by Klaus Kinski

For those keeping score, your man Klaus has played drums in many many unpopular and unsignable bands since 1991. I've dragged my 1964 Ludwig Oyster Black Pearl 4 piece kit (2nd rack tom not shown) with 1965 Gretsch snare (all of which were purchased in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts for $175) from one end of the earth (the Northeast) to the other (the Midwest mostly) hundreds of times. 'Tis a gorgeous kit, in phenomenal condition, and I have endured hundreds if not millions of compliments regarding it's eye-watering beauty. I am a man who appreciates a nice set of drums. And I'm a man who appreciates a man who appreciates a nice set of drums. Therefore, I am a man who appreciates this wonderful compilation video featuring the great David Letterman appreciating his various musical guest's gear, focusing primarily, but not exclusively, drums. The video, and a list of who is in it, including GBV, Feist, Beirut, James Blake, The Strokes, Mastodon, St. Vincent, and many many more, is below. Behold!

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(via Reddit)

In related news, Willie has been confirmed, along with David Byrne, Aretha Franklin, and more, for this year's Ottawa Jazz Festival.

Cincinnati, OH festival Bunbury Music Festival is returning for its second year from July 12 - 14, 2013. The lineup was just announced and it includes MGMT (who were also just announced for Firefly Music Festival), The National (who were also just announced for Bonnaroo and have a huge Brooklyn show coming up), Belle and Sebastian and Yo La Tengo (who just announced a tour together, which includes a Prospect Park show), Camera Obscura, Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears, Savoir Adore, Bear Hands, Oberhofer, We Are Scientists, Chairlift, Cake, Tegan & Sara, Tokyo Police Club, Devotchka, Those Darlins, Buffalo Killers, Sky Ferreira, and more.

Tickets for the festival are on sale now. Full lineup below...

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Says the PR

On the heels of a highly successful, critically acclaimed sold-out 2012 festival, the Sasquatch! Music Festival unveils its 2013 lineup, which once again features 4 days of music. The festival, hailed as "a model of well-paced programming...in a four-day schedule as efficient and natural feeling as an expertly built algorithm" by NPR Music while Wired notes, "leave the landscape out of it and Sasquatch! has a lineup to kill for," runs May 24-27 (Memorial Day Weekend) at The
Gorge, the internationally acclaimed concert venue carved in the basalt cliffs high above the Columbia River Gorge in Quincy, WA.

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Cale @ Irving Plaza, 12/7/2012 (more by Chris La Putt)

Likable and long-running pop ironists Cake released Showroom of Compassion are playing Wellmont Theatre on January 12 (tickets) but have just added a NYC show as well the day before (1/11) at Bowery Ballroom. That's a pretty small venue for a band who sold out Terminal 5 and Music Hall of Williamsburg last year.) Tickets for that show go on sale Friday (12/7) at noon.

These appear to be one-off dates, as the only other shows the band have lined up are LA on New Year's Eve and Lollapallooza in San Sao Paulo, Brazil in March. All Cake dates are listed below, along with the video to their single "Short Skirt/Long Jacket."

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Jeff Mangum, Sigur Ros and Morrissey tickets went on sale today. These other ones all do too...

Tickets for the Christopher Owens (of Girls) shows at Bowery Ballroom go on sale today at noon.

Tickets for the Bloc Party show at Wellmont Theater go on sale today at noon.

Tickets for the newly-added Purity Ring show at Webster Hall go on sale today at noon.

Tickets for the Soundgarden shows at Hammerstein Ballroom go on sale today at noon.

Tickets for the Unknown Mortal Orchestra show at Bowery Ballroom go on sale today at noon.

Tickets for the They Might Be Giants show in Long Island go on sale today at 10 AM. Tickets are also still available for their 12/30 show at MHOW, which is part of a three night run, but the other two are sold out. Head here for ticket info on their Tarrytown Music Hall show.

MS MR is playing Mercury Lounge on January 16. Tickets for that show go on sale today at noon.

Julian Lynch is playing Glasslands on January 8. Tickets for that show are on sale now.

Jim Gaffigan is playing an early and late show at Capitol Theatre on March 1 and an early and late show at Wellmont Theatre on March 2. Tickets for the Capitol shows and the Wellmont shows go on sale today at noon.

Cake is playing Wellmont Theater on January 12. Tickets for that show go on sale today at noon.

