As previously announced, America's Funnyman Neil Hamburger is playing a show at Knitting Factory in Brooklyn tonight (11/11). Opening for the comedian in NYC are JP Incorporated and Corndawg (who is a friend and tour-mate of Deer Tick). From New York Neil heads to Asbury Park, NJ before continuing on a tour that keeps him on the road for most of the rest of the year. All dates below....

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Neil Hamburger @ Knitting Factory in Manhattan in 2008 (more by Lori Baily)

The days are officially numbered for Hollywood's Knitting Factory. The club, says a spokesman, will host its last show on Oct. 25, with pop-punk band Hit the Lights currently booked on the venue's final day.

Pop & Hiss reported in July that the Knitting Factory intended to leave its current location at 7021 Hollywood Blvd. at the end of October. The club's lease is up Oct. 31, and there were no last-minute changes of heart.

"We are definitely not staying here," says the club's head of promotion and publicity, Bruce Duff, via email.

The Knitting Factory's flier for its final Hollywood shows teases a new venue opening in 2010. Duff says nothing has yet been finalized on a new locale, although "several are in the running."
[LA Times]

Here in NY our Knitting Factory went through something similar with the location switching from Manhattan to Brooklyn where funnyman Neil Hamburger is performing on November 11th! JP Incorporated and Jonny Corndawg open the show. Tickets are on sale.

DOWNLOAD: Blitzen Trapper - Black River Killer (MP3)

Blitzen Trapper @ the 2009 Sasquatch Festival (5/25) (more by Chris Graham)

Blitzen Trapper is releasing a new EP called Black River Killer on August 25th and it features the song "Black River Killer" from their full length Furr as well as 6 more songs that have been, up to now, only available as a CDR that they've been selling at their live performances for the past year or so. Get it and make sure to check out the Black River Killer video by Daniel Elkayam that came out earlier this year. [Sub Pop]

Check out that song in video (below) and MP3 (above) form. Full EP tracklist and art are below

Blitzen Trapper tours Europe through the end of September. Shortly afterward, the band kicks off a fall tour starting in their hometown of Portland, OR. Accompanying Blitzen on nearly all of its dates will be Baltimore's Wye Oak. That includes the band's Sunday, October 11th show at the Bowery Ballroom. Tickets go on AmEx presale Wednesday, August 12th at noon; general sale starts Friday at noon.

Wye Oak was just at XX Merge on July 26th. They have their own European jaunt planned for September, but before that, Wye Oak will play the Bowery Ballroom on August 12th with Starlight Mints and JP Inc (formerly Pleaseeasaur). Tickets are still on sale.

All tour dates, and the above-mentioned video and EP info are below...

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