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What's going Saturday? (Screaming Females, Disappears, Behemoth, Gaslight Anthem, Summer Moon & more)

You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows, but here are some highlights… Disappears, Suuns, Christines @ Rough Trade Chicago’s Disappears just released Irreal, the band’s darkest, most paranoid/obtuse record yet…

What's going on Saturday? (Marky Ramone, Savages, Dr. Dog, Slim Twig, Wussy, Dave Harrington, Haymaker & more)

You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows, but here are some highlights… Helix, Palmistry, Tripletrain, Celestial Traxx, GENG @ Baby’s All Right This is a cool late-night dance party with Night Slugs producer Helix, future pop UK musician Palmistry, Teklife’s Tripletrain and more…

What's going on Wednesday? (Elvis Costello & The Roots, Juicy J, Imperial Topaz, Life Size Maps, New Myths & more)

Elvis Costello & The Roots at Brooklyn Bowl in 2013 (more by Dana (distortion) Yavin) You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows, but here are some highlights…

Toys & Tiny Instruments released LP (stream it), playing shows

Whimsical NYC collective Toys & Tiny Instruments will release their long-percolating debut album, Thunder Clap Machine, on Friday (3/1). As their name implies it’s serious pop music but made with kazoos, stylofones, ukulele’s, slide whistles and other toys and tiny instruments…

Molly Ringwald releasing LP and playing NYC; 'Pretty in Pink' novelization being read at Union Hall

As you may have seen in today’s “What’s Going On?” post, Molly Ringwald is performing at 54 Below tonight (1/15, and Wednesday 1/16). She’ll be doing a cabaret set of standards, and perhaps a cover of Simple Minds’ “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” from The Breakfast Club which she does on her forthcoming album Except ……

that dog. playing 2 Brooklyn shows (win tix); Kristen Schaal & many more playing the Bell House (tonight)

As reported previously, ’90s alt-rockers that dog. are playing Music Hall of Williamsburg on May 24, the band’s first NYC show in 15 years with Fred Armisen opening…