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a day by day Week in Indie-like guide to this week’s Northside Festival… The Hundred in the Hands The Northside Festival is back for a second year, and I really do think the roster of bands playing over the next four days is pretty impressive: here’s bigger bands, more out of town bands, more bands in general…

AA Bondy @ Union Hall in February (more by Kyle Dean Reinford)” ‘How Will You Meet Your End?’ by A. A. Bondy – A dark musical tale that seems to reach out from another time, this is a song I can — and do — leave on repeat for long stretches…

DOWNLOAD: The Love Language – Heart to Tell (MP3) The Love Language @ BV Loft during CMJ 2009 (more by Chris La Putt) North Carolina’ s The Love Language are gearing up for the release of their Merge debut, Libraries, due July 13th…

Dam-Funk And Master Blazter is playing Bowery Ballroom on June 12th. Tickets are on sale. Tame Impala is playing Pianos on June 24th. Tickets are on sale…

There’s a lot going on this weekend but the show I’m most excited about this weekend is The Wedding Present who are in town performing their 1989 classic Bizarro in its entirety…

DOWNLOAD: Choir of Young Believers – Action/Reaction (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Arms – Arms EP (SENDSPACE – ZIP) Denmark’s Choir of Young Believers were in town for a pair of pre-SXSW shows – the second of those was at Pianos on March 11th with NYC’s own Arms (a band that features Todd Goldstein, formerly of Harlem Shakes)…

DOWNLOAD: Megaphonic Thrift – Acid Blues (MP3) DOWNLOAD: The Good The Bad – 004 (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Pirate Love – A Kiss Hello (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Choir of Young Believers – Action/Reaction (MP3) By now you hopefully you know that Norway’s awesome Casiokids are playing our Brooklyn Vegan Pre-SXSW party, alongside Let’s Wrestle, The Wave Pictures, Banjo or Freakout and WhoMadeWho…

words & No pedals, no wall of sound, no wash of blinding lights. All the hallmarks of an Asobi Seksu live performance were cast off during the New York band’s sold-out, acoustic performance at Le Poisson Rouge on Friday night (1/29)…

Asobi Seksu @ Bowery Ballroom in Oct (more by Toby Tenenbaum)” Chikudate shared an anecdote with the crowd about going into the forest with her bandmates to do shrooms–an experience that went well until they found a bird with a broken neck…

DOWNLOAD: The Octagon – Suicide Kings (MP3) I wrote at length already about this week’s Serena Maneesh shows. Now here are some other daily picks to take you through the weekend…