Street Sweeper Social Club @ Jones Beach Theater (more by Zach Dilgard)

Street Sweeper Social Club, the opening band on the tour, shares perspective with both NIN/JA headliners: its worldview is cynical, and its brand of action resembles a party. A rap-rock super-group of sorts, it features Tom Morello, the guitarist formerly with Rage Against the Machine, and Boots Riley, a rapper in the Oakland, Calif., hip-hop group the Coup.

The band's brief set was apoplectic, full of fist-pumping slogans and seemingly cobbled out of spare parts from other projects. "This is not a performance, this is a meeting," Mr. Riley declared, trying out a different model of inclusiveness than either Mr. Farrell or Mr. Reznor would choose. "Thank you for attending." [NY Times]

The NIN/Jane's Addiction tour ended June 14th. Two days later (TODAY, Tuesday, June 16th), Street Sweeper Social Club will play a CD release show for its debut album at the Gramercy Theatre in NYC. Tonight's gig will feature opener Shinobi Ninja. Advanced tickets were still on sale last night, so we're guessing there will be some at the door too.

The show coincides with the release of their self-titled debut record on WM's Independent Label Group. Street Sweeper Social club will also be appearing Wednesday night on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.

The band performed a cover of "Kick Out the Jams" with Trent Reznor at some of the NIN shows. A video of that, with other clips of SSSC, below...

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photos by Zach Dilgard

...the brazenness that once defined Jane's Addiction has leveled off into something rigid and dutiful. (This was never more obvious than on "Jane Says," a signature ballad, and a diffuse and lackluster final encore.) Mr. Farrell sang in his piercing, theatrical whine, and as the alternative-rock front man most often pegged as Dionysian, he fulfilled a given role, shimmying and writhing, sometimes with a bottle of wine. "Still partying!" he crowed at one point. These days his freak show is a happy place.

By contrast Nine Inch Nails, which played a potent preceding set, delved into the colder aspects of freakishness. This too was true to form: Trent Reznor, the group's mastermind, has always been a brooder. But he sends his energies outward in performance: most of his songs reached eruptive fervor, even if they began in shadowy quietude. Mr. Reznor's lean backing band was equally engaged by thrashing post-punk riffs and thudding electronics, and his vocals created a calculated impression of soul baring at every degree of intensity. [NY Times]

Nine Inch Nails and Jane's Addiction played two NYC-area shows togehter. They were Saturday, June 6th at PNC Bank Arts Center, and Sunday, June 7th at Jones Beach Theater. The photographs and review are both from Jones Beach. The co-headlining tour, that included a stop at Sasquatch, wraps up this weekend on June 12th in Charlotte, NC. NiN go on to play Bonnaroo on June 13th, while Jane's Addiction has shows June 13th and 14th in Portsmouth, VA, and Wallingford, CT, respectively. Both bands will travel abroad to Europe and elsewhere for the rest of the summer. Of course, Jane's Addiction will return in time for Lollapalooza on August 7th.

Street Sweeper Social Club (a band with Tom Morello and Boots Riley) opened both shows. More pictures and all setlists below...

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disco ball in the trees @ BKLYN Yard (TASTENYC)

tonight in NYC
* DANCE
* Little Richard @ BB King's
* Luke Solomon @ The Yard
* Ne(x)tworks @ Issue Project Room
* Lichens with Lee Ranaldo @ Monkey Town
* Steve Gorn, Stephanie Stone @ The Stone
* Tribeca New Music Festival @ Flea Theater
* Balkan Beat Box, DJ Joro Boro @ The Bell House
* Prince and Pearl, Matteah Baim, Josh Anzano @ Cake Shop
* Olentangy John, Lauren Smith, Sasha Dobson @ Pete's Candy Store
* Issue Proect Room's Soundwalk-a-thon @ Locations Around Brooklyn
* Kevin Devine, Miniature Tigers, Brian Bonz @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
* Black Rock Coalition, Earl Greyhound, Simi & SwEEtie @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
* Dosh, Mt. St. Helens Band, Blast Off!, Eastern Midwestern @ Mercury Lounge
* Show No Mercy w/ Salome, Woe, Black Anvil, Snake Sustaine @ Public Assembly
* Nine Inch Nails, Jane's Addiction, Street Sweeper Social Club @ Jones Beach
* Archipelago, Don Lennon, Phoebe Kreutz, Emilyn Brodsky, Laura Stevenson & The Cans, ACLU Benefit, Tiny Tornadoes, A.W. Feldt, Those Galloping Hordes, Elizabeth Butters, Cabinet of Natural Curiosities, Peace, Loving, Hanz Bronze, Vultures, Drew and the Medicinal Pen, Twin Cats, Good Night & Good Morning @ Hillstock Music Fest

