Gary Lucas (who played a show at SXSW last night), in association with the estate of Jeff Buckley, is curating a Jeff Buckley tribute event this Friday (3/18) at Knitting Factory in Brooklyn. Performers include Gary Lucas, Jeffrey Lewis, Haydée Milanés, Damon Daunno, Alessio Franchini, Diana Silveira, Nicholas James, Mossa Bildner, Fay Victor, Jann Klose, Pete Pidgeon, Felice Rosser & Faith, Danielle De Luca, Villa Delirium, Marianne Nowottny, Kevin McWha Steele, and Lynda McLaughlin. The event is to benefit Road Recovery, and tickets are on sale.

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Little Joy @ Mercury Lounge (more by Zach Stern)

today in NYC
* DANCE
* Les Paul @ Iridium
* Steely Dan @ Wellmont Theater
* Devin the Dude @ Highline Ballroom
* Little Joy @ Virgin Megastore Union Square
* Iron and Wine & Blitzen Trapper @ Terminal 5
* Eagles of Death Metal & The Duke Spirit @ Bowery Ballroom
* Brightblack Morning Light & Fursaxa @ (le) poisson rouge
* Melissa Mosche & Jason Anderson @ Pete's Candy Store
* Tigercity, Glint, Apache Beat & Mixel Pixel @ Gramercy Theatre
* Lissy Trullie, Adam Green & The Rumble Strips @ Santos Party House
* Centro-Matic, The Baptist Generals & South San Gabriel @ Mercury Lounge

Santos is advertising that Lissy Trullie and Adam Green will duet tonight (in case that seems exciting). Mark Ronson is also DJing the afterparty at the same venue. Paper Magazine says Lissy is beautiful.

Tickets are still on sale for the show Kimya Dawson is playing at Bowery Ballroom.

Regina Spektor's Bowery Ballroom show goes on sale Wednesday.

Jef Buckley was born today in 1966.

Little Joy recorded a Dumbo Session. The video for "Unattainable" is below...

What else? What are you doing?

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DOWNLOAD: Sloan Wainwright - Silent Night (MP3)

This was maybe going to be a post about how the-band-recently-signed-to-Secretly-Canadian Bodies of Water posted some free Christmas songs for download on their MySpace page, but then this message they posted on the homepage of their regular website seemed even more interesting...

12.21.07 - I can't understand why anyone likes these musical groups and singers:

Wilco
Jeff Buckley
Elvis Costello
The Police
Slint
Rush
Joni Mitchell
Steely Dan
Afghan Whigs

Perhaps you are offended by this. If so, I feel glad. You need to be shaken up. You need to have whatever skewed values you've cultivated over the years CHALLENGED. Listen again to this stuff - you will see that it is junk. (I say all this with the utmost sincerity, but I'm sure that in a year or two 'synchronicity' will be on heavy rotation in my house. This goes for all of these except for Steely Dan. I will never, ever like Steely Dan as long as I live.)

Check out the Bodies of Water take away show @ La Blogoteque (and while you're at it, check out the new Jens Lekman one too).