Dum Dum Girls at MHOW in February (more by Amanda Hatfield)

today in NYC
* Primitivo @ Barbes
* ASSSSCAT 3000 @ UCB
* Jay-Z @ Barclays Center
* Todd Barry @ Caroline's
* Mysterious Forum @ The Stone
* Paper Route, Morus Alba @ Maxwell's
* Comedy Night @ The Knit w/ Hannibal Buress
* Brad Jones and Julie Patton"> @ The Stone
* Dum Dum Girls, Chez Deep, Starred @ Europa
* Corporal, Less the Band @ (le) poisson rouge
* Somnambulists, Dimensions, Rootless @ Zebulon
* Winkie, Hell For The Company, Bunny X @ Cameo Gallery
* Big Business, House of Lightning, Vaz @ Death By Audio
* Tracy Grammer and the Butterfly Conservatory @ Joe's Pub
* First Aid Kit, Dylan LeBlanc @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
* Yuppicide, Rejuvenate, Dead Serious, No Way @ Saint Vitus
* Drew Victor, Sam Jayne (of Love As Laughter) @ Manhattan Inn
* Folklords, Alan Licht, Brian Chase, Mr. Jenkins @ Union Pool
* Monogold, Sinkane, Dinowalrus, Beacon (DJ) @ Dekalb Market
* Old Monk, Fat Creeps, The Blue Dress, Other Factors @ Cake Shop
* Cosmonaut, Ace Reporter, Lightouts, Psychic @ Mercury Lounge
* Northern Bells, Riverwild, Strange Names, Elliot & the Ghost @ Glasslands
* Jack White, Pokey Lafarge & The South City Three @ Radio City Music Hall
* Paul F. Tompkins, Paget Brewster, John Hodgman, Busy Phillips, James Urbaniak @ The Bell House
* Frank Turner And The Sleeping Souls, Larry and His Flask, Jenny Owen Youngs @ Webster Hall

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The xx, who performed "Angels" on Later... With Jools Holland last Tuesday (9/25), were again on the show this past Friday (9/28) to perform "Sunset" and "Chained." Watch videos of those performances below.

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Widowspeak @ Storm King Arts Center, May 2012 (more by Jessica Amaya)

Love Inks @ Mohawk, June 2012 (more by Tim Griffin)

Exitmusic @ Brooklyn Bowl, June 2012 (more by Jessica Amaya)

today in NYC
* Big Terrific @ Cameo
* Exitmusic @ Maxwell's
* Avicii @ Radio City Music Hall
* Maria Cangiano @ Joe's Pub
* Niki & the Dove @ Other Music
* Rachael Yamagata @ Rockwood Music Hall
* Bell X1, Duke Special @ Bowery Ballroom
* WIERD w/ Kontravoid @ Home Sweet Home
* Hal Wilner and Philip Glass @ The Stone
* David Byrne, St. Vincent @ Beacon Theater
* Terry McManus's Obsessive Propulsive @ Barbes
* Widowspeak, Vensaire, Hard Bop @ Brooklyn Bowl
* Mariel Roberts @ Our Lady of Lebanon Cathedral
* Lavender Diamond, Christy & Emily @ Mercury Lounge
* Gabriel and the Hounds, Pre War, Old Monk @ Union Pool
* Liudas Mocknunas, Arturas Bumsteinas, Rasa Rasa @ Zebulon
* Sunfoot, Devin, Gary & Ross, Volunteers Park @ Death By Audio
* Love Inks, Shy Hunters, Baby Alpaca, Young Unknowns @ Glasslands
* MNDR (DJ), Wildkat (DJ), Eli Makes Beats (DJ) @ Studio at Webster Hall
* Doe Paoro, Teletextile, Ludwig Persik, Dalton, Anya Skidan @ Pianos
* Baby Dayliner, Mo Matching Drapes, The Whisperians, El Jezel @ Union Hall
* The Bad Plus, Rafiq Bhatia, Chris Morrissey Quartet @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
* Alberta Cross, J. VIEWz, Lucy Schwartz, Two Door Cinema Club DJ set, Chrome Canyon DJ set @ Bowery Hotel

If you missed the BrooklynVegan-presented opening night of Rafiq Bhatia's Pianos residency last night, you can catch him opening for the Bad Plus at Music Hall of Williamsburg tonight.

