Cinco De Mayo

Eric Copeland at Bowery Ballroom in April (more by PSquared Photography) As you may know, all ages DIY space The Silent Barn is back in action with a new Bushwick location (603 Bushwick Ave), and they've got some pretty great shows happening this weekend (and in gener...

Attendees at the third day (9/15) of the Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival were able to triple their fun with three shows across two venues. The matinee show, which took place at Union Hall, was called "Uh Oh: Dangerous, Inappropriate Comedy For Teenagers" and featured performances from Tom Shillue, James Patterson, Ben Kronberg, Jaqueline Novak, Brendon Small, and Craig Baldo...

Beirut @ Coachella 2012 (more by David Andrako) today in NYC * Nass Gnawa @ Zebulon * Little Women @ The Stone * Travis Laplante @ The Stone * Michalis Hatzigiannis @ Terminal 5 * Out All Night, Black Nash @ XPO 929 * Haim, Team Spirit, Workout @ Glasslands * Sycorax, Professor Genius @ Shea Stadium * Kid Ink, Emilio Rojas @ Highline Ballroom * Andrew Bird, Tift Merritt @ Beacon Theatre * Crystal Stilts, Woods, Mmoss @ 285 Kent Ave * Feist, Timber Timbre @ Radio City Music Hall * Prowler, Nicos Gun, Sky-Pony @ The Rock Shop * Brendan Benson, Young Hines @ Bowery Ballroom * School of Seven Bells, Exitmusic @ Le Poisson Rouge * K Holes, Call of the Wild, Hard Nips @ Secret Project Robot * Frankie Rose, Dive, Spectrals, Black Marble @ Mercury Lounge * Plushgun, Little, Big, The Quick & Easy Boys, Sleeperstar @ Pianos * DumpsterHunter, Mark Guiliana's Beat Music @ Rockwood Music Hall * Beer & Cable, The Regressives, Agitator, Zts, Trepanning @ The Acheron * Toubab Krewe, Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad, Tauk @ Brooklyn Bowl * Salsa band sfor Cinco de Mayo @ Knitting Factory * Fredericks Brown, Alex and Janel, Ocean Carolina @ Rockwood Music Hall * Gospel Music, Intuitions, We Can't Enjoy Ourselves, Green Grocer @ Cake Shop * Roadside Graves, Gunfight...

"If you were at Knitting Factory last night, you got a trio of entertainment forms. You have the experimental musical stylings of BOBBY, you have projected artistic images and the celebration of Cinco de Mayo...

I'm pretty sure Davila 666, a six-piece rock outfit from Puerto Rico, don't have much stake in Mexican-American holidays. Regardless they obliged the attendees of Vice's Cinco de Mayo party/concert/open-bar on Thursday night, with a set of Spanish-language rock to the largely-inebriated-on-free-tequila crowd...

DOWNLOAD: Gang Gang Dance - Mindkilla (MP3) "@marcuskdowling whatever the hell Gang Gang Dance is doin in Brooklyn 2nite, I think youd approve...

Alex Bleeker (more by Erez Avissar) today in NYC * Matuto @ Barbes * Milton @ Joe's Pub * Toh Kay @ Joe's Pub * Rammstein @ Izod Center * Lyn Goeringer @ The Stone * Rachelle Garniez @ Barbes * Matthew Ostrowski @ The Stone * Gladys Knight @ Beacon Theatre * DJ Questlove @ Brooklyn Bowl * Tim Minchin @ Gramercy Theatre * Amon Amarth @ Best Buy Theater * Sam Bradley, Holly Conlan @ Joe's Pub * Cordero, Reid Paley Trio @ The Rock Shop * The Fiery Furnaces @ Rockwood Music Hall * Bad Manners, Hub City Stompers @ Maxwell's * Kenny Millions, Starlicker @ Issue Project Room * Banda De Los Muertos, Chicha Libre @ Littlefield * Sophistafunk, Sleeperstar @ Rockwood Music Hall * Superhuman Happiness, Amazing Ghost @ Zebulon * Uh Huh Her, Diamonds Under Fire @ Santos Party House * Clare Burson, Of Monsters & Men @ Rockwood Music Hall * Mad Juana, The Green Children, Eitch @ Bowery Electric * Coconuts, Beaches, Ed Schrader, Dope Body @ Cake Shop * Rise Against, Bad Religion, Four Year Strong @ Terminal 5 * The Dearloves, Mr...

As you know, BrooklynVegan presents a 3-band lineup consisting of BOBBY, Alex Bleeker & the Freaks, and Prussia at Knitting Factory in Brooklyn on May 5th aka Cinco de Mayo (aka tomorrow)...

Holy Ghost! in Austin last week (more by Tim Griffin) The second edition of Noncerts goes down at Cameo Gallery in Brooklyn tonight (4/29). Elvis Perkins, Martha Wainwright, and Jesse Harris will all play sets with the all-star house band and tickets for the benefit are still on sale...

DOWNLOAD: Cocorosie - Lemonade (MP3) Shout Out Louds @ White Slab in March (more by Dominick Mastrangelo)"Some Americans think of Cinco De Mayo as a "Mexican Independence Day," which is actually Sept...