"On September 10th, 2010, VOGUE, Mayor Bloomberg, NYC & Company and the CFDA will team up for a second time to bring you Fashion's Night Out. The goal of the Fashion's Night Out is to celebrate fashion and retail."

Metric is playing at Juicy Couture' Fifth Avenue Flagship store at 8:30PM. They are also playing a fashion show on Monday.

Joss Stone is playing in Nine West (5th Ave and 53rd Street).

VV Brown is playing the Teen Vogue and ASOS.com's Fashion's Night Out Block Party. "The event will be held on Bleecker St (btwn Perry and W. 4th) in NYC 6-11pm."

"As part of Vogue's "Fashion Night Out" Bear Hands will be playing at Rockefeller Center tonight, September 10. The show kicks off at 6:30 and previous to Bear Hand's set at 9pm Savoir Adore and Brahms will be playing. The stage is set up between 49th and 50th street and 5th and 6th Avenue."

"My Gold Mask will be premiering "I Don't Need The Reason" live during their performance at the Phillip Lim store for Fashion's Night Out in New York City today on Friday, September 10."

Dan Black is performing an acoustic set at Saks at 9:30pm, and DJing at Dior Homme from 7-9.

Karen Elson will play at 9pm at Balenciaga, West 22 Street, between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues.

Mick Rock is taking pictures at the Varvatos store.

"We will also have a live acoustic performance by British band Ramona at the Spring Street Burberry store."

Andrew Wyatt from Miike Snow is DJing a Theory party at 40 Gansevoort Street.

What else?

Avi Buffalo @ South Street Seaport (more by Chris La Putt)

Tickets for the !!! shows at Music Hall of Williamsburg on October 6 and October 7 are on sale now. 2 Day Passes are also available.

Tickets are still on sale for the official BrooklynVegan CMJ showcase at Music Hall of Williamsburg on October 21st. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, The Blow, Yuck, Young Man, and a special guest, are all on the bill.

Tickets are on sale for the Grinderman show at Nokia Theatre.

Tickets are on sale for the Corrosion of Conformity shows at Starland Ballroom and Highline Ballroom.

Tickets are still on sale for the September 6th Sleep show at Brooklyn Masonic Temple (September 8th is sold out).

Tickets are on sale for the Unkle show at Webster Hall.

Tickets are now on sale for BOTH Man or Astroman? shows happening in NYC.

Avi Buffalo are playing The Mercury Lounge on October 13. Tickets are on sale now.

VV Brown is playing The Bowery Ballroom on October 24. Tickets are on sale now.

Mike Krum is playing The Mercury Lounge on September 23. Tickets are on sale now.

Cypress Hill is playing Nokia Theatre on August 20th. Tickets are on sale.

Tickets for the Here We Go Magic show at Bowery Ballroom are on sale now.

Bonobo is playing Webster Hall on November 8. Tickets are on sale now.

Robert Randolph and the Family Band are playing Terminal 5 on November 13. Tickets are on sale now.

Tickets for the Kate Nash shows at Terminal 5 and The Wellmont Theater are on sale.

Janka Nabay and the Bubu Gang played Eagle Street on August 21st. Video from that show below...

Continue reading "!!!, CoC, Grinderman, Unkle, Man or Astroman?, Avi Buffalo, Kate Nash, VV Brown & other tickets on sale"

The Specials @ Coachella 2010 (more by Rachell Carr)

The Thermals @ the Bell House in 2009 (more by Kyle Dean Reinford)

tonight in NYC
* Neil Innes @ BB King's
* The Specials @ Terminal 5
* Snoop Dogg @ Irving Plaza
* VV Brown @ Apple Store Soho
* Gary War, Balaclavas @ Glasslands
* The Whitest Boy Alive, Jessica 6 @ Bowery Ballroom
* Ninjasonik, The Death Set, Cerebral Ballzy @ Pianos
* MATA Festival w/ Calder Quartet @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
* The Tallest Man On Earth, Nurses @ Highline Ballroom
* The Thermals, Past Lives, The Coathangers @ Brooklyn Bowl
* Asa Ransom, MiniBoone, Governor, Strange Agent @ The Cameo
* Ava Luna, Air Waves, Total Slacker, Your Nature @ Union Pool
* Zaza, Light Asylum, Electrical Umbilical Cord @ Knitting Factory
* Sweet Apple, Hollerado, Buffalo Killers, The Weight @ Mercury Lounge
* Jason Ajemian, White Blue Yellow and Clouds, Afghanistan @ Cake Shop
* CSC Funk Band, Greg Ginn & the Taylor Texas Corrugators, Cinema Cinema @ Zebulon
* Knyfe Hytes, Dubknowdub, Telecult Powers, Fuck Ton, X-Ray Eyeballs, Alien Whale, Invisible Circle, Cntrl Top, K-Holes @ Death By Audio

UK singer VV Brown plays a free show at Apple Store Soho tonight - she headlines at Bowery Ballroom on April 28th (MNDR opens). Tickets are still on sale.

