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Dirty Beaches and Widowspeak have added another show to their already busy schedules. Both bands will play Shea Stadium this Saturday (4/21), co-headlining a party for the newly-relaunched NewtownRadio…

2:54 @ Bar 96 for BV-SXSW 2012 (more by Tim Griffin) UK band 2:54 have announced a summer North American tour with Widowspeak, stopping at Chicago’s Empty Bottle on June 17…

2:54 @ BV-SXSW 2012 @ Bar 96 (more by Tim Griffin) 2:54 have announced a full tour with Widowspeak that includes the previously mentioned Mercury Lounge show (tickets) and adds a Brooklyn show happening two day earlier at Knitting Factory (tickets)…

Tim’s photos from the BrooklynVegan official SXSW showcase at Bar 96 back on Wednesday, 3/14 have arrived and are in this post (the previous set we posted by Amanda is HERE)…

2:54 @ BV-SXSW 2012 (more by Amanda Hatfield) In addition to sposoring the whole FADER Fort and the week of Deathmatch activities at Scoot Inn, Converse made its presence known at SXSW this year by bringing a version of its Brooklyn Rubber Tracks recording studio to Austin…

Jeff Tweedy @ Civic Opera House in December (more by Matt Ziegler) today in Chicago * Jeff Tweedy @ the Vic (Night 1) * Moombahton Madness @ Metro * Dash Berlin @ Congress Theater * Nat Baldwin, Sun Rooms @ Hideout * Angel Olsen, Rivulets, Bound @ Township * Of Monsters and Men, Lay Low @ Park West * Del Rey, Arriver, Rabid Rabbit @ The Burlington * Lovedrug, Modoc, Black Canvas @ Beat Kitchen * Ultraviolet Hippopotamus, Indobox @ Abbey Pub * Chairlift, Nite Jewel, Moon Furies @ Empty Bottle * Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown @ Bottom Lounge * William Fitzsimmons, Denison Witmer @ Lincoln Hall * Fatbook, Midwest Hype, Deep Fayed @ Subterranean * The Fox, the Hounds, The Dirty Creeps, Hølas @ Darkroom * Hemmingbirds, The Photo Atlas, The Noise FM @ Quenchers * Wolfgang Gartner, Alvin Risk, Stratus, British Knights @ The Mid * James McMurtry, Malcolm Holcombe @ Old Town School of Folk Music * Miniature Tigers, The Chain Gang of 1974, Geographer, Speak @ Schubas * J…

2:54 at BV SXSW earlier this month (more by Amanda Hatfield) UK band 2:54, who were just in the US for two NYC shows and SXSW where they played the official BrooklynVegan showcase, are about to kick off a tour on their home continent, but they’ll be returning to our side of the Atlantic this June…

“Fun times at @brooklynvegan show last night. Shout out to @titus_ndronicus 4 saving the day. Best thin lizzy cover since Ted Leo.” – Caged Animals “Shouts out to Caged Animals from Hawthorne, NJ #973” – Titus Andronicus Titus Andronicus @ Bar 96 One night after our Daniel Johnston show at the Belmont, and after a full day of bands on three stages at “Hotel Vegan“, we hosted our 2nd official showcase of SXSW 2012, on Wednesday night (March 14)…

I didn’t get in till 6PM so unfortunately I missed the first of our Hotel Vegan day shows, but I rolled into downton just in time for the start of the official BrooklynVegan showcase which took place at Bar 96 on the now hopping Rainey St strip…

DOWNLOAD: Razika – Eg Vetsje (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Razika – Nytt Pa Nytt (MP3) Welcome to Part 2 of this pre-SXSW edition of This Week in Indie (Part 1 HERE), which sees an insane amount of good show options over the next five days, even for New York which is never lacking for music options…