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The 2013 New Music Seminar returning to NYC (The Drums, Swedish bands & more)

The Drums @ Brooklyn Bowl, 2012 (more by Ryan Muir) The New Music Seminar is back in action for 2013, happening from June 9 – 11 in New York City…

What's going on Monday?

today in NYC * Whiplash @ UCB * Brain Cloud @ Barbes * Chicha Libre @ Barbes * Diane Birch @ Joe’s Pub * Tony Scherr @ Living Room * C. Spencer Yeh @ Roulette * Robert Glasper @ Gramercy Theatre * The Campilongo Trio @ Living Room * Lissie, Vance Joy @ Bowery Ballroom * The Bats, Wild Carnation @ Maxwell’s * The Stranglers, Mike Marlin @ Highline Ballroom * Nils Frahm, Heathered Pearls @ Le Poisson Rouge * French Films, Alpaca Sports, Azure Blue @ Cake Shop * Pedrito Martinez Group, John Medeski @ Brooklyn Bowl * Reverend Vince Anderson and His Love Choir @ Union Pool * Hands, Landlady, Old Monk, Indian Rebound, Shmns @ Pianos * Slow Warm Death, Honeydrum, Mannequin Pussy @ Paper Box * Redfoot, Little Children, The Tarantula Waltz, Janet Labelle @ Glasslands * Wyatt Cenac, David Cross, Seaton Smith, Eliza Skinner, Karl Hess, Nimesh Patel @ Littlefield * Angela McCluskey, Melissa Ferrick, Margaret Glaspy @ Rockfood Music Hall * Francisco The Man, The Can’t Tells, Teen Girl Scientist Monthly, Adult Dude @ Mercury Lounge * Ornament, Mail The Horse, RIPS, The Chickenhawks, Countdown To Love, Gowanus Mutant Commandos @ Death By Audio If you missed NYC Popfest over the weekend, a few of the bands are still around…

The Bats played Chaos in Tejas (pics), play NYC Popfest this weekend with Tigercats, Flowers & more

As mentioned, New Zealand indie legends The Bats are on their first North American tour since 2006 which stopped in Austin last night (5/30) to play Chaos in Tejas…

UK trio Flowers released their debut EP, making US debut at NYC Popfest this weekend (dates, streams)

London’s trio Flowers are on their way to the U.S. for NYC Popfest, where they’ll play this Saturday (6/1) at The Bell House as part of a bill that includes New Zealand headliners The Bats as well as fellow UK acts Tigercats, The Hobbes Fanclub, and The Proctors as well as Sweden’s Azure Blue…

The Bats, Close Lobsters, The Wolfhounds, The School, Flowers and more playing 2013 NYC Popfest (line-up, tix on sale)

We already knew that The Monochrome Set would be performing at this year’s NYC Popfest (May 30 – June 2) but now the rest of the line-up has been announced and it’s pretty great with appearances from New Zealand Flying Nun legends The Bats, two bands who featured on NME’s legendary C-86 cassette (Scotland’s Close Lobsters and London’s The Wolfhounds), and long-running California band The Orange Peels; plus newer bands like Wales’ The School, UK group Flowers, Hobbes Fanclub and Tigercats, Sweden’s Alpaca Sport and Azur Blue, Norway’s Making Marks, and Spain’s Zipper; and American groups Ringo Deathstarr, Math & Physics Club, Literature, Ski Lodge and more…

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart list 2012 faves (NYC show is this week); Kip Berman throwing "Rough Smooch" party

TPOBPAH @ Summerstage 7/7/2012 (more by Chris La Putt) While The Pains of Being Pure at Heart didn’t release an album this year, they have stayed busy touring on the heels of last year’s terrific Belong…