Girl Talk @ Sasquatch on Memorial Day (more by Chris Graham)

tonight in NYC
* DANCE
* The Ettes, Fan-Tan @ Mercury Lounge
* an art exhibit w/ Best Fwends @ the Bell House
* Nine Inch Nails, The Horrors @ Webster Hall
* Wizardry, Marching Teeth, Skeleton Breath @ Union Pool
* Buzzer, Impediments, The Dashing Suns @ Death By Audio
* Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls Summer Revue @ Damrosch Park
* Girl Talk, Max Tundra, Wiz Khalifa @ Williamsburg Waterfront
* Mystery Lights, Arms & Legs, Bad Cop, Tom McBride & Whig Party @ Cake Shop
* Roots of American Music Festival w/ Arturo O'Farrill, Louisiana Renegades, more @ Damrosch Park
* McCOY TYNER TRIO - CD RELEASE SHOW , With Special Guest Gary Bartz & Jon Batiste Band @ Highline Ballroom
* Rachel Trachtenberg's Homemade World Benefit w/ Rev. Jen, The Fools, Jason Trachetenburg, Anna Copacabana, more @ The Cameo

Heaven & Hell (Black Sabbath) tickets are Buy 1 Get 1 Free until 10pm Sunday night.

The Cameo is hosting a benefit for Rachel Trachtenberg's Homemade World. Rachel, Reverend Jen, The Fools, Jason Trachtenburg, Lippe, Major Matt Mason, Anna Copacabanna, Rosie Rebel and Tammy Hart will perform alongside a vegan bakesale, a raffle and a special screening of RTHW's first episode to raise funds for the filming of the show's second. Video of the show below..

Menage A Twang is the "Don't Date a Hipster" Band. They play Union Hall tonight.

"The performance space at The Bell House [tonight] will be transformed with an installation of floating walls suspended from the existing exposed 20-foot beams. The 8'x4' walls will feature works by local artists, with alternating performances highlighted on stage and in the crowd by local musicians, djs, performance artists, and clothing designers."

Best Fwends didn't have the Bell House art show on their schedule the other day, but now they do.

Nine Inch Nails' 10-date tour continues at Webster Hall with The Horrors. See what happened last night at Bowery Ballroom.

Girl Talk, elecro-popper Max Tundra and Wiz Khalifa play the Williamsburg Waterfront. NOTE: Max Tundra is on first (not Wiz as some listings read). Afterparty at Brooklyn Bowl (and Public Assembly).

There's one more Pool Party to go after Girl Talk, and that's Grizzly Bear and Beach House next week. Dan Deacon's "Pool" Party was a few weeks back - check out his new video for "Paddling Ghost," with a clip of him from the NJ pool party show, below.

Wizardry, whose new video was posted here on Friday, play tonight at Union Pool with Marching Teeth and Skeleton Breath.

Buzzer and Impediments, both of whom mine "mid-70s glam-punk," continue their NYC run with a show at DBA with The Dashing Suns.

The Lincoln Center's Out of Doors Festival closes today with the 26th Annual Roots of American Music Festival at the Damrosch Park Bandshell. The full lineup for that includes:

BRC ORCHESTRA: Four Women: A Tribute to Odetta, Miriam Makeba, Abbey Lincoln and Eartha Kitt featuring Jayne Cortez, Tamar-Kali, Abena Koomson, Alkebulan, and more. Curated by La Tasha N. Nevada Diggs, Musical Direction by Onel Mulet
THE LOUISIANA RENEGADES Featuring Christine Balfa, Dirk Powell, Kevin Wimmer of Balfa Toujours and additional Creole artists tba
TEXAS TORNADOS: Tribute to Doug Sahm
Mazel Tov, Mis Amigos: The Lost World of Latin-Jewish Sound featuring The Arturo O'Farrill Afro-Cuban Sextet
Arturo O'Farrill, Music Director, arranger with special guests Irving Fields, LARRY HARLOW and additional artists tba

The Brooklyn Soul Festival starts Friday.

What else?

Continue reading "What's going on Sunday?"

The Summer Antifolk Festival is taking place August 7th through 16th at Sidewalk Cafe in NYC (94 Ave A). Some highlights over the two-plus-week festival include Jason & Rachel Trachtenburg, Jaymay, Soft Black, Dufus and Larkin Grimm.

More background on the festival and the full schedule below...

Continue reading "Sidewalk Cafe's 2009 Summer Antifolk Festival (Aug 7-16)"

Like Pee Wee's Playhouse, but real - The Trachtenburgs

Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players are taking their show on the road in July. The variety show/vaudeville act/sing-along band will travel down the East Coast over the course of three weeks.

Before that, the Trachtenburgs will play a headlining show at (Le) Poisson Rouge on Thursday, July 2nd. Joining them will be Tammy Faye Starlite and .357 Lover (Corn Mo's band). Tickets are on sale.

