today in NYC
* Whiplash @ UCB
* Kevin Allison @ the Pit
* Mr. Vegas @ SOB's
* Elain @ Joe's Pub
* Gato Loco @ Barbes
* The Shirelles @ BB King Blues Club
* New Pants, Marfa Lights @ Mercury Lounge
* Hot Tub with Kurt and Kristen @ Littlefield
* Shelby Lynne, Findlay Brown @ City Winery
* Karl Berger's Stone Workshop Orchestra @ The Stone
* Mira Cook, Mark David Ashworth, Martin Crane @ Zebulon
* Old Bricks, Americans in France, Lonnie Walker @ Cake Shop
* Tony Scherr Trio, Lianne Smith, Lee Coulter @ The Living Room
* Jonny Corndawg, The Extraordinaires, CSC Funk Band @ Brooklyn Bowl
* Jim Campilongo Electric Trio, Stephan Crump, Tony Mason @ The Living Room
* Small Beast w/ Dying in Motion, Roman Games, Swoon, Mollie King @ Delancey
* Blue Note Japan benefit w/ Renee Fleming, Madeleine Peyroux, Joe Lovano, Karrin Allyson, Don Byron, Sonny Fortune, Antonio Hart, Eldar, Eddie Gomez, Janis Siegel & more @ Highline Ballroom
* Blue Note Japan benefit w/ Eldar, Danny Walsh, Jerry Weldon, Sarah Hayes, Jay Leonhart, John Colianni, Jerry Weldon, Sarah Hayes, Jay Leonhart, John Colianni & more @ Highline Ballroom

The Pipettes @ The Rock Shop is cancelled.

General tickets are now on sale for the Tribeca Film Festival.

Wyatt Cenac, Morgan Murphy & more will be at Whiplash tonight.

What else?

Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for the recently added Grizzly Bear show at Music Hall of Williamsburg.

Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for the Phoenix show happening at Terminal 5.

Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for the 2nd Shins show happening at Terminal 5.

Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for the Gomez show happening at Terminal 5.

Tickets are sale (@ noon) for Asobi Seksu's Northside Festival show at Music Hall of Williamsburg.

Bob Mould two nights ago @ Joe's Pub (more by Jacob Blickenstaff)

Last night (4/9), while some were enjoying (or not enjoying) a Passover Seder, others caught Bob Mould at his second of two shows at Joe's Pub. Anonymous wrote,

Unfortunately it was not an ideal venue tonight.
It could have been, but the atmosphere just wasn't the way most BM solo shows usually are.
Still not bad, and the audience was with him, but people were eating dinner....that's an ideal venue for Bob Mould?? I don't think so.

We have a review and pictures from the first night, HERE. Tonight (4/10), Bob switches it up a little and plays DJ (and maybe performs live?) at Highline Ballroom for his popular gay dance night Blowoff. (Tickets are on sale.)

Paper Magazine held their "Beautiful People Party" at Hiro Ballroom last night. Past musical guests at the annual get together have included Antony and Joanna Newsom (whose music is now featured in a bra commercial). This year it was Paper cover-girl Katy Perry who was already in town playing multiple nights at Irving Plaza and humping bananas.

Speaking of humping bananas, Chris Cornell played two shows at Webster Hall this week. In the YouTube video below you can see that he.... shaved his guitar player's head on stage while they were playing at one of them.

Also featured in Paper's new "Beautiful People" issue is comedian Aziz Ansari who co-stars with Amy Poehler in the TV show Parks and Recreation which premiered last night. Did you catch it? What did you think?

Lissy Trullie was featured in last year's "Beautiful People" issue. Last night she played Union Hall with US Royalty (who play the Studio at Webster Hall tonight).

New Ditmas Park/Flatbush venue Sycamore hosted its third-ever live show last night. Check out the schedule for what they have coming up.

The Books paid a somewhat rare visit to NYC. The band, noted one showgoer, "debuted some sweet new tunes." Those'd be from the group's forthcoming record, which, according to the Columbia Spectator, is due next year. The Spectator also noted the lack of promotion for the show - which according to the Books' Twitter sold out less than a day before it happened. One student, on the minimal on-campus promotion, said, "I had no way of knowing they were playing at Columbia...I found out about the concert on a random music blog that I was casually browsing -- I don't even remember which site it was."

As NYC's summer concert lineup comes together, two shows were added to calendar yesterday - Casiokids at South Street Seaport and Shilpa Ray at Castle Clinton (as part of a Sly Stone tribute concert). Shilpa played Death by Audio last night. Look for more summer-show announcements today (in addition to Simian Mobile Disco at the Williamsburg Waterfront).

UK band Pet Shop Boys almost became Rescue Shelter Boys.

What did you do last night?

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Apr 19 - Record Store Day, Passover night 1, Tapes n Tapes @ Music Hall of Williamsburg, Mission of Burma @ Solar 1, Bicycle Day, Suge Knight's birthday

Apr 20 - Earth Day, Passover night 2, Tokyo Police Club @ Bowery Ballroom, They Might Be Giants @ Town Hall, smoke pot

Please list more Earth Day & Record Store Day events in the comments.

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