Tickets go on sale at noon for the James Blake happening at Webster Hall in October, not to be confused with the sold out James Blake show happening at the same venue much sooner.

Tickets go on sale at noon for the Japandroids show at Mercury Lounge.

Tickets go on sale at noon for the Battles show at Webster Hall.

Tickets go on sale at noon for both Opeth shows at Webster Hall.

Tickets go on sale at noon for the Clap Your Hands Say Yeah show at Bowery Ballroom.

Tickets go on sale at noon for the Fleet Foxes/The Walkmen show at Williamsburg Waterfront.

Tickets are on still sale for other Williamsburg Waterfront shows too, like Sonic Youth and Death Cab.

Panda Bear tickets also go on sale at noon.

DNTEL tickets also go on sale at noon.

Tickets are still on sale for An Evening With Youssou N'Dour at Terminal 5 on June 24th.

Tickets are still available for the R. Stevie Moore show happening this Sunday, June 12, with Tropical Ooze, Jonny Corndawg and Lost Boy.

Tinariwen @ Le Poisson Rouge (more by Tim Griffin)

Tinariwen are touring North America in the first quarter of 2010. Tickets recently went on sale for 2 NYC shows. It's a long journey for the band from Northern Mali (assuming they still live there), and it's a chance for us to again see the artists who made the "best world music album" of the decade (according to the Times Online)...

"The Tuaregs' debut, recorded in a Saharan radio station, is the sound of the sands, stones and emptiness, filtered through a woozy wall of guitars. Today they are genuine rock stars, but this, in all its ragged glory, is the one."

Continue reading "Times Online picks the decade's 'best world music albums'"

Castanets

today in NYC
* DANCE
* Jim Gaffigan @ Town Hall
* Nicole Atkins @ the Wonderbar
* Tina Turner @ the Prudential Center
* The Parlor Mob & The Gay Blades @ Mercury Lounge
* Pitchfork 500 release party @ Gutter Bar
* Youssou N'dour's Great African Ball @ Nokia Theatre
* Steel Train, Dear and the Headlights & Forgive Durden @ Bowery Ballroom
* El Ten Eleven, Castanets, Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson & Happy Anarchy @ The Bell House

John McVie of Fleetwood Mac was born today in 1945.

The Pitchfork 500, "Our Guide to the Greatest Songs from Punk to the Present" is out now. They're celebrating tonight at Gutter Bar.

Youssou N'dour also plays at Nokia Theatre on Thanksgiving.

There isn't much going on, on Thanksgiving, but Dr. Lonnie Smith also plays two shows at Iridium Jazz Club - it's the beginning of a four day residency.

The NY Times says, "Radio's Revenue Falls Even as Audience Grows".

Beck's "Youthless" video below...

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Continue reading "What's going on Wednesday (Thanksgiving-Eve)"

Friday, Saturday, Sunday (Aug 8-10, 2008)

A few people have emailed asking if I knew if Robyn was really added to the All Points West lineup. As far as I know, yes, but I see that she still hasn't been assigned a stage or day. I also just noticed (thx Mike) that Grizzly Bear was added to the lineup, and at least one person pointed out (thx Steven) that Youssou N'Dour is no longer listed. Further scientific analysis reveals that Black Kids aren't on there anymore either. Three stage, three day schedule pictured above.

Youssou N'Dour (born October 1, 1959 in Dakar) is a Senegalese singer and percussionist. In 2004, Rolling Stone described him as, in Senegal and much of Africa, "perhaps the most famous singer alive." He helped develop popular music in Senegal, known in the Wolof language as mbalax, a blend of the country's traditional griot percussion and praise-singing with the Afro-Cuban arrangements and flavors which made the return trip from the Caribbean to West Africa in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s and have flourished in West Africa ever since. [Wikipedia]

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