Morning Benders @ Housing Works in Feb (more by Waverly Rose)

tonight in NYC
* Whiplash @ UCB
* Chicha Libre @ Barbes
* Rev. Vince Anderson @ Union Pool
* The Tossers, Outernational @ Maxwell's
* Fader Bowl w/ Yelawolf @ Brooklyn Bowl
* Les Paul Trio w/ Mark Whitfield @ Iridium
* Alice In Chains, Middle Class Rut @ Terminal 5
* Harvey Milk, Coalesce, Atlas Moth @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
* Royal Chord, The Morning Benders, Dinowalrus @ The Cameo
* Danielson, Ortolan, Ben & Vesper @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
* Datarock, Autodrone, Unisex Salon, Tina Brown @ Highline Ballroom
* Small Beast w/ Greg Garing, Vera Beren, JC Hopkins, AE @ The Delancey
* Washed Out, Small Black, Pictureplane, Million Young @ Mercury Lounge
* Spider, Arborea, Cabinet of Natural Curiosities, The Wailing Wall @ Cake Shop
* The Ataris, Don't Panic, Emergency Now, When Thieves are About, BYS @ Studio at Webster Hall

Joanna Newsom performed on Fallon Friday night. Video below...

The flyer for tonight's free Morning Benders show below...

What else?

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DOWNLOAD: Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - The Mighty Sparrow (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Even Heroes Have To Die (MP3)

Ted Leo @ doing karaoke at Studio B in 2008 (more by Ryan Muir)

Ted Leo and the Pharmacists did a karaoke set at Studio B in December of 2008 with Andrew WK (who did a Q&A show last night).

With their new disc, The Brutalist Bricks, out March 9th, Ted & The Pharmacists are again letting you take the mic with a Record Release Karaoke Party at Knitting Factory Brooklyn the night of its release. Tickets are on sale. ("A list of available songs will be posted at the door, as well as in advance at the new look TedLeo.com.").

The band will also be on Jimmy Fallon the night before, on March 8th. You can still apply to be on the 'band bench' (and for Silversun Pickups and Allman Brothers too).

Ted Leo has a full tour coming up with Obits and Screaming Females (who played Death by Audio last night - 2/23) opening. That includes an April 9th show at Irving Plaza with both those bands. Tickets are still on sale.

Two tracks from Ted's new album - including the bold opener, "The Mighty Sparrow" - are posted above. All Ted Leo tour dates (with openers) below...

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DOWNLOAD: Neon Indian - Terminally Chill (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Neon Indian - Deadbeat Summer (Afghan Raiders Remix) (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Neon Indian - Should Have Taken Acid with You (Future Rock remix)
DOWNLOAD: Neon Indian - Mind, Drips (LaundroMatinee.com session) (MP3)

At the beginning of February, Neon Indian played shows at NYU and a packed Market Hotel. Less than a week later they played Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (after Kings of Convenience had to cancel) with an enthusiastic recommendation from their host.

Coming up, they're on to bigger things, with shows that include Bonnaroo, SXSW, MtyMx and a just-added March 5th show at Webster Hall in NYC. Ticket info from Ticketmaster (who lists the band as 'R&B/URBAN SOUL') is forthcoming.

All the Neon Indian remixes and live cuts described here are reposted above. Their Fallon performance and all tour dates are below....

Continue reading "Neon Indian played Fallon (video), adds a NYC show (dates)"

photos by Vincent Cornelli

Hot Chip @ Highline Ballroom

Hot Chip could make things easy on itself. The band knows how to get a crowd of New York indie-rock fans, like the ones at the Music Hall of Williamsburg on Saturday night, dancing and waving their arms. It simply deploys a four-on-the-floor dance-club thump under bouncing, pinging synthesizer parts and pop choruses.

...Dance music depends on the joy of repetition, and Hot Chip clings to that. Every so often it would start a song with a hand-played introduction on guitar or piano, only to draw cheers from the audience when the drum machine kicked in soon afterward. "Happiness is what we all want," Mr. Taylor sang in the band's opening song ("Thieves in the Night," which also starts the new album), and for Hot Chip and many of its fans, the most direct route to happiness is via the visceral pleasure of beat and hook. When the band turned to a ballad among its encores -- the knowingly titled "Slush" -- quite a few people headed for the exit. [NY Times]

The band also played on the Jimmy Fallon show while they were here. Joined by the Roots, "One Life Stand" is what they played on TV. "Take It In" was taped just for the website. You can watch video of the latter below (the video of what actually appeared on TV has been removed from YouTube and doesn't seem to be on NBC's site).

