DOWNLOAD: Peter Gabriel - Flume (Bon Iver cover) (MP3)

Peter Gabriel in London in March...

Peter Gabriel's orchestra tour is in NYC for shows at Radio City Music Hall tonight (May 2nd) and tomorrow (May 3rd). Opening both shows will be Norwegian singer Ane Brun. Tickets are still on sale.

Peter Gabriel's new LP, Scratch My Back, which includes covers like the Bon Iver one posted above (a single for Record Store Day), is out now. Coincidentally Gabriel's NYC shows are a month before his Genesis bandmate Phil Collins plays NYC shows in support of his own, different covers record (and one of Phil Collins's shows is the same day as Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett's free NYC show).

Ane Brun follows up those opening gigs with her own headlining shows in L.A. on May 8th and NYC on May 10th at Bowery Ballroom. Opening those is Olof Arnalds, an Icelandic singer who we've mentioned once or twice. Tickets or the NYC show are on sale.

Olof Arnalds recently recorded with fellow Icelandian Bjork who also makes an appearance in NYC Sunday night.

All Ane Brun & Olof Arnalds tour dates and a video are below...

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Kelly Pratt (Team B) @ Union Pool (more by Kyle Dean Reinford)

today in NYC
* DANCE
* the Woodies @ Roseland
* AC/DC & the Answer @ MSG
* Ben Sollee @ Mercury Lounge
* Mark Kozelek & Neil Halstead @ MHOW
* Ane Brun & Tobias Froberg @ Union Hall
* Frida Hyvonen @ the Swedish church
* Hank IV & Los Llamarada @ the Charleston
* Herman Dune, Turner Cody & Motel Motel @ The Bell House
* Free Blood, Us Royalty & VHS or BETA (DJ Set) @ 205 Club
* Murder By Death, William Elliot Whitmore & J Roddy Waltson @ Southpaw

Neil Young was born today in 1945. BB King's is hosting a birthday party.

Sweden represent. Jens Lekman played with Frida Hyvonen last night at the Living Room. Frida plays again at the Church of Sweden tonight while Ane Brun (born in Norway, but lives in Sweden) plays a show in Brooklyn.

Video of Kings of Leon on Pancake Mountain below...

What else?

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