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August 23, 2012

Duchess Says at CMJ 2009 (more by Chris La Putt)

today in NYC
* Lips @ The Flat
* Spank @ UCB
* Andy Statman @ Barbes
* DJ Khaled @ Webster Hall
* Five ‘Til @ Joe’s Pub
* DMX @ J&R Music World
* If, Bwana @ The Stone
* The Henry Girls @ Barbes
* My Brightest Diamond @ MoMA
* Lisa B Kelley @ The Stone
* Gracie, Day Joy, Magmana @ Pianos
* Stand, Von Shakes @ The Rock Shop
* BAIO (Vampire Weekend) @ Hudson Terrace
* Lukeinternet, Tubetops, Active @ 929 XPO
* Fain-Mantega Duo, Tangolandó @ Joe’s Pub
* Hubble, Dream Police, White Bike @ Zebulon
* Variety Lights, Talibam!, Coxcombs @ Maxwell’s
* Mary J. Blige, D’Angelo @ PNC Bank Arts Center
* Duchess Says, The Blind Shake @ Public Assembly
* Railbird, Celestial Shore, Zula @ Cameo Gallery
* The Neighbourhood, Lovelife, Rioux @ Glasslands
* Yellowbirds, Gabriel and the Hounds @ Mercury Lounge
* Margy Pepper, Soil, Tin Vulva, Flown @ Death By Audio
* Useless Eaters, Sam Coffee & The Iron Lung @ Cake Shop
* Shovels and Rope, Christopher Paul Stelling @ Mercury Lounge
* Sole, Propaganda Anonymous, N.W.S.O., Brzowski @ Knitting Factory
* Slam Donahue, Toothpaste (Tecla & Kassa), Relations @ Delinquency
* Adira Amram, Heloise (of Heloise & The Savoir Faire) @ Littlefield
* Phone Home, Life Size Maps, What Model Citizens, Ravenous @ Big Snow
* Lemonade (DJ Set), Shawn Reynaldo, Rem Koolhaus, Ron E Laybaxx @ Glasslands
* Japanther, Unstoppable Death Machines, Catacombz , Fake Hooker @ Shea Stadium
* Teengirl Fantasy, Lemonade, Mike Q and MassacooramaanR @ Rocks Off Concert Cruises
* Action Bronson, Flatbush Zombies, Meyham Lauren, Tanya Morgan @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
* Risk! w/ Reggie Watts, Marina Franklin, Erin Barker, Brent Sullivan, Jaqi Furback @ The Pit
* Tom Shillue’s Funny Story w/ Jessi Klein, Lisa Delarios, and Trace Crutchfield @ Brooklyn Brewery
* Nite Jewel & Peanut Butter Wolf performing Krafwerk’s ‘Computer World’, Chrome Canyon @ Le Poisson Rouge
* Two Boots 25th Anniversary Party w/ Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars, Mamarazzi, Odetta Hartman, The Whiskeyhickon Boys, Himalayas @ East River Amphitheater

Two Boots is celebrating its 25th Anniversary with a free concert at East River Park Amphitheater featuring Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars, Mamarazzi, Odetta Hartman, Himalayas and The Whiskeyhickon Boys. The party goes from 5 – 9PM and will also feature free pizza.

Montreal’s Duchess Says make a rare NYC appearance tonight at Public Assembly. Be prepared to get up close with singer Annie-Claude.

Next door at Music Hall of Williamsburg it’s a free Converse Rubbertracks show with Action Bronson, Meyhem Lauren, Flatbush Zombies, andTanya Morgan. Admission is first come, first served. Doors are at 8 PM.

Comedy options tonight include two separate shows featuring funny people telling true stories: Reggie Watts and Marina Franklin are among the guests at Kevin Allison’s “live storytelling” show ‘Risk!‘ at The Pit (tonight’s theme: “So Emotional”); and over at Brooklyn Brewery it’s ‘Tom Shillue’s Funny Story’ with Jessi Klein, Lisa Delarios, and Trace Crutchfield.

Mike Birbiglia‘s movie Sleepwalk with Me opens at the IFC Center tonight. The midnight screening has free popcorn and soda if you wear your pajamas. Mike and co-writer Ira Glass will be there too. Trailer for the film is below.

Variety Lights, the new project from original Mercury Rev frontman David Baker, added a show tonight at Maxwell’s. They’ll also play Public Assembly tomorrow.

Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven screens at Brooklyn Bridge Park.

BrooklynVegan photo exhibit “480 Pixels” is up at 92YTribeca through September 6th. Stop by and check it out, the gallery is open until 8:30 PM tonight.

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Bob Mould, who plays a free show at Williamsburg Park on September 7, just
released a video for “The Descent,” the first single from Silver Age, his first
album for Merge Records. You can watch it below.

The xx, who played NYC recently and will be here again in October, played live in a Tokyo highrise. Check out their performance of “Angels” below.

Deep Time have made a ghostly new video for “Gold Rush,” a track which can be found on their new album. You can watch that below as well.

JJ DOOM (Jneiro Jarel and MF Doom), whose new album is streaming just made a video for one of its tracks, “GUV’NOR,” which you can watch below.

What else?

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‘Sleepwalk with Me’ trailer