Sunday is the 11th Annual No Pants Subway Ride. It starts at 3pm and more details can be found at Improv Everywhere's website. Video below...

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Heartless Bastards @ ACL 2008 (more by Kyle Dean Reinford)

today in NYC
* Meat Loaf @ Jones Beach
* NY Philharmonic in Central Park
* Electric Six, Township @ Maxwell's
* Smiths speed dating @ Black Rabbit Bar
* We Are Scientists, Rewards @ Bowery Ballroom
* Nels Cline & Jenny Schreiman @ Village Vanguard
* The Rassle, Radical Sons, Laserdiscs @ Union Pool
* The Acorn, The Loom @ Mercury Lounge (Early Show)
* The Blind Boys of Alabama & guests @ Lincoln Center
* Naomi Shelton & The Gospel Queens @ Stuyvesant Town Oval
* Small Black, Beach Fossils @ Mercury Lounge (Late Show)
* Pepper Rabbit, Candy Claws, Blair, Baby Alpaca @ Glasslands
* Soft Landings, Diamond Doves, Jared Van Fleet @ The Rock Shop
* Chiddy Bang, Daniel Merriweather, Gordon Voidwell @ Brooklyn Bowl
* Catherine Russell and Cat & the Hounds Swing Band @ Lincoln Center
* Organs, The Sweet Sixteens, The Poppets, Fools On Sunday @ Cake Shop
* Lights On, Black Hollies, The Nouvellas, Himalaya @ Knitting Factory
* Harpoon Pole Vault, Bee Mask, Zaimph, Mi Or & The Pedestals @ Zebulon
* The Heartless Bastards, The Builders and the Butchers, Peter Wolf Crier @ MHOW

Tickets are on sale for BEAK> @ Bowery Ballroom.

Dave Hill says,

Hi there. Do you like Morrissey, the Smiths, and/or making out with people? Oh, great, because [tonight] at 8pm, I am going to be doing my futuristic, one-of-a-kind combination Smiths/Morrissey music/speed dating event I like to call "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now" (pretty clever of me, huh?) at Brooklyn's best bar, the Black Rabbit, which is located right there in Brooklyn.

The Acorn continue their NYC run of shows

Tonight is your second and last chance to catch Candy Claws.

The Heartless Bastards headline their first of two NYC shows tonight.

The Stuy Town free music series continues with a Naomi Shelton tonight.

Improv Everywhere brought Star Wars into the subway. Video below...

New Flying Lotus video for "MmmHmm", below...

What else?

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"The 9th Annual No Pants Subway Ride went off without a hitch today in New York. It's tough to count, but we're guessing we had around 3,000 participants. Riders met at meeting points spread out all over the city and converged on Union Square. The high was 28 degrees." [Improv Everywhere]

Lots of videos from the 2010 event, below...

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Major Lazer @ SOB's Saturday (georgia.kral)

tonight in NYC
* DANCE
* Les Paul @ Iridium
* Esser @ Le Royale
* Baby Gramps @ the Kitchen
* Dave Brubeck @ 92nd St Y
* Major Lazer @ Other Music
* Bruce Brubaker @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
* The Big Pink @ Mercury Lounge
* Gabriel Kahane @ Rockwood Music Hall
* Bachelorette, Lichens, Pikelet @ Cake Shop
* Vision Festival @ Angel Orensanz Foundation
* So Cow, Diehard, Free Energy @ The Bell House
* Rhys Jones, Mia Riddle, Jose Granda @ Pete's Candy Store
* Reggie Watts, Brett Gelman, Leo Allen & more @ Whiplash @ UCB
* The Dead Science, Bobby Conn & Monica Bou Bou, Zs @ The Studio at Webster Hall
* Low Anthem, Cory Chisel & The Wandering Sons @ Bowery Ballroom
* Ghost Mice, Heathers, Shellshag, Kudrow @ Death By Audio

Tonight is the last night of the Vision Festival.

And its your last chance to go to Black Betty.

