Radiohead @ Roseland Ballroom in 2011 (more by Bao Nguyen)

Coachella which is taking place over the course of two weekends this year (April 13-15 and 20-22) revealed their 2012 lineup. Last week, Azealia Banks was the first artist confirmed, and earlier today they confirmed The Weeknd (maybe he found a band?), and before that, Jimmy Cliff, Breakbot, and Housse De Racket. The reunited Pulp then announced itself. The full lineup also includes headliners The Black Keys, Radiohead, Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg, not to mention, as predicted, the reunited At the Drive In and the reunited Mazzy Star (!), and Madness and Refused (!) and Jeff Mangum and many, many more that you can see below...

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Atlas Sound @ Creators Project in Oct (more by Dominick Mastrangelo)

today in NYC
* Comedy
* The Delorean Sisters @ Barbes
* Wu-Tang Clan @ Best Buy Theater
* Marianne Faithfull @ City Winery
* Delicate Steve, Milagres @ Brooklyn Bowl
* Divining Rod, Vorhees, Dan Matz @ Zebulon
* Marshall Tucker Band @ B.B. King Blues Club
* Lucky Dragons, Gamelan Kusuma Laras @ The Stone
* Guardian Alien, Yautja, Dawn, ATM @ Shea Stadium
* Atlas Sound, Carnivores, Frank Broyles @ Bowery Ballroom
* Stephane Wrembel Presents The Django Experiment @ Barbes
* Blonde Valhalla, Fake Babies, D. Gookin, Jacob 2-2 @ Glasslands
* Technicolor Lenses, Eitch, Misterthumbs, Ian Stewart @ Cake Shop
* Bomb The Music Industry, Laura Stevenson, Titus Andronicus @ Europa
* Bane, Incendiary, Naysayer, United Youth and King Nine @ The Morgan
* No Power, The Marsh Hens, Herzog Rising, Aint Rights @ Death By Audio
* Ignite, Grey Area, Banquets, Live Fast Die Fast @ The Studio at Webster Hall
* Matter Waves, Diamond Terrifier, Dharana, Sondra Sun-Odeon @ Big Snow Buffalo Lodge
* New Beard, Lavalier, Toys and Tiny Instruments Band, Gato Loco de Bajo @ Cameo Gallery
* Joe Fletcher & The Wrong Reasons, D. Charles Speer & The Helix, Brown Bird @ Union Pool
* The Gregory Brothers, Sarah and The Stanleys, Dusty Brown, Melanie Penn @ Rockwood Music Hall
* Freddie Stevenson, Kevin Calaba, Zane Carney, Chelsea Lee, Alec Berlin, Marissa Hansson, Johanna Samuels, Jonny Hirsch @ Rockwood Music Hall

Thanks to all who came by Brooklyn Bazaar on Friday and Twin Sister last night. Happy Sunday!

Videos of Noel Gallagher, Deer Tick and Dawes on Conan O'Brien last week, below...

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By Bill Pearis

DOWNLOAD: Heavy Times - Future City (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Brain Idea - Oh I'm Free (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Los Campesinos! - By Your Hand (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: The Strange Boys - Me and You(MP3)

Noel Gallagher

I'm heading to the M for Montreal festival tomorrow which will keep me busy and entertained, but here's what I'll be missing this week while I'm there.

Like last night, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds are playing tonight (11/15) at the Beacon Theater and there are still (pricey) tickets available for the show. He'll then head to California for a few shows, and will be back in America in March (no NYC date yet). All Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds tour dates are at the bottom of this post.

As someone who gave up on Oasis about two songs into Be Here Now, I was a bit surprised by how much I like Noel Gallagher's new album, which debuted at #1 on the UK album charts. While nothing  strays very far from his wheelhouse, it sounds like he might have been saving up his best songs for himself. "Aka...What a Life!" is a dancefloor stomper that works surprisingly well, and the songs that revel in pomp and strings sound great loud. It's a good album. There are videos for "Aka...What a Life!" (featuring, um, Russell Brand) and "If I Had a Gun" at the bottom of this post and Spotify users can listen to the whole album.

Unlike Beady Eye, Noel has no problem playing Oasis songs (he did write them after all) so you're probably gonna get "Don't Look Back in Anger" and "Wonderwall" (and probably some deep cuts) along with the entirety of his new album. Actually, you can look at last night's setlist, and pictures too, HERE.

Los Campesinos!

Los Campesinos! release their new album Hello Sadness today and are here for two shows: tomorrow (11/16) at Bowery Ballroom and then Thursday (11/17) at Music Hall of Williamsburg. All tour dates are at the bottom of this post.

Their first album made since (amicably) losing vocalist/keyboardist Aleksandra, Hello Sadness finds LC! "maturing" a bit: code for being less manic and shouty than previous albums. Which is fine, you can't do that forever, and it suits the tone of lyrics. (It's a massive breakup album.) There's a fair amount of wallowing going on, but you also get some terrific singles too, like "By Your Hand" which has a giant, stick-in-your-head chorus and is downloadable at the top of this post.

