NY Dolls @ the John Varvatos store in 2009 (more by Tim Griffin)

tonight in NYC
* Todd Barry @ Caroline's
* Pat Metheny @ Town Hall
* Dig Deeper Presents Bobby Patterson @ Southpaw
* LCD Soundsystem, Holy Ghost! @ Terminal 5
* Rooftop Films w/ Cloud. @ Open Road Rooftop
* Debo Band, CSC Funk Band, Kiddid @ Coco 66
* Marco Benevento Trio, Xylos @ Bowery Ballroom
* Municipal Waste, Ramming Speed, Attake @ Fontana's
* Josh Ritter, Dawes @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
* Frances, Arms, The Dardys, Josh Alscher @ Pianos
* NY Eye & Ear Fest III @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
* Inoculist, Little Gold, Zachary Cale @ Bruar Falls
* Fixed w/ Azari & III, JDH & Dave P @ Public Assembly
* Shark?, Birthdays, Gunfight!, Sigmund Droid @ The Cameo
* Fuck Buttons, Oneohtrix Point Never @ (le) Poisson Rouge
* Old Time Relijun, Pterodactyl, Afuche, Yvette @ Cake Shop
* Boat, Drink Up Buttercup, Happy Birthday, DOM @ Glasslands
* Nat Baldwin, Peace Loving, Woody Sullender @ Issue Project Room
* April Smith & The Great Picture Show, Hey Battlefield @ Maxwell's
* New York Dolls, Voluptous Horror of Karen Black, Foxy Shazam @ Warsaw
* Beets, German Measles, Gardens, Common Families, Xray Eyeballs @ DeathByAudio
* Verbal Abuse, Capitalist Casualties, Fang, Magrudergrind, Strong Intention @ Europa
* Capitalist Casualties, Cojoba, Verbal Desecration, E.I.D., Gnosis @ ABC No Rio
* Hearts!Attack, Corita, Gold-Bears, Moustache of Insanity, One Happy Island (NYC Popfest) @ Spike Hill
* The Wake, BOAT, My Teenage Stride, Bears, World Atlas, Very Truly Yours (NYC Popfest) @ The Bell House
* Brother Joscephus & The Love Revival Revolution Orchestra, Uzimon, Swift Technique @ Brooklyn Bowl
* Truman Peyote, Emily Reo, Dark Sea of Awareness, Total Slacker, Weekends, Philip Seymour Hoffman @ Shea Stadium

Today is the dance parade.

LCD Soundsystem play their third show at Terminal 5. Afterparty at Highline Ballroom.

Happy Birthday Littlefield.

NYC PopFest continues.

The set times for today's first day of the NY Eye & Ear Fest III at Knitting Factory Brooklyn are posted below.

Dirty Projector Nat Baldwin debuts new material at Issue Project Room tonight.

BBG says that it was "Killer times last night at Acheron!" Video from La Dispute's set below...

What else?

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by BBG

Blank Dogs at South Street Seaport (more by Chris LaPutt)

Pendu presents: NY EYE & EAR FEST III
...a massive Annual Music and Arts Fete showcasing some of the most exciting bands, artists, and filmmakers currently living and working here in NYC. In addition, NYE&E assembles a Record Fair featuring NYC-based Record Labels and Vendors selling LPs, CDs, 7?'s, cassettes, lathes, comics, zines, stickers, and art prints. NYE&E exists to facilitate the introduction of new artists placing them side-by-side with the more well-known like an eclectic living mixtape of sound and vision. This is a festival for discovery - discover new bands + discover new art + buy new records + meet new people...

The title of the fest is inspired from the 1964 NY Eye & Ear Control soundtrack by Albert Ayler as well as the all-too-familiar signs seen daily in the subway tunnels by riders of the L-train of the infamous NY Eye & Ear Infirmary.