After a European tour, Hot Chip will be back in April to play shows that include Coachella and two nights at Terminal 5 (one supported by the xx and the other by Gang Gang Dance). Their new record, "One Life Stand," is out Tuesday (2/9) on Astralwerks.

More pictures from Highline and all upcoming tour dates are below...

Continue reading "Hot Chip played Highline Ballroom, MHOW & Jimmy Fallon - pics & video"

photos by Jonny Leather

'@Joslynm congrats on your pop culture trivia expertise!' - Pat Kiernan

Pat Kiernan

Jimmy Fallon

"Without being too cheesy, I have to say there was a really beautiful spirit at last night's concert. The venue was sold out and aside from the silent auction, Bell House raised $35,000.00 for Save the Children and Partners in Health. I missed the first hour or so because I had to stop by my place, but got there in time to see Jimmy Fallon do a Neil Young impression. Then Freelance Whales played. You all should check them out. They're getting crazy attention right now and they are based out of Queens. Now that's special! Anyway, it was good times all around. Cat Power and Pavement records and CDs were given away for trivia knowledge, Ted Leo who also has shows in town, was adorable and even though Cold War Kids pulled out of the show, the Walkmen did an amazing job closing the show." [Petunia Eats]

All artists, including Here We Go Magic, played short sets. If you want to see more of them (HWGM), they play as a headliner at Music Hall of Williamsburg on Friday.

More pictures and some videos (by Tim Duffy of Pop Tarts Suck Toasted) from the Bell House (in alphabetical order), below...

Continue reading "Jimmy Fallon, Pat Kiernan, Ted Leo, Walkmen, the Wrens & others played a Haiti benefit @ the Bell House - pics & video "

The Blow @ SXSW 2008 (more by Ryan Muir)

As the Bell House's Haiti benefit on Wednesday, January 27th approaches, the show's lineup keeps getting more and more interesting. Since the initial announcement a few changes have been made (The Walkmen replacing Cold War Kids for one) and more acts have been announced. The schedule below reflects the expected set times, with the disclaimers that "performers will be playing abbreviated, acoustic and/or stripped down sets" and "line up subject to change."

AC Newman (who's putting out a new New Pornographers record), Rhett Miller and Nicole Atkins are playing as a Seekers cover band (a supergroup similar to what St. Vincent & Bon Iver did at MHOW on Saturday). Zach Galifianakis was also at the BV Haiti event,

UPDATE: Despite a press release that went out, The Bell House says that Paul Rudd & Zach Galifianakis are not on this benefit (they never said they were, but the press release did). Also the venue says that the set times that were posted (including here last night) are wrong.

Freelance Whales (who have quite a few shows, NYC and otherwise, coming up) are playing, as is Ted Leo (who himself has longer shows planned).

One notable addition is The Blow, aka Kaela Maricich, who played Art Basel in Miami this December, but hasn't played NYC in quite a while (possibly since CMJ 2007).

Tickets for the benefit show are still on sale.

The Blow's last album was 2006's Paper Television, when Jona Bechtolt from YACHT was still in the group. For YACHT's upcoming tour, Bechtolt and member Claire Evans will bolster their live show (previously them and a laptop) by a band consisting of Rob Kieswetter of Bobby Birdman (who is also opening), Jeff Brodsky of Jeffrey Jerusalem, and D. Reuben Snyder of Rob Walmart. The backing band's name is 'The Straight Gaze'. A tour preview clip is posted below.

More Bell House info with full lineup & poster below...

Continue reading "Bell House Haiti benefit expands (to include The Blow & more) - WEDNESDAY NIGHT"

A BENEFIT FOR THE VICTIMS OF THE EARTHQUAKE IN HAITI
100% of the proceeds will be split between Save The Children and Partners In Health.

All performers will be playing abbreviated and stripped down sets. Scheduled to appear:
JIMMY FALLON
New York State Senator DIANE SAVINO
COLD WAR KIDS
TED LEO
THE WRENS
SONDRE LERCHE
EUGENE MIRMAN
AC NEWMAN of NEW PORNOGRAPHERS with RHETT MILLER of OLD 97s and NICOLE ATKINS as THE SEEKERS.

More performers and ticket information to be announced on Monday, January 18.

City Winery also has some fine benefit shows coming up.

Others are raising money for Haiti with vegan baked goods.

Beach House @ Williamsburg Waterfront (more by Bao Nguyen)

Beach House have announced a full set of 2010 tour dates that include an appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (Jan. 22nd), Sundance (Jan 24), The Bell House (with Jana Hunter), Webster Hall, and much more. All dates below...