Studios are open in Bushwick

It's Day Two of the Renegade Craft Fair.

There's also a "Loving Day" party at Solar One.

Marc Ribot is one of those artists taking a walk for Issue Project Room today.

Enter the code "TON06" to get $3.00 off tickets to Fiery Furnances/Newspeak. Use the same code to get $3.00 off tickets for the June 18th Doveman show.

Allen Toussaint is playing a free show this week.

Springsteen Giants Stadium tix go on sale Monday.

Mono announed tour dates.

Earl Greyhound are also playing the Afro-Punk festival this summer.

Yo La Tengo have a new album coming out.

Street Sweeper is opening for Jane's Addition and Nine Inch Nails on their current tour. Video of them in Mansfield, MA performing a completely unnecessary cover of M.I.A.'s "Paper Planes" below...

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photos by Arcadia Media

"King of the Dogs," the lead single from Iggy Pop's forthcoming album Préliminaires, was released digitally on May 5 through all digital retailers including Amazon, iTunes and Rhapsody. Rolling Stone included the song on their "Hot List" calling it "Magnifique," and adding that "on this Big Easy-style single from his French-novel-inspired new disc, Ig gets his Tom Waits on." The track is also currently being featured on Stereogum.

"King of the Dogs" was inspired by New Orleans style jazz, with an arrangement featuring trumpet, trombone and clarinet. "At one point, I just got sick of listening to idiot thugs with guitars banging out crappy music," says Iggy. "I've started listening to a lot of New Orleans-era, Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton type of jazz."

Préliminaires, which will be released in the U.S. on EMI Music's Astralwerks label on June 2, was produced by Hal Cragin and inspired by French author Michel Houellebecq's 2005 novel The Possibility of an Island. Iggy will also be performing at the fifth annual MusiCares MAP Fund benefit concert honoring Red Hot Chili Peppers lead singer Anthony Kiedis, which takes place at club Nokia in Los Angeles on May 8.

Iggy last performed on Friday at the Road Recovery benefit at Nokia Theatre in NYC. Lots of pictures and videos from that event, below...

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Street Sweeper (Staciaann Photography)

"Nine Inch Nails and the original Jane's Addiction lineup will embark on a May/June co-headlining tour that will see these seminal artists sharing a stage for the first time since the historic debut of the Lollapalooza festival in 1991...

The NIN/JA tour will feature a streamlined NIN with Reznor on vocals, guitars, keys, Robin Finck on guitars and keys, Justin Meldal-Johnsen on bass and keys, and newest NIN member IIan Rubin on drums and keys. NIN's stripped down configuration for the upcoming dates was inspired by a pair of club shows toward the end of last year's wildly ambitious Lights In The Sky tour. Leaving the massive production in the trucks for those two nights freed up the band for spontaneous performances including several seldom-aired NIN classics and inspired NIN to take a similarly unencumbered and unpredictable approach to the May/June dates, which include previously announced NIN appearances at the Sasquatch and Bonnaroo festivals...

...Support for all NIN/JA dates will be Street Sweeper, a collaboration between Tom Morello of Rage Against The Machine/The Nightwatchman and Boots Riley of The Coup.

Tickets go on sale beginning March 13th, visit NIN.com, JanesAddiction.com and LiveNation.com for additional ticket and tour information.