today in NYC
* SWEETie Gras
* comedy @ Cake Shop
* Onra @ the Commodore
* Ryan Keberle @ Barbes
* DaDa Frolic @ The Stone
* Bang on a Can @ Apple Store SoHo
* Michael Daves @ Rockwood Music Hall
* The Moon comedy @ Union Pool
* Manu Delago @ Rockwood Music Hall
* Alia Shawkat @ Rockwood Music Hall
* Slavic Soul Party @ Barbes
* Cookies, St. Lucia, Shadows On Stars @ Pianos
* Ex-Humans, Useless Eaters, Swearin' @ Cake Shop
* Night Shining, Aimes, Rimar, Starfawn @ Glasslands
* Tell Your Friends w/ Todd Barry, more @ Lolita Bar
* Frankie Rose, Dive, Night Manager @ Knitting Factory
* The Suzan, Drgn King, The Can't Tells @ Death By Audio
* Mona, The Rassle, Chappo, Cold Fronts @ Mercury Lounge
* Less Than Jake, Samiam, Flatfoot 56, DJ Sid Da Kid @ Brooklyn Bowl
* Slow Magic, Selebrities, Mala Strana, DJ Emilie Friedlander @ Public Assembly
* Hurricane High, Colin L. Orchestra, Guardian Alien, Dubknowdub, GDFX, Indian Ocean @ Big Snow
* Diamond Terrifier, Uumans, Ganjatronics, Laurel Halo (DJ set)(Practice, presented by Diamond Terrifier) @ Zebulon
* Two Boots Mardi Gras Benefit Ball presented by Rosario Dawson @ Le Poisson Rouge

If you're in Chicago, BrooklynVegan/BV Chicago present a free Willis Earl Beal show at Cole's Bar tonight. If you're in NYC, you'll have to pay and wait to see him.

Follow @bvChicago for more Chicago stuff like pictures from a recent Daedelus gig.

Also follow @bvAustin for just Austin stuff.

Follow @BrooklynVegan on Twitter too.

Be our friend on Facebook too.

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Conor Oberst @ ACL in 2008 (more by Kyle Dean Reinford)

today in NYC
* comedy @ Cake Shop
* Ice Cube @ BB Kings
* Tom Allen @ Union Hall
* Kurt Vile @ Other Music
* Kurt Vile @ Generation Records
* Tell All Your Friends! @ Lolita Bar
* Stumblebum Brass Band @ Barbes
* Joe McPhee, Chris Corsano @ The Stone
* Cosmo Baker, The Suzan @ Ace Hotel
* Raekwon @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
* The Low Anthem, BOBBY @ Bowery Ballroom
* Yelawolf, CyHi Da Prynce @ Highline Ballroom
* Hush Arbors, Jason Ajemian, Dharana @ Death By Audio
* Chris Corsano, Tom Surgal, William Winant @ The Stone
* Ty Segall, Devin Therriault, Sundelles @ Mercury Lounge
* Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Oh Land @ Terminal 5
* Bright Eyes, Superchunk, Wild Flag @ Radio City Music Hall
* Hooray For Earth, Rewards, Zambri, Lemonade (DJ) @ Glasslands
* Rival Schools, Vs. Antelope, Radar Fiction @ Santos Party House
* Eli Paperboy Reed & The True Loves, Sister Anne @ Knitting Factory
* Parts & Labor, Pterodactyl, Fiasco, Fuck Ton @ Monster Island Basement
* Kurt Vile, Northampton Wools (feat. Thurston Moore) @ Academy Annex
* Ryan Scott, Slimbot, Andrew Gregory, Melanie Penn @ Rockwood Music Hall
* Sneaky Legend, The Belle Brigade, Noah of Sam Champion @ The Rock Shop
* Travis Laplante, Kurt Weisman, Hunter Hunt-Hendrix (of Liturgy) @ Zebulon
* Soulive, John Scofield, Kofi Burbridge, Nigel Hall, Ivan Neville @ Brooklyn Bowl
* Loose Marbles, Reverend Billy & His Gospel Choir, Hungry March Band, Mamarazzi, Raya Brass Band (Second Annual Two Boots Mardi Gras Ball: A Benefit for the Lower Eastside Girls Club) @ Le Poisson Rouge

Check out This Week in Indie

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RIP Doug Fieger

Douglas Lars "Doug" Fieger (August 21, 1952 - February 14, 2010)was an American singer-songwriter. He was the lead singer of the New Wave band The Knack, and co-wrote the biggest hit song of 1979, "My Sharona", with lead guitarist, Berton Averre. He was the younger brother of Detroit attorney Geoffrey Fieger who confirmed his death on Valentine's Day, 2010 to The Detroit News. [Wiki]

We mentioned VV Brown's free show on Monday at Brooklyn Bowl. She's also playing again for free this Wednesday at Hiro Ballroom. RSVP here.

Beast are at the Living Room tonight. They play the Cameo tomorrow night late...and they've added an early set at the Mercury Lounge, where the show is with Fight Like Apes, Honor By August, Stationary Set and Tryptics.

Ted Leo shows up for "songs and a chat" at the Bell House's Get Off Your Knees, a comedy show hosted by Sara Schaefer and Kim Armstrong, and guests Leo Allen and Jamie Kilstein.

L Magazine has some directions for the free Wavves show at Brooklyn Bowl tonight.

Meet at the southern end of Driggs and N 12. The parade will go down Driggs, up Bedford, and over to Brooklyn Bowl. We will be led by The Rude Mechanical Orchestra and there will be a float with Burlesque entertainers: Angie Pontani, Helen Pontani, Darlinda Just Darlinda, Akynos, The Maine Attraction and Lil Miss Lixx

The lineup goes:
8:00-- Total Slacker
9:00-- (we announce the king and queen of the Carnival)
9:30-- MNDR
10:30-- Wavves

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today in NYC
* DANCE
* Tom Jones @ Terminal 5
* Mystery Jets & The Dig @ Bowery Ballroom
* Winter Gloves, Josh Reichmann & Slim Twig @ Pianos
* A Fat Tuesday party with The Sugartone Brass Band at the Bell House

New Yorker Films, RIP

"The Academy Awards were taking place on Hollywood Boulevard on Sunday night, but the real action was on Seventh Avenue in Park Slope. That's where Jim Moore, part of the team behind the Oscar-winning documentary, "Man on Wire," watched the Big Show from Los Angeles."

23 New York Teenagers You Ought To Know About (maybe).

"Alice Tully Hall, closed for nearly two years, opened its grand, airy and people-friendly new lobby to the public and presented a large roster of fine musicians, ranging from living masters to eager students, who played a program aptly titled "First Look.""

New Orleans Ready for Final Mardi Gras Fling

"Listening to music with degrading sexual lyrics could prompt teenagers to start having sex at an earlier age, a US study suggests."

Tickets are still on sale for the April Neko Case shows at Nokia Theatre. Neko's new album is streaming in full at NPR.

Torche is touring in April.

If and when Faith No More reunites, it better not just be for Europe.

Pavement Nearly Reunites At Nashville Wedding Party

Radiohead let one of their songs be used by Shelter, a for homeless and housing charity.

Late of the Pier are returning in March and April. Check out their video for "Heartbeat" below...

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