Golem

caUSE co-MOTION! @ Market Hotel (more by Ryan Muir)

today in NYC
* Fashion Week
* Skeletons & Zs @ Zebulon
* Gil Scott Heron @ SOB's
* The So So Glos @ Crash Mansion
* Diane Cluck & Dufus @ Union Pool
* Action Painters, Mussels, Aa & Fiasco @ Southpaw
* Lambchop & Twi the Humble Feather @ Bowery Ballroom
* Golem & the Sway Machinery @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
* The Cinematic Orchestra playing a movie score @ World Financial Center
* Woodhands, Love Like Deloreans, Ava Luna, & Blip Blip Bleep @ Death By Audio
* Mr. Falcon, Right on Dynamite, caUSE co-MOTION!, Rooftop Vigilantes & Beachniks @ Cake Shop

BAM's Sounds Like Brooklyn festival is this weekend. Most of the shows tonight, Friday and Saturday at BAM, Monkey Town, The Bell House, Union Hall, Goodbyle Blue Monday, Southpaw, Zebulon, Sputnik, Le Grand Dakar, Chief Bodega, Solomon's Porch, and Pete's Candy Store fall under that umbrella.

The So So Glos are also playing The Castle in Hell on Friday.

Rufus, Fat Mike and Darla on Pancake Mountain, in the video below...

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DOWNLOAD: Jill Sobule - Jesus was a Dreidel Spinner (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: The Kinks - Father Christmas (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: The Mendoza Line - 31 Candles (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Silver Jews - Punks in the Beerlight (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: The Hot Latkes Klezmer Band - Durme (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: The Get Up Kids - Holiday (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Metronome - Hanukkah Girl (MP3)

today in NYC
* DANCE
* Hanukkah stuff
* Les Paul @ Iridium
* Yo La Tengo & The Magnetic Fields @ Maxwell's
* Matisyahu & the LeeVees @ Webster Hall
* Idle Warship (Talib Kweli) @ BB King's
* Growing, Child Abuse, Orphan & Extreme Violence @ Santos Party House
* Whiplash w/Janeane Garofalo, Matt Braunger, Sean Conroy & Brett Gelman @ UCB

Joe Strummer died today in 2002.

MERRY KWANUKAMAS from Pancake Mountain. Video below...

What else?

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Kelly Pratt (Team B) @ Union Pool (more by Kyle Dean Reinford)

today in NYC
* DANCE
* the Woodies @ Roseland
* AC/DC & the Answer @ MSG
* Ben Sollee @ Mercury Lounge
* Mark Kozelek & Neil Halstead @ MHOW
* Ane Brun & Tobias Froberg @ Union Hall
* Frida Hyvonen @ the Swedish church
* Hank IV & Los Llamarada @ the Charleston
* Herman Dune, Turner Cody & Motel Motel @ The Bell House
* Free Blood, Us Royalty & VHS or BETA (DJ Set) @ 205 Club
* Murder By Death, William Elliot Whitmore & J Roddy Waltson @ Southpaw

Neil Young was born today in 1945. BB King's is hosting a birthday party.

Sweden represent. Jens Lekman played with Frida Hyvonen last night at the Living Room. Frida plays again at the Church of Sweden tonight while Ane Brun (born in Norway, but lives in Sweden) plays a show in Brooklyn.

Video of Kings of Leon on Pancake Mountain below...

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Les Savy Fav rocking for Barack (more by Kyle Dean Reinford)

today in NYC
* DANCE
* Madonna @ MSG
* Rana @ Mercury Lounge
* Killing Joke @ Irving Plaza
* the Veils @ Union Hall (last minute show)
* Nellie McKay @ Spiegelworld
* Love is All & Times New Viking @ Purchase
* Chin Chin @ Union Pool
* Les Savy Fav, Bear Hands & Phil and the Osophers @ MHOW
* Vampire Weekend, David Crosby, Graham Nash @ an Obama benefit

The Veils played the Bell House with Liam Finn last night. They announced on stage that they would be playing a show tonight at Union Hall, after the comedy.

"The end came on October 12, 1978, when Nancy Spungen was found sprawled on the bathroom floor of their hotel room clad in a black bra and panties. She had bled to death from a single stab wound to the abdomen, later traced to a knife owned by Sid Vicious."

Happy Freethought Day.

Tomorrow is Columbus Day.

M.I.A. is pregnant. Lisa Marie Presley had twins.

YouTube to sell music and games

Video of Deerhoof performing "Spirit Ditties Of No Tone" on Pancake Mountain below...

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