Butthole Surfers @ Warsaw in 2008 (more by Chris La Putt)

today in NYC
* Serena Jost @ Barbes
* Sandra Bernhard @ Joe's Pub
* Gov't Mule @ Beacon Theatre
* Guided By Voices @ Maxwell's
* Patti Smith @ Bowery Ballroom
* Third Eye Blind @ Irving Plaza
* Phish @ Madison Square Garden
* Drive-By Truckers @ Brooklyn Bowl
* Biz Markie (DJ Set) @ Brooklyn Bowl
* Dr. Lonnie Smith Big Band @ Jazz Standard
* Akiko Pavolka's House of Illusion @ Barbes
* Passion Pit, Titus Andronicus @ The Wellmont Theatre
* Radical Dads, Little Gold, Conversion Party @ Bruar Falls
* Butthole Surfers, Lumerians @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
* Naja Rosa, The Field Recordings, Luluc, Greg Lyon @ Pianos
* Rebirth Brass Band with special guests @ Le Poisson Rouge
* The New Deal, Sub Swara (Phish aftershow) @ Highline Ballroom
* Shakey Graves, Due Diligence, Uncles, Dave Deporis @ Cake Shop
* Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, Allen Toussaint @ Best Buy Theater
* H2O, Cro-Mags, Trapped Under Ice, Wisdom In Chains @ Highline Ballroom
* Thursday, Four Year Strong, Acid Tiger, We Were Skeletons @ Starland Ballroom
* Andrew Goldstein, Heather Maloney, Sasha Dobson, Little Embers @ The Living Room
* Bow Ribbons, Tunde Adebimpe, Lucky Dragons, Beach Fossils, Knyfe Hyts, Light Hits, Maya Hayuk, Diane Barcelowsky, MV Carbon, Cassie Ramone,
Guardian Alien, Chaos Majik, Sto Temple Pile-Up (DUBKNOWDUB), Todd Chandler (Dark Dark Dark), Colin Langenus, Mike Colin (Aa & Valentropo), George Ferrandi (Cloud Seeding Circus), R.A.F. (Mudboy/Raphael Lyon) (103 Havemeyer FUNeral)@ Cinders Gallery
* Annual End of the Year Improv Benefit for the Stone w/ John Zorn (sax) Cyro Baptista (percussion) Dave Douglas (trumpet) Zeena Parkins (harp) Fred Sherry (cello) Erik Friedlander (cello) Raz Mesinai (electronics) Dave Fulmer (violin) Shanir Blumenkranz (bass) Brandon Ross (guitar) Sylvie Courvoisier (piano) Jim Staley (trombone) Ned Rothenberg (sax) Matt Wilson (drums) and many SPECIAL guests @ The Stone

Say goodbye to Cinders Gallery.

The Cro-Mags were added to tonight's H2O show at some point.

Thursday perform "Full Collapse" in its entirety at Starland Ballroom tonight.

Congrats to the guy who won Butthole Surfers tickets for tonight and tomorrow. Lumerians open the shows.

What else?

"What lies behind the Black Hole, does Disney truly know? When the chips are finished and the human brain is no less the floppy disk of yesterday, who's to say what it will take to survive. All I can do is copy down the instructions I am given, sharpen them into a knife and stab the asshole barking orders." -Brian Chippendale

And stab and stab and stab. The sweat from stabbing has pooled into an overflowing rainbow-hued river that we are happy to present to you as Fruiting Bodies, the new solo exhibition by Brian Chippendale. Layers upon layers of silk-screened prints and drawings on paper form dense magical landscapes where moments from another world are frozen in time. The energy of this fantastical otherworld is infectious. You just want to go there and hang out with these characters and frolic in fields of mushrooms and butterflies, eat some strange plants, barter for peanut butter and maybe fight some cat-headed warriors. [Cinders Gallery]

Fruiting Bodies by Lightning Bolt drummer/vocalist Brian Chippendale will be on display at Williamsburg's Cinders Gallery from June 4th to July 3rd. There's a recption there tonight (Friday, June 4th) 7-10pm. A flyer is below.

Lightning Bolt will be touring with summer from the end of June through Whartscape in Baltimore on July 24th. Full tour dates are below...

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it will be a deerhunter show. we are playing the new album we have recorded with Nicolas Vernhes at the amazing Rare Book Room here in Brooklyn in its entirety. The reason we did not announce it as such is that a.) it was originally intended to be just an atlas sound show, but we have had such a great time recording with each other and rehearsing in the studio that we thought it would be fun to try and pull off an impromptu show with borrowed equipment. and b.) we weren't sure it would work out at first. I just want to say that we have been doing shows with Todd P for years now (he gave us shows before anyone would even think of talking to us.) Todd is the most upstanding and all-around dedicated dudes I've ever dealt with. He knows what he's doing and always keeps his priorities straight - putting on fun shows and treating bands well. I hate to see people criticize his methods without knowing really what they are talking about. In my opinion, as an outsider, this city is very lucky to have someone putting so much effort into putting on amazing shows. Dude also is a fox. On another note: I seriously doubt the show is sold out and it probably won't sell out. I don't know much about the details but I'd encourage people to just chill and try and come out and have fun with us. Also re: the Cinder gallery - i see no problem with one independent business helping another and see no reason for complaint in that aspect. Hope those who are interested will come check out the new songs, they are a lot different and we've been working really hard and having a great time. Respect to all.

Bradford