Kelly Hogan

Friday’s NYC-area shows include Unwound, Clan of Xymox, Trace Mountains, Rotting Christ, Richard Lloyd Group, Hamilton Leithauser, and more.

plus Whitney, Jessy Lanza, Sylvan Esso, Japanese Breakfast, Courtney Marie Andrews, Weedeater, Beach House, Danny Brown, FKA twigs, Mitski, Run the Jewels, and more livestreams you can watch this week since there are no live concerts to attend.

The new compilation is a ”redux” of the label’s first release, the 1994 compilation For A Life of Sin: Insurgent Chicago Country, which captured the ever-changing Chicago country scene.

Neko’s new album features appearances by Beth Ditto, Mark Lanegan, k.d. Lang, Eric Bachmann (Crooked Fingers, Archers of Loaf), Doug Gillard (Guided by Voices, Nada Surf), Laura Veirs, Joey Burns (Calexico), as well as New Pornographers bandmate AC Newman, and frequent collaborator Kelly Hogan.

There’s also a NYC release show this Saturday with the album’s creator, David Nagler, and a ten-piece band.

Tickets to see MNDR, MS MR, Deap Vally, IO Echo, Sky Ferreira, and Gabriel Bruce at Bowery Ballroom go on sale today at noon. Meanwhile you can catch MNDR DJing at The Studio at Webster Hall tonight…

On Monday night (5/28) Kelly Hogan and Scott Lucas & the Married Men kicked off the 2012 edition of Downtown Sound at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion…

DOWNLOAD: Scott Lucas & the Married Men – “Blood Half Moons” (MP3) Kelly Hogan @ the Vic in March (more by Chase Turner)The A.V. Club: What was the origin of this album…

Kelly Hogan @ the Vic in March (more by Chase Turner) We previously posted the partial lineup of Millennium Park’s Downtown Sound series and now the full schedule has been released…

Tuesday night (3/28), the Magnetic Fields polished off their two-night affair at the Vic with opener, Chicago songstress Kelly Hogan. Bachelorette opened on Monday (pictures and review from night one are HERE)…