Heavy Times

Chicago's Heavy Times and Brain Idea are here this week, playing Shea Stadium on 11/17 and Party Expo on 11/18. Both are worth checking out. Heavy Times just released Jacker on Hozac Records and you can check out "Future City" at the top of this post. As I said previously, it's one big snarl of an album and if you dig Obits and "I Wanna Live" era Ramones (or the HoZac label in general), this is right up your bowling alley.

Brain Idea

Brain Idea, meanwhile, make the kind of jangly guitar pop that was inescapable on college radio in the '80s. (Flying Nun and the paisley underground scene come to mind.) An MP3 for "Oh I'm Free" from this year's Mexican Summer-released Cosmos Factory EP is at the top of this post.

Cover to new Total Control/Oh Sees split 12"

The band I'm most bummed about missing this week is Australia's Total Control, whose album Henge Beat is one of my favorites of the year. They're here for three shows: tomorrow night (11/16) at St Vitus, and then opening for tourmates Thee Oh Sees on Thursday (11/ 17) at 285 Kent and Friday (11/ 18) at Le Poisson Rouge. All Oh Sees/Total Control dates are at the bottom of this post.

I'm just gonna quote myself here:

Although their web presence is minimal and enigmatic, Total Control's lineage is not: Daniel Young is in Straightjacket Nation, and Mikey Young spends time in Eddy Current Suppression Ring and both are also in UV Race. (Fellow UV Racer Alistair Montfort, plus Zephyr Pavey and James Vinciguerra round out the live line-up.) After a string of 7"s the band released Henge Beat back in August, a real corker of a debut album. It divides its time between motorik synth workouts, jittery post-punk and more Eddy Current style stormers, with a nice layer of repetition repetition repetition coating the whole shebang.

You can stream one of the album tracks at the bottom of this post. If you go to one of the shows, be sure to pick up the split Total Control/Oh Sees tour 12" too.

The Strange Boys

And finally, Austin's Strange Boys are here this weekend, playing Friday (11/18) at Mercury Lounge, Saturday (11/19) at Glasslands and then a free in-store at Generation Records on Sunday afternoon (11/20, 4PM).

The band's first album for Rough Trade, Live Music, came out last month and knocks a lot of the dust off the band's grubby, in-the-red twangy R&B but I don't think it's necessarily to their detriment. There is grub to spare, and if you like dive bar rock n' roll and can't get enough of things that sound vaguely like early-'70s Rolling Stones you'll probably dig. Check out an MP3 of "Me and You" at the top of this post. None of their records have really captured what they're like live, anyway, which is the best way to experience them for sure. So go check out a show this weekend.

That'll do it for this week. Some day-by-day picks follow for shows not mentioned above.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15

Hopefully you got tickets to Youth Lagoon's sold out show at Mercury Lounge tonight. Or did you go last night?

David Comes to Life comes to life tonight at Warsaw as Fucked Up perform the album in its entirety. Tickets are still available.

Not sold out and actually free is múm's Kría Brekkan who performs tonight at Church of the Advent Hope along with Julianna Barwick and Aaron Roche, with artwork by EyeBodega.

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"As Oasis' guitarist and chief songwriter, he spent a decade at the helm of Britain's biggest band. Last month, he celebrated his solo album debuting at No. 1 on the UK charts. Brother Liam's new band, Beady Eye, only managed No. 3.

But Noel Gallagher -- whose band High Flying Birds [is on tour now] -- isn't strutting.

"The only thing I was certain of with this album was that (mellow tune) 'The Death of You and Me' be the first single," he said from London. "I just thought now wasn't the time for grandstanding. I thought it was time to be a little more cool and calm."

You could read between the lines and guess there will be no Oasis reunion. Fans have buzzed about the band touring for the 20th anniversary of 1995 blockbuster "(What's the Story) Morning Glory?"

Gallagher told me it won't happen. [Boston Herald]

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds began their two night run at the Beacon Theatre last night (11/14) and conclude their visit to NYC with a show TONIGHT (11/15). Tickets are still available. Though Gallagher has launched this new band with a new album, he wasn't afraid to dip his toes into classic Oasis material like "Wonderwall" and "Supersonic". The full setlist is below, under the rest of the pictures and two videos from the Monday night show.

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds have announced another set of East Coast dates for March 2012, though none in NYC (yet?). The updated tour schedule, video, setlist and more pictures are below...

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Tickets went on sale this morning for Noel Gallagher's previously announced show at Beacon Theatre, and though tickets are still available for the 11/14 date as of this posting, he's added one at the same venue happening one day later (11/15). Tickets for the new date go on sale 9/16 at 10am.

"Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds are pleased to confirm their debut tour of North America.

Noel announced earlier this week on Los Angeles Radio Station KROQ that the band are scheduled to play a number of cities this November in support of their debut album 'Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds', which is released through his own label Sour Mash Records / Mercury Records in North America on Tuesday 8th November.