One of our favorite Austin bands Love Inks are touring and back in town. If you missed them at Pianos the other day with Ray Raposa, you have another chance tonight at Glasslands. They're also on the lineup of Fun Fun Fun Fest this year.

The mystery and sexiness that is Baby Dayliner resurfaces for a show at Union Hall in Park Slope tonight.

Gabriel and the Hounds, the project of Takka Takka frontman Gabe Levine, plays a show at Union Pool tonight. Takka Takka play a CMJ show at The Grand Victory on on October 19.

MNDR just announced a CMJ show at Bowery Ballroom, but is meanwhile DJing at The Studio at Webster Hall tonight.

Sub Pop act Niki and the Dove play a free in-store at Other Music tonight at 8 PM.

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The xx , who are back in town next month for two shows, recently played Later with Jools Holland and you can watch their performance of "Angels" below.

Miike Snow, who will be in the general NY area next month, have a new video for "Pretender" which you can watch below.

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by Andrew Sacher

Grizzly Bear at Governors Island in 2010 (more by Dominick Mastrangelo)

As mentioned, Grizzly Bear are set to release their new album, Shields, on September 18 via Warp. You've already heard the singles "Sleeping Ute" and "Yet Again" and if you haven't downloaded one of the leaks of the album (We won't pretend they aren't out there, the band have even been acknowledging it on twitter) (though they kindly ask that if you like it, you pre-order it) you can now stream the entire thing (legally) at NPR.

Shields is Grizzly Bear's best album yet, and easily one of the strongest releases of this year. Grizzly Bear naysayers who complain that their often sleepy albums don't live up to the pop heights of singles like "Two Weeks" and "The Knife," complain no more. On Shields, every track is as largely arranged, dynamic, and grandiose as its singles -- but this is by no means a "sellout" album either. They drift through passages of progressive folk with baroque arrangements and even touches of jazz sensibilities sprinkled throughout the record. It's as heady and complex as anything they've done, just simply even more appealing and infinitely playable.

As mentioned, Grizzly Bear will support the new album with a tour that comes to NYC for the band's largest headlining hometown show yet on September 24 at Radio City Music Hall with Unknown Mortal Orchestra. Tickets for that show are still available.

You can also watch Grizzly Bear perform live TODAY (9/10) at 2pm EST on Soundcheck.

Speaking of largely anticipated albums that you can stream on NPR, The xx's new album, Coexist, is out this week and still available to stream. As are the new albums by David Byrne & St. Vincent, Dinosaur Jr., and Aimee Mann.

by Andrew Sacher

The xx at Terminal 5 earlier this month (more by Toby Tenenbaum)

You've already heard "Chained" and "Angels" off The xx's Coexist, which is shaping up to be one of the finest releases of the year. Now you can listen to a third track, "Sunset," below.

The xx will return to NYC when their tour hits Paradise Theater on October 26 and 28 in the Bronx with Chairlift. Tickets for those shows are still available.

Continue reading "listen to "Sunset" from The xx's new album"

2:54 at BV-SXSW 2012 (more by Tim Griffin)

UK rock duo 2:54 have joined the ranks of Jacques Greene, John Talabot, and Chairlift, as the newest band to be added as an opener to The xx's North American tour. 2:54 will be supporting the band in mid-October, right before the run with Chairlift starts.

It's on that final leg where The xx will return to NYC for shows at The Paradise Theater on October 26 and 28 (tickets), and while 2:54 won't support on those dates, they'll play their own NYC shows around the same time: October 24 at Knitting Factory and October 25 at Mercury Lounge. Tickets for the Knit show are on sale now and tickets for the Merc show go on sale Friday, August 31 at noon with an AmEx presale starting Wednesday (8/29) at noon.

2:54 recently made a video for their song, "Sugar." You can check that out, along with a list of all dates, below.

