Here We Go Magic @ SXSW 2010 (more by Tim Griffin )

tonight in NYC
* Jeff Beck @ Iridium
* Patty Griffin @ Town Hall
* Nellie McKay @ Feinstein's
* Skeletons Big Band @ Roulette
* Frankie Negron @ Red Hook Park
* Evelyn Evelyn @ Lucile Lortel Theatre
* Fiasco, Okie Dokie, Zulus @ Death By Audio
* Les Claypool, Hot Head Show @ Brooklyn Bowl
* The High Dials, Asteroid #4, The Runaway Suns @ Cake Shop
* The Futureheads, The Like, The Static Jacks @ Bowery Ballroom
* This Will Destroy You, Light Pollution, Slow Six @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
* Simon & Garfunkel tribue 25th Anniversary SummerStage Gala @ Central Park SummerStage
* Here We Go Magic, The War on Drugs, Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson @ Music Hall of Williamsburg

Amanda Palmer, Jason Webley and Sxip Shirey's Evelyn Evelyn project, which has drawn a fair amount of controversy on the web, starts a six-night run at Lucile Lortel Theatre. Videos, including a cover of "Love Will Tear Us Apart," are below.

Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson has been added as an opener for Here We Go Magic at MHOW tonight. The War on Drugs is also on the bill. We have some free tickets for the show. If you want a pair, email BVCONTESTS@HOTMAIL.COM (subject: HWGM). Include your first and last name. Winners will be contacted.

The show at Summerstage tonight:

This year's benefit will feature the songbook of Simon & Garfunkel with unique duets performed by Shawn Colvin, Aimee Mann, Dar Williams, Loudon Wainwright III, Lucy Wainwright Roche, Joan Osborne, Stephen Kellogg, Dean & Britta, Cory Chisel, The Holmes Brothers, John Forte, Valerie June, John Roderick, Ricky Skaggs, Willie Nile, Paula Cole, Alejandro Escovedo, Marc Cohn, Ben Gibbard, David Hinds, St. Vincent, Jorma Kaukonen, Larry Campbell, Jill Sobule, Livingston Taylor, Brendan Benson, Gordon Kennedy, Olivia Mori, Ollabelle (house band), and many more.

Dave Hill, Moby and Satanicide/Tragedy Phil have a new band called Diamondsnake. They play Highline Ballroom June 17th. Their new video for "Storm the Fucking Kastle" is below...

Speaking of Dave Hill, he performs his Big in Japan show at UCB on Wednesday.

What else?

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Evelyn Evelyn, Amanda Palmer's new project with Seattle musician/busker Jason Webley, NYC composer Sxip Shirey and other artists know for their vaudevillian and just general wacky ways. They'll be hitting the road this April, May and June. The show travels Europe and North America, and includes a six-night run at NYC's Lucille Lortel Theatre from June 8-13. Ticket info coming soon.

The album is co-produced by Amanda Palmer and Jason Webley, and is out now in a bunch of different packages (including an 11 million dollar offer to travel the world from Himalayas and Antarctica to Western Massachusetts). The concept behind the project is that the two Evelyns are a ("fictional"?) pair of conjoined twins.

EVELYN and EVELYN NEVILLE are a songwriting duo performing original compositions on piano, ukulele, guitar and accordion. The sisters are parapagus tripus dibrachius twins, sharing three legs, two arms, three lungs, two hearts and a single liver.

Born September 11, 1985 on a small farm on the Kansas-Colorado border, the Evelyns have traveled the greater part of North America performing with "Dillard & Fullerton's Illusive Traveling Show". Their unique musical style is inspired by their many eclectic influences - from 80's music to showtunes, Joy Division to the Andrews Sisters.

The sisters currently reside in Walla Walla, Washington. They are fluent in chicken and their favorite colors are purple and yellow.

The record's extensive list of guests and all tour dates (with details on how to hook the touring band of 5 people up with lodging and food) are below...

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