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Tour news: Mac DeMarco, Dawes, Ray LaMontagne, Shout Out Louds, more

Plus: Thouxanbanfauni, Lizzy McAlpine, Harry Styles, Arcade Fire, Charlotte Adigery & Bolis Pupul, EST Gee, the Court Square Block Party and more tour and festival news.

What's Going on Saturday?

Saturday’s NYC-area shows include Caribou, Jeff Rosenstock, Bouncing Souls and Face to Face, Deadguy, Irreversible Entanglements, and more

What's Going on Wednesday?

Today’s NYC-area shows include Waxahatchee, Turnover, Magdalena Bay, Lou Barlow, Tape Hiss, Robert Glasper, and more

Thurston Moore played Le Poisson Rouge (pics)

Thurston Moore’s September tour kicked off in NYC on Saturday night, and featured him backed by his former Sonic Youth bandmate Steve Shelley on drums, and Modern Lovers original bassist Ernie Brooks.

Arthur Russell's major label demos being released on new LP (listen to "You Did It Yourself")

Posthumous Arthur Russell material is still surfacing via the Russell Library, the latest of which is album ’Iowa Dream’ which will be out in November.

What's going on Thursday?

Tonight’s NYC shows include Roni Size celebrating ‘New Forms’ 20th anniversary, Gary Numan, The Nightmare Before Christmas Live, Chris Rock, Hiss Golden Messenger, and more.

Tim Burgess (Charlatans) & Peter Gordon (Arthur Russell) releasing collaborative LP (watch "Unguarded" video)

You may remember that The Charlatans’ Tim Burgess collaborated with Arthur Russell/Love of Life Orchestra‘s Peter Gordon on a cover of Russell’s “I Couldn’t Say it to Your Face” for a Record Store Day 7″ in 2014. They’ve now made an LP together.

Arthur Russell tribute LP details revealed (ft. Hot Chip, Robyn, Blood Orange, Sufjan Stevens & more) (tracklist, video)

More details have finally been announced for the Arthur Russell tribute album thatt he Red Hot organization is putting out. The album’s being released on YepRoc on October 21, and is now titled Master Mix: Red Hot + Arthur Russell (it was initially announced that it’d be called This Is How We Walk on the Moon)…