Alex Bleeker

Real Estate at Crest Hardware in 2012 (more by Fred Pessaro) We’re less than a week away from the official closing of Hoboken rock venue Maxwell’s, and still more shows are being added to the club’s final schedule…

Thermals @ 285 Kent, March 2013 (more by Amanda Hatfield) today in NYC * Q-Tip @ Cielo * Kim Smith @ Joe’s Pub * Dave Davies @ City Winery * Laura Marling @ Roulette * Slavic Soul Party @ Barbes * Secret Chiefs 3 @ The Stone * Dawn Richard @ Gramercy Theatre * Pantha Du Prince @ West Park Church * Kuroma, Fort Lean, IDEATH @ Glasslands * CAROL LIPNIK and SPOOKORAMA @ Barbes * Della Mae, Margaret Glaspy @ The Rock Shop * Tica Douglas, Woof Woof, Hayley Coupon @ Cameo Gallery * Deiphago, Mutant Supremacy, Damnatum, Agrath @ Saint Vitus * Wakey…

So how did you fare on Record Store Day 2013? I was surprised that I found most of my big wants, including Ty Segall‘s Ty Rex 2 (found at Academy Annex in Williamsburg), the Trouble in Mind four-way split and Stephen-Malkmus-plays-Can 12″ (acquired at Cake Shop), the first two Orange Juice albums (Turntable Lab) and Pulp‘s “After You” 12″ (Co-Op 87 at midnight)…

Tickets to the Governors Ball after-party with Japandroids at Music Hall of Williamsburg go on sale today at noon. Tickets to see New Order with Holy Ghost…

As you are probably aware, this Saturday (4/20) is Record Store Day. We’ve already told you some of our picks from the myriad #RSD13 exclusives, but many of NYC’s record stores are having special events that day…

Woods @ MHOW, Nov. 2012 (more by PSquared Photography) Brooklyn’s Woods will be spending most of the summer on tour and to commemorate the jaunt they’ll be releasing a new single via their Woodist label…

Quilt at Mercury Lounge in 2012 (more by Amanda Hatfield) Brooklyn venue Glasslands will a feel a little more like late ’60s San Francisco on February 17, when they host Real Estate side project Alex Bleeker & The Freaks (who are way more psych/blues than Alex’s other gig), the Summer of Love vibes of Boston’s Quilt, and the drone folk of Weyes Blood…

The Allman Brothers are playing ten shows at Beacon Theatre between March 1 to March 16. Tickets for all ten nights are on Fan Club presale now, go on AmEx presale today at noon, and general sale starts January 11 at 10…

Deer Tick have been up to a lot this month, and after just posting pics from their set at the Capitol Theatre last night (12/27), where they were supporting My Morning Jacket, we’ve got a slightly belated set of pics of the third and final night of their Brooklyn Bowl residency, where they performed an album and an EP in its entirety each night…

Real Estate in a church in Brooklyn last month (more by Greg Cristman) Mini have teamed up with RCD LBL to present the Normal Crashing Tour, which brings a different band to a secret location in different US cities…