Michael Shannon

Tonight’s NYC-area shows include The Movielife, Rafiq Bhatia, Men I Trust, Buster Poindexter, Have A Nice Life, Phil Lesh, Richard Barone & Glen Mercer, and more.

Plus: Superorganism, Viagra Boys, Wesley Stace’s Cabinet of Wonders, Pure Bathing Culture opening for Lucius, and more tour-related news.

From Echo & The Bunnymen to Bob Dylan to Jarboe to Pusha T, there are many show options this long Thanksgiving Weekend in NYC (plus a few other music-related events).

”I sat down to write this song with my son. I said, ’what should we call this jam?’ He said ‘Skeleton’s Tooth’, Darnielle laughed, ”So I wrote Skeleton’s Tooth.”

The “Flip These Houses” protest benefit also features Nicole Atkins, Lenny Kaye, Matthew Caws (Nada Surf), Shilpa Ray, Mac McCaughan (Superchunk), Hamilton Leithauser and lots more.

The event is called “Flip These Houses” that celebrates “Protest Songs, Political Music, and Unity through Song” and the lineup also includes Hamilton Leithauser, The Wrens’ Charles Bissell, Nicole Atkins, Ted Leo, Syd Straw, and many more.

Plus: Chris Gethard, 75 Dollar Bill, Josh Gondelman, and more at the penultimate night of Yo La Tengo’s Hanukkah marathon.

The latest in Bob Dylan‘s “bootleg series” is Trouble No More, which pulls live recordings and demos from 1979 to 1981 — the “gospel era” during which Dylan became an Evangelical Christian…

This year’s TFF late includes a documentary about David Byrne’s ‘Contemporary Color,’ comedy ‘Elvis and Nixon,’ Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong in ‘Geezer,’ and lots more.

Tuesday highlights include: a night of ambient drone with Deradoorian, plus Nada Surf, Pop. 1280, a free Emmy the Great in-store, UK doomers Conan, and more.