Clipse photos by Brook Bobbins

Nas & Damian Marley at Williamsburg Waterfront (more by Samantha Marble)

Distant Relatives Nas & Damian Marley will team up for a summer show in NYC this year just like last. They'll hit Central Park Summerstage on August 11th. Tickets go on web presale at 10AM on Thursday (5/19) with regular sale hitting Friday. One difference from from last year though, they're calling this one their "grand finale," so don't sleep if you've been wanting to catch the pair together. THAT SAID, they were also just announced on the lineup of ACL which is happening a month later.

Wiz Khalifa also has a Summerstage show coming up.

In other hip hop news, Q-Tip will DJ The Fort Greene Festival kick off party on May 28th at Sanders Studio (525 Waverly Avenue in Brooklyn), a benefit to raise money for the forthcoming annual event. Tickets are $10 or $15 at the door.

As previously mentioned, Q-Tip will perform at the annual Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival on July 16th where he'll be joined by new additions Homeboy Sandman, Eternia, Shad, Nitty Scott and Kid Glyde. Get your tickets.

Rock the Bells is going to announce some news from a "launch party" at House of Blues in LA on May 24th.

Talib Kweli will link back up with his side project Idle Warship to play BB Kings on June 10th. Tickets are on sale. And don't forget Kweli will also play a free show in Red Hook Park on 6/21.

Edan plays Southpaw on May 25th.

Clipse @ Terminal 5 in April

Clipse made a NYC appearance at Terminal 5 on April 30th. They opened for A-Trak, and pictures from their set are in this post. More of them below.

Ghostface & Raekwon supported Mobb Deep at recent show at Best Buy Theater. Pictures from that show are HERE. Some upcoming UK Wu-Tang dates are below.

The previously announced "Salute to Hip Hop" show that was supposed to take place at Best Buy Theater in Times Square in April has been rescheduled. You can now catch The Lox, EPMD, and Brand Nubian at the NYC venue on June 30th. Tickets are on sale.

The previously announced Curren$y show happening at Irving Plaza in June is still happening, but now so are many more tour dates around it including the Pitchfork Festival. They are listed below.

And finally, Beastie Boys have no tour dates in support of their Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 yet, but you can catch Ad-Rock hosting/DJing as part of a day long Children's Museum of Art benefit. Tickets for both events at Webster Hall on 5/22 are on sale. Meanwhle check out "The Greatest Beastie Boys Lyrical References To New York, In Order."

A recent video by Nas & Damian Marley for "Nah Mean," those Clipse pics, and tour dates, below.

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photos by David Andrako

DFA1979

"While it was kind of a running joke that the gnarled dance-punk band was one of the biggest reunions at this year's Coachella (Death From Above 2005 jokes abounded), the band reasserted what made them such a strange and compelling commodity in the first place.

Lacerating bass, Grainger's falsetto wails and a relentless rhythmic urgency both hearkened back to the mid-'00 dance punk craze, yet reminded the audience that their palpable violence set them apart from their more trend-minded peers.

"Romantic Rights" and "Blood on Our Hands" rode slithery, distortion-tangled bass lines over the kind of four-on-the-floor that bassist Jesse F. Keeler would explore more thoroughly in his disco aegis MSTRKRFT.The audience seemed simultaneously enthralled and a bit confused."
[LA Times]

Death From Above 1979's performance on Sunday was the second time the reunited band graced a public stage since announcing their return. The first was a semi-surprise appearance at this year's SXSW at March that got much more attention than anyone even anticipated due to a bit of violence that made the late night news. In May the band does it again at Sasquach.

Coachella 2011 concluded on Sunday with a big headlining set by Kanye West. I already posted some pictures from that one, but a more proper set is also in this post which also includes our full set of pictures from the California festival's final day (day one pics HERE, day two HERE).

Bon Iver's Justin Vernon who played Friday night with Gayngs, made two guest appearances on Sunday, first with the National earlier in the day and then with Kanye West during one of the most high profile sets of the weekend.

The other big set of Sunday was by the Strokes who weren't afraid to play the hits. Their full setlist is below.

The Strokes

PJ Harvey (who arrives in NYC this week) played her headlining set on the "Outdoor Theatre." It overlapped with both The Strokes and Kanye...

"Backed by a nimble three piece band, Harvey, with the Strokes audible from the nearby main stage during the silences between songs, delivered the most emotionally intense performance I witnessed at this year's Coachella, singing songs of violence, war, love and lust (mostly from her harrowing new Let England Shake), before a crowd of rabid supporters...." [SPIN]

a rabid supporter... (this pic not by David Andrako)...