Tickets for the Hundred Waters and Freelance Whales shows at MHOW and The Space go on sale today at noon. Tickets for Freelance Whales' Maxwell's show are on sale now.

Tickets for the Widowspeak show at Mercury Lounge go on sale today at noon.

Tickets for the Niki and the Dove show at Bowery Ballroom go on sale today at noon.

Tickets for the Solange show at Bowery Ballroom go on sale today at noon.

Tickets for the Nude Beach show at Mercury Lounge go on sale today at noon.

Tickets for The Jealous Sound show at Bowery Ballroom with Balance and Composure and Daylight go on sale today at noon.

Tickets for the Russian Circles, Between the Buried and Me, and Coheed and Cambria show at Radio City go on sale today at noon.

Tickets for the Alex Bleeker and the Freaks show at Mercury Lounge go on sale today at noon.

Tickets for the Flogging Molly show at Roseland Ballroom go on sale today at 10 AM.

Tickets for the Lotus show at Best Buy Theater go on sale today at noon. Combo tickets for that show and their Knitting Factory show are on sale now.

Tickets for tonight's ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead show at Irving Plaza are still available.

Field Report at BV SXSW 2012 (more by Amanda Hatfield)

Tonight (7/17) is the first show for new Brooklyn venue Williamsburg Park featuring Counting Crows, We Are Augustines, Field Report, and Kasey Anderson & the Honkies. Tickets for tonight's show are still available. Maybe this isn't the most exciting start for the venue, but there are a lot of cool shows coming up, including Refused with Off! on Wednesday (7/18), a big outdoor edition of Eugene Mirman's "Pretty Good Friends" with "special guests" and OK GO on Thursday (7/19), Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings and Antibalas on August 18 (FREE), Bob Mould playing Sugar's first two albums on September 7 (FREE), David Byrne & St. Vincent on September 29, Animal Collective on October 5 and more. All upcoming Williamsburg Park shows are listed below.

If you're a fan of Field Report (aka former Justin Vernon cohort Chris Porterfield) but would like to see him in a more intimate setting, he's also playing an early show at Mercury Lounge on Saturday (7/21). Tickets are still available and we're also giving away a pair. Details on how to enter are below.

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Firefly Music Festival goes down in Dover, Delaware from July 20-22 (which is only about a three hour drive from NYC). The lineup includes Jack White, The Flaming Lips, Passion Pit, The Black Keys, Polica, Cults, Death Cab for Cutie, Ra Ra Riot, The Felice Brothers, Mariachi El Bronx, Silversun Pickups, Lupe Fiasco, The Head and the Heart, Heartless Bastards, The Killers, John Legend, Bassnectar, Girl Talk, and more. Tickets for the fest are on sale now, and camping is available.

No schedule yet, but the full announced lineup is below...

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Pretty Good Friends @ Williamsburg Waterfront 2011 (more by David Andrako)

New Brooklyn outdoor venue Williamsburg Park (located at 50 Kent), which formally announced itself along with news that Refused were playing there, and then today announced a My Morning Jacket show, also have three other shows on the schedule, and they are all listed below...

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photos by Dana (distortion) Yavin, words by BBG

Weeze & Matt & Kim @ Deluna Fest

Do you think Matt & Kim ever get depressed? Like down-in-the-dumps, face-on-the-bathroom-tile, razor-to-the-wrist bummed? And do you think any of that anger is channeled into their music in ways not visibly noticed? Is that perma-simpleton-smile actually a front for an aryan-supremacy agenda spelled out in morse code via the band's shiny light show? Head to a New Year's Eve celebration at Hammerstein Ballroom with Super Mash Brothers to do some investigation and report back if you come across some leads. Tickets are on sale. All of their dates are listed below.

Matt & Kim was one of many artists to perform in Florida at Deluna Fest from 10/14 - 10/16, joining names like Ra Ra Riot, Stars, Ladytron, Girl Talk, Weezer, Cake and others. Belated pictures from the first day of that festival that Jane's Addiction also played, are in this post. Many more below.

Ra Ra Riot has been touring since Deluna. They don't have anything scheduled in NYC, but they will be on the road for a while and all of their dates are also listed below...

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Speaking of shows the Shins are playing...

