2012 Olympics

What's going on Sunday?

Pictureplane in Chicago in April (more by Tyler Trykowski) today in NYC * ASSSSCAT 3000 @ UCB * Les Hot Club @ Barbes * Mike Birbiglia @ Union Hall * Jeff Walton Quintet @ The Stone * M’lumbo, Gary Lucas @ Joe’s Pub * Bob Jones/Jon Sholle Duo @ Barbes * Hannibal Buress @ Knitting Factory * Hallways, Zambri @ Ace Hotel New York * Ladysmith Black Mambazo @ City Winery * Sunday Salon Performances @ The Stone * Catalpa Music Festival @ Randall’s Island * Rachel Potter, The Vanity Belles @ Joe’s Pub * Joe Cocker, Huey Lewis and The News @ Jones Beach * Ice Balloons, Triple Hex, Two Times The Gun @ Zebulon * Calls, Midair, Fishing The Sky, Weird Teeth @ Saint Vitus * Grimes (DJ set), Pictureplane, Arca, Rezzie @ 285 Kent Ave * CHURCH Comedy Variety Show, Lost Boy…

Arctic Monkeys, Paul McCartney, and Underworld played the 2012 London Olympics Opening Ceremony

The 2012 London Olympics are underway, with the wildly ambitious spectacle of the Opening Ceremonies happened last night (7/27), as directed, the man who gave us Trainspotting, 28 Days Later and Slumdog Millionaire…

Blur performing live on Twitter today, releasing new single, closing the 2012 Olympics, then breaking up for good?

(via @blurofficial) Blur, who reunited in 2009 and returned earlier this year to perform at the Brits and announce some festival dates, are performing two new songs today live on a global broadcast via their Twitter page…