The band will be premiering new songs off the debut album, as well as running through some of Noel's penned songs from his days in Oasis."

Noel is the only member of Oasis that isn't in Beady Eye which is Liam's band that also has upcoming North American dates. Beady Eye play Terminal 5 in December. Noel will play Beacon Theater on November 14th. Tickets go on Internet/Fan Club presale Thursday, 9/8 at 10am. General sale begins 24 hours after that. All dates and a video below...

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Beady Eye at Webster Hall in June (more by Jessica Amaya)

Beady Eye (Oasis minus Noel Gallagher), who made their public NYC debut at Webster Hall last month, are returning to North America this fall for a short tour. The tour ends in NYC on December 9 at Terminal 5. Tickets go on sale Friday (7/15) at noon. "The band will be joined by Matt Jones on keyboards and Jeff Wootton on bass for all dates."

Beady Eye recently made a video for their track "The Beat Goes On." The video, which you can watch below, was filmed at the band's Isle of Wight performance and directed by Charlie Lightening. The band are releasing the song as a single on their own label with the previously unreleased track "In The Bubble With A Bullet" as the b-side. The single comes out July 18.

Meanwhile, Noel Gallagher has been working on some stuff of his own. He's set to release the solo album Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds in the UK on October 17 on his own Sour Mash label, and in the US on November 8 on Sour Mash and Mercury. According to Noel's website, he and his band Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds will tour this fall. No dates have been announced yet. He's also said that he's completed a second album "which is a continuation of his collaboration with Amorphous Androgynous." That album is set to come out in 2012.

In other news, Liam says that Noel lied about how Oasis split up in 2009.

"I got diagnosed with laryngitis for the V festival - I wasn't hung-over," Liam said.

"I do gigs when I've been hung-over. I'm a big boy. I'm not going to cancel a gig because I've got a headache."

All Beady Eye tour dates, video, and Noel's album tracklist below...

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by Bill Pearis

Liam Gallagher is ruling Glasgow before he has even come on: 2,000 voices roar his name, mixing this with a booze-sozzled chant that carries on throughout the gig: "Beady! Beady! Beady fuckin' aye!"

Oasis may be no more, but if this lot are missing Noel Gallagher, it doesn't show. Still, it's hard to pinpoint exactly what Liam does that has made him the sort of idol who comes along once a generation. He wears a motorcycle jacket buttoned up (helpful for dodging the traditional Glasgow welcome of hurled beer). He edges a hand towards his private regions (not quite a Michael Jackson crotch grab, more like scratching an itch). He stands motionless and casts, yes, a beady eye over the crowd. Yet somehow his presence in this medium-size hall (as opposed to an Oasis-size arena) is formidable. [The Guardian]

That's a review of Beady Eye's show in Glagow this past Friday night. The band, basically Oasis minus Noel Gallagher, released their debut album, Different Gear, Still Speeding, last week. It pretty much sounds like what you think it going to, though guitarists Gem Archer and Andy Bell (who was in Ride) show that Noel wasn't the only one capable of writing melodies that sound a lot like The Beatles and The Las. When it sticks to rockers, it's actually pretty good.

Beady Eye have just announced their first ever American dates, including a June 23 stop at Webster Hall. Tickets ($40) for that show go on sale this Friday (3/11) at noon.

A couple Beady Eye videos are below, along with their cover art and announced North American tour dates....

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photos by Kyle Dean Reinford

More pictures from last night's show at the Garden, below...

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Oasis @ Toronto's VFest (Kyle Gustafson)

An on-stage attack on Oasis bandmate Noel Gallagher has forced the British rock group to postpone its much-anticipated concert at the John Labatt Centre tonight [Sept 9].

A new date for the show will be announced soon, event organizer Live Nation said. Tickets for tonight's show will be honoured at the makeup date.

The attack happened Sunday night at Toronto's Virgin Fest when a man rushed at Gallagher from the back of the stage and shoved him from behind.

Gallagher fell heavily on to his monitor speakers, leaving him with injuries to his hip and ribs. He has been advised by doctors to rest. [The London Free Press]

The Terminal 5 show in NYC is still on for now. Video of the attack below...

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Speaking of Oasis,

The inquest into The Mysterious Case of the Missing Glastonbury Ticket Sales has taken an ugly turn. Suggestions that festival fatigue, poor weather or hordes of rival festivals have stopped people rushing to buy tickets have been set aside, because apparently Noel Gallagher knows better: it's all Jay-Z's fault.

"If it ain't broke don't fix it," Gallagher said of the choice of Jay-Z as Pyramid Stage headliner along with The Verve and Kings of Leon, possibly alluding to his own attitude to song-writing at the same time. "If you start to break it then people aren't going to go. I'm sorry, but Jay-Z? Fucking no chance. Glastonbury has a tradition of guitar music and even when they throw the odd curve ball in on a Sunday night you go 'Kylie Minogue?' I don't know about it. But I'm not having hip-hop at Glastonbury, no way man. It's wrong." [Guardian]

an Ahmet Ertegun Tribute....

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