The Strokes @ ACL 2010 (more by Tim Griffin)

today in NYC
* Unsound @ Issue Project Room
* Oh Land @ Charles Bank Gallery
* Nellie McKay @ Feinstein's
* Elvis Costello @ Gramercy Theatre
* Cut Copy, Holy Ghost! @ Terminal 5
* Balthazar, Ghost Bunny @ The Rock Shop
* Michale Graves, Psycho Charger @ Europa
* Rewards, Beige, State Champion @ Coco 66
* Prisoners of 2nd Avenue @ Bowery Electric
* Amos Lee, The Secret Sisters @ Irving Plaza
* Emanuel & The Fear, Elk City @ 92YTribeca
* Tracy Bonham, Ben Sollee @ Cameo Gallery
* The Body, Whitehorse, Bad Dream @ The Acheron
* William Fitzsimmons, Slow Runner @ Canal Room
* WU LYF, Wise Blood, True Womanhood @ Glasslands
* Tijuana Panthers, Air Waves, Sundelles, Shark? @ Pianos
* Subhumans, MDC, Death First, Cojoba @ Santos Party House
* Arms and Sleepers, Dive Index, Cat Martino @ Littlefield
* Jessica Lea Mayfield, Daniel Martin Moore @ Bowery Ballroom
* LCD Soundsystem party w/ Juan Maclean, Shit Robot @ Le Bain
* Nails, Psychic Limb, All Pigs Must Die, New Lows @ Union Pool
* Waco Brothers, And The Wiremen, Macon Dead @ The Bell House
* Friends, La Big Vic, Sasha Des'ree and Weird Magic @ 285 Kent Ave
* The Strokes, secret guest & Devendra Banhart @ Madison Square Garden
* The Fleshtones, The Above, Jay Banerjee & The Heartthrobs @ Maxwell's
* Test Patterns, Ex Humans, Liquor Store, Rottweiler The Best @ Cake Shop
* Extra Life, Sam Mickens' Ecstatic Showband & Revue, Hume @ Death By Audio
* Pearl and the Beard, Lady Lamb The Beekeeper, The Lisps @ Knitting Factory
* Israel Nash Gripka, Hollis Brown, Alana Amram & The Rough Gems @ The Gutter
* Tragedy: All Metal Tribute to the Bee Gees, The Glory Stompers @ Brooklyn Bowl
* Whitehaus Family tour, Quilt, Cloud Becomes Your Hand, Invisible Circle @SilentBarn
* spontaneous construction w/ Jason Moran, Tony Malaby, Joey Baron & Bob Stewart @ Blue Note
* Lee Fields & The Expressions, Charles Bradley & The Menahan Street Band @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
* HATI, Z'EV, Dawid Szczesny, Shelley Burgon, Maria Chavez, Anna Zaradny, Aki Onda (Unsound Festival) @ Issue Project Room
* The Wellington Papers, Finotee, Just A Lil Bit, The Kiki Experience, Bethany Davis, Mala Reignz, Pascale, Steven Oquendo and the Latin Jazz Orchestra (WNYC Battle of the Bands: The Bronx) @ The Greene Space

RIP Don Hill.

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Industry analyst Bob Lefsetz reports today on the signing of Internet sensation Rebecca Black to Universal Records...

Universal Republic, to be exact. Home of Chumbawamba as well as the distributor of Big Machine, home of Taylor Swift.

Actually, this is a joint venture between Republic and Big Machine. In other words, Scott Borchetta is going to Taylorize Rebecca.

First move?

Rebecca's gonna move into Scott Swift's house. Environment is everything. Scott's been there and done that, he knows how to get Rebecca on the right path.

Then there's the credibility tour. Taking a page out of Taylor's book, Rebecca's going to go on a radio station jaunt, just her and her guitar, proving to PDs that she can actually sing and play.

Meanwhile, the best songwriters known to man are concocting cuts that will truly catapult Rebecca into the stratosphere.

Dr. Luke has been saving a track for the right artist. Ke$ha has already recorded backgrounds, she was the lead singer, but the track was too good for her marginal talent, Rebecca's now got the slot. And rumor has it Weezy is going to rap in the break...

...Unlike Justin Bieber, Rebecca's voice is not going to drop, there are no issues of puberty. However she will not be getting breast implants immediately, they're going to wait to see if she fills out before any plastic surgery is done. Britney Spears is Rebecca's mentor. Having made a full emotional recovery, Britney wants to insure that Rebecca doesn't make the same mistakes she did...

In related news, Britney Spears is back and scheduled to play Nassau Coliseum and the Izod Center in August (that's actually true), and Rebecca Black is the new owner of funny website Funny or Die (or so they claim). Happy Friday!

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today in NYC
* DANCE
* Young Widows @ Europa
* The Cave Singers @ Union Hall
* The Roots @ Highline Ballroom
* Tyvek & Woods @ Death By Audio
* Preservation Hall Jazz Band @ Blue Note
* Late of the Pier & The Whip @ Bowery Ballroom
* Lemonade & Sebastien Tellier @ Le Poisson Rouge
* Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings @ Balthazaar (private event)
* Asteroid 4 & Brian Jonestown Massacre @ Terminal 5

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