More pictures from Sunday, below...

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Los Campesinos! @ Irving Plaza in April (more by Dominick Mastrangelo)

today in NYC
* Air Supply @ BB King's
* One Ring Zero @ Barbes
* Dar Williams @ City Winery
* America @ Best Buy Theater
* Hugh Maselka @ Carnegie Hall
* Suffocation @ Gramercy Theatre
* Ethan Lipton & His Orchestra @ Barbes
* Rasputina, Faun Fables @ Knitting Factory
* Tom Tom Club, Command V @ Brooklyn Bowl
* Citizen Cope, Chocolate Genius @ Terminal 5
* Seabear, North Highlands @ Highline Ballroom
* The Gates of Slumber, Hour of 13 @ Union Pool
* Mark Sultan (BBQ), Two Tears @ Mercury Lounge
* Tatiana Kochkareva @ Brooklyn Academy of Music
* The Henry Clay People, The Dig @ Mercury Lounge
* Hunx and His Punx, The Babies, K Holes @ Cake Shop
* Jim Avett, Dan Seiden, Findlay Brown @ Bowery Electric
* Gordon Voidwell (3rd Floor Soundstage) @ Apollo Theater
* Southern Culture On The Skids, The Woggles @ Maxwell's
* Apache Beat, MINKS, Von Haze, Wise Blood @ Cameo Gallery
* Turbo Fruits, Liquor Store, Pujol, Dream Diary @ Death By Audio
* Rhys Chatham, Kevin Shea, David Sims, Angie Eng @ The Kitchen
* Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan, Willy Mason @ Bowery Ballroom
* Weekends, Web Dating, Data Dog, Antimagic, Mala Strana @ Coco 66
* Los Campesinos!, Darlings, Johnny Foreigner @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
* Dark Dark Dark, Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson, Rescue Bird @ Glasslands
* King Khan & The Shrines, Gentleman Jesse & His Men, LiveFastDie @ The Bell House
* Magik Markers, Iyes, Steve Gunn/John Truscinski Duo, Devin, Gary & Ross @ Shea Stadium
* Agnostic Front, Mother of Mercy, Product of Waste, Inhuman, My Rifle @ Santos Party House
* The Ataris, Don't Panic, Love Automatic, Caught Red Handed, Any Time Today @ The Studio at Webster Hall
* Chris Cubeta and The Liars Club, Paleface, The Two Man Gentleman Band, Pokey LaFarge, The Hot Seats @ Southpaw
* The Death Set, So So Death, Japanther, Weekends, Unstoppable Death Machines (The Shank's Grand Reopening) @ The Shank
* Liturgy, The Netherlands, El Topo, Great Mason (Pandemonium: A Summoning in Five Acts, with illusions by Burneverything) @ Silent Barn
* Tony Conrad, Phill Niblock, Marcia Bassett, Margarida Garcia, Aki Onda, Kyle Bobby Dunn, Noveller, Ancient Ocean, Tom Carter, Century Plants (Drone Marathon) @ Issue Project Room

Tonight's Sword show was cancelled.

Nas and Damien Marley stopped by Jimmy Kimmel. Video below...

What else?

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Gogol Bordello @ Brooklyn Bowl in April (more by Benjamin Lozovsky)

Tickets for the Primus/Gogol Bordello show at Williamsburg Waterfront are now on Internet presale (password = CHEESE).

That concert happens on July 30th. The next night Primus rocks out at Bridgeport, CT's Gathering of the Vibes, where they'll headline with Jimmy Cliff, Damian Marley and Nas, and Sharon Jones. Tickets are on sale. The full lineup is here.

While Primus are gathering the vibes, Gogol Bordello will play Starland Ballroom in Sayerville, NJ on July 31st. Tickets for that are on sale Friday at noon.

Videos of last year's Gathering (music, hula hoops, "nitrous mafia," "Crazy Guy" and more) are below...

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Nas @ Rock The Bells 2008 in Jones Beach (more by villageslum.com)

OK, so it's not as much a big bang as last year (A Tribe Called Quest reunion) or the one before (Rage Against The Machine reunion), but Rock The Bells 2009 does have some interesting artists on the lineup. Besides a welcome reunion (Reflection Eternal) (Talib Kweli & Hi-Tek), one suspect one (House of Pain) and some great repeat offenders (Nas, RZA, Raekwon, MOP, Sage Francis, Slum Village), this year's Rock The Bells also boasts an Outkast (Big Boi), a windy city fave (Common), and a true sicko (Necro). The full lineup is:

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