2009's NY Eye & Ear Fest happened in July of last year and featured performances from Magik Markers, Liturgy, Drunkdriver, Child Abuse, and tons of others. This year, the fest will spread over two days (May 22-23) at the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn and will feature appearances from Blank Dogs (one of two NYC shows in May, the second being May 12th at 131 Chrystie St.), Liturgy, Twin Stumps, Effi Briest, and others on the first day, with Xeno & Oaklander, Figure Study, Naam, Freshkills, Effing, and others rounding out day two. Full lineup by day is below. Get your tickets for day one or day two or both. Stream songs from every band on the bill at the Eye & Ear site.

Show flyer, full lineup and some vids are below.

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by Andrew Frisicano

NY EYE & EAR FEST II - JULY 9 - 12, 2009!
4 DAYS - 3 VENUES - 2 BOROUGHS
Knitting Factory & 92Y Tribeca in Manhattan & Death By Audio in Brooklyn
Pendu presents: NY Eye & Ear Fest II ... a massive 4-day New Music and Arts Fete showcasing some of the most exciting bands, artists, and filmmakers currently living and working here in NYC. In addition, NYE&E assembles a Record Fair featuring NYC-based Record Labels and Vendors selling LPs, CDs, 7''s, cassettes, lathes, comics, zines, stickers, and art prints.

The fest is a part II to the December event of the same name. The Fest's four days of music kick off at the Knitting Factory on July 9th. The bands there include Grooms, Liturgy and Love Like Deloreans (to name a few) with headliners Nymph and Neg-Fi. The fest returns to the Knit on Friday, July 10th, for a show with Magik Markers, Child Abuse and more. In addition to the venue's two floors of music, its already-creepy basement will be turned into a "Video Art Installation and a 7-hour Continuous Drone Room."

The Fest then switches to the 92YTribeca on Saturday for a concert and a free record fair. Also at 92Y will be a program called "Women of NYCinema," with films and music from Sarah Lipstate (aka Noveller), Liz Wendelbo, Rachel Blackwell and Dirty Churches. The vendors range from big names like Matador Records to the recently featured Journal of Popular Noise to notable jazz label ESP-Disk.

The fest's final, fourth day moves to Brooklyn for a closing party at Death by Audio. That lineup includes Murdertronics, Team Robespierre, Talibam!, Total Abuse and Drunkdriver.

Tickets for Thursday, Friday, and a variety of Saturday packages are available.

Separate from the festival, on Thursday, July 9th the 92YTribeca will screen filmmaker Brendan Toller's I Need That Record, a documentary about the problems facing record stores around the country. It will be the NYC premiere of the movie that was getting some attention already all the back on Record Store Day 2008. The movie includes interviews with Thurston Moore, Ian Mackaye, Mike Watt, Chris Frantz and more. Toller will be on hand for the showing. Tickets are on sale.

More details on the film (with video trailer) and the Ear and Eye Festival, below...

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I hadn't heard the ambient music of Infinity Window before today. So far so good. And though they don't really seem like much of a live band, their (Taylor Richardson and Daniel Lopatin) tour dates are pretty interesting:

Dec 13 - NY Eye and Ear Fest, Brooklyn, NY
Dec 15 - Glasslands, Brooklyn w/ Sun Circle, Soft Circle, Bird Show
Dec 31 - Knitting Factory NYE NYC, New York

You also might know Taylor from Sunburned Hand of the Man. All Infinity Window dates below...

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Besides being a tongue twister, NY Eye and Ear is also...

a 2 day record fair and all-ages music festival celebrating NYC homegrown DIY recording labels and bands. This is NYC's only record fair devoted exclusively to NY record labels. The title is inspired from the 1964 Michael Snow film w/ soundtrack by Albert Ayler and from the all-too-familiar signs seen daily in the subway tunnels by riders of the L-train of the famous NY Eye & Ear Infirmary. The Fest will be held at Vanishing Point, a huge 4700 sq. foot industrial loft in Bushwick, Brooklyn (240 Meserole street, Brooklyn, NY 11206).

Friday, December 12 from 2pm -4am
Saturday, December 13 from 2pm -4am

Something like 36 bands are playing at this thing, plus "Dance-party from 1:30 - 4am" each night. Ticket info and all the record sellers, labels and bands are listed below...

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