Sleep @ ATP NY 2010 (more by BBG)

today in NYC
* Blue Note Jazz Fest
* Tim Berne @ Barbes
* Ozomatli @ Red Hook Park
* Iceage @ Other Music
* Rebecca Jordan @ Zuccotti Park
* The Roots, Rakim @ Blue Note Jazz
* Mandingo Ambassadors @ Barbes
* David Bazan @ Madison Square Park
* Jessica 6, Eli Escobar @ Cameo Gallery
* The Bronx @ Rocks Off Concert Cruise
* Galactic, Corey Glover @ Brooklyn Bowl
* Tift Merritt @ Madison Square Park (6pm)
* Pete Rock, Roy Ayers @ Highline Ballroom
* Sleep, Winter, White Hills @ Terminal 5
* Lauren Pritchard, Anna Rose @ Ars Nova
* Roy Nathanson's Sotto Voce @ The Stone
* David Bazan, S. Carey @ Bowery Ballroom
* Lichens, Soft Circle, Urxed @ Zebulon
* Roy Ayers, Pete Rock @ Highline Ballroom
* Alberta Cross, Prospector @ The Rock Shop
* Greg Laswell, Andrew Belle @ City Winery
* Sam Jayne, Peasant, Lightouts @ Union Hall
* My Gold Mask, Smoke Fairies @ The Rock Shop
* Eddie Vedder, Glen Hansard @ Beacon Theatre
* Boy Without God, ARMS, Soft Black @ Union Pool
* Roy Campbell's Akhenaten Ensemble @ The Stone
* Amanda Palmer, Lady Lamb the Beekeeper @ Maxwell's
* Wild Yaks, Friends, Rubblebucket @ Santos Party House
* Matthew and the Atlas, Aunt Martha @ Mercury Lounge
* Keepaway, Tape Deck Mountain, Zaza @ Mercury Lounge
* EAR PWR, Tayisha Busay, Free Blood, Color War @ Glasslands
* Reggie Watts, Natasha Leggero @ Central Park Summerstage
* Heavy Cream, Teen Witch, ELKS, Hunters @ Death By Audio
* Claire Chase, Rebekah Heller, Lee Hyla @ Issue Project Room
* Cotton Museum, TARPIT, LAL8, Black Crown Ceremony, Dogbody @ Silent Barn
* Flying Lotus, Thundercat, Austin Peralta, Teebs, Strangeloop @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
* brick + mortar , Jump Into The Gospel, The Rassle, Stationary Set, Sleepy Vikings @ Pianos
* Thurston Moore, John Fleck, the TEAM, Temporary Distortion, LeeSaar The Company, Yoshiko Chuma, Yvonne Meier, Penny Arcade, Okwui Okpokwawasili, Nicky Paraiso, Jeff McMahon @ PS 122

Joey Cape, Cory Branan, Scott Reynolds @ Knitting Factory is cancelled.

The show at Santos Party House tonight is the kick-off to the annual Bicycle Film Festival

Thursday's free show at Metrotech during lunchtime is New Orleans-themed.

Fucked Up have a video for "Queen of Hearts." Check it out below.

What else?

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words & photos by Dominick Mastrangelo

"I gotta go! I'm gonna ride my bike right out of here," said Jon Spencer at the end of the Blues Explosion's blistering hour-long set at the South Street Seaport yesterday (6/17). Playing to the riding masses as part of the Bicycle Film Festival kickoff, JSBX reminded those who braved threatening skies and this enduring spring's chilly temperatures that - as one foam finger displayed - the 'Blues is #1.'

The crowd may have been smaller than most to pack the Seaport but the New York-based Blues Explosion might as well have been playing for every single person in Lower Manhattan. Judah Bauer on guitar (and a fiery harmonica during the encore, "Bellbottoms") and drummer Russell Simins charged from one song to another with traditional reckless abandon.

Opening for the locals were French four-piece, The Teenagers. Their mashup of punk, pop and electronics was fun though lead-singer Quentin Delafon pulled much of the attention away from the band as a whole. Climbing over speakers and through the photographer's pit and over the barricade, Delafon spent more time strutting around off the stage, or handing his microphone off to audience members than he did on stage, even forgetting his cue at one point.

More pictures below...

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photos by Gabi Porter

The Jon Spencer BLUES EXPLOSION and The Teenagers to Play FreeBikes RockConcert at The Seaport

Kick Off to New York City Bicycle Film Festival
Wednesday, June 17, 6 p.m. Pier 17 Stage, The Seaport
Free

The Teenagers were in NYC during the last CMJ (October 2008). During that time they played at least one show at Music Hall of Williamsburg. We never posted the pics, so here they are... with more details about the Bike Fest and free show, below...

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"stuff" includes the Bike Film Festival going on now....

Simone Pace of Blonde Redhead @ Studio B (Bike Fest) - May 28 (jenac)

Video below....

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Lucky Dragons @ the Whitney on Friday (more by Ryan Muir)

The 2008 NYC Bicycle Film Festival begins today and now there are Lucky Dragons and a flyer for tonight's party too.....

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The 2008 NYC Bicycle Film Festival runs from May 28th through June 1st. That includes a show/party at Studio B on May 28th with Soft Circle, Simone Pace of Blonde Redhead and more.

DOWNLOAD: Queen - Bicycle Race (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Sufjan Stevens - Happy Birthday (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Marilyn Monroe - Happy Birthday (MP3) (via)
DOWNLOAD: Missy Elliot - I can't stand the rain (Aphrodite remix) (MP3)

Rather than risk equipment getting wet, tonight's entire bike fest show has moved to Studio B in Brooklyn (May 16). All four bands are playing there: Gang Gang Dance, Dan Deacon, Parts & Labor, and Team Robespierre. This of course is unfortunate to those who were hoping to catch Parts & Labor and Dan Deacon before !!! at Bowery Ballroom, but much more convenient to those who would like to see Gang Gang Dance too - but didn't want to cross a river to do so after Dan Deacon (who loves "The Happy Birthday song" and doesn't have a cell phone) left the stage. This of course doesn't matter at all to Mates of State who still aren't playing.

This event is part of the Bicycle Film Festival, and there will be bicycle valet parking at Studio B. More details below....

Continue reading "Bike Fest show moved to Studio B -- Dan Deacon, Parts & Labor, Gang Gang Dance - FREE TONIGHT"

DOWNLOAD: Dan Deacon - Snake Mistakes (MP3)

I promise my goal is not to inundate you with news on Dan Deacon's every move, but news is news, and sometimes it gets to me in bits and pieces. I'd much rather not have to report that Mates of State pulled out of the Wednesday night Bicycle Film Festival parties due to a "family emergency" - it absolutely sucks. Luckily though, indie-superhero Dan Deacon (able to ride tall bikes around and around) has come to the last-minute rescue, and will take their place on the two-venue lineup that also includes Gang Gang Dance, Parts & Labor and Team Robespierre.

More info on the Bicycle Film Festival HERE.