Glenn Kotche's Top 10 albums of 2009 (via)
1. Califone - All My Friends Are Funeral Singers
2. Jim O'Rourke - The Visitor
3. Alex Cline - Continuation
4. John Luther Adams - The Place We Began
5. Tortoise - Beacons of Ancestorship
6. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
7. Frank Rosaly - Milkwork
8. Nels Cline - Coward
9. Bobb Bruno - Dreamt On EP
10. Chris Corsano - Another Dull Dawn

Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for the two Brooklyn Sonic Youth shows.

A video trailer for the new double album SENSO by White Out with Jim O'Rourke and Thurston Moore on Ecstatic Peace, below...

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NYC's very own critically-acclaimed lyricist Jean Grae will perform at NYC's New Museum on Friday, May 1st along with "the soul-inspired hip-hop of Derrin Maxwell and the gritty, heavily-fried underground funk of 3beanstew." Tickets are on sale.

That show is part of the museum's Get Weird series. A week later (Friday, May 8th), Get Weird hosts the Younger Lovers (featuring Brontez Purnell of Gravy Train!!!!) and Gamma Rays. Tickets are on sale.

During the No Fun Fest, taking place May 15th-17th at the MHoW, the New Museum will partners with Rhizome and the No Fun to present "No Fun 2009: Infinite Sound and Image" on Saturday, May 16th. The live-music and silent film screening includes Jim O'Rouke (a man with many credits including Sonic Youth and producing Wilco), Robert Beatty (of Hair Police and Three Legged Race), Sarah Lipstate (of Noveller), and C. Spencer Yeh (of Burning Star Core). Noveller and C. Spencer Yeh both also make separate NFF appearances. Tickets for the New Musem show are on sale. Full program details are below.

The museum combines its Get Weird music series and its Younger Than Jesus exhibit (artists less than 33 yrs old) and gets a show with BARR/Brendan Fowler and MEN on Friday, June 12th. Tickets are on sale for that too.

All details, with more upcoming New Museum music events (including Nick Hallett performing Meredith Monk, Karlheinz Stockhausen and others) below...

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The Forms @ Market Hotel (more by Leia Jospe)

today in NYC
* DANCE
* Foodteam @ The Stone
* Gil Scott Heron @ SOB's
* Wetnurse, Graf Orlock, Lewd Acts & 26 Beers @ the Charleston
* The Forms, Frances, Ford & Fitzroy & Arms @ The Bell House
* Cursive, Twin Thousands & McCarthy Trenching @ Union Hall
* We Are The Seahorses, Real Life Time Machines & No One & The Somebodies @ Cake Shop

Jim O'Rourke was born today in 1969.

Mystery Palace played the Stone on Saturday, and they perform in NYC again on Monday. I noticed the hole in their schedule when I posted the dates, but it was only just now that I realized Mystery Palace member Ryan Olcott is performing as Foodteam at the Stone today.

Today is Winnie The Pooh Day.

Tomorrow is Martin Luther King Day which is one day before Obama's inauguration (in case you hadn't heard).

Be careful with peanut butter.

Cursive (at Union Hall tonight) is posting videos from their current tour. The first one is from Minneapolis. You can watch it below...

what else?

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