Pete's Candy Store photos by Amanda Hatfield, Crash Mansion photos by Jessica Amaya, Pianos & Mercury Lounge photos by Chris La Putt, words by Rachel Kowal

Oh Land @ Rebel NYC (more by David Andrako)

You've been following the CMJ adventures of multiple BV contributors for two weeks now, including the day by day reviews from Rachel Kowal. Before too much more time passes, here is the conclusion of Rachel's week (with the end of day four and all of day five), and assorted pictures from four other shows all rolled into one big post. Check it all out, below....

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Pete's Candy Store (bitchcakesny)

tonight in NYC
* Chris Cornell @ Webster Hall
* The Rakes & Radical Dads @ Union Hall
* The Gay Blades, Demander @ Mercury Lounge
* James Yuill, The Answering Machine @ Coco 66
* White Hills, Gunslingers, Bogan Dust @ Cake Shop
* Millions, Telecult Powers, Noveller @ Monkey Town
* Jenny Scheinman, Nels Cline & Steve Cardenas @ Blue Note
* Scary Mansion, Tiger Saw, Tripping Lily @ Pete's Candy Store
* Here We Go Magic, The Antlers, Hymns @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
* Jason Trachtenburg, Ching Chong Song & Phoebe Kreutz @ Cameo
* My Education, Youth Group, Dylan Connor, Eastern Midwestern @ Pianos
* Drunkdriver, Rice, Deskonocidos, Sacred Shock, Teenage Night War @ Death By Audio
* Thurston Moore/Okkyung Lee/Ikue Mori Trio, Fat Worm, Noise Nomads @ Santos Party House

Beatrice Inn shut down.

CBGB in 3-D.

"According to sources at the club, someone aboard a Verizon-sponsored Keith Urban tour bus emptied the vehicle's septic tank outside [Webster Hall] at 3 a.m., after the show. "There was about 150 square feet of gunk, a half an inch think, outside the main entrance," says one employee. "It was a literal [expletive] show."" [Daily News]

What else?

by Andrew Frisicano

Jeffrey Lewis @ Kidrockers - 2/8/09 (Maryanne Ventrice)

New York's Jeffrey Lewis has been busy in the last year. (To see exactly how busy, check out Jeff's "A Year in Love and Music" entry on the NYT's Measure for Measure blog, to which he's been contributing.)

Jeff's four-date tour with Dufus finishes this Saturday, March 14th in Brooklyn at Pete's Candy Store with a CD release show for Dufus's new record, In Monstrous Attitude (samples at link). In May/April, Dufus will head out on a European tour (dates below). The Dufus album features comic art by Jeffrey Lewis, who is releasing his own new album (as full-band Jeffrey Lewis & The Junkyard) 'Em Are I on April 20th (UK/Europe) and May 19th (US), both on Rough Trade Records.

Jeffrey recently put his drawing talents to use (as he does in his comics and elsewhere) in a new video for the song "To Be Objectified" (which appears on the upcoming album). The video was created with Jack Ferry and $99 Music Videos - a site that challenges musicians to make a video for that sum with a set of bare-bones criteria. Watch it, and the making of it, below.

Jeff will tour Europe March-May with a solo/full-band tour that eventually reaches New York's Bowery Ballroom on Wednesday, May 20th (tix on sale now) - a venue featured prominently in Lewis's "Williamsburg Will Oldham Horror," video below.

Next Thursday (3/19), Jeff will give a lecture on Watchmen (the topic of his college thesis) at midtown comic spot Jim Hanley's Universe. "It should be stressed that it's for people who have read the book, not for people interested in it looking for some kind of introduction... he'll be revealing too many spoilers!." Jeff gave a similar lecture in Portland, OR, and London earlier this year.

All tour dates, Jeff's "A Quick Biography of Barack Obama," and the above-mentioned videos, below...

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