Continue reading "2:54 playing NYC after touring with The xx (dates & video)"

Duchess Says at CMJ 2009 (more by Chris La Putt)

today in NYC
* Lips @ The Flat
* Spank @ UCB
* Andy Statman @ Barbes
* DJ Khaled @ Webster Hall
* Five 'Til @ Joe's Pub
* DMX @ J&R Music World
* If, Bwana @ The Stone
* The Henry Girls @ Barbes
* My Brightest Diamond @ MoMA
* Lisa B Kelley @ The Stone
* Gracie, Day Joy, Magmana @ Pianos
* Stand, Von Shakes @ The Rock Shop
* BAIO (Vampire Weekend) @ Hudson Terrace
* Lukeinternet, Tubetops, Active @ 929 XPO
* Fain-Mantega Duo, Tangolandó @ Joe's Pub
* Hubble, Dream Police, White Bike @ Zebulon
* Variety Lights, Talibam!, Coxcombs @ Maxwell's
* Mary J. Blige, D'Angelo @ PNC Bank Arts Center
* Duchess Says, The Blind Shake @ Public Assembly
* Railbird, Celestial Shore, Zula @ Cameo Gallery
* The Neighbourhood, Lovelife, Rioux @ Glasslands
* Yellowbirds, Gabriel and the Hounds @ Mercury Lounge
* Margy Pepper, Soil, Tin Vulva, Flown @ Death By Audio
* Useless Eaters, Sam Coffee & The Iron Lung @ Cake Shop
* Shovels and Rope, Christopher Paul Stelling @ Mercury Lounge
* Sole, Propaganda Anonymous, N.W.S.O., Brzowski @ Knitting Factory
* Slam Donahue, Toothpaste (Tecla & Kassa), Relations @ Delinquency
* Adira Amram, Heloise (of Heloise & The Savoir Faire) @ Littlefield
* Phone Home, Life Size Maps, What Model Citizens, Ravenous @ Big Snow
* Lemonade (DJ Set), Shawn Reynaldo, Rem Koolhaus, Ron E Laybaxx @ Glasslands
* Japanther, Unstoppable Death Machines, Catacombz , Fake Hooker @ Shea Stadium
* Teengirl Fantasy, Lemonade, Mike Q and MassacooramaanR @ Rocks Off Concert Cruises
* Action Bronson, Flatbush Zombies, Meyham Lauren, Tanya Morgan @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
* Risk! w/ Reggie Watts, Marina Franklin, Erin Barker, Brent Sullivan, Jaqi Furback @ The Pit
* Tom Shillue's Funny Story w/ Jessi Klein, Lisa Delarios, and Trace Crutchfield @ Brooklyn Brewery
* Nite Jewel & Peanut Butter Wolf performing Krafwerk's 'Computer World', Chrome Canyon @ Le Poisson Rouge
* Two Boots 25th Anniversary Party w/ Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars, Mamarazzi, Odetta Hartman, The Whiskeyhickon Boys, Himalayas @ East River Amphitheater

Two Boots is celebrating its 25th Anniversary with a free concert at East River Park Amphitheater featuring Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars, Mamarazzi, Odetta Hartman, Himalayas and The Whiskeyhickon Boys. The party goes from 5 - 9PM and will also feature free pizza.

Montreal's Duchess Says make a rare NYC appearance tonight at Public Assembly. Be prepared to get up close with singer Annie-Claude.

Next door at Music Hall of Williamsburg it's a free Converse Rubbertracks show with Action Bronson, Meyhem Lauren, Flatbush Zombies, andTanya Morgan. Admission is first come, first served. Doors are at 8 PM.

Comedy options tonight include two separate shows featuring funny people telling true stories: Reggie Watts and Marina Franklin are among the guests at Kevin Allison's "live storytelling" show 'Risk!' at The Pit (tonight's theme: "So Emotional"); and over at Brooklyn Brewery it's 'Tom Shillue's Funny Story' with Jessi Klein, Lisa Delarios, and Trace Crutchfield.

Mike Birbiglia's movie Sleepwalk with Me opens at the IFC Center tonight. The midnight screening has free popcorn and soda if you wear your pajamas. Mike and co-writer Ira Glass will be there too. Trailer for the film is below.

Variety Lights, the new project from original Mercury Rev frontman David Baker, added a show tonight at Maxwell's. They'll also play Public Assembly tomorrow.

Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven screens at Brooklyn Bridge Park.

BrooklynVegan photo exhibit "480 Pixels" is up at 92YTribeca through September 6th. Stop by and check it out, the gallery is open until 8:30 PM tonight.

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Bob Mould, who plays a free show at Williamsburg Park on September 7, just
released a video for "The Descent," the first single from Silver Age, his first
album for Merge Records. You can watch it below.

