Band of Horses @ SXSW 2010 (more by Bryan Bruchman)

today in NYC
* Sickness @ The Stone
* Noveller @ The Stone
* Deer Tick in Wantagh
* Small Black @ Mercury Lounge
* The Cool Kids @ Brooklyn Bowl
* The Big Terrific @ Cameo Gallery
* Murphy's Law on a Rocks Off Cruise
* WFMU's 7 Second Delay Live @ UCB
* VaShawn Mitchell @ Marcus Garvey Park
* Murphy's Law @ Rocks Off Concert Cruise
* Y/Y, Beggars in a New Land, Heidi @ Zebulon
* Band of Horses, J Mascis @ Hammerstein Ballroom
* Bon Iver, The Rosebuds @ Prospect Park Bandshell
* Sondra Sun-Odeon, Ilya Monosov @ The Manhattan Inn
* Boy & Bear, Yellowbirds, Dear Lions @ Knitting Factory
* Joan of Arc, Implodes, Father Figures @ Mercury Lounge
* The Chris Robinson Brotherhood @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
* Sherlock's Daughter, CHLLNGR, Rarechild, Marra Barr @ Pianos
* Milagres (SummerScreen with 'Jurassic Park') @ McCarren Park
* Alkaline Trio, mewithoutYou, The Drowning Men @ Irving Plaza
* GGGHST, Christine Hoberg, Jared Saltiel, King Owl @ Bruar Falls
* Joe Bataan, Johnny Colon, DJ Turmix @ Central Park Summerstage
* Joakim, Justin Strauss, Sal Principato (of Liquid Liquid) @ Cameo Gallery
* Laurie Anderson and friends @ Lincoln Center's Damrosch Park Bandshell
* Zoot Woman, The Kickdrums, Alex English, 33Hz, J808 @ Le Poisson Rouge
* Streetlight Manifesto, Reel Big Fish, New Riot, Rodeo Ruby Love @ Best Buy Theater
* Unstoppable Death Machines, Dead, Catacombz, Sweet Tooth, Shellshag, Ritz Riot @ Shea Stadium
* Majestic Twinsound, Dub Select Horns, Prince Polo, Subatomic Sound System, Dub City Players @ Southpaw

Long Island chillwavers Small Black play the free 21+ Spotify-presented late show at Mercury Lounge tonight. Doors are at 11 PM and the show is first come, first served. Those in attendance will receive an access code for Spotify US. The show is after Joan of Arc play an earlier show at the venue as part of their tour with Implodes, which also hit Glasslands last night (8/9).

Band of Horses are playing Hammerstein Ballroom tonight with J Mascis instead of Jones Beach with Kings of Leon.

Rocks Off will take you on a bus trip to Gathering of the Juggalos TONIGHT.

Father Figures open tonight's Joan of Arc show. Avant jazz musician and promoter Adam Schatz, who plays sax in the group, describes them as a 'zombie jazz' band. He says, "75% of what's heard is improvised, we all write and have spent years developing the ability to read each other's minds. We just recorded and mixed 13 songs with Shane Stoneback, studio magic man who recorded the most recent Sleigh Bells, Cults & Fucked Up albums."

What else?

A smidgen of the shit thrown at tila, pic from back stage (BrockSleezy)

Possible fake cuts on Tila Tequila's face (picture from TMZ)

A wrestler who was performing at the Gathering of Juggalos tells TMZ ... TIla Tequila literally had to stand behind a wall of security guards while on stage -- and not even flashing her breasts could stop the onslaught.

Colt Cabana -- formerly of the WWE and currently wrestling with ROH (Ring of Honor) -- tells us that halfway through the chaos, Tila ripped off her top to try and distract the crowd. But, he says, that only worked for about a minute before they all went back to throwing stuff at her.

Cabana says the ordeal lasted about 15 minutes. A security guard told him someone had a watermelon that had been fermenting in urine and feces for two days and that they had been saving it all weekend for Tila. No word if the watermelon connected.

Cabana tells us it was his first year wrestling at the event and he loved it, adding the highlight was seeing Vanilla Ice perform "Ninja Rap" from the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze" soundtrack. Yes, really. [TMZ]

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The Grates @ Mercury Lounge (more by Tim Griffin)

tonight in NYC
* DANCE
* KRS One @ Crotona Park
* Lauren Flax @ Cake Shop
* Frankie Negron @ Robert Wagner Park
* Toby from Youth Group @ Living Room
* Malajube, The King Left @ Maxwell's
* Jonatha Brooke @ Madison Square Park
* Alarm Will Sound @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
* Sean Bones, Hesta Prynn, Kuroma @ Glasslands
* Justin Bond, Clint Michigan @ Highline Ballroom
* The Grates, Woodsy Pride, Sissy Clemens, Sissy Wish @ Pianos
* Midsummer Night Swing w/ Big Bad Voodoo Daddy @ Lincoln Center
* Casper & The Cookies, Everything, Now, Boy Genius, Knight School @ Bruar Falls
* My Teenage Stride, Drums, Paul & the Patients, New Numbers @ the Bell House
* Mannequin Men, Davila 666, Beach Fossils, The Back C.C.'s @ The Studio
* 24 Hour Party People w/ Phil and the Osophers, Bright Brown @ McCarren Park
* Two Tears, Bleeding Bombshells, Yellow Fever, The Whisperians, El Jezel @ DBA
* Fiery Furnaces, Peter Stampfel & the Ether Frolic Mob, Larkin Grimm @ Housing Works

Free music tonight includes KRS One performing in Crotona Park, Frankie Negron in Robert Wagner Park, Jonatha Brooke at Madison Square Park, and Bright Brown and Phil and the Osophers before a screening of 24 Hour Party People at the McCarren Park Summerscreen.

Short acoustic sets from The Fiery Furnaces, Peter Stampfel & the Ether Frolic Mob and Larkin Grimm are on the bill for the Lowbrow Reader release party at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe tonight.

Malajube plays Maxwell's with The King Left. The Montreal band will be at Brooklyn's Littlefield on Friday.

Alarm Will Sound plays material off their Aphex Twin-composed album Acoustica at (Le) Poisson Rouge tonight to kick off Warp Record's 20th anniversary.

Sean Bones celebrates the release of his new CD with Hesta Prynn and Kuroma at Glasslands.

Mannequin Men and Davila 666 play the last of their recent NYC run tonight at The Studio at Webster Hall with Beach Fossils and The Back C.C.'s.

There's lots of indie pop tonight between Casper & The Cookies & Co. at Bruar Falls, My Teenage Stride, The Drums and more at The Bell House and The Grates' Pianos stint (with Sissy Wish opening).

Get ready for the Gathering of the Juggalos (video below).

What else?

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