Cringe, or maybe they're just all BFFs...

UPDATE: The RSVP link with the lineup seems to have been removed. Not sure if there's a new link.

In related news, Jimmy Cliff is also playing two other SXSW parties, and a show in Brooklyn and Coachella.

Girls @ Fun Fun Fun Fest 2011 (more by Tim Griffin)

Girls are playing their official SXSW showcase at Stubb's on Thursday, March 15th at 10pm. They strangely go on right before Kaiser Chiefs!

Girls just released a new video for 'My Ma'. Check it out below...

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NPR reports:

Here's who you'll be able to see in our live broadcasts on NPR Music:

Mar. 14 - Official SXSW Showcase At Stubb's
Andrew Bird
The Alabama Shakes
Dan Deacon
Sharon Van Etten
Fiona Apple (This set will not be broadcast live. More details to come.)
[SXSW badge required]

Mar. 15 - The SXSW Music Keynote: Bruce Springsteen
Starting at 1 p.m. ET, 12 noon CT, watch Bruce Springsteen's keynote speech.
[SXSW badge required]

Mar. 15 - The NPR Music Day Party At The Parish
The Magnetic Fields
Lower Dens
Polica
Sugar Tongue Slim
La Vida Boheme
[Free; 21+; No RSVP, but space is limited]

Set times are detailed at NPR.org/sxsw. Each event will be broadcast at NPR Music, where you can watch live on your desktop, tablet and phone or use our apps to watch on Apple TV. Listen live in Austin on KUT 90.5 FM. Check your local public radio schedule for listening opportunities in your city.

Fiona Apple plays the Pitchfork showcase one day later.

The Head & The Heart @ ACL 2011 (more by Tim Griffin)

In case you had any doubts of how massive the Sub Pop-signed The Head & The Heart are right now, they just added a June 10th show at Stubb's Outdoors after their June 9th show sold out. Tickets for the new date, also with the Moondoggies, are on sale.

Robert Ellis & Caitlin Rose & Stubb's

Robert Ellis, who's about to head overseas for a European tour with Dawes, played a show at the Stateside at the Paramount on Friday night (2/3) with Shawn Jones. One night later Robert joined Caitlin Rose on stage for some Louvin Brothers covers at her packed Saturday show inside Stubb's (as you can see in the picture above). UPDATE: and now a video too (below).

Right before she got to Austin, Caitlin played a handful of shows with the Old 97's. Friday night Rhett Miller joined her on stage at Gruene Hall in New Braunfels to help her perform her own song "Shanghai Cigarettes." Watch the video of that, and some from Stubb's too, below...

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Caitlin Rose @ Mercury Lounge in 2011 (more by Chris La Putt)

Great Nashville ATO-signed country singer-songwriter Caitlin Rose plays a one-off, headlining show inside Stubb's in Austin tonight (2/4) with Mice and Rifles.

Watch a session Caitlin recorded for Laundromatinee, below...

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"Thanks to everyone who came out to the @OHSNAPBenefit. The blackout on 6th St. was a huge bummer. Working on rescheduling... :(" - Ume

Oh Snap! Oh So Dark! (more by Tim Griffin)

As the above tweet implies, Ume were one of the bands that didn't get a chance to play the Oh Snap! festival on Saturday night due to power outage. The band has since also written on Facebook:

Thanks, everyone! We are so bummed we didn't get to play, but the festival organizers and all the bands still made it an awesome weekend! And props to Shakey Graves for the battery powered performance! Yes, we will be at SXSW and then Stubb's Outside April 7th... details coming soon!

Meanwhile Oh Snap! have scheduled a makeup show, or I should say "Blackout Party", at The Parish on February 10th. "We had several bands that couldn't play to close out our festival, so we are having another show!" and "Announcing Lineup Very Soon."

Ume don't begin touring with Cursive until February 12th, so maybe they'll be playing the blackout party too. Stay tuned for more info.

Feist at BAM in 2011 (more by Ryan Barkan)

Feist has slowly been revealing tour dates around her appearances at Coachella this year. Last week it was revealed that she'll be headlining Radio City Music Hall in NYC. Today we found out she's playing Stubb's right here in Austin on April 26th. Tickets go on sale 2/4 @ 10am.

Maybe by then her Mastodon cover will be ready. She's working on it.

Listen to some Feist below...

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Alison Mosshart of The Kills @ Stubb's on 1/25

The Kills brought their tour with Jeff the Brotherhood and Hunters to Stubb's in Austin on Wednesday night. Special guest BP Fallon introduced the headliners to a full Waller Amphitheater. Here are some pictures from the show. More of them, setlists included, below...

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Social Distortion at MSG (more by Dana (distortion) Yavin)

Breakout the pomade, Social Distortion is heading back out on the road this spring for a string of dates following their current, mostly/West Coast dates. Oddly enough, the month-of-shows in April/May mostly center around Canada and Texas, and include a show in Austin at Stubbs on May 6th with Riverboat Gamblers and Lindi Ortega. Tickets are on sale.

The tour follows the release of Social D's Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes from a year ago and the recently announced Social D iPhone app. All tour dates and their video for "Machine Gun Blues" is below.

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Dr. Dog at Williamsburg Waterfront (more by Dana (distortion) Yavin)

Like they did in November of 2010, Dr. Dog will play Stubb's on March 9, 2012, part of a two month tour that begins in early February. The band's new album Be The Void, is out via ANTI on 2/7. Tickets for the Austin show are on sale now.

Givers, who played their own 600+ capacity headlining show in Brooklyn this past week (while they were in NYC to play with Preservation Hall Jazz Band), open for Dr. Dog in Austin, and in Houston (Fitzgerald's), and in Dallas (Granada Theatre). All Givers dates are listed below.

Within the past month, Dr. Dog have released several trailers - clips of songs recorded live in the studio, teasing fans and making it just that much harder to wait for the new LP. The most recent featured "These Days". The band says it shows what kind of album they're going to make, "loud and raucous, but also melodic." Other trailers are "Big Girl" and "Heavy Light", and you can watch all three, along with a full song stream of new song "That Old Black Hole" and the Givers dates, below...

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Cass McCombs at MFNW (more by Autumn Andel)

When we first announced the Cass McCombs show in NYC with Frank Fairfield, it appeared to be a one-off. However, the two have since announced a full tour together which hits Austin on January 14 at Stubb's (inside). Tickets for that show are on sale now.

All dates below...

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