Continue reading "Beach House - updated 2010 Tour Dates"

DOWNLOAD: Japandroids - Young Hearts Spark Fire (MP3)

Japandroids @ the 2009 Pitchfork Festival (more by Joseph Xu)

Japandroids will be busy touring the world in January, February, March and April. They'll visit Russia and Europe and much of the United States including Austin for SXSW and NYC for a show at Bowery Ballroom on April 1st. Tickets for the NYC show go on AmEx presale on Wednesday and then general sale on Friday.

Sweden's Love is All will be touring with the band before and after the Bowery show, but unlike in Philly, Boston, Montreal and other places, the two groups won't be sharing a bill here. Stay tuned for Love is All to announce their own show at a different venue on the same night?

You can catch Japandroids on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon tonight (1/4). They'll be playing "Wet Hair" live for the first time for the show. All dates below...

Continue reading "Japandroids - 2010 Tour Dates, shows w/ Love Is All, SXSW, Fallon tonight & more "

The Muppets' version of "Bohemian Rhapsody" took the Internet by storm earlier this year. On Christmas Eve Eve, The Muppets made an appearance on the Jimmy Fallon show. Along with Jimmy and The Roots, they performed "12 Day of Christmas". Both of those videos and more below...

Continue reading "Bohemian Rhapsody & Muppets Christmas videos w/ Jimmy Fallon, The Roots, John Denver, Andrea Bocelli & more"

by BBG

"In the course of talking about the reissue I brought up the idea of playing some shows because I was like well look, if we were ever going to do this, if we were ever going to play again, you know, now would be the time to do it." - J Robbins

Jawbox was one of a few who defined the sound of the 90's underground. After releasing records on respected uber-indie Dischord, the band dropped their masterpiece For Your Own Special Sweetheart as their major label debut for Atlantic. Razor sharp post-hardcore riffage collided with tense emotional songwriting to create one of the greatest, yet most unsung LPs of the era. The band followed up Sweetheart with a self-titled LP before calling it quits in 1997.

Recently Jawbox celebrated reissued Sweetheart and celebrated with a performance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. We cornered vocalist/guitarist J Robbins before that performance to talk about the band, their future, his production work, and the Baltimore/DC music scene...

Continue reading "an interview with J. Robbins of Jawbox"

"Join New York Times journalists and some of today's most celebrated talents and thinkers from film, television, music, theater, dance and books, including Cirque du Soleil, Jimmy Fallon, Natalie Portman, Jeff Bridges, Carrie Fisher, Pulitzer playwrights and much more." [Tickets are on sale]

by Bill Pearis

DOWNLOAD: Obits - Two-Headed Coin (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Obits - Pine On (MP3)

So we asked a load of NYC-area bands to tell us how their 2009 went, via a handy questionnaire. As we get them back we're gonna post them.

Obits on the Jimmy Fallon show - November 2009

This one is from Brooklyn's Obits, a band that features a bunch of indie rock veterans, including frontman Rick Froberg (Hot Snakes, Drive Like Jehu), guitarist Sohrab Habibion (Edsel) and drummer Scott Gursky (Shortstack). Legend has it, a bootleg of their first gig (Cakeshop, Jan 2008) got them signed to Sub Pop, who earlier this year put out Obits debut, I Blame You -- one of my favorite straight-up rock records of 2009. Obits' next gig is New Years Eve Rock n' Soul Party at The Bell House that also features Eli "Paperboy" Reed (tickets are still on sale).

Sohrab (who you may have caught solo on Saturday when he opened for That Petrol Emotion at the Bell House) was kind enough to answer the questionnaire below... very candidly I might add...

Continue reading "an end of 2009 interview w/ Sohrab Habibion of Obits"

"JAWBOX IS REUNITING ON THE SHOW TONIGHT! Last week, this iconic 90's post-hardcore band re-released their classic album For Your Own Special Sweetheart. Tonight, they perform together again for the first time since 1997! They are not touring or performing anywhere else - THIS IS IT!" - Jimmy Fallon (actually Sara Schaefer)

Continue reading "Jawbox played Fallon - 'Savory' & 2 videos from rehearsal"

In addition to all the other stuff going on tonight (12/8), there are at least two noteworthy music-related events airing on TV.

Jawbox plays their ONLY reunion performance on the Jimmy Fallon show. This morning they held a private rehearsal show in the Fallon studios. Those in attendance got four songs: "ff=66", "68", "savory" and "Desert Sea".

Neko Case is TCM's guest programmer today.

