Jay Reatard @ the Stuy Town Oval (more by Tim Griffin)

Screaming Females

tonight in NYC
* DANCE
* Rubblebucket @ Zebulon
* The Feelies @ Maxwell's
* Dam-Funk @ Academy Records
* Forro in the Dark @ MoMA Sculpture Garden
* Kuroma, Acrylics, Gift Horse, Renminbi @ Pianos
* Cage, Yak Ballz, Junk Science, Tone Tank @ Southpaw
* The Germs, Krum Bums, Bridge & Tunnel @ Mercury Lounge
* Maria Taylor, Morgan Nagler, Soy Un Caballo @ Union Hall
* Drunkdriver, Cult Ritual, Twin Stumps, White Suns @ Cake Shop
* Thee Oh Sees, Golden Triangle, The Beets, German Measles @ Glasslands
* Jay Reatard, Screaming Females, TV Smith @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
* Hisham Bharoocha, Ben Vida, Ateleia, Sadek Bazaraa @ Issue Project Room
* Cubic Zirconia, Head Automatica, Chico Mann, Dam-Funk @ Santos Party House
* Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, Tammy Faye Starlite, .357 Lover @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band's summer tour stops at Woodstock's Bearsville Theater tonight. In two days, they'll be playing a free July 4th show with Jenny Lewis in Battery Park.

More 4th of July shows listed HERE (and in the dance post).

Tonight the Feelies kick off the first of three nights at Maxwell's.

Stones Throw artist Dam-Funk will play a free DJ set at Academy Records(E. 12th St) today at 6pm. Later, he'll be DJing at Santos. Look for live sets by Cubic Zirconia, Head Automatica and Chico Mann at the latter. Academy Records flyer below.

Jay Reatard plays the Music Hall of Williamsburg after rocking a short, free show at the Stuy Town Oval last night. Rising stars Screaming Females and ex-Advert TV Smith open.

Thee Oh Sees, Golden Triangle, The Beets and German Measles play a pre-Woodsist Fest gig at Glasslands tonight. In addition to their shows this weekend, Thee Oh Sees, who were amazing at the Mercury Lounge in April, will return to NYC in October on their big fall tour with the Fresh & Onlys (also in town this weekend).

Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players bring friends Tammy Faye Starlite and Corn Mo's .357 Lover to (Le) Poisson Rouge tonight.

Cage and Yak Ballz, on tour together, perform at Southpaw tonight - the first of two shows at the Brooklyn venue.

Forro in the Dark kick off the first Music Thursday in MoMA Sculpture Garden.

Billy Corgan revealed an unreleased Sky Saxon collaboration.

Joly posted some video of Sky Saxon (RIP) & The Seeds playing live in 2005. Watch it below...

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RIP Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, and Sky Saxon...

No one is pushing too hard on Sky Saxon anymore. The leader of '60s garage band the Seeds died overnight in Austin, where he recently relocated. He had been in critical condition in the ICU at St. David's South Austin Hospital, Saxon's publicist Jennifer Marchand said.

Saxon, born Richard Marsh, is credited with being a founder of the Flower Power movement in rock. "Pushin' Too Hard" was his only song to ever make the Top 40, but Saxon leaves behind a large body of work and an important legacy to American pop music. He's been described as one of the progenitors of garage rock and psychedelia, and like Roky Erickson and the Thirteenth Floor Elevators, is frequently cited as an important proto-punk influence.

Despite largely disappearing from the pop radar screen by the end of the '60s, Saxon stayed involved in music and art the rest of his life. Perhaps the most ironic thing about his passing is that he had booked a long tour for this fall with fellow Nuggets A-listers Electric Prunes and Love. [Houston Press]

That tour included an August 5th show at Maxwell's and one on August 9th at BB King's. RIP. All of those dates are below, with some videos...

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