Major Lazer, aka Diplo and Switch, play an in-store at Other Music. The show is free, but capacity is limited -- the store writes "Anyone who pre-orders the album will be guaranteed entry." The pair performed on Saturday, June 13th at SOB's.

Britain's Esser plays a free show (w/ RSVP) at Le Royale.

Pianist Dave Brubeck plays tonight at 92 Street Y. The gig, which offered a discounted tickets to those under 35, is sold out. You can do better than cheap though -- Dave plays a free show on August 5th at Damrosch Park as part of the Lincoln Center's Out of Doors Festival.

Another pianist, Bruce Brubaker, plays music by William Duckworth and Philip Glass at a CD release show for his new Time Curve record on Arabesque Records. Tickets are still available.

Tonight The Dead Science play their first of two NYC shows at the Studio at Webster Hall. The band travels to Brooklyn's Death By Audio tomorrow for a show with Skeletons, From Bacteria to Boys and Charlie Looker.

Lots of people listened to an MP3 at the same time on Roosevelt Island. Improv Everywhere was behind it, and they documented it in the video below...

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by Andrew Frisicano

Free show series Roosevelt Live will happen this summer on Roosevelt Island's Riverwalk Commons. The shows, scheduled for Saturdays at 4pm, will feature mostly local acts. Scheduled performers include piano-fronted band Wakey Wakey, indie-rockers Frances, Brooklyn country dude Alex Battles (of The Whiskey Rebellion) and local comedy/stunt troupe Improv Everywhere.

Improv Everywhere is the group responsible for the No Pants! subway rides. It most recently pulled off an April Fool's Day stunt where the group showed up en masse to a random, underattended funeral to make it "The Best Funeral Ever." It turns out the whole thing was staged, a fact the CW11 piece on the stunt failed to note (videos below).

Another recent-news tidbit from the Roosevelt Live performers, Frances frontman Paul Hogan scored indie-doc Must Read After My Death, which played at Manhattan's Quad Cinema in February and is now available for download at Gigantic Digital. Frances also plays the 92YTribeca on Saturday, April 4th with The Subjects and Glass Ghost. (Tickets for that show are on sale.)

Frances' Roosevelt Live performance takes place on June 20th, the same day that music blogger collective "After The Jump" is planning a festival on the same island. No more details on that one yet.

Full schedule (and flyer) with videos from the above-mentioned acts (plus a Coldplay tracked video of Roosevelt Island) below...

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"The 8th Annual No Pants! Subway Ride went off without a hitch today in New York. It's tough to count, but we're guessing we had between 1,200 and 1,500 participants. Riders were divided up and dispatched to 4 separate train lines. The high was 30 degrees and there was a nice steady stream of snow." [Improv Everywhere]

"Reminder: No Pants 2k9 is Saturday in New York City and 24 cities worldwide! There are 9 countries involved this year, including Korea, Poland, and Australia. We're expecting snow in New York, which would be a first." [Improv Everywhere]

NYC event details and a video from last year, below...

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Thurston Moore @ Knitting Factory, NYC - Jan 8, 2008 (lori baily)

wearing no pants in Union Square, NYC - Jan 12, 2008 (zodak)

* Globalfest @ Webster Hall
* Franz Nicolay @ Maxwell's
* Endless Boogie & Human Bell @ Pianos
* KT Tunstall is playing the Apple Store
* Ladybug Mecca & Brian Jackson @ Knitting Factory
* Kimya Dawson & Tiny Masters Today @ Southpaw (afternoon)
* Mirah and Spectratone Int'l @ Southpaw (night time)

What else?

DOWNLOAD: Pants Yell! - Your Feelings Don't Show (MP3)

There's at least one set of pictures from Saturday's pantless subway ride on Flickr at the moment, and a couple more shots at Improv Everywhere's site.

No Pants Subway Ride, 2007 (Eric Thayer)

All are invited to participate in the 7th Annual No Pants! Subway Ride. The event will take place at 3:00 PM on Saturday, January 12. [Improv Everywhere]