"DeLuna Fest and Five Flags Tourism Group are excited to announce the performance schedule for this year's music festival taking place on the gorgeous sugar-white sands of Pensacola Beach, FL, on October 14th, 15th, and 16th. DeLuna Fest's five stages and waterfront hotels along Pensacola Beach will play host to over 80 bands..... Go to http://lineup.delunafest.com/schedule to see the full schedule for this year's outstanding line up for DeLuna Fest 2011 which includes Linkin Park on their only US Fall date, The Shins, Weezer, Cake, Jane's Addiction, Cut Copy, Big Boi, Matt & Kim, Girl Talk, Wanda Jackson, Bettye LaVette, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Dirty Dozen Brass Band and many, many more.

Tickets are on sale now for only $189.95 for all three days, all stages and in/out privileges."

Cake at Irving Plaza (more by Chris La Putt)

Cake's new LP Showroom of Compassion is out now, and the band is on the road in April/May to support it. Their previously discussed show at Terminal 5 on 4/21 is now sold-out, but the band has added a second NYC gig at the much smaller Music Hall of Williamsburg on 4/19. Tickets for the new one go on AmEx presale Wed, 2/23, at noon, and go on regular sale on Friday.

Updated tour dates and some videos from Showroom of Compassion, below...

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photos by Chris La Putt

Cake played two sets with no openers at an RXP-sponsored show at Irving Plaza in NYC last night (12/7). Cake will again play with no openers, and maybe two sets, when the "Showroom of Compassion World Tour" brings "An Evening With Cake" to Terminal 5 on April 21st. Tickets for the new show are currently on "Ticket + CAKE CD Preorder (add'l $17.00)" presale. AmEx presale begins Wednesday at 11am. General sale begins Friday at noon. All dates and more pictures from last night's show, below...

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Broken Bells at Terminal 5 (more by Amanda Hatfield)

101.9 RXP has announced their 2010 "Yule Rock Holiday Concert Series" - four NYC concerts at 2 different Live Nation venues over the course of 2 weeks. Tickets are currently on presale for all shows in various incarnations:

• Broken Bells/Karen Elson at Irving Plaza on 12/1 (presale password = "1019RXP", AMEX presale now & regular sale at 10AM on 11/5 via LiveNation)
• My Chemical Romance/The Gaslight Anthem at Roseland Ballroom on 12/3 (RXP presale sold out, AMEX presale now & regular sale at 10AM on 11/5 via TM)
• Cake ("an evening with") at Irving Plaza on 12/7 (Presale password = "1019RXP", AMEX presale now & regular sale at 10AM on 11/5 via LiveNation)
• Florence + The Machine/Civil Twilight will play Irving Plaza on 12/14 (RXP presale sold out, AMEX presale at 8AM on 11/4 & regular sale at 10AM on 11/5 via LiveNation)

Speaking of holiday radio shindigs, WFUV will host their sixth annual "Holiday Cheer" on 12/6 at the Concert Hall at the New York Society for Ethical Culture. Amos Lee, Punch Brothers, The Secret Sisters, and Citizen Cope are all on board in this go around and tickets will range you $500 - $45 depending on your choice to VIP pre-party or not.

photos by Andrew St. Clair

After a tumultuous early evening (I'm sure you heard or experienced it), Cake took to the stage at Rumsey Playfield (Summerstage) in Central Park to play a round of jams last night (9/16) to a wet crowd. Raincoats were not an uncommon site. Though the heaviest of the precipitation had long since passed by the time the band had launched into their set, Summerstage did get its share of rain during the band's performance though reportedly it did not disrupt Cake's set which kicked off at 8pm (no opening band) (it was "an evening with Cake"). The played "The Distance", "Frank Sinatra", "Comfort Eagle" and other songs before eventually shuffling off stage after 10PM, with a 15 minute intermission in between.

The show is part of a larger tour for Cake, and was the first of a string of seven Summerstage shows that continue tonight with Ween. More pictures from last night, below...

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We Were Promised Jetpacks' new EP The Last Place You'll Look came out in March on Fat Cat. That's the cover above.

In addition to playing the June 30th Passion Pit/Tokyo Police Club/Suckers show at Governors Island (they're opening), We Were Promised Jetpacks has added a Tuesday, June 29th headlining show at Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn. Bear Hands open. Tickets go on AmEx presale Wednesday at noon. General sale starts Friday, May 28th at noon.

The Brooklyn show is one of at least seven shows that WWPJ and Bear Hands will play together this summer. Those dates include Louisville, Kentucky's Forecastle Festival which has updated its July lineup since we last spoke. That updated lineup and day-by-day schedule, and all dates below...

