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Seattle aiming to help local venues with Cloudbreak Music Festival

With an aim to get more people back into its venues, Seattle’s Cloudbreak festival runs November 3-23 and offers free admittance to shows for those staying at participating downtown hotels.

The Big Takeover, Avi Buffalo, CFCF, Amen Dunes, Grass Widow, Ducktails & more in This Week in Indie

DOWNLOAD: Avi Buffalo – What’s In It For? (MP3) DOWNLOAD: CFCF – Big Love (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Grass Widow – Shadow (MP3) This weekend is The Big Takeover‘s 30th Anniversary celebration: two nights of shows at the Bell House put together by Jack Rabid who has been publishing the ‘zine since 1980…

the Rock Shop is announcing shows, selling advanced tickets

The new Skippy-booked, Bowery-associated, Park Slope music venue is selling tickets for (two) shows on Ticketfly. UPDATE: They just added a bunch more shows to Ticketfly…

Bumbershoot 2010 lineup (Bob Dylan... Hole... Mary J Blige)

Memorial Day Weekend officially opened the summer, and for those in the Pacific Northwest it also brought Sasquatch Music Festival (pictures from all three days are coming soon)…

Big Takeover celebrating 30 years @ The Bell House (lineup)

One of NYC most esteemed musical institutions, fanzine-gone-legit The Big Takeover turns 30 this year, and is having a two-day birthday party in Brooklyn at the Bell House on July 30-31…

Spoon kicked off their tour in Austin w/ Sharon Jones, Broken Bells, Walkmen (pics,setlist), Radio City tonight (tix on sale)

It was a happy St. Patrick’s Day for Spoon. The Austin, Texas, indie-rock band received a hero’s welcome during its hometown show on Wednesday at the South by Southwest music festival…

Neko Case & Crooked Fingers @ Nokia Theatre - pics, setlist

Neko Case played her first of two shows at the Nokia Theater in NYC last night (4/13). Guests and bandmembers included Rachel Flotard from Visqueen, Lucy Wainwright Roche, Norah O’connor and Kelly Hogan…

new Neko Case album - Middle Cyclone - out in March

Neko Case @ ACL 2008 (more by Kyle Dean Reinford) AC Newman‘s new solo album is out in January on Matador. Fellow Pornographer Neko Case‘s album “Middle Cyclone” will be released on March 3rd on Anti…