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The Octagon, Free Energy & more in This Week in Indie

DOWNLOAD: The Octagon – Suicide Kings (MP3) I wrote at length already about this week’s Serena Maneesh shows. Now here are some other daily picks to take you through the weekend…

Showpaper Benefit pics & video (Kendrick Strauch, Shilpa Ray, Trachtenburgs, Rebecca Schiffman, Your Nature, more)

Happy Holidays! I take on more than I can handle. That results in a lot of unposted content. In the name of catching up, while also taking it easy during this final week of the year, here’s some of that lost material…

Kurt Vile adds free Brooklyn show (dates), played Europa w/ Wild Yaks (who are playing Hex Fest) - pics & review

Kurt Vile fit three shows into a recent two-day NYC trip. The first was a solo performance at an invite-only party at Public Assembly early Tuesday night (11/17)…

a show w/ Trachtenburgs, Shilpa, Your Nature, Rebecca Schiffman & Kendrick Strauch (Harlem Shakes) who recorded a whole Yeah Yeah Yeahs album (download)

DOWNLOAD: Kendrick Strauch – 48 Hour Fever (SENDSPACE ZIP LINK) Issue 61 (out now) – cover of Big A little a Showpaper, “the volunteer-run, free, and one-of-a-kind ‘DIY’ newsprint of concert, art, and film listings,” is hosting a benefit for itself on Saturday, September 26th (7pm) at Kidd Yellin Gallery (133 Imlay St in Red Hook, Brooklyn)…

Girls, Ty Segall, Most Serene Republic, Legends, Lubricated Goat, Steve Wynn & more in This Week in Indie

DOWNLOAD: Ty Segall – It #1 (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Ty Segall – The Drag (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Charlie & the Moonhearts – Cagemouth (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Most Serene Republic – Heavens to Purgatory (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Your Nature – Triangle Eyes (M4A) This week it’s all about San Francisco, as far as this column is concerned. (A…

What's going on Sunday?

Score! @ BKLYN YARD yesterday (Ben Sisto) tonight in NYC * DANCE * Christy & Emily @ Zebulon * Mountain Jam in Hunter, NY * Sunday Best @ BKYLN YARD * Tyvek, Pygmy Shrews @ Cake Shop * I Was A King, The Wowz @ Union Hall * New York Ukulele Festival @ Baruch College * The Bangles, Lindsay Rush @ The Wellmont Theatre * Aki Onda, Rafi Bookstaber and Willie Lane @ The Stone * Ben Sollee, Demolition String Band @ The Bell House * X, Steve Soto & The Twisted Hearts @ Bowery Ballroom * David Amram @ Brooklyn Conservatory of Music Concert Hall * Grizzly Bear, Here We Go Magic @ Music Hall of Williamsburg * Bang on a Can Marathon @ World Financial Center Winter Garden * Zee Avi, Amy LaVere, Papercranes, Spottiswoode @ Mercury Lounge * Soft Circle, Lovefingers, DJs Justin Miller & Jacques Renault @ Glasslands * The Beets, Knight School, Cause Co-Motion…

What's going on Wednesday?

Akron/Family @ the New Museum (more by Leia Jospe) tonight in NYC * stuff @ Rockwood * Ólöf Arnalds @ Sycamore * Patrick Wolf @ (Le) Poisson Rouge * JG Thirlwell’s Manorexia @ The Stone * Whoopie Pie with Marc Ribot @ Zebulon * John Doe and the Sadies @ City Winery * The Harlem Shakes, Cringe, Sean Bones @ Pianos * Alex Battles and the Whisky Rebellion @ Hill Country * Your Nature (ex-Frankpollis) & Wild Yaks @ The Annex * The Octagon, Electric Owls, Stars Like Nesseth @ Pianos * Fear, Mongrel, Tall Black Girls, Violent Bullshit @ Europa * MC Lars, The Beatards, Schaffer The Darklord @ Mercury Lounge * Modern Creatures, Teenage Night War, Twin Crystals @ Bruar Falls * Happy Ending Music and Reading Series with Vampire Weekend @ Joe’s Pub * Lady Sovereign, Chester French, Hollywood Holt @ Music Hall of Williamsburg * Akron/Family, Charlyne Yi, William Parker’s Southern Satellites @ Bowery Ballroom * Lowry, Elizabeth and the Catapult, The King Left, April Smith, Kaiser Cartel, Mia Riddle @ Southpaw The Your Nature show is the first of four weeks of a residency, with special guests, at the Annex…

Tindersticks, The Antlers, Paper, The Week That Was, Your Nature (formerly Frankpollis) & more in This Week in Indie

DOWNLOAD: Tindersticks – “The Hungry Saw” (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Tindersticks – “Yesterday’s Tomorrow” (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Tindersticks – “The Other Side of the World” (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Paper – “Out of It Into It” (MP3) DOWNLOAD: The Week That Was – “Learn to Learn” (MP3) DONWLOAD: The Antlers – “Bear” (MP3) DOWNLOAD: The Antlers – “Two” (MP3) Tindersticks The most exciting show of the week for me has to be the return of Tindersticks, who play the Brooklyn Masonic Temple on Friday (3/6)…