today in NYC
* stuff @ Barbes
* ASSSSCAT 3000 @ UCB
* Dan Peck @ The Stone
* Butch Morris @ Zebulon
* Joshua Rubin @ The Stone
* Cornelius Loy @ Manhattan Inn
* Pretty Good Friends @ Union Hall
* Andrew Gregory @ Rockwood Music Hall
* Mighty Fine @ The Bell House (2pm doors, free)
* Telephoned, Great Tiger, Zebra Baby, Infernal Devices @ Glasslands
* Aaron Roche, Schwervon!, Heavy Medical, A Fucking Elephant, Man Lee @ Cake Shop
* Les Rhinoceros, Afuche, Ron Anderson/Weasel Walter/Tim Dahl, Guerilla Toss @ Death By Audio
* Comedy Night @ The Knit w/ Hannibal Buress, Shane Mauss, Calise Hawkins, Liam McEneaney, April Macie
* NY Guitar Festival: Eliot Fisk, Bill Kanengiser, Connie Sheu, Dale Kavanagh, Emanuele Segre, Jason Vieaux, Nigel North, Hopkinson Smith, Pino Forastiere, The Harlem Quartet, Lionheart @ 92nd Street Y
* Philip Glass's 75th Birthday w/ Kronos Quartet, Dennis Russell Davies, Maki Namekawa, Ira Glass, Michael Riesman, Ensemble Signal, Bruce Brubaker, Tim Fain @ Le Poisson Rouge

Matador recording artist L.A. GUNS are not playing Bowery Electric tonight (CANCELLED).

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Southpaw will be closed in less than a month. There's an open mic or something there tonight.

Check out the Twilight Sad's new video for "Another Bed" below...

What else?

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The Twilight Sad at SXSW 2011 (more by Dominick Mastrangelo)

The Twilight Sad will welcome No One Can Ever Know, the Scots' new LP due via Fat Cat on February 7th. The LP features "Sick", which recently surfaced in single form (available on iTunes) as well as "Kill It In The Morning" which is streaming below.

A few weeks after the album drops, The Twilight Sad will spread their gospel across the US with a string of dates leading to SXSW (and keynote speaker Bruce Springsteen).

Look for the band in Brooklyn on Feb 25th at Music Hall of Williamsburg. Tickets go on AMEX presale at noon on Wednesday (12/14) with regular sale hitting on Friday.

All tour dates and that song stream are below.

Continue reading "The Twilight Sad reveal new album, song stream & tour dates"

photos by Dominick Mastrangelo

Raphael Saadiq

Duran Duran

Catching up a bit. Here's what Dominick saw in Austin on Wednesday, March 16, 2011...

Continue reading "SXSW 2011 Day 1 pics"

Little Boots @ Bowery Ballroom in September (more by Chris La Putt)

tonight in NYC
* Shout Out Louds @ Pianos
* Soulive & Vernon Reid @ Brooklyn Bowl
* Living Days, Follower @ Glasslands
* Flogging Molly @ Hammerstein Ballroom
* Bobby Previte @ Rose Live Music
* Corinne Bailey Rae @ Apple Store Soho
* K-OS, Jon Oliver @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
* Gil Scott-Heron & Friends @ Blue Note
* Jay-Z, Young Jeezy @ Madison Square Garden
* Afuche, Elks, Hyimn, Wizardry @ Death By Audio
* Rogue Wave, Avi Buffalo @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
* Bushwick Book Club plays 'Dark Knight Returns' @ Goodbye Blue Monday
* Little Boots, Class Actress, Body Language, JDH & Dave P @ Highline Ballroom
* Cage the Elephant, As Tall As Lions, Morning Teleportation @ Bowery Ballroom
* Sky White Tiger, The Beasts of Eden, Wu Li, Holistic @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
* The Music of the Who w/ Sondre Lerche, Robyn Hitchcock, Living Colour, Bob Mould, more @ Carnegie Hall

Tonight's So So Glos show at Littlefield has been cancelled.

Tonight's K-OS w/ Jon Oliver at Le Poisson Rouge has been cancelled.

JBM has been added as opener for tonight and tomorrow's Rogue Wave shows.

Thom Yorke is going on tour in April. Tickets for some of the shows go on WASTE presale some time today. UPDATE: went on sale and sold out.

