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Thursday’s NYC-area shows include Leon Bridges, Blondie, Man or Astro-Man?, and more.

Saturday show options include Drive-By Truckers, Grace Potter, Oneida, Machine Head, Warhorse, Kaiju Big Battel, and more.

Tonight’s NYC-area shows include King Gizzard, Mary J Blige/Nas, Slipknot/Gojira/Behemoth, toe, Spiral Jetty, and more.

The Pioneer Works show is part of the exhibit “The Present Is the Form of All Life: The Time Capsules of Ant Farm and LST.”

You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows, but here are some highlights… Superheaven, Diamond Youth, Rozwell Kid @ Amityville Music Hall Superheaven offer one of the most convincing takes on ’90s grunge (even if they hate being called that) of most modern bands doing that kind of thing, and Diamond Youth seem to worship at the house that Josh Homme built (they’re good at it too)…

Zola Jesus at Catalpa Fest 2012 (more by Toby Tenenbaum) You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows, but here are some highlig…

Swedish experimental rockers The Skull Defekts, who count Lungfish’s Daniel Higgs as a member, released their newest album with him on board, Dances in Dreams of the Known Unknown, earlier this year via Thrill Jockey…

Members are consist of 3 vocals; the ugliest rock star Psychic Yamanashi whose voice is nothing but annoying. Another vocal is Death voice from wood cutter Mongoloid who is very manly with secret naive heart…

While the crowd members went for each others’ jugulars (or whatever body parts they managed to make contact with) or danced along ecstatically sans pain, No Age properly fed the crowd’s appreciation with track after track of nearly pure distortion and noise instrumentals…

Japanese trio Boris finished night one of their two night residency at LPR last night (5/6, the night after playing Boston- pictures are HERE)…