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Cake will be playing at Central Park's Rumsey Playfield on Thursday, September 16th. Tickets are on presale now for a charitable donation (only a dollar more than the regular ticket) (there's an "artist" presale too). AmEx presale starts Wednesday at 11am. General sale starts Friday at noon.

The show is part of a September tour that includes a show in Clifton Park, NY (near Albany) on September 13th. Tickets to that go on sale Friday at 10am.

The band, who maintain a pretty good environmental blog on the news section of their site, have shows in June and July too. All tour dates are below...

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by Ryan Barkan

Tracy Morgan & Stevie Wonder (picture via Hipster Runoff)

Super Bowl XLIV (44) took place Sunday night in Florida between the Indianapolis Colts and the New Orleans Saints. The Saints semi-upset the Colts to win the big game for the first time in the franchise's history. This post is a special edition of the long lost "Week In Music Licensing" post and as such, that's the last you will hear about the game. Grizzly Bear, Arcade Fire, many videos and more below...

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"STREET SCENE, one of the nation's longest running music festivals, will celebrate its 25th anniversary with two full days of music Friday, August 28 and Saturday, August 29. The Black Eyed Peas, M.I.A., Thievery Corporation, Modest Mouse, The Dead Weather and Cake are among the more than 35 acts that will bring the streets of downtown San Diego's East Village neighborhood alive with music and entertainment from 4:00 PM to midnight daily. The venue site will include Tailgate Park (adjacent to Petco Park) in the heart of East Village, incorporating 14th Street as the main thoroughfare and bordered by Imperial Avenue to J Street."

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by Andrew Frisicano

Cake, of late-'90s radio hit fame, is playing a show at NYC's Terminal 5 on Friday, May 29, as part of a short (but maybe not fully announced) spring tour. Tickets appear to be on sale now, despite the promoter's claim that they go on sale Friday (3/6) at noon. Cake played two dates at the same venue in 2007.

Cake has announced a new studio album for the summer 2009, to be released by Upbeat Records. The band will also "present an expanded and remastered reissue of Motorcade of Generosity, available in early 2009 via Upbeat." From the band's Myspace: "As-yet-untitled, CAKE's new studio album will be the first project they have undertaken since they overhauled their studio to run entirely on solar power." The band's most recent studio album was its fifth full-length, Pressure Chief, which featured single "No Phone" (video below).

Cake's interest in solar power is just one of the environmental and civic concerns documented on the band's website, which posts wisdom like "A dash of salt in coffee that has cooked or stood too long will remove the bitter taste" and instructions on how to grow watercress from urine.

All tour dates below...

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Cake @ Terminal 5, NYC - Dec 12, 2007 (CRED)

GO Magazine 5th Anniversary @ Webster Hall, NYC - Dec 6, 2007 (CRED)

* RIP Ike Turner
* Kevin Nealon is playing Caroline's
* Those two things are strangely related
* GZA performs Liquid Swords @ Knitting Factory
* after We are Wolves & Foreign Islands finish their show
* White Rabbits & The Harlem Shakes are playing Bowery Ballroom
& Margot & the Nuclear So & So’s, Le Loup & The King Left are @ Mercury
* Cake, Brazilian Girls, and Oakley Hall are at Terminal 5
* Santogold & White Williams are playing a free show at Music Hall of W
& Phosphorescent is playing a free show at Sound Fix Records
* Muggabears & Bear Hands are playing Galapagos
* dan le sac VS scroobius pip are at Supreme Trading
* The Most Serene Republic is playing Southpaw
& The Onion is having a party at Union Hall
* Neil Young is at United Palace Theater
* Loudon Wainwright, Odetta, Suzanne Vega & others @ the concert Hall
* An Oxfam benefit w/ Wynn Walent, Phohograph & others @ Rockwood
* Ulrich Schnauss is playing Europa

THERE ARE WAY TOO MANY OPTIONS TONIGHT.

Do you want to see Ulrich Schnauss for free? I have three pairs of tickets to give away to the first three people who email BVCONTESTS@HOTMAIL.COM (subject: Urlrich) right now. Include your first and last name for guestlist. What else?

DOWNLOAD: Cake - The Guitar Man (MP3)

Tickets are on sale for two Cake shows at Terminal 5 in NYC. It's part of their "Unlimited Sunshine" tour that kicks off in San Diego on November 29th. Cake's latest CD is a collection of B-Sides and Rarities. All tour dates below....

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