A Woody Allen fan, Case chooses Radio Days (1987) as her favorite Allen film with its "celebration of the entertainment industry." Elia Kazan's A Face in the Crowd (1957) remains "shocking" to her in its satire of the corruptive power of television. She admires Orson Welles ("a force of nature") and Joseph Cot- ten ("the foxy Everyman") in Carol Reed's The Third Man (1949). The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) casts a spell on her with its Oscar Wilde dialogue and appeal to "art-history nerds." A bonus in Case's selections is a collection of Dogville shorts from the 1930s.

Continue reading "Jawbox played 4 songs @ Fallon rehearsal, Neko Case shows her favorite movies on TV tonight too "

Dirty Projectors & Roots @ Bowery Ballroom (more)

The collaboration continues. It all started when the Dirty Projectors appeared on Fallon and impressed the Roots who then showed up to play some songs with the band at Bowery Ballroom last week. Now, Amber and Haley (no Angel) from the Dirty Projectors helped the Roots (who were on a float with Fallon in the Thanksgiving Day Parade today) fill out the backing band for Mos Def (his song) and Talib Kweli on Fallon last night (11/25). Video below...

Continue reading "Dirty Projector girls played w/ Mos Def & Talib Kweli & The Roots on Fallon (video)"

Questlove, The Roots & Fallon in the Thanksgiving Day Parade (toolsdrummer)

What else?

Screaming Females @ Above the Auto Parts Store in October (more by Leia Jospe)

tonight in NYC
* Louis CK @ Caroline's
* Robin Williams @ Town Hall
* Bebel Gilberto @ Hiro Ballroom
* Pixies @ Hammerstein Ballroom (late show)
* Sherlock's Daughter, Marit Bergman @ Pianos
* Pixies, Rain Machine @ Hammerstein Ballroom
* Darcy James Argue's Secret Society @ Iridium
* Julian Plenti (Paul Banks), I'm In You @ Brooklyn Bowl
* Strangers Family Band, Lord Jeff, MV & EE @ Glasslands
* Sonic Youth, Jemina Pearl @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
* Gordon Voidwell, BILLLL$, Das Racist @ Public Assembly
* Meat Puppets, Earl Greyhound, Kirkwood Dellinger @ Bowery Ballroom
* Screaming Females, The So So Glos, Bad Blood Revival @ The Bell House
* Holmes, The Black Hollies, Bryan Scary & The Shredding Tears @ Maxwell's
* Nicole Atkins & The Sea, River City Extension, Atlantic Atlantic @ Stone Pony

Supervegan has a list of places to eat vegan Thanksgiving meals in NYC.

Sonic Youth, Meat Puppets, and Pixies (twice) all play tonight.

The Pixies performed on Fallon last night. Mos Def and Talib Kweli (not billed as Black Star) are performing on Jimmy Fallon tonight. Elvis Costello was on recently and played with the house band (aka The Roots). Video from that below.

Talib Kweli plays Southpaw on Saturday night.

Mos Def recently showed up and performed at a Knyfe Hyts / Javelin show.

The Roots recently performed with Dirty Projectors at Bowery Ballroom.

The Bell House hosts Screaming Females, The So So Glos and Bad Blood Revival. Screaming Females play Terminal 5 with Arctic Monkeys for two nights in December.

Julian Plenti (Paul Banks) and I'm In You play Brooklyn Bowl. Last night they appeared at Bowery Ballroom (and yes, they did cover the Pixies).

A new video from Polvo, "Right The Relation" off their new record, is posted below.

What else?

Continue reading "What's going on Wednesday? (Thanksgiving-eve) "

"Lovering just DESTROYED the triangle part on the slow version on WAVE OF MUTILATION." - John Hodgman

Pixies @ Hammerstein - 11/24/2009 (photo by John Hodgman)

"The Pixies are a strange story, getting stranger. Perfecting the circuitry between punk and a lusher kind of art-rock, they existed for seven years, until 1993. Since first gathering for reunion shows in 2004, they've been in a lucrative post-history for five years. When five reaches seven, if they have still not made any new music (besides one song, "Bam Thwok") and are still playing phantasmagorically hot songs with a scientifically cool affect, they may come to seem out of balance." [NY Times]

Continue reading "Pixies played Fallon & Hammerstein again (video & setlist) "

Goodie Mob on Fallon

So in one way, at least, it was 1995 again at B. B. King Blues Club & Grill on Friday night, when Goodie Mob arrived, following several years of fracture, as part of its reunion tour. Around 1:45 a.m., the 1980s New York hip-hop standout and nostalgia exploiter Slick Rick left the stage after his opening set; with him went about half the crowd.

