photos by Tim Griffin

Robert Ellis @ ACL Live

Jay Farrar plays his third NYC show in a row at City Winery on Sunday night (10/16). Laura Cantrell opens and tickets are still on sale. Check out a picture of the setlist from Saturday's show below. More Jay dates HERE.

The alt-country at City Winery continues when labelmates James McMurtry & Jason Isbell begin a tour there on Wednesday (10/19). All of their tour dates are listed below.

The 10/19 City Winery show is further enhanced by the addition of Robert Ellis on the bill. It's Robert's first of three NYC shows during CMJ week. The next two are 10/20 at Living Room (again with Jason Isbell) and 10/21 at Living Room. The 10/20 show is one of three Paste Magazine CMJ shows at Living Room. Full lineups, a set of pictures from a 10/6 show Robert played at ACL Live in Austin, and all dates, below...

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This free BrooklynVegan show takes place on two stages at Radio Room in Austin, Texas this Thursday afternoon, March 19, 2009 from noon-6pm. Set times, more info, and answers to (hopefully) all FAQ's below...

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Pay whatever you want for...
* Paste Magazine
* Saul Williams' Trent Reznor-produced album
* Radiohead's new album In Rainbows
* Jonah Matranga stuff (sort of)
* Jane Siberry's music
* other music
* coffee

The new issue of Paste Magazine selects "America’s 40 Best Music Venues".

To compile this list, Paste magazine readers nominated over 500 different venues at www.pastemagazine.com. In the end, Paste weighed these nominations according to history, setting, sound, character, comfort, atmosphere, vibrancy, uniqueness and their roles in helping launch careers.

They didn't rank them - they just chose 40 and grouped them into regions. For the Northeast they picked:

• 9:30 Club, Washington, D.C.
• Allen Room at Lincoln Center, New York, NY
• Iron Horse Music Hall, Northampton, MA
• Club Passim, Cambridge, MA
• Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY
• Maxwell’s, Hoboken, NJ
• World Live Café, Philadelphia, PA
• The Living Room, New York, NY
• Space, Portland, ME

Café Du Nord, Stubb's, Schuba's, The Troubador, Largo, and First Avenue alse made the list.