photos by Tyler Trykowski

Pictureplane @ The Dustbowl on 4/27/2012

On Friday night (April 27), Pictureplane, Alphabets, Supreme Cuts, The-Drum, and Abyss played a show at The Dustbowl (which was moved there from Q4/Multi Kulti). Some shots of Pictureplane and Supreme Cuts' sets below...

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Pictureplane @ 285 Kent in Brooklyn (more by Andrew St. Clair)

Knuckle Rumbler are hosting a "secret" loft show on April 27, with the great bill of Pictureplane, Alphabets, Supreme Cuts, The-Drum, and Abyss (of Pushbeats). You can get inside the loft space, which is located somewhere in the West Town/Wicker Park area at 1000 N. Milwaukee Ave., by RSVPing for the FREE event.

UPDATE: The show is at Q4/Multi Kulti and is no longer free ($10 @ door). Your RSVP will only provide the venue info. Doors are at 9PM.

UPDATE #2: The show has been moved to The Dustbowl (3214 W. Augusta Blvd.). Doors are at 10PM.

Veronica Falls @ MHoW earlier on tour (BKLYN) (more by Amanda Hatfield)

today in Chicago
* Lizz Wright @ SPACE
* Veronica Falls @ WBEZ Studios
* Chaperone, Juniper Tar @ The Burlington
* Pictureplane, Triple Six Sound Club @ Berlin
* The Dirty Guv'nahs, David Ramirez @ Schubas
* Ode, Kellen and Me, Jennifer Hall @ Abbey Pub
* Pandava, Drekka, Scott Tuma, Bound @ Township
* Rachele Eve, Ty Maxon, Duck & Goose @ Hideout
* Akbar, Pseudo Slang, Green Wilder @ Double Door
* Fort Knox Five, Intel, Maker, DJ Merk 1 @ Smart Bar
* Sharon Van Etten, Shearwater @ Lincoln Hall (Night 1)
* Panda Riot, Nerves Junior, Tiny Fireflies @ Subterranean
* 12th Planet, Flinch, Nameloc, Subnoxious @ Bottom Lounge
* Veronica Falls, Brilliant Colors, The Halamays @ Empty Bottle
* English Dogs, The Casualties, Toxic Waste, Havok @ Reggie's
* Things To Come, Acidic Tree, The Island Of Misfit Toys @ Beat Kitchen
* Jet W. Lee, The Saturday Giant, Property of Saints, Panoramic & True @ Ultra Lounge

The 10-song Epitonic Saki Session that Hospitality recorded during Tomorrow Never Knows has been posted.

Chelsea Wolfe played Daytrotter. Stream "Benjamin" and "Mer" from the session, below.

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Sharon Van Etten plays her first of two shows @ Lincoln Hall tonight (2/16), with Shearwater.

Veronica Falls play an early-afternoon session at the WBEZ Studios and then headline the Bottle tonight.

Pictureplane heads up CULT.

Dubstep-cat, below (you'll see)..

What else?

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Pictureplane @ 285 Kent earlier this month (BKLYN) (more by Andrew St. Clair)

Electro-grime mastermind Pictureplane is here and will be headlining Berlin's weekly dance party CULT with a DJ set TONIGHT (2/16). Support will come from Minneapolis via Chicago producer Triple Six Sound Club and you can RSVP for FREE admission (before 11PM).

Pictureplane recently played a one-off Brooklyn show at 285 Kent (as seen above), remixed Hardly Art synthwave band Black Marble, and put out a free remix album, Dimensional Rip 7: Thee Physical Remixes, featuring re-versions of Grimes and others.

Stream Dimensional Rip 7, along with all 2012 tour dates, and some videos, below..

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The Check Yo Ponytail Tour will hit Chicago's The Mid this Friday (10/28), featuring Spank Rock, Big Freedia, The Death Set, Pictureplane, and Franki Chan. Tickets are still available, though if you can perform what Pictureplane has described above, winning a pair of tickets might be in your future.

Hit the drawing board!

Handsome Furs @ Lincoln Hall - TKN 2011 (more by Graeme Flegenheimer)

today in Chicago
* Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival (Day 1)
* Handsome Furs, Parlovr @ Bottom Lounge
* Locksley, The Ivorys @ Panchos (Early Show)
* James Murphy (DJ Set), Shit Robot @ the Mid
* William Elliot Whitmore, Cloudbirds @ Lincoln Hall
* Morning Teleportation, Colour Music @ Subterranean
* Richard Bucker, Cameron McGill @ Schubas (Late Show)
* Glorious Vapors, Tim Kinsella, Chocolate Horse @ Hideout
* The Heartless Bastards (acoustic) @ Schubas (Early Show)
* Pictureplane, Teengirl Fantasy, Gatekeeper @ Empty Bottle
* Z-Trip, De La Soul, Nosaj Thing, Daddy Kev @ Congress Theater
* Sleepovers, Mouthbreathers, Outer Minds @ Panchos (Late Show)

Stream Arcade Fire's deluxe reissue of The Suburbs via the Daily Beast.

Check out Crystal Antlers' new video for "Two-Way Mirror" below.

What else?

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