And just as in 1995, all of those people missed out. Dressed in grays and silvers, with a female D.J. in a reflective tinsel wig and matching unitard, the Goodie Mob -- Cee-Lo, Big Gipp, T-Mo and Khujo -- were exuberant and comfortable, happily taking their rightful place as oft-overlooked pioneers. [NY Times]

Continue reading "Goodie Mob played BB King's & Jimmy Fallon (videos) "

by Black Bubblegum

Pioneering Washington, D.C.-based rock band Jawbox will make its first appearance of any kind in 12 years when it performs Dec. 8 on NBC's "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon."

For now, there are no concrete plans for additional shows from Jawbox, who along with Fugazi and Shudder To Think was the third pillar of the hugely influential DC hardcore scene in the early 1990s....

As a precursor to the "Late Night" performance, Jawbox will on Nov. 23 reissue its 1994 major-label debut, "For Your Own Special Sweetheart," on Coletta and Barbot's own Desoto Records label, complete with the three bonus tracks from the "Savory +3" EP: "68,""L'il Shaver" and a cover of the Big Boys' "Sound on Sound." [Billboard]

Continue reading "Jawbox reuniting... for Jimmy Fallon TV appearance"

i gots to be the golden child. survived yet another car crash unscathed. the cab however....3:54 AM Oct 4th from mobile web - Questlove

The Roots & friends @ Brooklyn Bowl (10/1) (more by Tim Griffin)

There are only two more Roots shows scheduled at Highline Ballroom in NYC, and tickets are on sale for both (November 10 & November 17)

The October 6th, 13th and 27th dates have been canceled, and tickets purchased for those three shows will work at either one of the November shows. According to the venue, Jimmy Fallon's house band also have no more dates planned there (for now?).

The Roots join Common at Terminal 5 TONIGHT (10/7). It's a Hennessey party. Hopefully Questlove's hand is doing better.

Last week The Roots moved the show to Brooklyn for one night. Another video from that show (where they were joined by Mayer Hawthorne), below...

Continue reading "The Roots Highline residency ending? ++ Terminal 5 tonight"

based on their setup and sound....imma take a wild guess dirty projectors are from BK? -?uestlove

backstage @ the Fallon show - 9/28/09 (Brassland)

Dirty Projectors were on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night where they premiered a new song called "When the World Comes to an End." Before that, they performed acoustically backstage. That earlier part wasn't aired on TV, but ?uestlove, a member of Jimmy's house band The Roots, was there recording with his iPhone (see above), and posted a video to his Twitter where he wrote, "Man. Dirty Projectors came into our room and demonstrated their awesomeness. How cool is it for them to do this?". He then Tweeted it again with the message, "dirty projectors really became a fav of mine after today" (both of those notes came an hour or two after the Tweet quoted at the very top of this post). Both videos below.

?uestlove, in addition to appearing on Fallon like he does every day, will be playing tonight (9/29) at the free Wizard of Oz show/screening in Central Park (with Jennifer Hudson and others). Then, as you can hear him tell DP in the below video, the Roots play Thursday night (10/1) at Brooklyn Bowl in Brooklyn. Tickets are still on sale

Dirty Projectors are playing, what we now know is a short four-song set, at the New Yorker Fest's "Bands from the County of Kings" show at the Bell House on Friday, October 16th. Also on the bill are House of Ladosha, Jubilee and Liturgy. Tickets are still on sale.

Dirty Projectors then go out on tour from the end of October through most of November. It ends with four full NYC shows on 11/18-11/22 (with no show on the 20th). Recent 4AD signee tUnE yArDs has been added as opener to all of those shows, and to the entire last two weeks of their tour. She (tUnE) also has more gigs before then, including non-NYC shows with Sunset Rubdown and a Brooklyn show on October 6th at Union Hall with Dragons of Zynth.

All videos and tour dates are below...

Continue reading "Dirty Projectors played a new song on Fallon, performed backstage for ?uestlove (both videos), tUnE yArDs & stuff "

Do you think he looked throwed?

Continue reading "Jarvis Cocker on Jimmy Fallon - the video "

Throwed - "Houston slang, for being wasted, high, or both"

The above tweet comes to us from Questlove of the Roots live from Jarvis Cocker's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon taping. The episode will air tonight, after Jarvis is finished playing Music Hall of Williamsburg and around the time The Roots are playing Webster Hall. What is Questlove talking about? Video below...

Continue reading "Questlove says Jarvis Cocker looks wasted on Fallon, fighting urge to get revenge for Michael Jackson"