Bodega

Tonight’s NYC-area shows include Elton John, New Colossus Festival, Nellie McKay, Suzanne Vega, Emancipator, Penelope Isles, The Monkees featuring Mike Nesmith & Micky Dolenz, and more.

Tonight’s show has been moved just over half a mile away to Market Hotel; no word yet on the status of other upcoming shows at the venue.

Plus: Feels, Underdog, Hirs, Stereolab’s first US tour in a decade, The Lonely Island’s first-ever tour, Craig Finn, Stephen Malkmus, and more tour-related news.

Jessica Pratt and Cass McCombs are streaming new albums and both playing End of the Road, along with Beirut, Metronomy, Courtney Barnett, Jarvis Cocker, Spiritualized, Low, and many others.

The lineup includes Four Tet (live), Father John Misty, Sharon Van Etten, IDLES, Broken Social Scene, Stereolab, Big Thief, Richard Thompson, and much more.

Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats, Fruit Bats, Mountain Man, YOB, Damien Jurado, Lambchop, and much more…

Tonight’s NYC-area shows include Mineral, King Tuff, The Lemon Twigs, The Jayhawks, Cam’ron, Alejandro Escovedo, Bodega, Azure Ray, Kim Phuc, and more.

“These songs were written in response to the state of the world and our current political reality,” says singer/bassist Chris Pickering. “It’s very current events oriented whereas everything we’ve done before was futurist sci-fi. Shit got so real and fucked up in the last couple of years that we can’t even imagine a utopian future any more.”

This week in the Basement: a new box set of Scottish independent music of the ’70s/’80s, new band Beauty Parlor featuring members of Fungi Girls, a new video from fictitious cult artist Mick Trouble, a tribute to late music writer David Cavanagh, and more.

This week in the Indie Basement: Bill’s favorite albums of 2018, focusing on classic indie, college rock, and more.