Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for the Echo & the Bunnymen show at Mercury Lounge. Tickets are also on sale for the show they're playing at Hammerstein Ballroom.

Speaking of Hammerstein Ballroom, Goodie Mob are playing there too.

Elefant (are still a band and) are playing Irving Plaza on November 15th. Tickets are on sale.

Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for the Phenomenal Handclap Band show at Bowery Ballroom.

Tickets are on sale for the Rain Machine CMJ show at Bowery Ballroom. Imaad Wasif, whose recent credits include the Where the While Things Are soundtrack with Karen O, is also on the bill.

Tickets are still on sale for the Gaslight Anthem show at Brooklyn Bowl.

The Roots played Brooklyn Bowl last night. Flobots play there on December 3rd. Tickets are on sale (@ noon).

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Rage Against the Machine has joined forces with the Iraq Veterans Against the War and Tent State University to perform as part of the "Tent State Music Festival to End the War" on Wednesday, August 27 at the Denver Coliseum. They will join the Flobots, The Coup, State Radio, and Wayne Kramer. Doors open at 9:30 AM, show begins at 11:00 AM.

Tickets are free and available by lottery. Sign up for the lottery, with a valid photo ID (person must be present) at Tent State University at Cuernavaca Park between 11AM and 6:30 PM (look for the Tent State Music Festival booth near the IVAW Tower) Sunday, August 24 through Tuesday, August 26 during the D.N.C. Winners will be notified by email Tuesday evening, August 26.

Go to www.tentstate.org for more info.

by Black Bubblegum

Busdriver posing w/ Dizzee

Last time I saw Busdriver, he was second on a bill that included Kidz In The Hall, El-P (with Aesop Rock), and Dizzee Rascal. Next week, the abstract rhymer will lace a pair of shows both as support (at the sold-out Bowery Ballroom with Flobots on 8/5), and as headliner (at Union Hall in Brooklyn on 8/6, tickets are on sale). The Brooklyn show is also the afterparty for Union Hall's night 'at the bridge'.

West-coast cratediggers People Under The Stairs are also on that Flobots bill and have lined up a headlining show of their own on 8/6, at Southpaw with Iller Than Theirs and Junk Science. Tickets are still available. All dates below...

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