Friendly Fires at Webster Hall (more by Paul Birman)

Did you get tickets to the now-sold out Friendly Fires show at Bowery (happening 2/7)? If not, be patient, the SXSW-bound band will also tour North America in late-May/June which will bring them back to NYC to play Webster Hall on May 25th. Tickets are currently on AMEX presale and go on regular sale on 1/21 at noon.

Friendly Fires released their self-titled debut LP in 2009 and are reportedly "promising a new album" (working title Pala) this spring. More details to come.

No opener has been announced on the new tour or Webster Hall show, but The Hundred In The Hands, who released their debut LP late last year, will support Friendly Fires at Bowery Ballroom. The show is their lone US date, but they recently added a full slate of European dates for late February. All tour dates and some videos below...

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Voluptous Horror of Karen Black (w/ more clothes on than usual)

The lineup for the New York Dolls show at Warsaw in Brooklyn on Saturday, May 22nd has been filled out with opening acts performance-art/punk Voluptous Horror of Karen Black and party glam band Foxy Shazam. Tickets are still on sale. We have two pairs to give away as well. Details are below.

The Warsaw has a bunch of other shows coming up too. Details on those (and ticket links) and videos of both NY Dolls openers (including a brand new "What's In My Bag?" at Amoeba with Kembra Pfahler of Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black) are below...

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tonight in NYC
* Asa Ransom @ The Cameo
* Dr. Dog @ Apple Store Soho
* Kid Sister @ Public Assembly
* Bone Thugs N Harmony @ Irving Plaza
* Suckers, Light Asylum @ Brooklyn Bowl
* Darwin Deez, Photon Dynamo @ Party Expo
* Bushwick Book Club @ Goodbye Blue Monday
* Howls, Fnu Lnu, Serica Ux @ Bruar Falls
* Gringo Star, Hymns (early) @ Mercury Lounge
* The Sundelles, Your Youth, Toucher @ Union Pool
* Atoms for Peace, Flying Lotus @ Roseland Ballroom
* Peter Piek, Fuck Fuck, Mentira Mentira @ Don Pedro
* Cross-Pollination w/ Sunroom, Team Genius @ Pianos
* Shy Child, French Horn Rebellion (late) @ Mercury Lounge
* MiniBoone, Ava Luna, Ball of Flame Shoot Fire @ Cake Shop
* Best Coast, Bitters, The Babies @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
* The Bronx, Violent Soho, Mariachi El Bronx @ Bowery Ballroom
* Growing, Eric Copeland, Luke Roberts, The Monroe Indians @ Coco 66
* The Hundred In The Hands, James F Friedman (DJ), Max Plask (DJ), Jacques Renault (DJ), The Rapture (DJ) @ Santos

Mexico's Mentira Mentira followed Todd P home from Mexico (they played MtyMx). Tonight you can catch them at Death By Audio,

The Hundred in the Hands signed to Warp Records and today they release their first single, "Dressed in Dresden". The show at Santos tonight is to celebrate. Their longer This Desert EP will be out May 18, and then a full length is expected in the fall.

Thom Yorke's new band Atoms for Peace play for the second night in a row at Roseland Ballroom. Radiohead's Phil Selway recently played solo shows too. Videos of that below...

Flying Lotus is opening the shows for Thom Yorke (who appears on Flying Lotus's new record too), and Flying Lotus recently played a show at Le Poisson Rouge where, like at other shows, he covered Radiohead's "Idioteque". Video of that (from a March 26th show) below...

What else?

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Passion Pit (more by Tim Griffin)

Not quite on the scale of their last NYC music event (that I know about), but Diesel Jeans's U:Music tour will visit NYC for a show at Webster Hall on Thursday, July 30th. The lineup for that includes The Roots (with a special guest), Drake, Cobra Starship (huh?), Passion Pit, Theophilus London, and contest winners (two bands won a contest to get on the bill) The Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt! (as seen HERE and HERE) and Heartsrevolution. "To get in, one has to appear at the store's participating NYC locations wearing a pair of Diesel jeans, though tickets are limited."

All Diesel fans will have a chance to witness this private event with a limited amount of invitations to be given away at participating Diesel stores. One must show up to participating stores in a pair of Diesel jeans to qualify...

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