Cloud Cult @ Bowery Ballroom (more by Chris La Putt)

today in NYC
* Bob Mould @ Joe's Pub
* Jeff Beck @ Irving Plaza
* Superdrag @ Bowery Ballroom
* Shahzad Ismaily @ Issue Project Room
* The Books @ Miller Theatre (Columbia)
* Lissy Trullie, US Royalty @ Union Hall
* Kayo Dot, Apollo Heights & Nymph @ Coco66
* Questlove (the fANtastic) @ (le) poisson rouge
* Enon, These Are Powers & The Forms @ The Bell House
* Jenny Scheinman, Nels Cline & S. Cardenas @ Blue Note
* Cloud Cult, Margot and The Nuclear So & So's, Ice Palace @ MHOW
* Team Genius, Action Painters, The Naked Hearts, Ill Ease @ Cake Shop
* Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin & Drew Danburry @ Mercury Lounge
* Borts Minorts, Uni and Her Ukelele, Rachel Trachtenberg, Griffin Point @ The Studio

Tonight's show at COCO 66 is a benefit for Yuko Sueta.

Yuko Sueta is a beautiful and gifted video artist, photographer, and writer. Yuko, age 36, is battling metastasized breast cancer. She currently has an intense pain condition as a result of spinal compression that has her bed-ridden and unable to work. She has undergone procedures to try to alleviate some of the compression and she is fighting hard to rebuild her strength.
We hope you will join us in our efforts to support our friend and provide her with an environment which can allow her to continue to be productive, creative and pursue wellness.

I always confuse the existence of Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin (from Missouri) with Margot and The Nuclear So & So's (from Indiana) - just based on their huge, confusing names (and other somewhat similar characteristics). Tonight the two bands both play in NYC.

Drew Danburry (from Utah) opens the Mercury Lounge show.

Pattern is Movement covered Beyonce for Daytrotter.

Youth Group are in the midst of their 3-city, 1-month US residency. Their new video is below...

What else?

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The Walkmen @ Masonic Temple in December (more by Natasha Ryan)

"We live in scary times. Sure, we might wonder how that inane Southern California woman is going to feed fourteen mouths, but what about the family whose breadwinners lost their jobs, and now have not only no money to pay the mortgage, but feed their kids?

No one seems to care about those people. Everyone's too selfish. I've got mine, fuck you. But what if you suddenly don't have yours anymore?

You used to sell ten million records, now you can't even sell two. Those damn pirates! But those pirates are real people. Who overpaid to hear one good track on a CD. They've got no sympathy for you. And they may overpay to see superstars once, but not forever. The Stones don't sell out anymore. Nor does Springsteen, not even Madonna. The printed grosses are high, but that's because of the inflated ticket prices.

Is the concert industry headed for a fall? Just like the recorded music industry?" [Bob Lefsetz]

Most of the bands in this post recently announced a tour, or an update to their previously announced tour, and did not include a NYC-area date. All of them below...

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