photos by Dana (distortion) Yavin

The Kills, fresh from Lollapalooza, played two Terminal 5 shows with The Pains of Being Pure at Heart and A Place to Bury Strangers. The first show was on Monday (8/8) and the second happened last night (8/9). The Kills focused on material off the recently released Blood Pressures, but also saved time for a few older cuts and a cover of Marilyn Monroe's "One Silver Dollar," which NY Times point out is from what singer Alison Mosshart declared Monroe's "worst movie."

Though not on the bill, BP Fallon, who played Escape to NY over the weekend, also made a surprise appearance at the Terminal 5 shows. According to Barbara S, he made "T5 a whole lot less shitty." Amber Kim says he did "I Believe in Elvis Presley" which is a Jack White-produced song.

We've got pictures from the first night. They continue below...

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The National @ High Violet Annex in May (more by David Andrako)

tonight in NYC
* N.E.R.D. @ Brooklyn Bowl
* Tim Berne's Los Totopos @ The Stone
* Tony Allen @ Stuyvesant Town Oval
* Mark Helias & William Parker @ The Stone
* Flosstradamus @ Rocks Off Concert Cruise
* The Heavy, Mount Carmel @ Bowery Ballroom
* Big Daddy Kane & DJ Jon Quick @ Von King Park
* Blitzen Trapper, The Moondoggies @ Webster Hall
* The National, The Antlers @ Radio City Music Hall
* Carole King, James Taylor @ Madison Square Garden
* J.A.C.K., Wizardry, Infernal Devices, Schocholautte, Libel @ Glasslands
* First Aid Kit, Samantha Crain, Peter * Wolf Crier, Diamond Doves @ Mercury Lounge
* Mincemeat Or Tenspeed, Dan Friel, White Suns, Neros Day At Disneyland @ DeathByAudio
* Marissa Nadler, Nature Boy, Monogold, Villagers, Rey Villalobos, DJ Victoria Bergsman @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn

Tony Allen also plays the BAM MetroTech Commons series tomorrow at noon.

The National headline Radio City tonight, and they recently added a show at Terminal 5.

This afternoon's Seaport show was cancelled.

Dan Deacon played a Summerstage show in Red Hook last night.

Deer Tick is on Letterman tonight! "Fog Light Presents" really filmed them playing in a McDonalds parking lot. That video below...

The musical highlight of the recent not-Pete Doherty show at Milk Studios was BP Fallon and band performing "Fame #9 / I Believe in Elvis Presley" (with Lenny Kaye on guitar and Sean Lennon on drums). Joly filmed it. Video below...

What else?

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Sean Lennon & Irina Lazareanu @ Milk Studios

...according to Sean Lennon and model/musician/birthday-girl Irina Lazareanu who brought up their sadness at Pete not being at the party multiple times throughout the night. Sean said that Pete made it as far as JFK, but was met by cops who forced him to turn around and fly home.

Irina Lazareanu, Adam Green & Charlotte Kemp Muhl

The party was hosted by Irina Lazareanu (both Pete and Sean's ex girlfriend) (she was even engaged to Pete). Irina, in addition to chain smoking, performed with Sean, Sean's current girlfriend and bandmate Charlotte Kemp Muhl and Adam Green (and Adam's girlfriend (?) Cory Kennedy who played tambourine on a song). Pete was supposed to be a part of the supergroup too. They said they rehearsed with him in mind (at which point Sean said he could now get metal and they played a Sabbathy tune). They also played an Adam Green song, a Bob Dylan song, the Twist, and some other stuff.

Sean, BP Fallon & Lenny Kaye

BP Fallon opened the show both as DJ and then as frontman of his own band that included Lenny Kaye on guitar and Sean Lennon on drums. Not counting the photo of Leigh Lezark on the wall, that they were supposedly selling for charity, I didn't see any Misshapes there (they were also on the flyer). Paul Simon and Yoko Ono, both rumored as unannounced guests, were nowhere to be found either. Someone told me Bruce Willis was there, but I didn't see him. Oh yeah, and Adam Green had a black eye. More pics and stuff coming later.

UPDATE: Two videos below...

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Seems unlikely, but that's what they're claiming.

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