photos by Andrew St. Clair

NYU's annual Strawbery Festival happened on May 4 in Washington Square Park and featured people dressed as strawberries, the world's longest strawberry shortcake and performances by Laura Stevenson & the Cans and Bomb the Music Industry (who at one point counted Laura Stevenson as a member). Pictures from the event are in this post.

Bomb the Music Industry play Europa TONIGHT (5/23) with Good Luck, Spoonboy and Swearin', and tickets are still available.

Meanwhile, BtMI's Jeff Rosenstock's other band, The Arrogant Sons of Bitches, have two shows coming up this week, both of which Laura Stevenson and the Cans will open: Saturday (5/26) at Webster Hall's Grand Ballroom (tickets still available) and Sunday (5/27) at Warsaw (sold out).

After that, Laura Stevenson and the Cans will continue to tour, culminating in a Brooklyn show on June 10 at Death by Audio with Iron Chic, Swearin, and Low Culture.

More pics from Strawberry Fest and a list of all dates below...

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BADBADNOTGOOD @ Brooklyn Bowl (5/4/2012) (via @hollaPino)

As I'm sure countless musicians who happened to have shows scheduled yesterday did from stage, Coldplay (at Hollywood Bowl and like they did at All Points West), BADBADNOTGOOD (at Brooklyn Bowl), and Bomb The Music Industry! (at the NYU Strawberry Festival) paid tribute to Adam Yauch with a Beastie Boys cover worked into the set (who else did?). Watch video of the three mentioned, below...

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photos and video by Jessica Amaya

Laura Stevenson & the Cans @ Knitting Factory

Laura Stevenson & the Cans, who along with Bomb The Music Industry will play the annual NYU Strawberry Fest on 5/4, played a show at Knitting Factory two Fridays ago with Lady Lamb the Beekeeper and Dangerous Ponies. Here are some pics & two videos from the Brooklyn show. Continued below...

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photos by Andrew St. Clair

Laura Stevenson, BTMI & friends celebrating the holidays


Titus Andronicus were the special guests at Europa on Sunday, 12/18, with Bomb the Music Industry (who played their newest album Vacation from front to back), Laura Stevenson (who recently played a song in a stairwell for us), Bridge and Tunnel, and The Golden Age of Radio. Titus were revealed last minute after playing Brooklyn Bazaar one night earlier (12/17). The Europa show was a holiday benefit...

"This is our FOURTH ANNUAL HOLIDAY CHARITY SHOW or the "WE GIVE A SHIT" as it's often called. All the money left over from the door after expenses will be donated to Safe Horizon... a great non-denomiational charity that aims to move victims of violence from crisis to confidence by providing food, shelter, and all that other good stuff so many of us are lucky to have."

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Officially revealed now that they played their set at Brooklyn Bazaar last night, Titus Andronicus are on the bill of the benefit happening at Europa in Brooklyn tonight (12/18) along with Laura Stevenson, Bomb The Music Industry and more. $10 tickets are still available.

by Anderew Sacher

DOWNLOAD: Feelies - Should Be Gone (MP3)

Real Estate @ Hudson River Rocks in 2010 (more by Natasha Ryan)

As we've mentioned, R. Stevie Moore is hosting and performing at this year's Culture Shock at SUNY Purchase. The full lineup for the festival has been announced and is being headlined on Friday (4/15) by Cam'ron and on Saturday (4/16) by The Feelies. Other performers include A Place To Bury Strangers, Twin Sister, Beach Fossils, Screaming Females, Real Estate, Woods, Talk Normal, O'Death, Bomb the Music Industry! (performing Weezer's Blue Album), and others. The event isn't technically open to non-students. The full lineup is below.

Culture Shock is one of the few shows The Feelies are playing in support of their new album Here Before which drops April 12 via Bar/None. They also play The Bell House on May 13. Tickets are still on sale. Download the track "Should Be Gone" off the new album above.

Real Estate also has four other shows in the area coming up including April 23 at Colgate University, May 20 at The Bell House with Julian Lynch, Big Troubles and Family Portrait, May 21 at Maxwell's with Big Troubles, and they will appear at B.O.M.B. Fest at Western Connecticut State University on May 28.

Full CS lineup and a video below...

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