The Thermals kick off a 2-night run at Brooklyn Bowl.

The Specials never made it to Toronto, but they kick off a two night run in NYC tonight.

Snoop Dogg played Brooklyn Bowl last night and he honors 4/20 right with a show at Irving Plaza tonight. His latest interview (which I would say is 4/20 related but that just goes without saying) with Nardwuar reposted below...

What else?

Continue reading "What's going on Tuesday? (4/20)"

Lemonade @ MtyMx in Mexico (more by Andrew Frisicano)

today in NYC
* Whiplash @ UCB
* Chicha Libre @ Barbes
* Mako Sica @ Silent Barn
* Reverend Vince Anderson @ Union Pool
* She & Him, The Living Sisters @ Bowery Ballroom
* You Say Party! We Say Die!, Treasure, Diamond Rings, Oy @ Pianos
* Foxy Shazam, Young Veins, Bad Rabbits @ The Studio at Webster Hall
* City Center, Soft Circle, Drawlings, Love of Everything @ Death By Audio
* A Sunny Day in Glasgow, Mahogany, Pacific Theater @ The Bell House
* Delorean, Lemonade, Brahms, Cool Places Soundsystem @ Mercury Lounge
* Dark Dark Dark, Twi the Humble Feather, Cavalier Rose, Callers @ le Poisson Rouge
* M. Takara 3, Brassa Bell (Nathan Bell of Lungfish), Invisible Circle @ Cake Shop

If you missed the Irving Plaza show, Julian Casablancas plays Starland Ballroom in NJ on Tuesday.

The lineup at Whiplash tonight is Pete Holmes, Leo Allen, Moshe Kasher, Ari Shaffir, & guest host Sean Patton.

Wednesday is the LATFH book release show at UCB.

Cotton commercial star Zooey Deschanel plays as one half of She & Him for two nights in a row starting at Bowery Ballroom starting tonight.

You Say Party We Say Die! are here after playing SXSW. A video from one of their Austin shows below...

Our SXSW Saturday day party host extraordinaire, Nardwuar, interviewed VV Brown (who just played Mercury Lounge and Music Hall of Williamsburg) in Austin. You can watch it below.

Black Lips and Pierced Arrows have a free show in Brooklyn coming up.

Big night at Le Poisson Rouge Tuesday. The early show is Micachu and the Shapes, and Flying Lotus headlines the late (with Kode9 and Nosaj Thing who just played Knoxville).

Spoon played Radio City Music Hall on Friday.

Video from the Skeletons show at Silent Barn where they were joined by Nine 11 Thesaurus, below....

What else?

Continue reading "What's going on Monday?"

MtyMX (more by Andrew Frisicano)

Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for the Morning Benders show @ Music Hall of Williamsburg

Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for the MIA/Sleigh Bells Hard Fest show @ Governors Island.

Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for the Laura Marling show @ Music Hall of Williamsburg

Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for the Cocorosie show @ Terminal 5.

Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for the Blitzen Trapper show @ Webster Hall

VV Brown is playing Bowery Ballroom on March 24th. Tickets are on sale.

Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for the Pretty Lights / RJD2 show @ Terminal 5.

Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for the La Roux show @ Terminal 5.

Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for the New Pornographers / Dodos / Dutchess & The Duke show @ Terminal 5.

Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for the Miike Snow show @ Terminal 5.

Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for the Stars show at Music Hall of Williamsburg. LPR tickets go on sale at 4pm.

Tickets are on sale for for Vampire Weekend's 3rd Radio City Music Hall show.

Tickets are on sale for two LCD Soundsystem shows at Terminal 5.