The xx, who played NYC recently and will be here again in October, played live in a Tokyo highrise. Check out their performance of "Angels" below.

Deep Time have made a ghostly new video for "Gold Rush," a track which can be found on their new album. You can watch that below as well.

JJ DOOM (Jneiro Jarel and MF Doom), whose new album is streaming just made a video for one of its tracks, "GUV'NOR," which you can watch below.

What else?

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photos by Greg Azzaretti

The xx at Music Hall at Snug Harbor 8/06/2012

The band's heavily synthesized swirling and vibrant sound, which includes post-punk and sultry dub grooves, is a feast for the ears and a delight to the eyes as the group often complements their music with dazzling set designs and unique lighting displays.

Setting the atmosphere for the performance, the Music Hall became sort of an intimate nightclub -- literally, smoke-filled and breezy -- with lots of changing colored lights shiny from the stage--the perfect filter through which to showcase the band's ethereal sound.

Taking the stage to applause, the trio broke into "Angels" from the soon to be released album "Coexist."
Looking around the Music Hall, [member Oliver] Sims remarked how much he liked the theater: "It's very nice. It's very intimate." - [SI Live]

The xx's next NYC shows will be two nights at the Paradise Theatre in the Bronx in October. Meanwhile, the band just released a trippy "visualization" of a second cut from their much-anticipated second album, Coexist. That video, live videos, setlist, and more pictures from the Snug Harbor show are below.

Continue reading "The xx played Snug Harbor (setlist, video, Instagrams), released "Chained" from new LP (stream)"

photos by Leia Jospe

"shouts 2 all of u dancing onstage to jamie xx at ps1 ur all beautiful snowflakes with orange wristbands" - Drew Millard
"Jamie xx is absolutely shutting down ps1" - Ned White
"Jamie XX making it feel like im in Miami right now #ps1 #moma" - Val Tott

Miguel/Jamie xx's crowd at MoMA PS1 - 8/4/12

This summer's Warm Up at MoMA PS1, a series featuring afternoon dance parties from forward thinking electronic musicians every Saturday in MoMA PS1's outdoor courtyard, continued this past Saturday (8/4) with sets from Jamie xx, Miguel, Lemonade, Sinjin Hawke, Pearson Sound, and Zora Jones. This one sold out in advance, and the line to get in was crazy long as usual. Many people who didn't have tickets showed up anyway and listened from outside.

For Miguel, Warm Up was his first public NYC show since his private EP release party at Joe's Pub that he played earlier in the week. Rolling Stone caught his set and wrote:

Miguel performed a brief yet galvanizing set with his neon-clad backing band, delivering one of the few "concert" experiences of the evening and giving the thousands crammed into the gravel-floored courtyard something to scream about with a handful of weather-appropriate nü-R&B tracks off his forthcoming LP Kaleidoscope Dream in addition to a newly rap-infused performance of one of his well-worn covers, 2Pac's "I Get Around."

Meanwhile, for Jamie xx, Warm Up was one of two DJ sets he delivered this past weekend while in town in between The xx's Terminal 5 show last Thursday (8/2) and their Staten Island show, which is TONIGHT (8/6) at Snug Harbor Music Hall (sold out). Jamie premiered a new xx song during his set, and had the crowd going pretty nuts. After that show, he headed over to Manhattan to DJ a FIXED party at Le Poisson Rouge with John Talabot, who will be supporting The xx on many of their upcoming dates (none in NYC) and will return to LPR for a live show with Pional on September 27. Some videos of Jamie and John's sets from LPR are below.

Jamie xx wasn't the only one on Saturday's Warm Up lineup to keep the party going late into the night. Lemonade showed up in Williamsburg to DJ a party at Glasslands with Blondes and Rewards, and they killed it. Meanwhile, Sinjin Hawke was next door murdering 285 Kent with Egyptrixx, Elite Gymnastics, N0ms, Gobby, and MikeQ. Blood Diamonds, who had played Glasslands one night earlier (8/3) with Le1f and Gobby, showed up for a secret late set at the show. A video of Blood DIamonds' set from 285 Kent is below.

More pictures (unfortunately none of Sinjin Hakwe or Zora Jones) from Warm Up and all videos are below.

