Kings of Leon

Jonah Matranga & Ian Love at Gershwin Hotel (more by Tim Griffin) Jonah Matranga of Far/onelinedrawing/New End Original fame has scheduled a solo show at Mercury Lounge on May 21st…

the Walkmen @ Masonic Temple (more by Natasha Ryan) The Walkmen kick off a tour with Kings of Leon in Boston on April 19th. Being that KoL just played APW, headlined MSG, Radio City and Webster Hall, it makes sense that there is no NYC date scheduled for that run…

Jane’s Addiction – @ Echoplex, Los Angeles – Feb 16, 2009 (revolute)Live Nation and Adam Zacks are pleased to announce this year’s line up for the Sasquatch…

LET’S get this lot out of the way right at the start: sex, saunas, suicide. And there will be no more mention of Ingmar Bergman, Greta Garbo, Ulrika Jonsson, the humble herring, and last and definitely least, Sven-Göran Eriksson…

Kings of Leon @ Madison Square Garden – Jan 29, 2009 (spochat)Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has revealed that people often mistake him for singer James Blunt or an insurance salesman…

M83 @ Webster Hall (more by Kyle Dean Reinford)Following a sold-out US tour throughout North America that continues through the end of November, Mute Records and M83 are proud to announce that the band is confirmed to open for The Killers during their arena tour in January and February 2009…

For a minute I thought that meant the show was sold out which was like “whoah!”. Maybe it is almost sold out. I could just get a pair in the 400 section, so who knows…

This weekly post was really just meant to be an (arguably) interesting news roundup of where (mostly BV-covered) music and musicians are showing up besides in our stereos/computers/headphones/players/etc…

After working on the first two videos for with Matthew Frost (Graveyard Girl) and Eva Husson (Kim&Jessie), M83 is now extending an open call to fans to submit their best video interpretations of “We Own The Sky”, their latest single from …

Kelly Pratt (Team B) @ Union Pool (more by Kyle Dean Reinford) today in NYC * DANCE * the Woodies @ Roseland * AC/DC & the Answer @ MSG * Ben Sollee @ Mercury Lounge * Mark Kozelek & Neil Halstead @ MHOW * Ane Brun & Tobias Froberg @ Union Hall * Frida Hyvonen @ the Swedish church * Hank IV & Los Llamarada @ the Charleston * Herman Dune, Turner Cody & Motel Motel @ The Bell House * Free Blood, Us Royalty & VHS or BETA (DJ Set) @ 205 Club * Murder By Death, William Elliot Whitmore & J Roddy Waltson @ Southpaw Neil Young was born today in 1945…