Bushwick Book Club this month features songs about Dark Knight Returns (the comic). Performers include Breez Evahflowin, Core Rhythm, Timothy Dark, Susanna Pryce, Anna Leuchtenberger, Susan Hwang and We Stole the Show - flyer below.

Jay-Z's Blueprint 3 tour visits MSG tonight. He plays Izod Center this weekend and Nassau Coliseum next, and you can catch him at both Bonnaroo and Coachella this year.

Soullive kick off "Bowlive", a 2 week residency at Brooklyn Bowl tonight. Flyer below.

Shara Worden is curating 2 nights at 92YTribeca Friday and Saturday. A video of her (My Brightest Diamond) performing "Golden Star" live, below...

The Twilight Sad is going on tour with Mono. Their video for "The Room" below...

What else?

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MONO...

Last spring MONO flew from Japan to New York City to perform two truly magical, memorable nights with esteemed Wordless Music Orchestra backing them. The 30-piece MONO played a 90-minute set that ranks among the greatest live experiences we've ever witnessed. What most people don't know is we flew our producer friend Matt Bayles to record the concerts, and the whole glorious event was filmed by a team of poorly-paid superfriends. It all sounds and looks absolutely stunning, and we're so thrilled with how it all turned out. There will be a CD+DVD, as well as a limited-edition 3xLP+DVD with all the bells and whistles you could hope for.

To celebrate the release of their monumental live album and film, Holy Ground: NYC Live with the Wordless Music Orchestra (in stores April 27), the beloved Japanese quartet will bring their legendary live show to just about every corner of North America. This will be MONO's only North American performances in 2010. Supporting all dates are Scotland's The Twilight Sad.

Live video from MONO's NYC shows in May and all tour dates are below..

Continue reading "MONO touring w/ The Twilight Sad (dates), releasing live album & DVD of NYC shows w/ Wordless Orchestra "

DOWNLOAD: The Twilight Sad - Reflection Of The Television (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: We Were Promised Jetpacks - Quiet Little Voices (MP3)

If only they had jetpacks...

A trio of Scottish bands, We Were Promised Jetpacks, The Twilight Sad and Frightened Rabbit, are touring parts of North America this September -- they'll stick to the West Coast and the South, starting out at Monolith Festival in Colorado on September 12th and 13th.

For the tour's second leg, Frightened Rabbit drops off, and Jetpacks and The Twilight Sad will be joined by Brakesbrakesbrakes (featuring Eamon Hamilton of British Sea Power). The dates and cities for that section are still TBA, but there will be a stop at NYC's Bowery Ballroom on Tuesday, October 6th. Tickets go on sale Friday, July 10th at noon.

Besides being from Scotland, all of the above-mentioned bands (even Brakes, but they are from England) are on Fat Cat Records. Jetpacks' debut, These Four Walls, is out now (July 7th) on the label. That album's "Quiet Little Voices" is posted above. The video for the same song is below.

The Twilight Sad's Forget the Night Ahead (their follow up to Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters) will be out September 22nd on Fat Cat. "Reflection of the Television" from the new record is posted above. The full track list is below. The Twilight Sad just visited NYC on their spring tour with Mogwai, which included three nights at the Music Hall of Williamsburg.

Frightened Rabbit won't be at that October 6th Bowery show, but they will be in NYC a bit earlier for their appearance at Siren Festival on July 18th. The night before the band plays a show at Maxwell's, which will be the first of two final Oxford Collapse gigs. Those shows are all part of the Frightened Rabbit's July tour.

All tour dates, and the above-mentioned stuff, below...

Continue reading "We Were Promised Jetpacks & The Twilight Sad tour with (alternately) Frightened Rabbit & BrakesBrakesBrakes"

Willamette Week's Musicfest NW announces this year's festival line-up which will be held at various venues around the Portland, OR metropolitan area on September 16, 17, 18 & 19. On the heels of the most successful MFNW to date, MFNW 2009 launches with nothing but the hope of a bigger and better festival. MFNW's ultimate aim is to provide Portland with a unique and special musical experience that features all types of acts including nationally renowned artists while still honoring and supporting the special musical scene of the Northwest.

The lineup so far, including the newly-reunited Sunny Day Real Estate, is below...

Continue reading "Musicfest NW in Portland, OR (Sept 16-19) - lineup"