Nada Surf @ Bowery Ballroom in 2008 (more by Kurt Christensen)

tonight in NYC
* Nada Surf @ Bowery Ballroom
* Apollo Sunshine @ Southpaw
* Rx Bandits @ Gramercy Theatre
* Dave Hill Explosion @ UCB
* Glass Ghost, Caveman @ Glasslands
* Alice Smith @ Highline Ballroom
* Marissa Nadler & Meg Baird @ Littlefield
* Seabear, Via Tania @ Mercury Lounge (Early Show)
* Howl, Javelina, Sea Of Bones, Flourishing @ Cake Shop
* Headlights, Surf City, The Campbell Apartment @ Maxwell's
* Liquor Store, The Netherlands, Ex-Cop, Fuck Fuck @ Coco 66
* Jello Biafra (and The Guantanamo School of Medicine) @ Europa
* Weasel Walter, Vinny Golia, Adam Lane @ Issue Project Room
* Little Dragon, VV Brown, Oh No Ono @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
* The Nymphets, German Measles, Missionaries, Foster Care @ Death By Audio
* John Wesley Harding's Cabinet of Wonders w/ special guests @ (le) Poisson Rouge
* Paul Dempsey, Pets With Pets, The Chevelles, Sherlock's Daughter, Children Collide, Oh Mercy, Love of Diagrams, Crayon Fields, City Riots, Beaches, BLISS N ESO, Goons Of Doom @ The Bell House (Aussie BBQ)

Nada Surf kicks off a three-night run of full-album shows tonight.

VV Brown plays on a stacked bill with Little Dragon and Oh No Ono (who played Mercury Lounge last night) tonight at MHOW. She'll also be back on April 28th to headline a Bowery Ballroom show of her own which is now on sale.

Tonight's Allman Brothers Band show was cancelled.

Tonight's Jello Biafra show was moved to Europa from Brooklyn Masonic Temple.

BV presents Howl, Javelina, Sea Of Bones & Flourishing @ Cake Shop tonight. Flyer below....

Superchunk played a semi-surprise set at the Merge SXSW showcase last week. Videos from their performance below...

Japandroids played the BV day party @ Emo's last week. A video from their performance below...

Julian Casablancas sang "Hard to Explain" at Irving Plaza last night. Video below...

What else?

Continue reading "What's going on Thursday?"

photos by Gabi Porter

On February 17, 2010, British singer VV Brown made her [Manhattan] live debut at the Hiro Ballroom. Her music can definitely be described as the answer to the mathematical equation: Amy Winehouse + Duffy / Estelle. For those who have no idea what I am talking about, her music has that throwback to the 60s girl groups sound, mixed with a little rock and reggae. Her debut album, Travelling Like The Light, was released in 2009 on the Universal label to much success overseas, but as usual, the United States is a little bit late to the game. In the new decade, the label is giving her a big push (by way of song product placement in shows such as Desperate Housewives and CSI: New York) and it seems their efforts are paying off in a big way. She's pretty, she's talented and she knows how to charm a crowd. [according2g]

Before the NY dates, VV played some gigs on the West Coast. Both picture sets below are from her LA shows: the first pics were taken at Spaceland on January 29th, and the second are from the next night at Bardot.

VV Brown has more North American tour dates scattered through February, March and April - some of which are with Swedish electo band Little Dragon. They'll both be at Music Hall of Williamsburg for a show on Thursday, March 25th. Tickets are still on sale.

Little Dragon, who are on tour in the US this March and April, also play March 27th at Mercury Lounge. Tickets TBA. Little Dragon appear on two songs on the forthcoming Gorillaz album, Plastic Beach, out March 9th on Parlophone/Virgin. Both will be at Coachella this April. More info on that new record is here.

All dates and more pictures are below...

Continue reading "VV Brown played LA (pics) & NYC, touring w/ Little Dragon (who play TWO NYC shows, are on the new Gorillaz)"

Beatweek: When I listen to Travelling Like the Light, there's two things that immediately jump out at me. One is that it's got this old school, throwback feel. What inspired that in you?

VV Brown: For a long time I was repressing the music that I really loved, cause when I was a kid I was a very deep kid, I was into classical and jazz music, and it wasn't very cool. So from the age of thirteen to like nineteen, I kind of suppressed the love of it and was trying to be cool and listened to not songs that I loved. And then I went to LA and I was signed to a record deal which was different from this one, and they were trying to make me into an R&B diva, and I was still suppressing all of the music that I really liked, but I never said anything about it.

When I came back to London I didn't want to suppress it anymore. I wanted to be true to what I wanted to do. So I went to a record store and I bought loads of vinyl and started to listen to old music again, like Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald, and mixed the two, my love of pop music and then my love of old school music, and try to create a fusion of both.

Brown's Travelling Like the Light came out last year in the UK and earlier in 2010 in the US. An acoustic version of her song "Crying Blood" and all tour dates (a few more on this short US run) are below...

Continue reading "the UK's VV Brown on tour - 2 free NYC shows"