Continue reading "Jamie xx, Miguel, Lemonade, Sinjin Hawke & others played Warm Up before other late night shows (pics & videos)"

photos by Toby Tenenbaum; words by Andrew Sacher

The xx at Terminal 5, 8/2/2012

The xx released their hugely buzzed about debut, xx, back in 2009, and then kept pretty quiet after their 2010 tour ended. Now they're set to release its followup, Coexist, on September 11, just over three years since xx came out, which begs the question: do The xx still have it or was xx just a random stroke of genius and a bit of luck? Going by their show at Terminal 5 last night (8/2), their first of four NYC shows since 2010 on their North American tour (three of which, including last night, are sold out), I'd say they more than still have it. The crowd reactions were some of the most massive I've seen at any show this year. For almost any given moment of material from their debut being played, most of the 3,000 or so people in Terminal 5 were singing along at the top of their lungs. Even during the band's opening song, "Angels," the single off the new album, a huge chunk of the crowd already knew every word.

Any fears that the relatively quiet band wouldn't be able to handle a large venue like Terminal 5 were immediately crushed as well. At exactly 9:30 the lights in the venue shut off and the band's giant 'X' appeared lit up on the stage's backdrop, and from that moment on the band had complete control of the entire night. They played drowned in fog and glowing pastel colored floodlights, with sleepy visuals drifting behind them. Frontpeople Romy Madley-Croft and Oliver Sim performed with the sultriness of R&B singers but swung their guitars like rockers, and Jamie xx took over the backline with countless boards, drum pads, acoustic drums, and more. Their sound includes many reference points -- the wandering guitar of Beach House, the singer/songwriter meets beatmaker approach which is shown in their influence on James Blake -- but The xx truly have their own sound, and the new material continues to reflect that. Jamie xx has said he has a more prominent role in the songwriting for the new album, and it shows. The deep house of "Reunion" and the dancey "Swept Away" reflect an influence from the club scene that Jamie's solo work has ties to, and when combined with the band's signature guitar/bass/vocal work, it marks unchartered territory for The xx.

Though the show provided increased anticipation for the new record, it was largely about old favorites as well. Every song on their debut was performed, with the largest moments coming during "VCR," "Islands," and Jamie's huge crashes in "Infinity." They began their encore with "Intro," which saw the band and the lightshow at their most intense of the night, and because of the wordless song gave the crowd nothing to sing to, they provided piercing shouts of applause throughout the entire thing. Like they usually do, they ended the set with a reworked version of "Stars," which sees Jamie bringing in heavy beats at the end, in comparison to the more somber album version. This show wasn't easy to pick a standout from, but if pressed, that performance of "Stars" had to be it.

The band's next NYC show is the much smaller Staten Island venue Snug Harbor Music Hall on Monday (8/6), which tickets are still available for. After that, they'll continue to tour North America and make their way back to NYC for two sold shows in the Bronx at the Paradise Theater in October.

The show began with a DJ set from Jacques Greene and a live set from New Look. More pictures from last night's show are below.

Continue reading "The xx played Terminal 5 (pics, review, setlist)"

The xx @ Rock Werchter (more by Tim Griffin)

The xx play a sold-out show at Terminal 5 tonight and if you didn't get tickets but want to see them sooner than later (and smaller than bigger), you might be in luck. The band have just added another NYC date: Monday, August 6 at the 120 year-old Snug Harbor Music Hall in Staten Island (capacity: 686). Tickets for that show (supposedly) go on sale today (8/2) at noon (password = angels) . Good luck!

Check out a video of the band playing a brand new song in LA, along with their full list of tour dates, below.

Continue reading "The xx playing NYC show on MONDAY in Staten Island"

The Treasure Island Music Festival returns to San Francisco on October 13 and 14, featuring an impressive line-up including The xx, M83, Joanna Newsom, Grimes, Public Enemy, SBTRKT, Divine Fits (who just played their first-ever show last night), Ty Segall, The War on Drugs, Youth Lagoon Toro y Moi, Best Coast and more. Tickets are on sale now in both individual day or 2-day packages.

The full Treasure Island Fest line-up is below.