That band will stop home in NYC for a few days mid-tour. In that time, they'll be two free performances (or episodes as the case may be) of Rachel Trachtenburg's Homemade World, the youngest member's spin-off project. Both of those will be on July 12th: first at Solar One's Citysol (11:30 AM), then at the Beach at Governors Island (3:00 PM). The Governors Island show is a collaboration with Wakka Wakka Productions, "known for their creative and entertaining puppetry." The program describes the show as "a magical journey of music, reading, puppetry and live performance to find out Where The Wild Things Are."

You can see a few clips of Rachel Trachtenburg's Homemade World the TV Show, which looks amazing, and a preview of Rachel's new band, The Oh My God Girls, with other videos and all tour dates, below...

Continue reading "Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players - July 2009 Tour Dates (LPR w/ Corn Mo, Citysol & Governors Island) "

KMFDM

Marc Maron & Janeane Garofalo are performing at Union Hall in Brooklyn on Tuesday, June 30th. Tickets are on sale.

KMFDM are playing the Gramercy Theater on on September 25th. Tickets are on sale.

Lords of Acid were supposed to play Irving Plaza on July 10th, but it has been postponed.

Snow Patrol are playing two nights at the Beacon Theater in NYC in September. Tickets are on sale.

Tickets are on sale for the Mos Def show at Governors Island.

Tickets are on sale for the Erykah Badu show at Governors Island.

Tickets are on sale for the B-52's show on Governors Island.

The Spinto Band are playing Mercury Lounge on July 17th. Tickets are on sale.

Tracy Chapman is playing Hammerstein Ballroom on August 7th. Tickets are on sale.

Toby from Youth Group is playing five shows at the Living Room in July. Tickets are on sale.

Rachel Trachtenburg is playing Citysol (not on the main day) and Governors Island. Video from a show she played in Tompkins Square Park on Saturday, below...

Continue reading "KMFDM, Snow Patrol, Mos Def, Tracy Chapman, other tickets"

On July 10-12, 2009, Solar One, NYC's first green energy, arts and education center, will present Citysol, a celebration of urban sustainability and creativity in a mini music and arts festival.

Continue reading "Citysol 2009 (July 10-12) - full lineup (Dead Prez, Shilpa Ray, Fiasco, So So Glos, Rachel Trachtenburg, more...)"

Mos Def gets ready for the beach (Black Star @ Nokia Theater) (more by Tim Griffin)

The lineup for this summer's Highline Ballroom/AEG-produced events on Governors Island has been expanded. We already mentioned the big B-52s and Erykah Badu shows. One big addition to those is a performance by Mos Def on Saturday, September 12th. Those tickets go on "internet presale" starting Saturday, June 27th at 10am. General sale starts Monday, June 29th at 10am.

More DJ parties, kids events and other bands have been added as well. Full info and schedule below...

Continue reading "Beach @ Governors Island adds Mos Def & other 2009 shows "

Devotchka @ Terminal 5 (more by Ryan Muir)

today in NYC
* DANCE
* Garotas Suecas @ Rubulad
* Lady Circus @ the House of Yes
* Dave Godwosky @ 92YTribeca (free)
* Devotchka @ Webster Hall
* Modeselektor @ Bowery Ballroom
* M83 & M83 @ The Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza
* Sam McPheeters & Daniel Higgs @ Silent Barn
* Au & Stars Like Fleas @ (le) poisson rouge
* The Honey Brothers, Xylos & The Prigs @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
* Oxford Collapse, Suckers & Real Estate @ The Studio at Webster Hall
* Care Bears On Fire & Rachel Trachtenburg @ The Bell House
* Psychic Ills, Axolotl & John Fell Ryan (DJ) @ Rehab
* ESG, JG Wilkes, Sal Principato, & Matt Cash @ (le) poisson rouge
* Thomas Function, Spanish Prisoners & My Mind @ Cake Shop
* Red Black Wire, Bell, Hockey, Like a Fox & Esque @ Pianos
The Muggabears, Asa Ransom, Sigmund Droid & Nymph @ 92YTribeca
* Bryan Scary & The Shredding Tears, The Picture, Ford & Fitzroy & Attack Release @ Mercury Lounge
* Runtime Error (of Fiasco), Consumer Feedback, Sediment Club, Graffiti Monsters & 999999999 @ Death By Audio

Garotas Suecas have added one more show to their US tour. Tonight at Rubulad.

Lady Circus and the Mickey Western Band present The Rusted Gun Saloon tonight at the House of Yes ("live music, circus in the air, and on the ground).

Racehel Trachtenburg (who is playing the all-ages show at the Bell House tonight before the club gets taken over by DJ Vito Fun) sings Pink Floyd's Gnome in the video below...

what else?

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