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The long Labor Day Weekend (8/29-9/1) is upon us already, which for many is one last chance to enjoy the freedom of summer. It's a good time to get away for a weekend, but if you're staying in NYC for it, there's plenty to do here as well...

Keven Tecon logged time in San Fancisco bands Wax Idols and Soft Moon but left the drummers seat of both to form his own group, Vaniish. The new quartet -- featuring fellow Wax Idols member Amy Rosenoff  as well as Bay Area scene regulars Adam Beck and Nick Ott (drums) -- released their debut album, Memory Work, in June...

John Sharkey III (of Clockcleaner and Puerto Rico Flowers) has a new band with Ceremony's Andy Nelson and Purling Hiss' Mike Sneeringer called Dark Blue 

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England's industrial dark wave specialists Natural Assembly released a music video for their new song "When We Two Parted," and it's a good'un...

today in NYC * ATP * Atlantic Antic * New Yorker Fest * comedy @ Maxwell's * Tarras Band @ Barbes * Jon Brion @ Le Poisson Rouge * Third Eye Blind @ Irving Plaza * Panda Bear, The Present @ Brooklyn Masonic Temple * Celestial Shore, Arches, Night Manager @ Cake Shop * Roedelius, XAMBUCA, Ron Anderson's PAK @ Littlefield * Stephane Wrembel Presents The Django Experiment @ Barbes * Sophia Knapp of Cliffie Swan, GLDK, Lichens @ Cameo Gallery * Diamond Doves, Cartright, Diamond Terrifier, Ian Turner @ Bruar Falls * Erase Errata, Talk Normal, Edie Sedgwick, Bodyparts, Las Palabras @ Glasslands * Mister Melt, American Sun, Sleeping in the Aviary, The Marsh Hens @ Shea Stadium * Angels In America, Weyes Blood, Hubble, The Spanish Donkey, Zaimph (Northern Spy Festival) @ Zebulon * Tribraco, Tubax, Marc Edwards/Weasel Walter/Marcus Cummins Trio, Slipstream Time Travel @ Death By Audio Go see Portishead at ATP tonight, or else go see Jon Brion, or else see one of the other two Jon Brion shows...