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photographer: paul birman

What's going on Friday

Black Anvil @ Cake Shop (playing Fontana’s tonight) (more by Paul Birman)
Black Anvil

A few highlights
* Leonard Cohen @ MSG
* Hip-Hop @ CMJ 2009
* CMJ 2009 – Bill’s Friday nighttime picks
* Black Bubblegum & Relapse Records do CMJ @ Fontana’s
* Williamsburg Loft party presented by BrooklynVegan (RSVP Closed)
* Ted Leo, Califone, Cold Cave & Japandroids too (CMJ Friday)

Saturday afternoon is a free BrooklynVegan party at Pianos, now with BEAST and free bloody marys for those who show up early.

Superchunk (sort of) is doing Arcade Fire, Neutral Milk Hotel and Spoon covers at Housing Works tonight at 7.

A big, ugly, messy list of more stuff happening tonight, below…

tonight in NYC
* Laura Marling @ Joe’s Pub
* Portugal. The Man @ Apple Store Soho
* Leonard Cohen @ Madison Square Garden
* Mikel Rouse: Gravity Radio @ Galapagos
* Songs of Ascension @ BAM Harvey Theater
* The Bongos, The Fleshtones @ Hiro Ballroom (CMJ)
* Califone: “All My Friends Are Funeral Singers” @ 92YTribeca
* Superdrag, The Emergency Room @ Highline Ballroom
* Chromeo, Theophilus London, Amazing Baby, Solid Gold @ Brooklyn Bowl
* Vice Late Nights w/ Harlem, The Dutchess & The Duke @ Public Assembly
* Superhuman Hapiness, Choo Choo La Rouge, The Rocco John Group @ Zebulon (CMJ)
* Dent May, Tickley Feather, Excepter, Kria Brekkan, Drawlings @ The Cameo (CMJ)
* Surfer Blood, Grandchildren, UUVVWWZ, French Miami, Sleigh Bells @ Market Hotel
* Hercules and Love Affair, James Zabiela, Aeroplane, Shinchi Osawa @ Irving Plaza
* Bear in Heaven, Helado Negro, Peggy Sue, Hi Red Center, Spring Tigers @ Lit (CMJ)
Heavy Winged, Religious Knives, Infinity Window, Three Legged Race @ Death By Audio
School of Seven Bells, The xx, Phantogram, Warpaint @ Music Hall of Williamsburg (CMJ)
Teenage Bottlerocket, Cobra Skulls, Joey Cape, Jon Snodgrass, Higher Giant @ Europa (CMJ)
Veil Veil Vanish, The Neutron Drivers, Goes Cube, Twin Berlin, Stuyvesant @ Trash Bar (CMJ)
Sam Mickens’ Ecstatic Showband Revue, CSC Funk Band, Jimmy Cousins @ Monster Island Basement
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists, Lemonade, Cold Cave, Harlem, Glasser, Tanlines @ The Suffolk (CMJ)
Spleen United, Class Actress, Acrylics, Blood Oranges, Little Girls, Arms, Sore Eros @ Pianos (CMJ)
Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Holly Miranda, Delorean @ (Le) Poisson Rouge (CMJ)
X-Wife, The Smith Westerns, Hesta Prynn, Codebreaker, Home Video, Grooms, Still Flyin’ @ Littlefield
Jeff: The Brotherhood, Heavy Cream, Natural Child, Daniel Pujol, Denney and The Jets @ The Charleston (CMJ)
The Spinto Band, Pepi Ginsberg, Generationals, High Strung, Floating Action, The Moneynotes @ Union Hall (CMJ)
Japandroids, Owen, Headlights, James Husband, Cale Parks, Motel Motel, Common Loon @ The Bell House (CMJ)
Priestess, Nebula, Naam, Weird Owl, Hopewell, Quest for Fire, Imaad Wasif And The Two Part Beast @ Union Pool (CMJ)
Misery Index, Salome, Revocation, Black Anvil, Complete Failure, Howl, The Gloominous Doom @ Fontana’s (CMJ)
Still Flyin’, Air Waves, Beach Fossils, The Smith Westerns, Knight School, Moonmen On The Moon, Man @ Bruar Falls (CMJ)
Local Natives, Yes Giantess, Santa, Darwin Deez, Baby Monster, Emil & Friends, Evan Voytas, Body Language @ Santos Party House
Yes Giantess, Red Wire Black Wire, We are Enfant Terrible, Body Language, VEGA, Two Fresh, Beast @ Studio at Webster Hall (CMJ)
Portugal. The Man, The Temper Trap, Drug Rug, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Wheel, All Day Holiday, Julia Nunes @ Bowery Ballroom (CMJ)
Real Estate, Claymation Velociraptor, New Villager, Frat Dad, Holiday Shores, Pill Wonder, Inlets, Eternal Summers @ The Delancey (CMJ)
Let’s Wrestle, Male Bonding, NinjaSonik, Crystal Antlers, Surfer Blood, Slang Chickens, Apollo Run, The Depreciation Guild @ Cake Shop (CMJ)
Shout Out Out Out Out, Blip Blip Bleep, The Picture, Deadbeat Darling, The Dig, Ravens & Chimes, Silver Starling, Goldhawks @ Mercury Lounge (CMJ)
Francis and the Lights, Takka Takka, Pattern is Movement, Let’s Wrestle, The Naked Hearts, Drink Up Buttercup, Bottle Up & Go, Anamanaguchi (DJ), Darwin Deez @ Glasslands

What else?