Plates of Cake

Today’s NYC-area show options include Jeff Tweedy (at the grand opening of Brooklyn Made), Erykah Badu, Joyce Manor, Rufus Wainwright and José González, Tinashé, and more

Sunday shows include Joey Bada$$, Cracker/Camper Van Beethoven, Lonnie Holley, Caroline Polachek, and more.

California’s The Molochs released America’s Velvet Glory back in January, a terrific collection of ’60s-ish psych pop with a whiff of new wave that recalls, more than anything, the heyday of the LA ’80s Paisley Underground scene…

Prophets of Rage, Julia Jacklin, Sannhet, Pinegrove, Evan Dando, Caged Animals, Lazer/Wulf, Somos, and more Friday show options in NYC.

Philadelphia band Honey Radar released Blank Cartoon earlier this year via What’s Your Rupture, which is packed with low-fi jams indebted to ’60s Britrock. (If you like Guided by Voices or late-’90s Lilys, it’s very much in the same vein.)…

King Krule at Glasslands in 2011 (more by Erik Erikson) Phantogram @ Bonnaroo 2012 (more by Dana Yavin) Browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows…

Browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows. Here are some highlights… AlunaGeorge, Supreme Cuts @ Bowery Ballroom After an impressive 2012 EP on Tri Angle, a collaborative hit with Disclosure, and a number of other very catchy singles, AlunaGeorge brought everything together for their recently released debut LP, Body Music, which they’re now supporting on their first North American tour…

Caitlin Rose @ Mercury Lounge, 2011 (more by Chris La Putt) today in NYC * Uri Sharlin @ Barbes * Ross Karre @ The Stone * Josh Modney @ The Stone * Martin Sexton @ City Winery * Justin Vivian Bond @ Joe’s Pub * Bush Tetras @ The Slipper Room * Smokey’s Secret Family @ Barbes * The Moving Sidewalks @ BB King’s * Monogold, Chappo @ Knitting Factory * Songs For Unusual Creatures @ Barbes * Caitlin Rose, Andrew Combs @ Union Hall * Armin Van Buuren @ Madison Square Garden * Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds @ Beacon Theatre * DJ Ronaldo, Paul Raffaele, Contakt @ Output * Broncho, Beach Day, Ski Lodge @ Cameo Gallery * New London Fire, The Crusaders, Etim @ Maxwell’s * Abigail Washburn: Post-American Girl @ Joe’s Pub * Mister Lies, Rimar, Heathered Pearls @ Glasslands * Ital, Container, Co La, PVRE MATRIX @ 285 Kent Ave * Incantation, Evoken, Derketa, Rellik @ Saint Vitus * The Motor Tom, New Beard, Hey Anna, Sky-Pony @ Pianos * Dopethrone, Motherplant, Dutchguts, Blackout @ The Acheron * Takka Takka, Plates of Cake, Radical Dads, Pre War @ Cake Shop * Aidan Baker, Insect Ark, Yoshiko Ohara @ Big Snow Buffalo Lodge * Gangstagrass, Kamara Thomas & The Ghost Gamblers @ Mercury Lounge * Desert Stars, Wim, Modern Merchant, The Van Gemerts @ The Rock Shop * Tensnake, Flight Facilities, Light Year, JDH & Dave P @ SRB Brooklyn * Iron Lung, Dream Decay, Brain Slug, Shoxx, No Tomorrow @ Death By Audio * SSPS, Holy Balm, Father Finger, Maria Minerva DJ set @ Body Actualized Center * Chuck Ragan, Dave Hause, Rocky Votolato, Jenny Owen Youngs, Toh Kay @ The Bell House * Branchez, Cobra Krames, Back2Back, Dirtyfinger, Mischief, Tanner Caldwell @ Glasslands * Martin & Lawrence, Matthew Thurber, SICK DIN, Lantern, Canadian Romantic @ Silent Barn * Twain, The Gallerist, Charming Disaster, Keith McCurdy, Hamin Reed, Angel Ocana @ Pete’s Candy Store * Eartheater, MTNS, Laughters, Alaskas, Dillon James Rego, Big Spider’s Back, Total Slacker (DJ) @ The Ho_se * 2Pretty (Colin Self & Lain Kay), Gobby, Jealous Orgasm, Shane Shane, Bottoms, Rum (James K) @ Secret Project Robot * Ed Schrader’s Music Beat, Jamaican Queens, Free Blood, Zula @ Shea Stadium @ 8pm @ Blackbird Raum * Narkatta (DJ set), He Met Her, The Netherlands, Speedy Ortiz, EULA, Bambara, O & TLBS, Gull, Edelweiss, A Beacon School, The Roads, DJ Keili @ Ran Tea House * Lisa Lisa, TKA, Rob Base, Shannon, Sugar Hill Gang, Biz Markie, Judy Torres, Coro, Noel, Soul Sonic Force, Cover Girls, Cynthia, Soave, Safire, Lisette Melendez, Nayobe, Slick Rick @ Radio City Music Hall Bummer: Tonight’s Bush Tetras show at Slipper Room has been canceled due to “circumstances beyond ours and Bush Tetras’ control.” says the press relea…

Radical Dads, who made one of my favorite albums of 2011, will release their second album, Rapid Reality, on May 21. Cover art, which you can see above, is by Brooklyn artist Dana Schutz…