Continue reading "Treasure Island Music Festival 2012 line-up (M83, The xx, Joanna Newsom, SBTRKT, Divine Fits, Public Enemy & more)"

Cold Specks at Hotel Vegan, March 2012 (more by Amanda Hatfield)

today in NYC
* Tom Rainey @ Barbes
* The Do @ Mercury Lounge
* Marty Ehrlich @ The Stone
* Kathy Mattea @ City Winery
* Jonny Corndawg @ Mercury Lounge
* Rob Base @ Tappen Park Summerstage
* New York Chamber Trio @ The Stone
* The Mandingo Ambassadors @ Barbes
* Doom Squad, North America @ Zebulon
* Mumford & Sons, Dawes @ Pier A Park
* Peter Yarrow @ McNally Jackson Books
* Le Blorr, Sunbears! @ Knitting Factory
* Cold Specks, Doe Paoro, ARMS @ Glasslands
* Sanctuaries, Life Size Maps @ Big Snow Buffalo Lodge
* Family Band, Jennifer Castle, El Dorado @ Union Pool
* The Voices In Your Head, The Can't Tells @ Cameo Gallery
* The March Fourth, Ruby Fray, Globular Cluster @ Cake Shop
* Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, JDH & Dave P @ Le Poisson Rouge
* Big Black Cloud, Girls of Porn, Family Curse, Necking @ Death By Audio
* Dream Affair, Anasazi, Religious To Damn, Nao Katafuchi @ Public Assembly
* Yemen Blues, Khaira Arby, UkanDanZ @ Lincoln Center's Damrosch Park Bandshell
* CMA Songwriters Series w/ Little Big Town, Natalie Hemby, Bob DiPiero@ Joe's Pub
* Dukes of September (Donald Fagen, Michael McDonald, Boz Scaggs) @ Beacon Theatre
* Lucy Wainwright Roche, Maggie Roche, Sloan Wainwright, Suzzy Roche @ Madison Square Park
* Janeane Garofalo, Wyatt Cenac, Todd Barry, Starlight Girls, Liam McEneaney @ The Bell House
* Summerscreen ('The Princess Bride') w/ Extreme Animals, Soft Circle, PC Worship @ McCarren Park

"Tell Your Friends" comedy comes to The Bell House tonight, and in addition to the listed guests like Janeane Garofalo, Wyatt Cenac, and Todd Barry, there's a "JUST CONFIRMED: A SURPRISE GUEST" which they "can't say too much about this guy, except to say, if you've seen one of the TYF! surprise guests before, you know it means we've got someone goddamned amazing to close out the show. Trust me, if you miss this you're going to be very very sad."

"Celeste and Jesse Forever" opens in theaters this Friday. Hopefully you already caught our free screening on Monday at Sunshine Cinema. Tonight you can "Meet the Filmmakers: Rashida Jones, Will McCormack, and Lee Toland" at the Apple Store in SoHo.

"Senna", which maybe you caught when we screened it for free at Knitting Factory, screens at Socrates Sculpture Park tonight.

High On Fire were supposed to play Bowery Ballroom tonight and MHOW on Thursday (8/2) but unfortunately, those shows were cancelled.

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The xx play Terminal 5 on Thursday (8/2). Check out video of new song "Swept Away" from their recent LA show below.

Grimes DJ'd 285 Kent this past Sunday (7/29), you can check out video from her set (she's cranking Marylin Manson) below. Don't forget she plays a free River Rocks show next week (8/9) with Wild Nothing and DIIV.

Passion Pit made a video for their single "Constant Conversations" and you can watch that below too.

Continue reading "What's going on Wednesday?"

by Bill Pearis

It was an exciting night for seeing chilled-out indie rock big shots on late night talk shows last night (7/24). Fresh off their Summerstage performance, Beach House stopped by Late Light with Jimmy Fallon to perform "Wild," perhaps the most urgent track on Bloom. Meanwhile on the other coast, The xx stopped by Conan to perform their new single "Angels," which does indeed have a little bit of a Beach House guitar vibe at the start. Both bands sound pretty great. You can check out video below.

The xx will be in NYC next week for their sold-out Terminal 5 show. If you didn't get tickets to that, they'll be back October for two shows at The Paradise Theatre in The Bronx and there are still tickets available for both.

While we're on the subject of talk shows, Beach House weren't the only musical guests on Fallon last night. Nelly swung by the desk for a chat with Jimmy and then performed his early-'00s smash "Hot in Herre" with The Roots. You can watch that below too.

