KMFDM

Marc Maron & Janeane Garofalo are performing at Union Hall in Brooklyn on Tuesday, June 30th. Tickets are on sale.

KMFDM are playing the Gramercy Theater on on September 25th. Tickets are on sale.

Lords of Acid were supposed to play Irving Plaza on July 10th, but it has been postponed.

Snow Patrol are playing two nights at the Beacon Theater in NYC in September. Tickets are on sale.

Tickets are on sale for the Mos Def show at Governors Island.

Tickets are on sale for the Erykah Badu show at Governors Island.

Tickets are on sale for the B-52's show on Governors Island.

The Spinto Band are playing Mercury Lounge on July 17th. Tickets are on sale.

Tracy Chapman is playing Hammerstein Ballroom on August 7th. Tickets are on sale.

Toby from Youth Group is playing five shows at the Living Room in July. Tickets are on sale.

Rachel Trachtenburg is playing Citysol (not on the main day) and Governors Island. Video from a show she played in Tompkins Square Park on Saturday, below...

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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.

Four-day passes to the fest are on sale now.

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

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Cloud Cult @ Bowery Ballroom (more by Chris La Putt)

today in NYC
* Bob Mould @ Joe's Pub
* Jeff Beck @ Irving Plaza
* Superdrag @ Bowery Ballroom
* Shahzad Ismaily @ Issue Project Room
* The Books @ Miller Theatre (Columbia)
* Lissy Trullie, US Royalty @ Union Hall
* Kayo Dot, Apollo Heights & Nymph @ Coco66
* Questlove (the fANtastic) @ (le) poisson rouge
* Enon, These Are Powers & The Forms @ The Bell House
* Jenny Scheinman, Nels Cline & S. Cardenas @ Blue Note
* Cloud Cult, Margot and The Nuclear So & So's, Ice Palace @ MHOW
* Team Genius, Action Painters, The Naked Hearts, Ill Ease @ Cake Shop
* Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin & Drew Danburry @ Mercury Lounge
* Borts Minorts, Uni and Her Ukelele, Rachel Trachtenberg, Griffin Point @ The Studio

Tonight's show at COCO 66 is a benefit for Yuko Sueta.

Yuko Sueta is a beautiful and gifted video artist, photographer, and writer. Yuko, age 36, is battling metastasized breast cancer. She currently has an intense pain condition as a result of spinal compression that has her bed-ridden and unable to work. She has undergone procedures to try to alleviate some of the compression and she is fighting hard to rebuild her strength.
We hope you will join us in our efforts to support our friend and provide her with an environment which can allow her to continue to be productive, creative and pursue wellness.

APOLLO HEIGHTS, NYMPH, and KAYO DOT are playing the show.

I always confuse the existence of Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin (from Missouri) with Margot and The Nuclear So & So's (from Indiana) - just based on their huge, confusing names (and other somewhat similar characteristics). Tonight the two bands both play in NYC.

Drew Danburry (from Utah) opens the Mercury Lounge show.

Pattern is Movement covered Beyonce for Daytrotter.

Youth Group are in the midst of their 3-city, 1-month US residency. Their new video is below...

What else?

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The Drones

Call the Army! It's an invasion! Over the next two months, bands from Australia will swarm down (under) and barrage us with a ton of shows in North America including NYC ones at Pianos, Mercury Lounge, Europa, and The Bell House, and of course a bunch of performances in Austin for SXSW.

First up, The Drones have a new album entitled Havilah on ATP Recordings and the quartet is back in the USA in 2009, a scant six months after killin' it ATP New York and playing a string of NYC shows in 2008. The NYC shows are at Union Hall with The War On Drugs on 3/30 (tickets on sale soon) and at The Bell House on 3/26 (tickets on sale now).

The Bell House show is particularly interesting (especially if you aren't a vegan)

THE AUSSIE BBQ: AUSTRALIAN MUSIC SHOWCASE
Admission comes with free BBQ courtesy of SHEEP STATION and one free drink. Featuring tons of amazing Australian bands like
THE DRONES / THE FUMES / YOUTH GROUP / THE GRATES / THE RESIGNATORS / THE RED RIDERS / THE BOAT PEOPLE / INFUSION / HELL CITY GLAMOURS. Free Baron's Beer!!

There's also a similar Australian BBQ / music showcase happening in Austin during SXSW. Details on that, and all Drones dates below.

One of the bands on BOTH BBQ fests (NYC and SXSW), Youth Group, will release their new album The Night Is Ours on April 7th in the US. The crew has also laid out April residencies in NYC, Philadelphia and Boston. The NYC residency is at Pianos every Tuesday in April (April 7, 14, 21, 28). Philadelphia is every Wednesday at the M room, and Boston is Sundays at TT Bear's. Full tour dates are below.

Another band on both bills... it's the return of The Grates (pictured). They are touring the US around those dates and SXSW, including a show at Mercury Lounge on March 23rd with Sky Larkin (no tix), and one at Pianos with Micachu on March 25th (tickets on sale).

My Disco, an angular post-punk trio that worships at the altar of Albini so much that they named their band after a Big Black song, will tour the US with the not-Aussie Young Widows after their trip to the Lone Star state. Full tour dates are below, including a show at Europa on April 1st. Tickets are on sale.

The War On Drugs (not Australian) are currently touring Europe, but will hit the road in the end of March for a US tour that includes the NYC date mentioned above.

All tour dates for everyone below...

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