Good Willsmith

For day 15 of Red Bull Sound Select’s 30 Days in Chicago, Built to Spill and Parquet Courts played the Empty Bottle, along with opening sets from Meat Wave and Good Willsmith.

As always, FACT’s list shines a line on a lot of artists that most year-end lists don’t. Their #1 may surprise you.

Liturgy as a full band in 2009 (more by Fred Pessaro) You may know that NYC black metal “transcendentalists” Liturgy have been touring as a duo with a drum machine, but they’ll be reuniting with their masterful drummer Greg Fox (and bassist Tyler Dusenbury) for their first tour as a four-piece in a while…

videos As mentioned, Silent Barn has a new Bushwick location (603 Bushwick Ave) after being forced to move out of their 915 Wyckoff Ave location, and they opened the doors for the first time at the new spot on Sunday (12/30)…

They Might Be Giants at Terminal 5 in March (more by Dana (distortion) Yavin) today in NYC * Phish @ MSG * Kanye West @ Revel * Stephane Wrembel @ Barbes * The Fab Faux @ City Winery * Gov’t Mule @ Beacon Theatre * The Felice Brothers @ Maxwell’s * Steve Miller Band @ Capitol Theatre * Superhuman Happiness @ Mercury Lounge * Alana Amram, Mal Blum @ The Ace Hotel * Coldplay, Naturally 7 @ Barclays Center * Martha Reeves & the Vandellas @ BB King’s * Dark Star Orchestra @ Paramount (Huntington) * Howth, Creeptones, Erik Gundel @ Cameo Gallery * Pretty Lights, Michal Menert @ Roseland Ballroom * Punch Brothers, Aoife O’Donovan @ Bowery Ballroom * MV Carbon, Trin Tran, Vinka Varna, X27 @ Cake Shop * Sandra Bernhard @ Joe’s Pub (early and late shows) * Spring Standards, Taurus, Inland Traveler @ Glasslands * Alan Watts, GDFX, Sugarm, Good Willsmith @ Silent Barn * Machinedrum, Sepalcure, Brooklyn Bass @ Le Poisson Rouge * They Might Be Giants, Last Car @ Music Hall of Williamsburg * Afrojack, Diplo, Rusko, Bobby Burns, Leroy Styles @ Pier 94 * Smoke DZA, Vinny Cha$e, Slim Dollars, Kris Kasanova @ SOB’s * John Zorn’s Annual End of the Year Improv Festival @ The Stone * I Am The Avalanche, Money, Paper, Hearts, Sad & French @ The Grand Victory * Baked, Two Inch Astronaut, Butter The Children, Ovlov, The Districts @ Big Snow * Andrew WK, Big D and the Kids Table, The Blazing Beaverducks @ Ollie’s Point * Brothers Past, The Manhattan Project, DJ Greg, special guests TBA @ Brooklyn Bowl * Cro-Mags, Sheer Terror, Rude Awakening, Brain Slug, Born Annoying @ Highline Ballroom * Dave Hill, Josh Gondelman, Mike Lawrence, George Gordon, Ben Kronberg, John Flynn, Dan St Germain, Sean Donnelly @ Union Hall Silent Barn is back with a new Bushwick location and they’ll host their first show there tonight with Alan Watts, GDFX, Sugarm, Good Willsmith, and DJ Smhoakmoshe…

Someone combined the 2006 Idolator Jackin’ Pop and 2006 Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics polls, and instead of Bob Dylan running over Kyp Malone, they came up with Dylan being murdered by Kyp, Ghostface, and even Hold Steady…