Continue reading "The xx played 'Conan'; Beach House played 'Fallon'; Nelly too (videos)"

by Andrew Sacher

Speaking of artists opening for The xx on their upcoming tour, Barcelona's John Talabot will be supporting the band on a run of dates in October. Talabot won't be at either of the NYC shows, but as discussed, he will DJ with Jamie xx at Le Poisson Rouge on August 4, two days after The xx plays Terminal 5 and the same day that Jamie plays Warm Up at MoMA PS1. Tickets for that show are still available.

Before John Talabot heads out with The xx, he'll be doing his own run of live shows which brings him back to NYC's Le Poisson Rouge on September 27, for what will be his first live show in the city since the release of his album. Tickets for that show are on sale. The show is with Pional, who records for Talabot's HIvern label, and sings on his album. Hopefully this means Pional will be joining John on vocals during his set, like he's done in the past. You can check out a video of them doing so at this year's Primavera Sound below.

That video and a list of all dates are below...

Continue reading "John Talabot touring w/ The xx, adds live dates, one in NYC"

by Andrew Sacher

As just mentioned, The xx have revealed the openers for their upcoming tour and the opener for the first leg of the tour, including NYC's Terminal 5 (8/2), is Montreal's Jacques Greene, who will be DJing at the sold out show.

Jacques just released his second EP of 2012, Ready, this week (7/16) via 3024 (his first, Concealer, came out in January). Though Jacques is from Montreal, his beats are well grounded in the UK. The EP's three tracks are all driven by UK funky and garage patterns, and they're accented by the manipulated vocal clips that dominate the post-dubstep world. It's a great (and quick) listen, and if you haven't checked it out yet, you can sample the entire thing with 3+ minute clips of each song below. Also check out the video for the title track below.

While Jacques is in NYC, he'll be sticking around (or given the two week gap, perhaps he'll be scheduling more shows and then heading back) for two more NYC shows, including one at Le Bain on August 17 before playing Warm Up at MoMA PS1 on August 18 with Floating Points, Secret Circuit, and Hieroglyphic Being. Tickets for Warm Up are on sale now. Jacques is also one of the many artists lined up for this summer's Mad Decent Block Parties. He's already set to play the Toronto one on July 28 (the only one whose lineup has been announced), but the NYC party falls on August 5, just after he plays T5 with The xx, so it seems possible that he might play that one too.

Meanwhile, The xx just added a second night at Paradise Theatre in the Bronx in October.

A list of all Jacques Greene dates, the Ready sampler and video are below...

Continue reading "Jacques Greene released 'Ready,' touring with The xx, playing other NYC shows too (Warm Up included)"

The xx @ Rock Werchter (more by Tim Griffin)

The xx just sold out their October 28th show at the Paradise Theater in the Bronx, and have added another show in the same Bronx venue, but happening two days earlier. Tickets for the new show are on sale now. Chairlift opens both shows.

That makes three NYC shows total, as they also play Terminal 5 in August with Jacques Greene.

photos by Tim Griffin

The xx at Rock Werchter, 6/30/2012

Tickets to The xx's upcoming show at the Paradise Theatre in the Bronx on October 28 go on sale today at noon. Chairlift open the NYC show and others on the tour. An updated list of dates is below.

UPDATE: 2nd Paradise Theater show added.

The xx are spending their summer playing festivals like Belgium's Rock Werchter which took place late last month. Amazing pictures from their set are in this post.

Recently, Jamie xx was on Australian radio station 3RRR where he made a 30 minute mix which you can stream at their swite (starts at 2hr, 30min mark as Fader points out). And if you haven't heard it, you can stream The xx's new single "Angels" below.

The xx meanwhile are in NYC next week for a sold-out show at Terminal 5 on August 2. Montreal artist and DJ Jacques Green has been added to that show as opener. All dates and the Belgium pictures, below...

Continue reading "The xx tickets, Rock Werchter pics, and a new mix by Jamie"

by Bill Pearis

The xx just released the first track from their new album, Coexist, which comes out September 11. "Angels" is the album's lead track and you can stream it below and you get an immediate download of the track if you preorder the album. (It just got "Best New Track" by the hive mind at Pitchfork.) Have they been listening to Beach House? Cover art and tracklist to Coexist are below as well.

