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Laugh with the stars at Comedy Central’s Night of Too Many Stars: An Overbooked Concert for Autism Education on Saturday, October 2 at the Beacon Theatre…

Conan O’Brien in Eugene, OR 4/12 (by ob)The approach, judging from Monday night’s performance, was to sweep in with a torrent of energy (or as O’Brien put it in a Twitter post, a “towering tsunami of dry, self-deprecating humor”), high spirits, music, video bits, flashing lights and a crew of old favorite faces and routines…

The eighth annual Bonnaroo drew about 75,000 people to 700 acres of farmland here in Manchester, 60 miles from Nashville, for a lineup headlined by a jam band (the reunited Phish, playing three-hour shows on Friday and Sunday), rockers whose careers are measured in decades (Bruce Springsteen, Nine Inch Nails and David Byrne) and rappers who now qualify as old school (the Beastie Boys)…

The Drums @ Cake Shop in May (more by Dominick Mastrangelo) tonight in NYC * DANCE * Bilal @ Blue Note * Old 97’s @ Maxwell’s * Mika @ (Le) Poisson Rouge * John Hammond @ City Winery * Diana Krall @ Carnegie Hall * John Hammond @ Hudson Square * Build, Greta Gertler @ Joe’s Pub * Eivind Opsvik’s Overseas @ Zebulon * Little Joy, The Dead Trees @ Bowery Ballroom * Bedouin Sound Clash, DeLeon @ Mercury Lounge * Exact Change 20th Anniversary @ Issue Project Room * Ezra Furman & The Harpoons, Anni Rossi, Pearl & The Beard @ Pianos * The Legends, The Drums, Soft City, Care Bears On Fire @ The Bell House * Patrick Wolf, Living Things, Jaguar Love, Plastiscines @ Highline Ballroom * Patterson Hood & The Screwtopians, Will Johnson, Kevn Kinney @ Music Hall of Williamsburg * Gary Wilson, Birds of Avalon, Animal Cruel-T, Silk Flowers, Ted Leo (DJ), Spencer Sweeney (DJ) @ Santos Party House John Hammond plays a free set at the first Hudson Square free Tuesday show…

NY Dolls @ the Varvatos Store in May (more by Tim Griffin) tonight in NYC * DANCE * Beyonce @ MSG * Anna Ternheim @ Joe’s Pub * Signal @ (Le) Poisson Rouge * The Roots @ Highline Ballroom * Gabriel Kahane @ Rockwood Music Hall * Ted Leo & the Pharmacists, Titus Andronicus @ Maxwell’s * Miike Snow, The Maccabees, Hatcham Social @ Mercury Lounge * Jason Anderson, The Wailing Wall, Bleeker, Mountain Man @ Silent Barn * Goon Squad, The NRG People, Bunnybrains, Moira Scar @ Santos Party House * New York Dolls, Black Joe Lewis, The Madison Square Gardeners @ MHOW Eugene Mirman “and more” perform at Leo Allen‘s Whiplash show at UCB tonight…

Comedian and musician Dave Hill was summoned to Bonnaroo this past weekend to be part of both the comedy and music going-ons at the four-day Tennessee festival…

Walter Schreifels with Rival Schools at Irving Plaza (more by Tim Griffin) Walter Schreifels in concert doesn’t just mean it will be the hardcore veteran playing his Martin acoustic…

Amadou & Mariam @ All Points West 2008 (more by Kyle Dean Reinford) The contest to guess the lineup of this year’s All Point West festival continues…

today in NYC * Les Paul @ Iridium * Family Guy @ Carnegie Hall * Coliseum & Tombs @ The Charleston * Lordi, Lizzy Borden, Goes Cube & Fixer @ Irving Plaza * Shotgun Shogun & Jason Anderson @ Pete’s Candy Store * Camp Lo, Oveous Maximus & One Love Crew play a benefit @ Highline Ballroom Woody Allen & The Eddy Davis New Orleans Jazz Band (yes, that Woody Allen) regularly perform at The Carlyle…