The Cure @ Sasquatch 2008 (more by Chris Graham)

today in NYC
* Puscifer @ BAM
* Chorinho @ Barbes
* The Archive @ Zebulon
* Slick Rick @ BB King's
* The Cure @ Beacon Theatre
* The Crooked Trio @ Barbes
* Chia's Dance Party @ Barbes
* Dead Cat Bounce @ The Stone
* Nicki Minaj @ Grand Ballroom
* moe., Dumpstaphunk @ Terminal 5
* Kid Sister, Congorock @ Webster Hall
* Dark Star Orchestra @ Best Buy Theater
* Carlo De Rosa's Cross-Fade @ The Stone
* Guster, Brett Dennen @ Wellmont Theater
* Ronnie Spector & more @ South Street Seaport
* Donna The Buffalo, Richie Stearns @ City Winery
* Assault, Mucky Pup, Hodge Podge @ Mexicali Live
* Robert Randolph and The Family Band @ Brooklyn Bowl
* Andy & Zeus, Thick Shakes, Summer Saints @ Cake Shop
* Xela, Hubble, Hobo Cubes, Bret Schneider @ Cameo Gallery
* ChameleonsVox, Black Swan Lane, Tyburn Saints @ Littlefield
* Elysian Fields, Elizabeth & The Catapult @ Le Poisson Rouge
* Jeffrey Lewis, Diane Cluck, Toby Goodshank @ Mercury Lounge
* Stephen Kellogg & The Sixers, Jon McLaughlin @ Bowery Ballroom
* Bubbles, The Cold Ones, Little Italy & friends @ Santos Party House
* Fake Hooker, Graffiti Monsters, BEEF, Untitled Smhoak Mosheein Collaboration @ Big Snow Buffalo Lodge
* Hand Cream, Pet Milk, Mannequin Pussy, Great Valley @ Death By Audio

Today is also a Record Store Day.

What else?

Remember Record Store Day comes two times a year now. There's the regular Record Store Day which happens the third Saturday in April, and there's the Black Friday Record Store day (aka today, 11/25,2011), which also brings special releases to many participating record stores.

Bull Moose's Chris Brown discusses what you'll find in record stores today, in the videos below...

Continue reading "It's Black Friday Record Store Day "

today in NYC
* Kackala @ Zebulon
* Ute Lemper @ Joe's Pub
* Jack Grace @ Barbes
* Raya Brass Band @ Barbes
* Zoobombs @ Bruar Falls
* Dave Brubeck @ Blue Note
* Charles Burnham @ The Stone
* Sam Adams, LA Riots @ Irving Plaza
* Dipset @ Hammerstein Ballroom
* Darlene Love @ South Street Seaport
* K Holes, Snake Dudes @ Death By Audio
* Palmyra, Heather Duby, The Ashes @ Cake Shop
* Julianna Barwick, Family Dynamics @ 92YTribeca
* Levon Helm Band, Steve Earle @ Beacon Theatre
* Meg & Dia, Joey Ryan, Spring Standards @ Maxwell's
* JJ Grey & Mofro, Ryan Montbleau Band @ Brooklyn Bowl
* Midnight Juggernauts, Bikini, Chappo @ Bowery Ballroom
* Free Energy, Foxy Shazam, Hollerado @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
* Heaven, Snowden (DJ Set), Perfect Prescription (DJ Set) @ Glasslands
* The So So Glos, The Rassle, Devin Therriault @ The Studio at Webster Hall
* Scott Robinson, Marshall Allen, Pat O'Leary, Kevin Norton, Henry Grimes @ The Stone
* Doomtree (P.O.S. / Dessa / Sims / Cecil Otter / Mike Mictlan / Lazerbeak / Paper Tiger), Metermaids @ Knitting Factory

Ray Davies is not playing the Wellmont Theater tonight.

Did you get any Black Friday Record Store Day releases?

What else?

"Word is out that your local indie record store may just be the place to be this Post-Thanksgiving-Shopping-Melee-Day, also known as Black Friday. And that's because indie stores across the country will be the place to get special releases created just for you, for giving and getting this holiday season, and they're scheduled for release on Black Friday.

Now, this is not Record Store Day, Jr. or RSD 11 or Son of the Return of Record Store Day. This is just a group of special releases that you can only find at record stores. Some of them are uber-limited, some of them are available at record stores before they're available anywhere else. But they're all special, and they kind of fly in the face of what Black Friday has become, which is "I have to shop, let's see how fast and cheap I can get it over with". The magic of these pieces is that every one of them is something someone will really LOVE to get, and you'll really ENJOY giving. And you'll have the extra nice feeling of supporting a local independently owned business during the holidays. So check out the list of titles, and keep in mind that not all stores on this page will carry everything, so start a conversation with your local store. Or print this out as a Wish List and hide it where your gift-giving loved ones are sure to find it. [Record Store Day]

Two of the special Black Friday releases are pictured above - one is a Roky Erickson/Black Angels LP & DVD, and the other is the deluxe edition of the new Killing Joke album Absolute Dissent (out now!), that "includes extra disc with bands like Metallica, Helmet, Foo Fighters and Fear Factory covering Killing Joke songs."