The band, whose August 2 show at Terminal 5 show was sold out instantly, have just announced a fall tour which includes an NYC date on October 28 at The Paradise Theater in the Bronx with openers Chairlift (who are now minus keyboardist Olga Bell). Tickets to that show go on sale Friday, July 20. No Ticketmaster link yet but you can keep checking here.

All upcoming xx tour dates are listed below, along with the "Angels" song stream, cover art and tracklist...

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We try to keep tabs on various festivals around the world here on BrooklynVegan, many of which you'll eventually see pictures from. Today we focus on Belgium.

Pukkelpop goes down from August 16 - 18. That festival includes The Stone Roses, Bjork, Bloc Party, The Black Keys, Refused, Wilco, The Hives, The Shins, The Afghan Whigs, Lykke Li, Hot Chip, Feist, Flying Lotus, tUnE-yArDs, Chromatics, Cloud Nothings, The Tallest Man on Earth, Baroness, Ceremony, A-Trak, Rustie, Hudson Mohawke, and more. The full lineup is listed below. Tickets for the festival are on sale now.

Rock Werchter, which falls a bit more on the mainstream side, happens in Belgium even sooner, running from June 28 - July 1. That lineup includes The Cure, Jack White, X, Mastodon, Garbage, The xx, M83, Metric, Amon Tobin, Skrillex, Perfume Genius, Bat For Lashes, Michael Kiwanuka, Alabama Shakes, My Morning Jacket, Regina Spektor, Florence + the Machine, The Vaccines and more. Tickets for the festival are on sale now sold out.

The full lineups for both Pukkelpop and Rock Wercher are listed below.

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The xx at Webster Hall in 2010 (more by Bao Nguyen)

We heard a new demo back in December, and then some live recordings of new songs more recently, and now The xx have finally announced the followup to their excellent 2009 self titled LP. The album's called Coexist and it comes out on September 11 via Young Turks. They'll tour in support of the album this summer and come to NYC for a show on August 2 at Terminal 5. Did you get tickets? They went on sale at noon and sold out almost immediately. Maybe they'll add a second date?

Speaking of UK bands playing Terminal 5 with new albums coming out, Bloc Party also announced that their new record, Four, will come out August 21 via Frenchkiss. They'll be playing three Terminal 5 shows with The Drums which go down on August 7, 8 and 9. The latter two are sold out but tickets are still available for the 8/7 show. Check out the cover art and album trailer for Four below.

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The xx at Webster Hall in 2010 (more by Bao Nguyen)

Just a reminder: Tickets for The xx's August 2 show at Terminal 5 will go on sale Friday, June 1 at Noon with an AmEx presale on Thursday, May 31 at Noon. That is all.

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The xx at Webster Hall in 2010 (more by Bao Nguyen)

Gossip's headlining show at Terminal 5 tonight (5/22), that SSION & Creep are opening, not only still has tickets available, but will be streaming online at the Bowery Presents YouTube channel at 9:45 PM. And tonight's show isn't the only thing Gossip is streaming. Listen to their new album, Joyful Noise (which is out today via Columbia), in its entirety over at Exclaim.

Tickets for The xx's upcoming Terminal 5 show, announced earlier today, go on sale June 1 at noon. with an AmEx presale starting May 30 at noon.

And finally, since we're talking about Terminal 5, we were offered a pair of tickets to give away for the Wednesday (5/23) Meshuggah, Baroness, Decapitated show, so let's do it. Contest details below...

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The xx at Webster Hall in 2010 (more by Bao Nguyen)

The xx, who are working on a new album this year, have just announced a few North American dates in the midst of their mostly-European touring schedule. They'll head over to our shores in late July and stick around through early August, when they'll play a NYC show at Terminal 5 on August 2. Tickets are not on sale yet but check ticketmaster for updates.

Late last year, The xx dropped a new demo called "Open Eyes," which you can listen to HERE. They've since been playing a handful of small shows in London previewing more new material, which will presumably end up on the new album. Check out streams of five new songs recorded at one of their London shows, along with a list of all dates below...

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Poland's Open'er Festival (July 4-7, 2012) has announced their initial lineup which is Bjork, Justice, and The xx. Not too shabby. Tickets are on sale, and the rest of the lineup will be announced in the coming weeks.

More importantly. tickets are on sale (at 10am) for all 10 NYC Bjork shows (which had a presale earlier in the week).

The xx @ Mercury Lounge (more by Tim Griffin)

Listen below!

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