As previously mentioned, Killing Joke are playing Irving Plaza on December 3rd. Updated tour dates and a video of a dude showing off some of the records you can get Friday, below...

Continue reading "a list of Black Friday Record Store Day exclusives ++ new Killing Joke LP out now (tour starts soon) "

Iron & Wine at ATP NY 2009 (more by Ryan Muir)

Iron & Wine kick off a US tour on Saturday (11/13) with a show in St Louis at The Pageant. It's a short trip that will be followed by a two month break. Post-break, Samuel Beam and band will play two big US album release shows before heading to Europe for a tour. Those two 2011 US shows are January 26th at The Wiltern in LA with the Low Anthem, and January 29th at Radio City Music Hall with Edie Brickell. Tickets for the NYC show go on AMEX presale Wednesday, 11/10, at 11am, and then go on regular sale Friday at 11am.

Iron & Wine's new LP, Kiss Each Other Clean, will be released on January 25th (one day before the LA show) via Warner Brothers (and 4AD in Europe, Japan, and Australia). And,

Kiss Each Other Clean's opening track, "Walking Far From Home," will be released on 12" vinyl and as a CD single that is sold exclusively through independent retailers in conjunction with "Back to Black Friday" on November 26th, in which independent record stores will be the only source for several exclusive new releases across the country.

"Back To Black Friday" is a new initiative by the people behind Record Store Day. Basically they'll be releasing exclusive records now on Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving/the businest shopping day of the year) in addition to on Record Store Day which takes place in April.

The Iron and Wine single will also be available digitally on 11/30. In addition, 4AD will release two of those songs as a 7" on 1/17/11. Check out the teaser trailer and tracklist for the LP, as well as all tour dates below...

Continue reading "Iron & Wine releasing new LP, 'Back to Black Friday' single, playing shows (including one at Radio City Music Hall)"

Parents beware, Zhu Zhu Pet madness is spreading. It's highly contagious and has been known to infect small children -- and their parents. (Please do not confuse this particular malady with Tickle Me Elmo disease.)

In a toy trend that's seemingly come out of nowhere, holiday shoppers are going nuts over Zhu Zhu Pets, the tiny robotic hamsters that seem to do little else besides drive tiny metallic cars and make cute noises. [Huffington Post]

Like the previously mentioned Starland Ballroom sale, Ticketmaster has a page of Black Friday weekend deals. (password = TTS09)

Holiday gift idea: Ticketmaster gift cards.

Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for the Titus Andronicus New Years Eve show at Mercury Lounge.

Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for the White Rabbits show at Bowery Ballroom.

Tickets are still on sale for the Dinosaur Jr. shows coming up at Bowery Ballroom and Music Hall of Williamsburg.

Fuck Buttons @ Fun Fun Fun Fest

tonight in NYC
* Elysian Fields @ Joe's Pub
* Guster @ Beacon Theatre
* Across Tundras @ Union Pool
* Zero 7, Body Language @ Terminal 5
* Kid Sister, Flosstradamus @ Webster Hall
* Forro in the Dark, Pistolera @ Highline Ballroom
* Eyedea & Abilities, Themselves @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
* Fuck Buttons, Growing, Eric Copeland (of Black Dice) @ Market Hotel
* Chin Chin, Miss Fairchild, Brooklyn Girls Soundsystem, The Not For Nothings @ Southpaw

Get $3.00 worth of free MP3s from Amazon then check out the over-500 MP3 albums they're selling for $5.00 each.

The Elysian Fields show at Joe's Pub tonight is a new record release party.

Jean Grae plays Joe's Pub on Saturday

Patton Oswalt riffing on the holiday classic "Christmas Shoes" is posted below.

What else?

Continue reading "What's going on Friday? (Black Friday) "

Gang Gang Dance @ the Studio (more by Gabi Porter)

today in NYC
* DANCE
* Jim Gaffigan @ Town Hall
* Dr. Lonnie Smith @ Iridium
* Slick Rick @ Highline Ballroom
* Harry Connick Jr. @ City Center
* Little Dragon @ (le) poisson rouge
* Mr. Brownstone & Satanicide @ Irving Plaza
* Phosphorescent & Virgin Forest @ Bell House
* El Ten Eleven & Abigail Warchild @ 92yTribeca
* Gang Gang Dance, Marnie Stern & Zs @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
* Amazing Baby, Suckers, Tigercity & Kristina Lieberson @ Mercury Lounge

Rakim's show at Southpaw tonight was cancelled, but he is playing Knitting Factory on December 19th.

Chicks on Speed's show at Highline Ballroom tonight was cancelled, but they are DJing at Le Royale on Saturday.

Little Dragon share a country, a record label, and band members with Jose Gonzalez. They're currently on a tour of the United States that includes a show at Le Poisson Rouge tonight.

Jimi Hendrix's birthday was yesterday. He was born in 1942. He died September 18, 1970 at age 27. BB King's is having a tribute tonight.

Happy Buy Nothing Day. Dance Your Debt Away at Union Square at 3pm.

Some videos for Black Friday below...

What else?

Continue reading "What's going on Friday? (Black Friday / Buy Nothing Day)"